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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Oh hey my grandparents had that chandelier. Did they also have the unending screams of the tortured souls trapped within?
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Antivehicular posted:For a second I thought that wallpaper pattern was tiny Torgo heads Baños: The Hands of Fart
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Youth Decay posted:The suburbs of Canton, OH are not exactly a "destination". i've spent a fair amount of time in that area and had no idea such a house could exist there
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Aug 21, 2019 15:53
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Aug 21, 2019 18:57
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Aug 21, 2019 20:22
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I swear that was my pediatrician's office around 1984.
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barbecue at the folks posted:making GBS threads in Style: Finland Edition What's to the left of that toilet? A narrow indoor lap pool, or something?
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Oh hey my grandparents had that chandelier. Were they from the south?
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Welcome to this lovely McMansion home of the hidden piano  and the tiniest grand piano.  Like an iceberg, 90% of the McMansion is hidden from view.   
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That's probably the most tasteful Mcmansion I've ever seen. Pity they didn't hire someone to build them an actual mansion so they could avoid poo poo like pimply recessed lights next to their pretty chandelier.
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graph posted:i've spent a fair amount of time in that area and had no idea such a house could exist there Extremely 
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wesleywillis posted:Were they from the south? Connecticut, originally, but this house is in super rural Virginia. (I kind of suspect this is a slavery question. The house is based around a cabin built in 1750 and we suspect there are slaves buried on the property.)
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Aug 22, 2019 04:09
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drat your eyes, a dual piano shot is so rare
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DrBouvenstein posted:What's to the left of that toilet? A narrow indoor lap pool, or something? It's messing with my perceptions. I keep trying to see it as a straight wall.
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there wolf posted:That's probably the most tasteful Mcmansion I've ever seen. Pity they didn't hire someone to build them an actual mansion so they could avoid poo poo like pimply recessed lights next to their pretty chandelier. What's the alternative to recessed lights? Is there something that would look better there?
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MetaJew posted:What's the alternative to recessed lights? Is there something that would look better there? Wall sconces, or some kind of fixture that matched the chandelier better? If you absolutely must do recessed then there are options that call less attention so you don't look like you spent all your money on a big chandelier and then had to cheap out on the rest of your lighting. How to integrate modern stuff like return vents and smoke alarms into styles like Georgian that predate them is a challenge, but you can usually tell what's a compromise vs. what wasn't given any forethought. All that detail on the molding and then a basic vent cover right beneath it. Compare it to this-  Even the fake columns look better.
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You can hide uplighting in the elaborate crown molding, nothing visible but bright even light. Sucks in a massive room without additional central lighting but it's better than scattergun can installations.
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RoastBeef posted:Welcome to this lovely McMansion Some if the interior work is beautiful. That huge appendage is garage, and clearly they have an RV given the one door, so I can forgive it. Take off some of the dormers and other unnecessary poo poo, clad fully in brick or stone, and it's not bad.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Connecticut, originally, but this house is in super rural Virginia. Yeah. I saw a chandelier which appeared to have black people "holding" lights. So I pretty much thought southern U.S... Super rural Virginia probably fits that bill.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Some if the interior work is beautiful. That huge appendage is garage, and clearly they have an RV given the one door, so I can forgive it. Take off some of the dormers and other unnecessary poo poo, clad fully in brick or stone, and it's not bad. I also like that they've moved the garage entrances round the back so it's not so unsightly at the front.
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wesleywillis posted:Yeah. I saw a chandelier which appeared to have black people "holding" lights. So I pretty much thought southern U.S... Super rural Virginia probably fits that bill. They're monkeys. There's a whole monkey servant thing that pops up with British colonial stuff, and I have no idea if it's some direct line to racist caricature stuff or just happenstance.
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there wolf posted:They're monkeys. There's a whole monkey servant thing that pops up with British colonial stuff, and I have no idea if it's some direct line to racist caricature stuff or just happenstance. What does your heart tell you
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RoastBeef posted:Welcome to this lovely McMansion
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there wolf posted:They're monkeys. There's a whole monkey servant thing that pops up with British colonial stuff, and I have no idea if it's some direct line to racist caricature stuff or just happenstance. Honestly shocked that anyone could think it was like, accidentally racist that British people would portray servants as monkeys
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there wolf posted:They're monkeys. There's a whole monkey servant thing that pops up with British colonial stuff, and I have no idea if it's some direct line to racist caricature stuff or just happenstance. Winston Churchill posted:The Aryan stock is bound to triumph
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Badger of Basra posted:Honestly shocked that anyone could think it was like, accidentally racist that British people would portray servants as monkeys As a British person I approve this generalisation.
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cakesmith handyman posted:What does your heart tell you Invest in Eastern Poland.
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DrBouvenstein posted:What's to the left of that toilet? A narrow indoor lap pool, or something? I unfortunately don't have more pictures of the house, I believe it would be a fun trip into what the Finnish upper middle class thought was chic in the 1970s. A narrow indoor pool would be spot on for the decade, though.
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Badger of Basra posted:Honestly shocked that anyone could think it was like, accidentally racist that British people would portray servants as monkeys Institutionalized racism makes people sound like loving idiots. Happenstance.... holy poo poo hahaha
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Badger of Basra posted:Honestly shocked that anyone could think it was like, accidentally racist that British people would portray servants as monkeys Probably because that's not what I meant, but thanks for the woker-than-thou scolding everyone. My point was I don't know if the monkey servant motif was created by the Brits, or merely adopted by them and (likely) recontextualized as a racist commentary on the servant class. I couldn't find any info about it when I looked, which was strange for something I could so readily identify with a particular style.
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I don't think the tone was scolding (mine wasn't meant to be, sorry) just that racism is/was so pervasive in some cultures that it wasn't accidental, it was just normal.
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Another house in sweden I found interesting https://www.byggahus.se/runda-energieffektiva-villa-antligen Rounded design, says it's more energy efficient.             It's no moominhouse
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Some of the wall treatments and details are bit much, but the overall design looks pretty nice. Can someone explain the roof covering to me
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Also what's the deal with gaming chairs that look like racing chairs, what's the fashion choice there? Is it just that youtubers wanted something vaguely interesting looking in their face cams and teens buy them from that? My car came with them and they're not exactly designed to be comfortable, wouldn't choose them for a desk.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Also what's the deal with gaming chairs that look like racing chairs, what's the fashion choice there? Is it just that youtubers wanted something vaguely interesting looking in their face cams and teens buy them from that? lol every youtuber goes to such lengths to get a pristine white walled room with a little geometric succulent holder on a dark stained wood shelf beside a neon sign that says MAKE stuck to the wall, then its all capped off with a pleather red+black gamer chair  You'd think there would be like a geometric succulent holder equivalent of a gaming chair but the industry hasn't moved past HOT TOPIC aesthetics yet
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