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latinotwink1997 posted:Probably as much as the piano cost. Lol, no. It's just a 4 bed 2.5 bath colonial with larger than average rooms, not some kind of mansion, Mc or otherwise.
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^^piano playing is awesome, if you have kids and they are part of the 4 playing encourage them to keep it up. Its one of the few things I quit after a lot of playing that I wish I didn't. I hate everything about this picture/room/probably house but I really, really love the curve that staircase makes and how it gets wider at the bottom and how it turns back ever so slightly
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:^^piano playing is awesome, if you have kids and they are part of the 4 playing encourage them to keep it up. Its one of the few things I quit after a lot of playing that I wish I didn't. Yeah, I started on piano late (in high school) and wish I started earlier. Both of my kids are pretty into learning now and the youngest is using an ipad app that teaches you how to play - it uses the mic to make sure you get it right, speeds up or slows down based on how you are doing, etc. It's an amazingly much easier way to learn than what I went through. Like with me, they already play other instruments and have for a while, so this isn't all new territory/need to learn to read music and everything. Makes for some immediate gratification.
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Motronic posted: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. Always cool to hear about someone with a piano that actually uses it. How long is yours? There's a lot of variation on size for both types but the largest grands are much heavier than the largest uprights, and the smallest uprights are lighter than the smallest grands, so there's your overlapping bell curves. And if you actually play piano for work, for fun, for finger exercises or whatever then you are fully justified in getting whatever piano suits your taste and needs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a baby grand as an instrument; it represents a small sacrifice in function over form which is why concert halls don't use them but for a private residence they're great. I'm just pointing out the eternal irony of people who's entire decorating motif is "look how rich I loving am" buying an expensive piano as a wealth-display, but going with the smallest and cheapest model. It's like getting an Aston Martin and going with the vinyl seats. And I've babbled about pianos enough. THREAD CHALLENGE: post an opulent interior that you like. Luxurious, baroque, ornate, maximalist, horror vacui. None of that minimalist modernism everyone is so enamored with. 'I couldn't live here, but wow' entries are fine.' For example-  Welcome to the lair of Malibu Barbie vampire queen.
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Motronic posted:Yeah, I started on piano late (in high school) and wish I started earlier. Both of my kids are pretty into learning now and the youngest is using an ipad app that teaches you how to play - it uses the mic to make sure you get it right, speeds up or slows down based on how you are doing, etc. It's an amazingly much easier way to learn than what I went through. Like with me, they already play other instruments and have for a while, so this isn't all new territory/need to learn to read music and everything. Makes for some immediate gratification. What app is this?
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there wolf posted:Always cool to hear about someone with a piano that actually uses it. How long is yours? There's a lot of variation on size for both types but the largest grands are much heavier than the largest uprights, and the smallest uprights are lighter than the smallest grands, so there's your overlapping bell curves. And if you actually play piano for work, for fun, for finger exercises or whatever then you are fully justified in getting whatever piano suits your taste and needs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a baby grand as an instrument; it represents a small sacrifice in function over form which is why concert halls don't use them but for a private residence they're great. It's an L so 5'10". It's considered a grand because it has full length strings, but to fit in a case that size the bass strings are at an angle and overlap above the mids. You don't get the full on top-open resonance of a 9' concert grand, but that would be super overpowering in anything that's much less than a concert hall of course. there wolf posted:I'm just pointing out the eternal irony of people who's entire decorating motif is "look how rich I loving am" buying an expensive piano as a wealth-display, but going with the smallest and cheapest model. It's like getting an Aston Martin and going with the vinyl seats. Yeah, I get it. I'm just being snarky because....well, it's SA and I know how this goes. Edit: Bad Munki posted:What app is this? Simply Piano https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simply-piano-by-joytunes/id1019442026
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So...where do player pianos fall on the scale?
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Rosemont posted:So...where do player pianos fall on the scale? Almost every new or rebuilt piano is a player piano these days. Outfits like QRS are essentially GIVING their systems away to manufacturers/rebuilders. Why? Piano as a service. Yes, we're there. You pay a subscription fee to access their music library to play on your piano. (but an old school upright player piano that uses paper scrolls would be bad rear end)
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there wolf posted:THREAD CHALLENGE: post an opulent interior that you like. Luxurious, baroque, ornate, maximalist, horror vacui. None of that minimalist modernism everyone is so enamored with. 'I couldn't live here, but wow' entries are fine.' https://www.redfin.com/MA/Cambridge/167-Brattle-St-02138/home/11591090 The old Massachusetts money houses in Cambridge are usually pretty impressive and keep a ton of the house’s character and period details, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Not exactly what I’d want to live in, but that woodwork, stained glass, and porch...
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For the thread challenge:   GEORGE V Private Royal Suite | © STRAIGHTLINE Interiors If I could have a house that's baroque romantic red velvet and silks, I would. Look at that. TWO CHANDELIERS! And they are placed properly, not askew or whatever. I'd also want to be a vampire.
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I was poking around Zillow in my state and I think I found the motherlode of mismatched mcmansion interior. Mind there's like 50 pictures so I'm only showing the best stuff.            
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And for the thread challenge, idk if this is 'opulent' in the way you meant, but I'm actually really digging this?
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Two kitchen islands?  A kitchen archipelago.This seems like a functional, useful indulgence if you have the money. Laundry day takes 1/3 the time, which would be great. And you're never stuck with a laundry emergency because the drat washer broke when you have 2 other washers. If I didn't live in a 400 square foot apartment I'd love to have all those laundry machines. Instead of, you know, sharing a single washer and drier with the 20 other people who live on my floor.
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That feels like a house with staff, which to be fair is the biggest opulence I can think of.
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Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana  I dig old antebellum stuff.
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PetraCore posted:I was poking around Zillow in my state and I think I found the motherlode of mismatched mcmansion interior. Mind there's like 50 pictures so I'm only showing the best stuff. Thread Challenge: Most any English country house would suffice, but this one from Robert Adam (Harewood House) is really doing it for me. Give me some deep rich colors please. I love the yellow wallpapers, and scarlet damask silk with lots of gold and green marble is and fancy plasterwork is hard to beat.   
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PetraCore posted:And for the thread challenge, idk if this is 'opulent' in the way you meant, but oooooooo
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Construction Site Chic?
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Thread Challenge: Having been in places like that, I'd say those are more reluctant museums than anything else. I appreciate that the sliding glass panels mean you can use the Hannibal Lecter isolation chamber as a multi-use space.
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Ok, have some Charleston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1GuYoCGMg              
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Chandeliers for every room!
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latinotwink1997 posted:Chandeliers for every room! Could it be any more opulent?
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latinotwink1997 posted:Chandeliers for every room! It's a colonial era house! You had to put the candles somewhere!
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mutata posted:Construction Site Chic? sand. everywhere.
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That's one way to keep your in-laws from visiting. Make your home aggressively hostile to anyone with imperfect mobility.
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Facebook Aunt posted:That's one way to keep your in-laws from visiting. Make your home aggressively hostile to anyone with imperfect mobility. It’ll guarantee no on in the home drinks.
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Looking at this drat thing a little more I get the feeling that, dumb sandbox floor aside, it looks like it was purpose-built new construction intended to look like a repurposed warehouse. If it is actually a repurposed warehouse it is still offensive, but if my supposition is correct then this is truly an abomination.
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wanna accidentally step on that potted plant when alighting from the chair chamber
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I think it's going for that Salton Sea vibe. Contemporary Salton Sea. It's, like, we-live-in-a-house-the-desert-is-attempting-to-reclaim-from-man's-hubris-chic.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Having been in places like that, I'd say those are more reluctant museums than anything else. Facebook Aunt posted:Why is there a ladder in the kitchen?
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Given how obtuse everything else is, that's probably where the only bathroom in the house is. Half bath. The other half is behind a hatch buried somewhere under the sand. Under one of those stone tiles maybe? Who knows, you'll have to solve this puzzle first if you want to open it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, have some Charleston: Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans are like different facets of the same jewel.
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I'm liking the S.S. Kresge mansion. https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/6/10/18660154/s-s-kresge-mansion-for-sale-boston-edison
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm liking the S.S. Kresge mansion. 14 bedrooms but only 6 bathrooms? How primitive.
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Russia is kinda cheating but have some Russian subway stations. I took photos of most of these same places. https://fotostrasse.com/st-petersburg-metro/ https://fotostrasse.com/moscow-subway-facts/ Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood was ridiculous rainbow and gold inside. https://fotostrasse.com/church-of-the-savior-on-spilled-blood/ AVTOVO Station, St. Petersburg 
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peanut posted:Russia is kinda cheating but have some Russian subway stations. I took photos of most of these same places. Why is it cheating? Everyone else went for colonial stuff, so it's nice to get a change of pace. I love the subway stations and how the ornate Victorian styling mixes with the soviet motifs and art.  Serious Master and the Margarita vibes. 
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Thread challenge: The kind of opulence I love is Beaux Arts turned up to eleven. Here's Hearst Castle, which owns:    
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