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Poo In An Alleyway posted:One thing is that the house itself is actually a might darker than what's shown in the photos, which means they brightened up the photos before publishing them. That's the main reason realtors tend to crank up the HDR on their photos: it makes any room look like it's positively overflowing with natural light. Appreciate you going on the field trip and coming back with a report! 
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:e: also my husband has been complaining about the smell of the house since we left it nearly 3 hours ago Anything else about the guy selling it? I assumed it was a woman because of the stoves lol
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May 17, 2024 21:21
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:The stairs up to the bedrooms are essentially a carpeted ladder that neither my husband or I could fit our feet comfortably onto, so we had to white-knuckle the bannister on the way up and down the stairs. So previous owner fell down the "stairs" to their demise and now everything must go as a package? Seriously though pretty cool of you to make the trip both for your enjoyment and make the trip report for ours.
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May 17, 2024 22:30
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Pleased to announce that my husband and I are just back from a viewing of this house. It is exactly as patterned in every room as the photos would suggest. One thing is that the house itself is actually a might darker than what's shown in the photos, which means they brightened up the photos before publishing them. The pictures were obviously taken with a very wide-angle lens. It's very, very small, like, so small that my husband almost hit his head on the doorframes going into the bedrooms. Every surface that's not covered in all these insane wallpaper cuttings (which are all 3D by the way so every wall feels like it's padded in thick tissue paper) has been painted dark blue including the skylights in the bedrooms, but I couldn't help but notice as well that in the bedrooms where the wallpaper has stopped adhering to the wall, there's tiles underneath them. The guy who's selling the house wallpapered over the tiles. The woman showing us the house didn't even open the backyard door to show us the backyard since technically it doesn't exist and is just a slab of concrete with astroturf sheeting over it. The stairs up to the bedrooms are essentially a carpeted ladder that neither my husband or I could fit our feet comfortably onto, so we had to white-knuckle the bannister on the way up and down the stairs. I don't remember seeing the floor in any room except the kitchen because every available floor surface is covered in different fluffy rugs. Yay! Thank you so much for going and having a goo. I love the fact that the previous owner covered up fecking tiles in the bedrooms with wallpaper. Perhaps there is wainscotting under the tiles, and maybe some wattle and daub under the wainscotting; just centuries of covering up the old stuff and making the rooms more cramped. 
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May 17, 2024 23:18
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:It boggles my mind why they didn't just build the bathroom into the backyard since there'd be space to make either that or the kitchen a little bigger. I look forward to following this goon project after you purchase the house
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May 20, 2024 07:39
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finally something affordable for low-income ($150,000 per year) buyers
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heated game moment posted:finally something affordable for low-income ($150,000 per year) buyers Ugh, either that, or some "entrepreneur" is renting this out as like a $200/night AirBnB.
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CellBlock posted:Ugh, either that, or some "entrepreneur" is renting this out as like a $200/night AirBnB. That's completely wrong. They'd buy out the entire block of those units to rent them as $200/night AirBnB's.
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May 20, 2024 18:26
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Well good news wallpaper over the tile is probably easy to remove. I mean, going off of a guess here because obviously that's not a real life scenario one encounters.
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Saint Freak posted:I mean, going off of a guess here because obviously that's not a real life scenario one encounters. Speaking of bad & weird houses and imaginary scenarios, you're reminding me of my own house; it's old enough that the bathroom is a retrofit added to the house by amateurs. Anyway, I had a writer friend who was explaining that in novels, there are certain things you don't have to spell out, because the reader already assumes they're true. The example he gave was that when talking about a house's layout, you don't have to mention that the bathroom doesn't adjoin the kitchen, because that would be gross and awful and nobody would ever build a house that way. I had to deliver some bad news to him about his assumptions.
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aniviron posted:Speaking of bad & weird houses and imaginary scenarios, you're reminding me of my own house; it's old enough that the bathroom is a retrofit added to the house by amateurs. Anyway, I had a writer friend who was explaining that in novels, there are certain things you don't have to spell out, because the reader already assumes they're true. The example he gave was that when talking about a house's layout, you don't have to mention that the bathroom doesn't adjoin the kitchen, because that would be gross and awful and nobody would ever build a house that way. I had to deliver some bad news to him about his assumptions. Is it the only bathroom because the house originally didn't have one, or an addon extra bathroom and it's located there because there were already water pipes ran to the kitchen, so the other side of the wall was easiest, and they wanted another one? I feel like the first one is better than an outhouse, but the second one is preferable if it's more like "the extra bathroom" situation. Like it wouldn't be my go-to, but if someone is in the main bathroom and I've gotta do my business, yeah I'm heading to the kitchen side bathroom.
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May 21, 2024 00:00
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It's the only one, and as you suspect, they ran it there because the kitchen plumbing was already there. I'm sure it's better than the outhouse was, but it's not great by today's standards.
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May 21, 2024 00:07
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No one walls off the kitchen anymore, so a lot of bathrooms are adjoined to the same room as the kitchen, just the part of it that is a few paces away from the appliances and has a sofa in it or whatever.
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Platystemon posted:No one walls off the kitchen anymore, so a lot of bathrooms are adjoined to the same room as the kitchen, just the part of it that is a few paces away from the appliances and has a sofa in it or whatever. Yeah, but there's a big difference between the bathroom and kitchen sharing a wall, and having the only way to get to the bathroom is to walk through the kitchen. You're right that super open floor plans make things seem much more ambiguous though, at least in the way people think about things, but I doubt that's aniviron's case. Having the only bathroom on the other side of a bedroom is worse imo, at least for privacy's sake if it's anything more than a studio apartment. aniviron posted:It's the only one, and as you suspect, they ran it there because the kitchen plumbing was already there. I'm sure it's better than the outhouse was, but it's not great by today's standards. Makes sense, thanks. Having had to run through snow to the other side of the yard to sit in freezing temperatures and do your business in a rickety uninsulated outhouse with almost no clothes on isn't fun, neither is roasting in one of those plastic J-Johns in 110+ degree weather, so at least there's that, lol. Ever think about doing a reno and what you would change, or adding another bathroom? I mean if I were in your situation I wouldn't have the money to do it, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't think about what I would do if I could.
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1 more bathroom is always the correct choice. It doesn't matter how many bathrooms you have when the question is asked.
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I've been, and lived in, tons of houses where there was a bathroom kitchen directly off the kitchen. I also lived in a house that had two bedrooms upstairs, and the only bathroom was down the stairs, through the living room, and through the kitchen. As an early 20's guy living with a good buddy, it was fine and that tiny little house kicked rear end.
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May 21, 2024 02:40
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Half the houses around here are worker's terraces that predate indoor plumbing. So while the effort has generally been made to run electrical through all the existing rooms, both the kitchen and bathroom/laundry tend to be in an extension stuck on the back.
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Twenty Four posted:Having the only bathroom on the other side of a bedroom is worse imo, at least for privacy's sake if it's anything more than a studio apartment. My bedroom shares a wall with the bathroom so any time anyone has a shower or flushes the toilet the pipes will shudder and wail and be loudly audible inside my room. I've lived here so long that I filter out that noise completely when I'm sleeping, like a person who lives next to the train tracks and gets accustomed to the noise. Jabor posted:Half the houses around here are worker's terraces that predate indoor plumbing. So while the effort has generally been made to run electrical through all the existing rooms, both the kitchen and bathroom/laundry tend to be in an extension stuck on the back. Yeah that's exactly my situation, and that extension was so poorly constructed that it's noticeably leaning at a different angle to the rest of the house. The roof on that extension was built so badly that those rooms gets damp every time it rains and we've always had mould issues back there, the landlord says there's nothing they can do about it 
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Twenty Four posted:Makes sense, thanks. Yeah, it gets to -40 here in the dead of winter, I frankly wouldn't consider it inhabitable without indoor plumbing. I do daydream about renovating but the cost would be massive and I'm here because the cost of living & property are quite cheap. Ideally I'd break through the wall to have the bathroom open up to the entry hall (also added later, after the bathroom at some point) and seal off the kitchen entry. If money and difficulty were no object, extending out the basement to make another bedroom or workshop with a bathroom below the existing one or adding a bathroom to the second floor above would be nice.
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Just by pressure washing the exterior it would look way better but since it's just stinky wallpaper on tile on the inside, it would be best to pressure wash that off too after stripping off all electronic things.
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aniviron posted:I do daydream about renovating but the cost would be massive and I'm here because the cost of living & property are quite cheap. Ideally I'd break through the wall to have the bathroom open up to the entry hall (also added later, after the bathroom at some point) and seal off the kitchen entry. If money and difficulty were no object, extending out the basement to make another bedroom or workshop with a bathroom below the existing one or adding a bathroom to the second floor above would be nice. Things like this make my floorplan imagination run wild, and I love that sort of stuff, though without reference I bet what is going through my mind is completely different than the actual situation, lol. Twenty Four posted:Having the only bathroom on the other side of a bedroom is worse imo, at least for privacy's sake if it's anything more than a studio apartment. Snowglobe of Doom posted:My bedroom shares a wall with the bathroom so any time anyone has a shower or flushes the toilet the pipes will shudder and wail and be loudly audible inside my room. I've lived here so long that I filter out that noise completely when I'm sleeping, like a person who lives next to the train tracks and gets accustomed to the noise. Shared walls can be annoying, for sure, and perhaps I could have phrased that better, though I thought it made sense in context. I meant when you have to physically walk through a bedroom (think an en suite if you want to be fancy) to get to the only bathroom in anything bigger than a studio apartment can cause privacy issues much worse than having to walk through a kitchen. Think guests walking through your bedroom to use the only restroom, or being that guest and doing so, especially so if said bedroom is in use in either case. Ironhead posted:I also lived in a house that had two bedrooms upstairs, and the only bathroom was down the stairs, through the living room, and through the kitchen. From experience, when you really have to go, I would rather have the only bathroom be downstairs than upstairs, lol.
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Found this randomly on streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.451...i8192?entry=ttu My best guess is that the front building is going to be some kind of business and it's just not finished yet.
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Dragonwagon posted:Found this randomly on streetview: looks kind of like a jehovah’s witness kingdom hall conversion e: guess not though, unless all those big windows in the back building are all blacked out TrashMammal has a new favorite as of 18:56 on May 23, 2024 |
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whatever it is, the facade in the front appears to have been a recent addition e: i’m real dumb. there’s no mystery. this place is in pagesjaunes, it’s a beauty salon TrashMammal has a new favorite as of 19:44 on May 23, 2024 |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Garterobe
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you have to poo poo with your back to the basement curtain... i'm a little baby and I'd hate using that at three in the morning
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InediblePenguin posted:you have to poo poo with your back to the basement curtain... i'm a little baby and I'd hate using that at three in the morning On the plus side, constipation solves itself with fear when you hear a noise from down there behind you.
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InediblePenguin posted:you have to poo poo with your back to the basement curtain... i'm a little baby and I'd hate using that at three in the morning My irrational fear with it would be that I'd somehow go tumbling backwards down the stairs, toilet and all.
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You're sat upon the stairs bog close to midnight, and realise, too late! that there is no bogroll. A hand emerges from the basement curtain and softly drops some blessed bumf in your lap. Stairsbog ghost floats gently away.
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I’m pretty sure my casino penthouse condo in GTA Online looks extremely similar to this place. https://www.homes.com/property/5075-greenpine-dr-ne-atlanta-ga/lb58br771mhnq/          
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Gonz posted:I’m pretty sure my casino penthouse condo in GTA Online looks extremely similar to this place. Lmao, yes I can generally understand the other stuff, but the standalone clothes and shoes kiosks look particularly videogamey to me
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May 27, 2024 17:51
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It screams "music industry lawyer" to me
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May 27, 2024 17:55
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Captain Hygiene posted:I can generally understand the other stuff, but the standalone clothes and shoes kiosks look particularly videogamey to me What, the goddamn gun range doesn't?
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May 27, 2024 18:39
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I'm honestly surprised we don't see more indoor firing ranges ITT considering U.S.A's obsession with guns.
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Trabant posted:What, the goddamn gun range doesn't? Oh lol, I meant more literally. Like, it's all stupid nonsense, but those ones look like blocks of clothing textures you'd have plopped into the middle of a videogame room for when you want to change outfits.
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I bet some old rich person can't go out to the driving range anymore so they brought that life size edition of Lee Carvalo's Putting Challenge.
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May 27, 2024 20:09
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If you shoot at home nobody gets to see you fondle your gun. That's the American dream
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I'm sure gunsexuals are walking the streets proudly already?
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Someone sure loves the Sandy Springs Police Department now I'm debating which one would be stranger - that a PD sells fan posters, or that someone made their own
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