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I can't believe you'd make really bland labels like GAME ROOM instead of using these giant letters for glorious shitposting. THIS IS MAH SWAMP
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It has to be a boomer thing, my parents remodeled the first floor of their house and put labels on all the doors.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:39
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"behind one of these doors is a deadly pit of vipers. behind the other is the guest bathroom. you must answer a riddle to determine the true path"
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Jul 11, 2019 19:42
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luxury handset posted:"behind one of these doors is a deadly pit of vipers. behind the other is the guest bathroom. you must answer a riddle to determine the true path" *rolls 17 perception* good try DM, that floor's illusory
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Jul 11, 2019 20:48
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Jaded Burnout posted:*rolls 17 perception* We talking about the room, or the real estate market for this sort of home
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luxury handset posted:"behind one of these doors is a deadly pit of vipers. behind the other is the guest bathroom. you must answer a riddle to determine the true path" post the vipers, coward.
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Dude has hosed up feet. Like that cartoonist who can't draw feet made a statue.
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Jul 11, 2019 21:58
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His feet are normal enough. It’s an artefact of the fisheye lens. 
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Jul 11, 2019 22:38
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Anne Whateley posted:Look up Robert Papp or John Burgoyne, who do amazing art of produce/etc. for Cook's Illustrated. Both sell prints Robert Papp should give you a referral bonus because I'm about to buy a $400 print of garlic for my kitchen.
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luxury handset posted:woah looks like the protagonist from the film memento hit the big time, good job fella Im glad I discovered this thread during the doom bathroom epoch because it is a perennial source of bizarrerie to troll my gay friends with
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Jul 12, 2019 13:22
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when i was a child, riding around in my parents car and looking out the window at houses going by, i kept having this persistent fantasy of being able to go inside people's houses to look around. not for any nefarious reason, in my fantasies time stopped and everyone vanished and i could just walk into anyone's house to look around at how they lived. when i visited other people's homes i was always sharply aware of the conditions around me - the temperature of the room, any lingering smells, wear patterns in the carpet, the presence and orientation of clutter. i was fascinated with the way that people's living environments reflected who they were as people, and i had an intense curiosity to discover the way that people lived by how they inhabited space so some years ago imagine my joy when i discovered listing websites and the fact that millions of people uploaded images of the interior of their homes for free, to the public. and it confirmed what i always secretly suspected - 90% of homes are boring as poo poo anyway in my group chat about home decor and houses we have a small meme, about something being "piano as hell". meaning that in any kind of grand, completely overdone formal living room meant to impress your guests, there is nearly always a piano wedged in there somewhere      to the point that sometimes you have to play hunt the piano when a room has intense piano energy and you can feel it lurking there 
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Jul 12, 2019 16:19
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I used to wonder about the mcmansion set and pianos, too. Maybe they had a kid that took some lessons, but anyone that stuck with it switched over to a keyboard at some point. Then I went to a fancy party at an older relative's house and they had hired a pianist to play live music and the whole 'practice of rich people reduced to a tangible artifact for the bourgeoisie' fell into place. I'll point out that it looks like most of those pianos in the pictures are baby grands, because uprights are for plebs but full grand pianos cost more. Opulence on a budget.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:30
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I can't even fathom a human being walking into this and thinking "aaah, this is home." That's poorly designed even for a mid-level Italian chain with pretensions of fanciness.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:34
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This room is so loving ugly I feel the primal urge to seize a pitchfork and a flaming torch and go terrorize this neighbor. Every time I look at this picture I see some new monstrous element that pours fuel on my fire.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:36
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Rabbit Hill posted:This room is so loving ugly I feel the primal urge to seize a pitchfork and a flaming torch and go terrorize this neighbor. Every time I look at this picture I see some new monstrous element that pours fuel on my fire.  The word "CREATE" needs to be on the wall across from the shitter.
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there wolf posted:I used to wonder about the mcmansion set and pianos, too. Maybe they had a kid that took some lessons, but anyone that stuck with it switched over to a keyboard at some point. Then I went to a fancy party at an older relative's house and they had hired a pianist to play live music and the whole 'practice of rich people reduced to a tangible artifact for the bourgeoisie' fell into place. pianos are a traditional sign of middle class affluence, they're in a weird position between classy enough instrument to not be plebe music and also large enough to serve as furniture. so parking a piano in your entertaining room is a way of saying "hey, we've got money and we intend to keep it by educating our children and marrying well". it's a very stodgy, victorian decorating trend which was picked up a ton by middle class americans who basically just copied the english as hard as possible because just like now, back then we thought everything the english were up to was just the fanciest drat thing  also in an era before television you'd have a lot more family-based entertainment where people would sit around and sing to enjoy music collectively, and having a piano player or two in the family makes it easier to pass the time in this way well now people are mostly severed from that cultural practice, so some pianos end up being little more than very nice picture stands that fill a lot of space in a classy way. you still see piano lessons as something people teach kids, especially if the parents are hell-bent on driving their kids up some aspirational ladder. and of course there are folks out there who love music and play pianos, though i think those pianos are generally in a smaller, more dedicated music room or basement studio or something and not the first thing you see when you walk in the front door and also the bougiest thing possible is to have a piano which you hire someone to play for your dingus cocktail parties and galas Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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I play spot-the-Buddha on Dutch housing sites. There's always one sleeping serenely in the bathroom or headless on a shelf or just chilling in a quiet corner of the garden. Anyway, my guess is that the piano is behind the swooping eagle statue to the side of Scarlett O'Hara's swooncase.
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Rabbit Hill posted:
Something about the color choice and the fact that it's on the ceiling makes it seem incredibly oppressive. That's gotta feel like a cave a night.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:03
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this is awful i hate it
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:
I like the school public address speaker mounted on the ceiling. And wall to wall carpet in your crafts? room? Have fun with the paint, glue and glitter all over. Unless this room is actually never used. My grandmother gave me an art piece she had in her basement. It's 18" square stone, painted and with some brass applied. I can get a picture if it helps. It was previously mounted onto some wood, but the stone cleaved and fell off the wood. I've been looking instead at a stand/easel, but everything I've found so far is either too small, or looks too gaudy, like it came out of a house posted in this thread. I've looked at Michaels, Cost Plus, Amazon. I looked at some flea markets too, but I might need to try again now that it's summer. Any other ideas?
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Sarah Bellum posted:Anyway, my guess is that the piano is behind the swooping eagle statue to the side of Scarlett O'Hara's swooncase. yeah, you can just barely see the top of the open lid as if it were a mouth ready to pounce and devour the eagle
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YamiNoSenshi posted:Something about the color choice and the fact that it's on the ceiling makes it seem incredibly oppressive. That's gotta feel like a cave a night. Or a malformed uterus?
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 https://watabou.itch.io/procgen-mansion Automatically generated mansions. I like the little bump on the top floor here.
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5 Minecraft house maker e: this looks.. McMansion plausable 
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I can not get over this eagle.
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I'm feeling AATC angry about those curtains
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Robert Papp should give you a referral bonus because I'm about to buy a $400 print of garlic for my kitchen. Guy Axlerod posted:
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Anne Whateley posted:it's called a garderobe They're not usually over front doors, maybe it's anti-siege.
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All true, thus the significance of the baby grand! Your middle class, family entertainment before radio, get the kids some music education in the home piano is the upright, like the one in the photo you posted. They're heavy but compact, a couple of guys and a sturdy dolly can move one and it'll fit along a wall. A basic one brand new will run you around $4000, but odds are you can get one for much less, if not free, second-hand. Upright piano in the house = solid middle class signifier. Grand pianos start at around $10,000, their unusual shape and great length means you have to dedicate a lot of floor space to them, and they can get so heavy you have to higher special piano movers with special piano moving equipment for them. All worth it to get the beautiful sound of a concert grand, but the shorter you make those strings the less beautiful the sound is. Baby grands are the smallest of the grands, and thus the cheapest while also having the worst sound for that kind of piano. For a pianist with real space or income concerns, that's a reasonable compromise. But for people buying a piano just as a wealthy trinket in their cavernous mcmansion, it's a noticeable trimming of the budget to opt for the cheapest of the fancy ones. quote:and also the bougiest thing possible is to have a piano which you hire someone to play for your dingus cocktail parties and galas Those people were the declining remnants of old money. Hiring someone to play live music at their party doesn't scratch the top fifty of bougie fuckery. It doesn't even top it for that one party. The host grew a tree from the top of a pineapple, it produced one tiny fruit for him which he presented over dessert and we all toasted it with pineapple liqueur from cut crystal cordial glasses brought out from storage especially for the occasion.
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peanut posted:I'm feeling AATC Imagine having the money for custom drapery and picking those
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there wolf posted:Grand pianos start at around $10,000, their unusual shape and great length means you have to dedicate a lot of floor space to them, and they can get so heavy you have to higher special piano movers with special piano moving equipment for them. Grands aren't much heavier than uprights, and are amazingly easy to move if you have the right stuff - which is a very specific grand dolly. They are moved on their sides with the legs removed. That being said, you need a SIGNIFICANT sized room to get away with one from the standpoint of acoustics. If you know how to play a grand and make it sound like a grand (hint: lots of sustain pedal, build up the sound) they are freaking LOUD. They also get very harsh depending on how you position them, the floor, the windows/treatments, etc. If it's not just a decoration it really does take some pre-planning as well as futzing around once you get the thing to figure out exactly where/what angle, etc. And it's probably NOT going to be exactly where you would put it aesthetically if you care about acoustics. Yes, I have one, so guillotine me. But all four people in this house play it. The thing is used at least daily, but we're just weird music people over here.
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Motronic posted:Grands aren't much heavier than uprights, and are amazingly easy to move if you have the right stuff - which is a very specific grand dolly. They are moved on their sides with the legs removed. How many sq ft is your house
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I have an upright I got for free from a piano teacher who retired; I managed to get four people and a guy with a nice truck, and I had a piano for the price of a pizza and a 12-pack for the people that helped. That's how you do it.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:How many sq ft is your house I'd prefer not to answer that question here.
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Somehow relevant:
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Motronic posted:I'd prefer not to answer that question here. Makes sense. How many houses can you fit in your house
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Anne Whateley posted:gently caress, yeah he should (historical) A lavatory, especially in a castle and built into the outer wall, with vent directly over the moat or midden. *Checks guest list* .......
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Motronic posted:I'd prefer not to answer that question here. Probably as much as the piano cost. It feels like you’re walking into the entrance of some 5 star hotel, which isn’t what I would want my house to be like.
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