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Mr. Mambold posted:Why it's a 'pretend' rail to go with  No handrail r-r-r-r-r-regulations!
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there wolf posted:Ugh, shag rug repairs. Your rug is jute (warp) and blue thread (weft) with pink knots forming the pile. Those knots are mostly held in place by the compression of the warp and the weft, so repairing it means reweaving where it's started to come loose, replacing any knots you've lost. Thank you! This makes perfect sense. I will be ordering materials and then going to town on this. You are correct the knots are not actually knotted, they are just wrapped halfway around the jute.
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Motronic posted:So you sounds like you know what you're talking about with these rugs. Instead of just suggesting, I'll ask: are carpet pads something that one would use to protect a rug like this? In this particular case I know it's edge damage and likely wouldn't have made a difference. But carpet pads are like, totally a thing for oriental rugs if you want to keep them in good shape. All of mine that see traffic have some manner and level of padding like this: Well I am not a rug expert by far. I'm just really into the mechanics of textiles, so I've read a lot about how how poo poo like rugs are made and done some patching and repairs on stuff before. But, yeah I think a carpet pad is a good idea overall. Among other stuff, they can act as a mild stabilizer on the weave just through friction alone. Uncloudy, a little more detail on how to do that patch now that I've slept on it- You'll want to baste the patch over the bad spot with some big stitches just to hold it in place. Then starting from the inside and working out, you'll add rows of blue yarn until you get to the part where you need to start putting knots in. Give your knots longer ends than the rest of the rug, and just alternate knot and blue yarn rows until the end. Trim the new knots to the height of the rest of the pile and cut away the basting stitches.
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1536-Mineral-Spring-Rd-Reading-PA-19602/2142536959_zpid/ Ok, there has to be a catch to this one because to my untrained non-Pennsylvanian eye this seems like an insanely low price for a suspiciously nice house.
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Alris posted:Ok, there has to be a catch to this one because to my untrained non-Pennsylvanian eye this seems like an insanely low price for a suspiciously nice house. Been a while since I’ve driven through reading, but I remember it having all the charm of a burned out rust belt town smack in the middle of Amish country.
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Alris posted:Ok, there has to be a catch to this one because to my untrained non-Pennsylvanian eye this seems like an insanely low price for a suspiciously nice house. same deal as a Cheap Victorian in a Dying Midwest Town - few people want to move there due to lack of jobs, it's bigger/fancier/older/still more expensive than the houses that people actually do want, and property taxes are high compared to the actual cost of the house. Most houses in that city are less than $100k.
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Alris posted:Ok, there has to be a catch to this one because to my untrained non-Pennsylvanian eye this seems like an insanely low price for a suspiciously nice house. there's nothing in the listing indicating that it is about to fall over, you'll see warning signs like "SOLD AS-IS" or "NO INSPECTION OFFERED" which basically means prepare to spend more than the listing price on serious structural repairs and renovations. but the house seems to be in good shape i snooped on the area in google street view and it looks generally run down but not especially so. zillow listing indicates that the houses nearby are also absurdly cheap, ranging from giant mansions to old school mid-atlantic rowhouses this indicates to me that the job market in this area is probably total rust belt dogshit. wiki seems to confirm it: quote:According to the 2010 census, Reading had the highest share of citizens living in poverty in the nation for cities with populations of more than 65,000. Reading's poverty rate fell over the next decade. Readings poverty rate in the 2018 five-year American Community survey showed that 35.4% of the city's residents were below the poverty line, or less "than the infamous 41.3% from 2011, when Reading was declared the poorest small city in the nation." super low cost of living because good luck getting a job. but if you're enticed to move to the reading area by a job paying six figures then you will live like a prince. either that or this house is haunted 
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/116-Grove-St-Charleston-SC-29403/10910255_zpid/ I don't understand modern architects' obsession with floating death stairs. Would adding a handrail here really ruin the aesthetic? Loving the line breaks between stuff. It does honestly make it so much easier to parse.
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BigFactory posted:Been a while since I’ve driven through reading, but I remember it having all the charm of a burned out rust belt town smack in the middle of Amish country. Actually it's pronounced "reading"
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/75-Huntington-Ave-Scarsdale-NY-10583/33093987_zpid/ I have no idea what that Coke branded thing is, but I want it.
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/65-Sunset-Farm-Rd-West-Hartford-CT-06107/57784030_zpid/ 1936 Bauhaus with a 1988 renovation/expansion Planning a move to this area and I've been debating going to look at this house, small world. Here's its spiritual cousin, also with a turret.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have no idea what that Coke branded thing is, but I want it. Looks like a 1930's Glascock Coca-Cola Cooler. I've seen a few sell for $500-600 (US) that were in decent condition.
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Flooring is interior design right? I'm bad at making decisions on what I want to do with some flooring stuff, I'm looking for some opinions on the stuff in blue on this diagram: * Brown stuff - actual wood floor, leaving * Green stuff - Bathroom - recently installed LVP, leaving. Stairs - Carpeted, leaving - upstairs irrelevant so not pictured. * Blue stuff -trying to figure out. The "bedroom" on right is used as more of a den/family room/office. Kitchen planning on redoing soon, the small patch is a a tiny mud room closet from garage. I'm trying to figure out if i should 'sync up' flooring on all of those spots to match. I want to do some sort of harder flooring, so maybe LVP DIY-style. I do not want more wood floor and do not want to attempt to match the other stuff. In my mind, it feels like they should all match. Does that seem correct? If you were standing in the small entryway area, you can see the other rooms in question. 
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falz posted:Flooring is interior design right? If you aren't putting the same LVP as the bathrooms in the kitchen just put tile down imo. Bedroom should probably match either the living area or the other bedrooms upstairs.
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getting these delivered in a few days, drat they are sharp looking (and you don't need the goofy legs on hard floor which is nice) gonna look great with my sick $30 kallax setup p.s. never forget
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Kitchen options: Wood flooring - will get dirty, annoying to clean, not that water resistant. If you like this, then you need to match your living room LVT: If it's not the same LVT as your bathroom, then youre doing it wrong Tile: Probably will last longer than LVT. I'd go with this, but then you have to deal with where to transition! Bedroom - do whatever you want. If you want to be a unique snowflake you can even make it different from your other materials. I'd probably go with the same color as your other bedrooms though personally.
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Do not put real wood flooring in your kitchen. Those crevices will never ever be clean. The Zillow search term of the day is "palladian". A word which apparently nobody knows how to spell because there are an equal number of results for the search term "palladium" with the same kind of window. Also it apparently just means "any tall window that's rounded at the top". https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6-Bridge-One-Ln-Pipersville-PA-18947/2083924902_zpid/  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30-Rona-St-Interlaken-NJ-07712/39277355_zpid/  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/112-E-West-St-UNIT-302-Baltimore-MD-21230/64756387_zpid/  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3325-Us-Route-7-Pittsford-VT-05763/250980509_zpid/ Even in God's house you can't escape the Live Laugh Love sign. Would be cool to have a pipe organ in my bedroom though.  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2103-R-St-NW-Washington-DC-20008/396622_zpid/ This is the perfect neutral shade of green. I'd like to see more of this and less ~Agreeable Gray~, especially in historic renovations.  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/84-Eldredge-St-APT-5-Newton-MA-02458/56319195_zpid/ Ballroom of a country club converted into an extremely bougie condo.  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/65-Sand-Hill-Rd-Durham-CT-06422/57851642_zpid/ This is an inlaw suite but I much prefer it to the bland main house.  https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4358-River-Rd-New-Hope-PA-18938/9083049_zpid/ Whoever designed this house really loved Palladian windows.     wait what is going on here 
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that pipe organ bedroom is loving amazing hahah that'd make a hell of an alarm clock
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Youth Decay posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4358-River-Rd-New-Hope-PA-18938/9083049_zpid/ Whoever designed this house really loved Palladian windows.
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falz posted:In my mind, it feels like they should all match. Does that seem correct? If you were standing in the small entryway area, you can see the other rooms in question. You don't need to match them. The rooms all serve different functions so different flooring would make sense. There's also no reason not to match them if you just want to get one thing and be done. From an aesthetic perspective, LVP can look cheep next to actual wood so try for enough contrast to make the difference look deliberative. I think if you did a tile pattern, rather than a wood patter LVP in the kitchen and mud room, and then wood pattern in the not-bedroom it'd look pretty good.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I guess they're not expecting to ever have anyone over and running around the yard? Could really use some drapes or curtains in there. There's also no mirrors above the sinks... Seems like some kind of tint or reflective film on the bottom half of the windows.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I guess they're not expecting to ever have anyone over and running around the yard? Could really use some drapes or curtains in there. There's also no mirrors above the sinks... from what i assume clicking around the listing photos and looking at the exterior window placement, the only possible location for this exhibitionist-rear end bathroom is on the floor above ground level
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Youth Decay posted:Do not put real wood flooring in your kitchen. Those crevices will never ever be clean. Seriouspost: how exactly is this a real problem? I've been in kitchens that have had wood floors centuries old and it's not like I caught typhoid from some unclean crevices.
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It must be projection, because in my experience internet nerds and fastidiously clean living spaces don’t actually go together.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Seriouspost: how exactly is this a real problem? I've been in kitchens that have had wood floors centuries old and it's not like I caught typhoid from some unclean crevices. It’s a bigger issue with prefinished hardwood. Older floors obv wouldn’t have that problem. And yeah you’re not going to catch a disease, but I have prefinished hardwood in my kitchen and it’s hard to keep clean.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Seriouspost: how exactly is this a real problem? I've been in kitchens that have had wood floors centuries old and it's not like I caught typhoid from some unclean crevices. I'm also struggling to come up with a floor covering that has less crevices than hardwood. Not laminate, not tile, not vinyl plank, not engineered... So sheet vinyl it is. Slugworth fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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I don't know if I've ever seen prefinished hardwood. Even the people I know that re-did floors just plopped down some planks and then finished them in situ. But I have no idea how that affects the filth crevice situation so Anyway I'm all for vinyl mat on floors because it stops the draft coming in from under the floor.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't know if I've ever seen prefinished hardwood. Even the people I know that re-did floors just plopped down some planks and then finished them in situ. But I have no idea how that affects the filth crevice situation so The draft?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Seriouspost: how exactly is this a real problem? I've been in kitchens that have had wood floors centuries old and it's not like I caught typhoid from some unclean crevices. I'm going off my experience living in apartments with old wood floors. Probably did need to be refinished but there were spaces between the boards and divots that caught dirt and crumbs.
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BigFactory posted:The draft? Yes you know when you're sleeping in your bed and all of a sudden some guy squeezes through the cracks in the bedroom floor, shakes you awake, and starts screaming "GET UP DUDE WE'RE SENDING YOU TO VIET NAM!"?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yes you know when you're sleeping in your bed and all of a sudden some guy squeezes through the cracks in the bedroom floor, shakes you awake, and starts screaming "GET UP DUDE WE'RE SENDING YOU TO VIET NAM!"? I’m Canadian
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BigFactory posted:I’m Canadian Oh I'm sorry, I'll try to explain it slower.
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ntan1 posted:Kitchen options: Is lvt the same as lvp, just looks more like traditional tile?
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shadow puppet of a posted:Also, here is spoa's tasteless high end ontario animal corpse home decor of the week:
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surprised there's no knick knacks or clutter perched on those kitsch-rear end irregularly sized log ends
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Help me solve this interior design problem. In the upstairs lounge, the previous home owners have decided to tack on a series of evenly spaced out empty frames to the wall and troweled in random plaster texturing inside the frame. There are a series of 5 empty frames with this god awful texturing. I have no idea how the hell I can fix this. It looks like absolute dog poo poo. If I sand it down, I'll create an absolute poo poo storm of fine dust. I feel like it sticks out too much to skim coat. How do I unfuck this? 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't know if I've ever seen prefinished hardwood. Even the people I know that re-did floors just plopped down some planks and then finished them in situ. But I have no idea how that affects the filth crevice situation so It's laminated hardwood, so technically maybe plywood. It's being replaced by 'engineered', which is a term for mdf with some grainy looking but vinyl coating. 3D Megadoodoo posted:Yes you know when you're sleeping in your bed and all of a sudden some guy squeezes through the cracks in the bedroom floor, shakes you awake, and starts screaming "GET UP DUDE WE'RE SENDING YOU TO VIET NAM!"? It really ties the room together.
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