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Hi, we like the same things I think. Another big problem with interior design are different or incompatible tastes. Husband likes X, wife wants Y, they compromise by having a mix of both or random claimed rooms resulting in horror. I'm very lucky and me and my wife seem to have the exact same taste in furniture and art. She likes a bit more in terms of what I call "pointless clutter" and she calls "decorations", which is easy when you're not the one doing most of the dusting. We inherited some nice teak danish modern stuff and just built from there, we are very lucky because a midcentury modern furniture store is close by and sells old 2nd hand stuff for very cheap (relatively). We never really planned for a certain look but we just kept buying nice simple modern wood stuff from the 50's and 60's. It all ended up being about the same price as buying something new, but it's solid wood not particle board and actually looks good. We've been looking for a nice starburst clock for like 5 years though. Obviously we could just buy one for some insane price but we like to get everything on the cheap. It's actually fun to go slow and always have an eye open for that perfect item at that perfect price. Anyways, yeah, give me all the smooth teak boxes. Here's some slightly out of date shots of our place from around Christmas, always happy to hear some advice.    It helps that our building is from 1951 and all the common areas have been restored or just kept to the original decor.  Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 19:46 on May 9, 2017 |
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I seriously get a facial tick every time I see a house that has BIG and INSPIRATIONAL words on their wall about LOVE and LIFE are the MEANING for FAMILY. We were staying at an Airbnb that had that poo poo all over and I seriously wanted to take them down for our stay because they enraged and disgusted me every time I saw them and i can't wait for that trend to die, well it's officially dead because it's not the early 2000's anymore but people haven't gotten the message yet. It's like working at an office that unironically posts "successory" posters all over telling me to work hard or attain my career goals. I don't need a loving sign in my house telling me to love life creatively or that happiness and joy are found in a house filled with family and love. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 19:54
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WrenP-Complete posted:Here are some spaces I really love. We just moved, so no photos of our space yet, but soon. I'm really not a fan of the first 3 but I can see they are done well for that style, but I love that last one. It's so clean and modern but everything has earthy texture to it. It's like warm country brutalism.
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May 9, 2017 20:52
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Can I rant about the field of interior design? I used to work in architecture and I still dabble here and there when friends need some part time help. Traditionally an architect will design the house along with the client's input, the house will be built, and when it's done or near done or sometimes earlier if the clients are rich they'll also hire someone for the interiors. People realized it made sense to get this person onboard before the house was fully built so they could make minor changes to some of the interiors to better fit the interior design. So they'd tell the architect "hey, the clients want textured stucco in the entry area instead of normal drywall" or "Is there any way to adjust some of these windows to have slightly higher sills because there's going to be some high backed sofa along it" just little things like that to nudge the design of the house to fit the interior design. The problem now is that this trend keeps getting more and more intrusive to the point where the architect will design the house, get it approved, construction will start and the interior designer will just start making radical changes to the house that effect the exterior and the structure. I just had to tell a lady that no, we can't triple the amount of windows on the side of the house because the architect already did the math and put the maximum number of unprotected openings there. No it doesn't matter how critical this is to your interior design vision, this is building code stuff. No we can't remove that wall, it's load bearing and the floor below is already built it's too late for drastic changes like that. Yes we can technically change the front windows in these 3 rooms but you understand that will make the house look uneven from the outside now right? Sometimes they just come onto the site and start showing the crews their changes and telling them to do it, without consulting with the architect at all. They just take over the project but have zero interest in how their changes affect the outside of the building, or even the basic building code.
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May 9, 2017 21:11
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Minimal modernism with mostly smooth sterile synthetic materials can feel very cold. It's fine for your apple store or high tech office lobby but I probably don't want to live in it. Minimalism with a lot of natural materials, shades, and textures manages to feel very warm while also feeling clean and modern. It also makes those pops of colour here and there really stand out when done right.
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May 9, 2017 22:16
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Incoming light airy midcentury porn    For most of us we're probably renting an apartment and the best we can do is paint if we ask the landlord nicely. It's easy to have all these perfect interior designs with a perfect theme when you're building your own house or doing a major reno. It's much harder to pull off a style or look when your only real control is over your furniture and art. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 22:21
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beep-beep car is go posted:When I see that kitchen, all I hear is "I love how much my dishes are covered in sticky greasy dust all the time!" Same, I was staying with a friend who had a cluttered "country kitchen" mess like that and it seemed impossible to clean. We made a cake and everything hanging exposed like that got a slight dusting of flour, everything cooking near the stove got slightly greasy, and everything was a huge pain to clean because you had to move everything off the counter, which they never did, so every countertop appliance was glued to the counter from generic stickyness.
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May 12, 2017 18:41
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Simple clean modern designs are pretty timeless. My friend re-did his kitchen and did it with, what I consider, ridiculously old fashioned 80's grandma style. He's a woodworker and knows his stuff, but every single cabinet door was a very finely done mess of arches and bevels and details and then left quite light and woody looking for finish. But just because you're good at woodworking doesn't mean you've got good taste. I think designs like this will feel dated and even silly eventually  While something like this will remain fine for a long time, although boring  Goofy poo poo like this underlighting belongs in a restaurant, not a household kitchen and will probably end up breaking and not getting fixed and looking like poo poo years later.  A simple modern design like this will most likely hold up well too, although I'd have done something a little different with the back of that island.  This small apartment kitchen (still about 2x as big as mine...) is pretty timeless and will hold up fine.  But I think fake wood like this will be an instant tell for "2010 kitchen" because seriously every new condo I've seen in the last 10 years or so has had some variety of this design and that fake grainy wood 
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May 12, 2017 22:31
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Agreed, "centre island with bar seating on cool ultra-contemporary seats" is like a checkbox every new "luxury" kitchen just has to have and they'll put that in at the expense of actually having space for a proper little dining table. Sometimes even at the expense of the functionality of the kitchen itself because there was never room for an island in the first place because it's a loving 800 sqft condo. And yeah, kitchen design should be functional. I've tried doing real cooking in some McMansion style kitchens that look good but were clearly not designed by anyone who ever cooks. There was no efficiency of motion, you had to walk steps and steps to go between common tasks because there was so much wasted open space, yet counter space didn't exist next to the locations you actually did need it. All because it was designed for looks, symmetry, not actual cooking. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 12, 2017 |
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May 12, 2017 23:03
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Riser less stairs are pretty much not allowed by the building code here and lots of fussy architects get pissed off that those pencil pushers are getting in the way of their amazing artistic vision and oh my god they are demanding railings too?????
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May 14, 2017 18:56
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Any glue strong enough would most likely leave marks on the wall. Why not just drill it? The holes would be small and easily patched but you'd probably never get that monolithic raw concrete look again, or maybe you could?
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May 15, 2017 03:28
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Part of my job is mounting things on walls, mostly signs, and we go about it two ways. For lighter objects we use 3M "very high bond" tape, which is expensive but is actually used in construction to literally tape entire window frames into skyscrapers and such. It's a foam backed tape so you'd get a couple mm of gap but the super thin stuff doesn't hold so well on concrete or any surface that isn't something like drywall. Even then I wouldn't want to use it for a nice fixture like that. It would probably hold, and it would probably pry off once you move out and clean off with some goo-gone. It's also pretty expensive and you can't just order a tiny bit, we tried some knock-off brands that were cheaper and claimed to be the same and we had signs falling off walls, so if you do go this route get the 3M VHB. The best method though is properly drilling it into the wall. All you'd need is a concrete drill bit and some of those plastic plugs (make sure to get the ones designed for concrete, not drywall) and it will secure very nicely. Sometimes it's a pain drilling into concrete without a proper hammer-drill. If you have or can borrow one it makes drilling into concrete almost as easy as drilling into wood.
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May 15, 2017 05:43
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Brutalist Interiors    I'm strangely attracted to Brutalism when done right. I think a lot of brutalist buildings as a whole fail because they were built in a time of the absolute worst ideas of urban planning and land use and tend to have huge pointless anti-human voids and monumental open spaces. But brutalist elements combined with more contemporary ideas of space can be nice. "brutalism with a human face" or something. I think mostly I'm just a huge sucker for raw and polished concrete.
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May 15, 2017 20:33
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Don't you dare put any wallpaper on my raw concrete.
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May 16, 2017 04:28
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The most expensive thing I ever bought was my sofa for about $900. I searched for months for some cube-like shelves that were modern but not silly and a reasonable price and not particle board, ended up just making my own with almost no woodworking experience. I think they turned out pretty good but if I re-did them I'd make them stronger because books are heavy. It holds them fine but you don't want to try to move the shelf while books are in there or it tries to bend apart. I think it looks pretty ok. Is it ok? 
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PRADA SLUT posted:Strictly stylistically though, I'd get rid of about half the books on it. It looks overloaded and you've got books piled up sideways and on top of each other and all over the place. If it were me, I'd slim it down enough to show some empty space and prevent it from looking like a pack of sardines. My wife just came home with like a car-load of books this weekend and is now stuffing our glass display buffet full of books.  This is now 100% books.We need more book storage but, tiny apartment. I also really like this chair. It's very comfortable and even the vinyl is original. I'm not a wood expert but it's something nice, it's from the 50's.  Here's the kitchen/dining. A lot of the units have had their 1951 chandeliers replaced with some trendy modern dining room lights and when we signed the lease they told us we could get it replaced but we said no thanks. I love all the coved ceilings and curves.  The bathroom is small but nothing is falling apart and for me, as long as my bathroom is clean I'm happy.  Another reason our space is a bit cramped is because of my hobby. We have a 2br unit just so I can have a "train room". Version 1 took up the whole room, version 2 is just a 3x8 table in the corner of the room and a massive mess of boxes and supplies ruining the rest of the room. The eventual plan is to turn it into a 2nd room BOTH of us can use by tidying it up and making it a pleasant usable space, not a perpetual construction area. My wife is very very supportive and great and is my sugar mamma that finances my stupid train set. Calculating the square footage of the 2nd bedroom and our rent I think it came out to be like $100 a month for the space   These are all just random pics I found on google pictures while I work-post. I should take a proper series of pictures with an eye to interior design, specially since a lot of those pics are years out of date. I'd like to get some advise on some things, specially our carpet not matching our new chair (geometric shapes vs floral). But the place is a slight mess, so this will be a good excuse to tidy. Wife will come home and say "wow, you really cleaned the place up, we having guests or something" and I'll say "No, I'm asking for interior design tips from internet forums something awful dot com". I do know that our former landlord was an interior designer of some local repute and she always nodded agreeingly and commented positively on our place when doing her official inspections. Also her husband, the actual owner was always a very sour and grumpy fellow. Never heard him say anything nice for years or even smile. After an inspection where I wasn't home I was nervous he was going to flip out at me over drilling holes in the ceiling (heard so many horror stories from other tenants) to hang my train lights but I actually got a big smile from him and "I think your trainset is really cool" and a thumbs up. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 16, 2017 |
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May 16, 2017 22:15
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Bad Munki posted:Maybe they're going to frost them after installation? This. They usually come pre-frosted but sometimes it's done on site for some reason.
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May 17, 2017 17:51
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I always want the "daylight" LED's now but my wife wants yellow What is more natural than sunlight?
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May 17, 2017 21:14
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I think "Home Automation" and internet-of-things is the dumbest poo poo and I want it all far far away from me.
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May 17, 2017 22:04
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The window hiding behind the cabinets is a bit odd.
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May 18, 2017 02:17
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What an odd space. Is there some sort of corner turret on the floor above?
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May 18, 2017 05:39
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Living with hard water and septic system sounds like a real nightmare.
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May 18, 2017 21:51
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I hate the slight of overly rustic wood, like I'm going to get splinters just looking at it. Exposed natural rock is cool in a basement or something but in your bedroom??
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May 19, 2017 07:01
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 Really not a fan of the dead animal or what ever, but everything else is very much my midcentury jam. I want that clock.
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May 24, 2017 17:41
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Just lol if your diet allows you to controllable non-liquid poops.
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May 26, 2017 20:00
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Counter-top heights are an actual building code issue in some places. An architect teacher of mine was telling me about a situation where a dwarf wanted a custom kitchen made with like 2' counters so he could use them. It was his house that he fully owned, but the city wouldn't issue the permit, saying that the counters were too low and this was outside the range for accessibility. They actually used accessibility codes to gently caress with a little-person trying to build an accessible kitchen. The city wouldn't budge. What they ended up doing was building the kitchen to code but having all the cabinet doors stop about 1' short of the floor, then build a sub-floor up all around. So the guy has to walk up a couple steps to get into his kitchen but at least he can use it. The cabinets will look like poo poo if the platform is ever removed so who ever buys the house will have to remodel the kitchen either way. The whole sticking to the code thing was "well what about the next person who buys the house?? I won't be accessible for them! What' if it's an old lady who can't bend down??"
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Just because I don't know if there's a better thread for this (and if there's an architecture thread, please direct me there). But it's tangentially related, so. This is like alien vs predator. Who ever wins, we lose. Those guys both had very different but equally bad ideas on urban planning and should have stuck to architecture. Also frank's ideal interior design was "make all the ceilings 6' tall but all the room 50x50!!!"
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May 28, 2017 06:32
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Why couldn't they make the tile area flush with the carpeted area? Why have a 2" tripping hazard?
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May 29, 2017 06:22
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I think most granite is really ugly, but I prefer solid coloured / no patterns for my countertops. A kitchen counter is not a public transit seat, it shouldn't hide dirt. Give me a solid light shade of something so I can always see it's clean and hygienic.
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I have a super simple glass coffee table because it was cheap. It's super easy to clean, its just a very simple black frame with a panel of glass on top, nowhere for dirt to hide.
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Jun 6, 2017 19:28
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Spraypaint has come a long way over the years, spraypaint nozzles have not
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Jun 7, 2017 22:16
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Words, words on everything.
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Jun 8, 2017 05:25
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Not that I'll ever own a bathroom or kitchen I could ever remodel, but what are the best current materials for just being pleasing to maintain, ie not scratching to gently caress to staining and being easy to clean?
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Jun 8, 2017 07:01
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Are there stone countertops that have almost no texture to them? More like a solid colour?
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Jun 8, 2017 17:37
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Woah that soap stone looks great. It's not like... soft? Doesn't scratch or damage easily? The 2nd white picture is really my jam, other than the stools.
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Nice lamp but the rest of the room looks like a student dorm. That door needs serious cleaning or painting. But yeah, real nice lamp! Is that where it's going? Trying to get rid of one of those sofas?
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PRADA SLUT posted:Does there exist some software for interior design / layout / etc that isn't some lovely web app? I'm looking for a desktop app more like autoCAD or the like, where I can build the geometry of a room and then drop in models of chairs and things. Autocad? Revit? Vectorworks? All have huge built-in and downloadable furniture asset libraries.
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Jun 16, 2017 19:40
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I don't have any grip mats, this makes it hilarious when my friend brings her hyper little bulldog over.
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Jun 20, 2017 20:59
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Iv'e seen some sliding barn doors like that in newer condos that were not terrible. They were generally just separating the main living space from the "den" and worked fine for that.
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