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Towel hangers, would be my guess.
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brugroffil posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but if I was looking for the best home office chair in the ~$500 price range, would this be the place to ask? Daily 8 hour use right now, normally wfh twice a week otherwise, minimal use outside of actual work (lots of computer touching) As others have said you can get a really nice used chair for $400 to $500, or a really lovely new chair for slightly less that will probably peel and/or fall apart within 12 months. There's a massive used office furniture place near here that is always sitting on hundreds and hundreds of used Aerons from startups and poo poo who want to spend $1600 on fancy office chairs. I think I paid ~$400 for a very lightly used one with all of the bells and whistles (then I spent another $60 on new armrests because the ones that came with it were like rocks). Argas posted:And most importantly, try before you buy. If there's a showroom near you, go in and take a look and see if you can try poo poo out. Not all chairs work for the same people. This is really good advice for all kinds of furniture! I was recently in the market for new living room furniture and of the hundreds of chairs/couches I sat on across four or five showrooms probably 1/20 were comfortable. There seems to be a trend of making couches that look overstuffed and plush but feel like an old futon. Trying out dining room chairs a month later was just as bad.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Towel hangers, would be my guess. That does make some sense, but there are folded towels sitting there on the shelf. My guess was a semi-abstract safety thing, like a handrail but overhead. They seem oriented appropriately for that to the steps.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That does make some sense, but there are folded towels sitting there on the shelf. That was my assumption too, since those stairs are a death trap once there’s any water on them. E: also threading a towel through one of those would be a pain in the rear end.
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Mar 28, 2020 02:08
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Looks more like a non-OSHA compliant hand rail to me. They even go to with every step.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:My guess was a semi-abstract safety thing, like a handrail but overhead. They seem oriented appropriately for that to the steps.  that works (as an explanation, I mean)
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Mar 28, 2020 02:08
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Youth Decay posted:The Zillow search term of the day is "Greek key". A 'back to front Swastika ' is an ancient eastern religious symbol, used especially in Hinduism and Jainism which the nazis co-opted.
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Mar 28, 2020 05:06
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Swastiks are pretty common in traditional Buddhism / yoga lineages as well
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Mar 28, 2020 07:57
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Those tiles remind me of my dad's ties. Houndstooth knitting.
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The Lord Bude posted:A 'back to front Swastika ' is an ancient eastern religious symbol, used especially in Hinduism and Jainism which the nazis co-opted. I know that. I just thought it was mildly amusing even though it's totally innocent. It's like the one pattern motif that no house is ever going to be advertised with. They'll proclaim the Greek keys and fleur-de-lis and quatrefoils and houndstooth, but fylfots, let's try and ignore those.
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Anasazi aint a nazi
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Looking at the smaller version of the picture I thought the statue was a really ugly leather armchair set up for perving on the bath tub.
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Thumposaurus posted:Looking at the smaller version of the picture I thought the statue was a really ugly leather armchair set up for perving on the bath tub. i mean its not leather but it could be
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
I think that's terracotta with some kind of green finish. An actual jade figure of that size would be tens of thousands of dollars, and probably snatched up to make a Buddha statue before artistic nude lady sculptors got to it.
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there wolf posted:I think that's terracotta with some kind of green finish. An actual jade figure of that size would be tens of thousands of dollars, and probably snatched up to make a Buddha statue before artistic nude lady sculptors got to it. That’s why I work so hard to carve naked ladies out of Buddha statues
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Mar 29, 2020 01:00
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Youth Decay posted:The Zillow search term of the day is "Greek key". The room that 1998 woodworking is in is insanely huge
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Mar 29, 2020 01:00
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The Zillow search term of the day is "Revolutionary War" aka 18th century houses got some wiiiiiiiiiiiide plank floors       like seriously look at these loving planks 
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Mar 29, 2020 02:10
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I'm getting a little hot around the collar looking at all that thick hardwood 🥵
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Mocking Bird posted:I'm getting a little hot around the collar looking at all that thick hardwood 🥵 that runner tho !!!
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Mar 29, 2020 02:21
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Youth Decay posted:The Zillow search term of the day is "Revolutionary War" Jesus wept. I do believe that's 20" cherry in the top pic, and drat well looks like walnut in the bottom. The legends are true.
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Mar 29, 2020 04:04
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Mr. Mambold posted:Jesus wept. I do believe that's 20" cherry in the top pic, and drat well looks like walnut in the bottom. The legends are true. Someone should ripe it up and take a sander to the boards for an aged shiplap wall.
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Mar 29, 2020 06:03
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Mr. Mambold posted:Jesus wept. I do believe that's 20" cherry in the top pic, and drat well looks like walnut in the bottom. The legends are true. Bottom house used several species of wood because it's 1727 and they haven't stripped all the big timber from New England just yet.   
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Mar 29, 2020 06:46
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Youth Decay posted:The listing for the top one says it's pine, which was the most commonly used wood for these thicc floors. I'm reasonably sure the very top one you listed is pine, the knots are pretty much a giveaway. I was referring to the top pic which I quoted of yours as cherry, actually the 4th I think. Wide pine is not such an anomaly today since it is so fast growing. Cherry a couple hundred years old, almost nowhere like that anymore.
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Mr. Mambold posted:I'm reasonably sure the very top one you listed is pine, the knots are pretty much a giveaway. I was referring to the top pic which I quoted of yours as cherry, actually the 4th I think. Yeah by top one I meant the first house you quoted, and the listing says it's pine floors. Could be wrong, I doubt most realtors know how to identify wood.
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Mar 29, 2020 16:24
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Youth Decay posted:Yeah by top one I meant the first house you quoted, and the listing says it's pine floors. Could be wrong, I doubt most realtors know how to identify wood. Mixed bag. Good realtors know the housing stock in their areas, and are familiar with it's features and construction methods. If your realtor isn't doing stuff like pointing out water damage, walls that have been moved/removed, or how the listing says one thing but they think it's something different, then you have a lovely realtor.
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Mar 29, 2020 21:11
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  Pr-Revolutionary War log cabin featuring some big, but not huge, logs.
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The Zillow search term of the day is "octagon"      of course an octagon house needs an octagon hot tub  A marble house with a marble fireplace, yours for $165k. 
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Are the ceilings really low in those old rear end houses? Or is that just the wide angle shots getting all distorted.
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The distorted shots aren't helping, but yes, modest old houses (1700s or before) are famous for low ceilings. Where do you live?
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Red_Fred posted:Are the ceilings really low in those old rear end houses? Or is that just the wide angle shots getting all distorted. Yeah they are really that low. It's easier to heat a house with low ceilings and in the Little Ice Age and before central heating that was a major consideration.
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In an otherwise quite nice house, there was this bath(?) made from tile and sharp edges: Also, multiple different blue tiles and naked brick, bleh.
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That's a very strange bathtub. Possibly it's meant to be something else? Like a dedicated dog washing area/muddy boots cleanup area. I know in many households that sort of thing is the only thing a bathtub gets used for. Also that is an aggressively 1970s house; I hate it.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:In an otherwise quite nice house, there was this bath(?) made from tile and sharp edges: The crazy unpredictability of tiles strikes again
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Youth Decay posted:of course an octagon house needs an octagon hot tub It looks like you could drown standing upright in this tub.
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Youth Decay posted:Yeah they are really that low. It's easier to heat a house with low ceilings and in the Little Ice Age and before central heating that was a major consideration. The exception being Victorian houses in the UK, which are the only ones with decent ceiling heights here. They had gas lamps & open fires, so more of a smoke dissipation space.
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I would absolutely die drunk trying to climb this wall when it all peeled off at about 12 feet up.
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Older houses in Australia tend to have high ceilings, although even our oldest houses are mostly much younger than the colonial era houses being discussed in the US. My house has 16' ceilings.
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Mar 30, 2020 09:37
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The Lord Bude posted:Older houses in Australia tend to have high ceilings, although even our oldest houses are mostly much younger than the colonial era houses being discussed in the US. My house has 16' ceilings. Its because its hot as hell here, keeps it cool
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Youth Decay posted:The Zillow search term of the day is "octagon" The Lord Bude posted:Older houses in Australia tend to have high ceilings, although even our oldest houses are mostly much younger than the colonial era houses being discussed in the US. My house has 16' ceilings.
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