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Baronjutter posted: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. I like them, if only for the insane and surreal attempts they inspire in aliexpress. Kinda feels like home decor designed by space aliens.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Col...2690092798.html No idea what god, but he'll be with you.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Swe...2763998292.html Who would put this up? What would putting this in your own home mean?  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/star-war-The-Force-Awakens-Sith-Lord-Alderaan-Han-Solo-3d-window-wall-stickers-kids-room/32595099174.html I'm not saying there is no one who wants a large sith decal on their wall, but staging it with tulips is bizarre. And why is it made to look like a fake window?  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hug...2663949905.html Why have an armoire when you could have a full size picture of an armoire instead? It takes up just as much space, but provides no useful storage!
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learnincurve posted:Why is there a fawn sat in a bowl of oranges? Tiny Brontosaurus posted:You wouldn't need to ask that if the god was with you 
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May 10, 2017 07:05
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah call me uncreative but I really can't stand a dominant bathroom color that's not some shade of water. Clear?  That can happen.  
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May 17, 2017 05:45
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Arachnamus posted:Because blue lighting fucks with your melatonin levels. That's what CCT lights are for. It's better for your houseplants though.  Lighting is hard. This, maybe?
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May 17, 2017 20:25
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Elendil004 posted:I have like 5 sunlight-as-gently caress LEDs in my bathroom and it's so comfortable. It's like making GBS threads on the sun. We had joy, we had fun we had making GBS threads on the sun
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May 18, 2017 01:30
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RobotDogPolice posted:Sorry if this post is a little redundant, I'm still thinking about what to do with my living room/downstairs,. I really want to replace our current shades because they're kind of drab. Seattle doesn't get much sunlight so I don't want a bunch of dark colors. I initially wanted curtains, but I realized they would get in the way of my plants and books. Another poster suggested roman shades, and they seemed like a nice compromise so I started looking at them. Something to think about with your window solution is that just about anything you replace that with is going to be more work to clean. Roll away shades are super low maintenance compared to everything else -- they don't collect dust, they don't have to be taken down and washed, you don't accidentally splash them when you're watering the plants. As for color, right now the focus of that window is on all the awesome plants. You don't want to distract attention from the plants. Maybe a light green would compliment them? I dunno, I'm not good at design.
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May 18, 2017 03:48
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Somebody on imgur posted these as their dream living room and bedroom. I'm not feeling it and I can't quite put my finger on why. For one I think you'd fry with that giant window facing your bed, but maybe that's just my climate. And for the living room I dunno, too beige? Fake candle chandelier? I like the wood grain and color in that room better than the walls of the bedroom though. There are no curtains on that giant bedroom window. That house better be hella isolated, or the meter reader is going to watch your sexy times.
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May 19, 2017 12:12
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My grandmother collected a lot of things I guess it's safe to assume she didn't have cats? So many not-chipped things on flat surfaces.
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May 23, 2017 05:59
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Bad Munki posted:I recommend cutting a few floor joists and installing an infinity tub with a giant red wall.  Women love shiny red bathroom walls. It reminds us of our periods. Facebook Aunt fucked around with this message at 00:13 on May 24, 2017 |
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May 24, 2017 00:11
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10 Beers posted:Turns out monkey items are a lot more expensive than you'd think. The price of some of those things are nuts! Monkey business is serious business.
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May 24, 2017 00:13
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Drape Culture posted:Can we post real estate listings? I know it's a little unfair to pick on staging furniture, but god drat on this one. I thought for a moment they were actual black and white photographs. The furniture is bland, but I think I may be in love with the bathtub.  Look at it. Just look at it. It's like a stew pot for your body. No fancy jets and bubbles with impossible to clean tubes, just a big deep water cube. It's like washing your baby or cat in the kitchen sink, but for adult humans. Yes, a giant kitchen sink.
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May 27, 2017 01:38
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value-brand cereal posted:I love the single Art that is attempting to break the monotony of a hospital grey bathroom. Is that a sunset? Awww. It's going to be waterlogged should you ever knock it off into the tub. It's a nice tub, deep enough to cover chest I think. But it's just not wide enough unless you are particularly petite, or just don't mind sitting cross legged the entire time. They need to have a picture of a sunset because they have the old fashioned style of windows that are too high to show everyone your butt. And I'm a little teapot, short and stout, so I think that tub would be a great fit. To short for some 6 foot tall man? Good, then it is just for me. 
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May 27, 2017 03:27
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Orange plastic . . . headrests? Whaaaa? No soap dish though. your soap has to sit on a plate on the floor.
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May 30, 2017 02:09
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While having a soak in the tub last night I figured out what the bathroom chairs are for: cats. One of mine spent at least 20 minutes of perching on top of the garbage can staring at me intently, and she probably would have enjoyed a nice comfy chair instead. Unfortunately there is no room for a chair in my bathroom unless I replace the garbage can with a bar stool. But if you're going to have a hundred square feet of bathroom space you might as well have a cat chair in there too.
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Jun 1, 2017 03:33
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Antivehicular posted:Okay, after thread discussion, I can sort of understand a bathroom chair, but... is that a bathroom window seat? With a built-in cloth-covered cushion to catch every splash and stain? Between that and the goddamn fireplace, did that space even begin life as a bathroom? It could be an older house that was remodeled. Old houses often have just 1 or 1.5 bathrooms. They could have cannibalized one of the bedrooms to make an en suite bathroom and walk in closet for the master suite.
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Jun 1, 2017 17:19
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Here's a house for sale that's pretty special. like someone saw a year's worth of Country Living and said "yes, I want that!" Two dining rooms!  For a second I thought it was some sort of haunted mirror, but nope, two dining rooms. Not a breakfast nook. Two full six-seater dining tables. Can't decide which old time dining set to buy? Get two!
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Jun 8, 2017 03:03
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cheese eats mouse posted:Omg they took away counter space by removing the island and you can't even cook in the kitchen? Instead there is another dining set?! Yes, that's exactly what they did. They had an island that could seat 4, but they took it out to add another 6 seat dining set. Maybe they have a lot of 12 person dinner parties? Not being able to cook in the kitchen isn't a problem. They also took off the cupboard doors so they could show off their novelty dishes.  Look at them. Just look at them. Those dishes have clearly never been used. Everything in this kitchen is merely for show.
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Jun 8, 2017 05:22
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IMO stone is fine, it's just the middle class default rather than an upper class luxury now.
Then in the post WWII period machine made tufted carpeting burst onto the scene in vibrant colors. Nylon was replacing wool. It was now in reach for a successful middle class family to have wall-to-wall carpet.  You've made it. The Joneses are keeping up with you! Wall-to-wall carpet in the bathroom? Hell, yeah!Through the 60s and 70s carpeting just kept getting cheaper. A couple guys can roll out carpet and lino for a whole house in just a day or two. At the same time, labor intensive hardwood was becoming more expensive, By the 80's even cheap apartments had wall-to-wall carpeting. Now you get people in old houses are tearing up their carpeting and lino to find the hardwood underneath and try to save it. Original hardwood floors have become a sign of class and luxury, not a sign of poverty. Same thing with stone countertops. In the 80s it was hella expensive. Over time more places are producing it, overseas shipping in general has become cheaper, and there are even engineered stone options. Any color or texture you want. Still more expensive than laminate, but not a luxury good. You no longer get bragging rights from stone countertops, but it's nothing to be embarrassed by, and probably won't be in the foreseeable future. It's just . . . normal.
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Jun 8, 2017 07:16
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:^^^ If cats made horror movies, this is what the scary house would look like. When cats drop acid and have a bad trip, this is what they see.
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Jun 14, 2017 03:25
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Have you considered an accordion door? I haven't seen them used residentially since the 70s, but that just means they are due to come back in style any day now, right? 48" is a standard size, and it should be easy enough to downsize to your 43" space from there just by shortening the track. https://www.walmart.com/ip/HomeStyles-Plaza-Vinyl-Accordion-Door-48-x-96-Pecan/22388174 Aww, yiss, home decor by walmart. Envy of the trailer park. There are also less ugly versions.  
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Which is one of the pitfalls of building your "dream Right, and if your dream home involved unconventional features it probably cost more to build than a conventional home with the same square footage and number of rooms, but it isn't necessarily worth more to anyone but you. You're likely to lose money.
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Jul 3, 2017 19:19
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Anne Whateley posted:Wow, there's one deeply buried detail: Her beloved husband is the unicorn head mounted on the wall.
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Jul 9, 2017 03:17
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Youth Decay posted:How not to stage a house (featuring Lisa Frank posters hung with thumbtacks)  What feature of the house is this supposed to be showing off. It shows that the paint job is slapdash and inconsistent, but I can't imagine that's a feature a real estate listing wants to highlight. What is it they want me to see?
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there wolf posted:Somehow I think neighbors being annoyed at your gentrifying isn't all that related to a drunk running his car into your house one night. Also how do you not notice the bar across the street when you're house hunting? They mention several issues in a row, but I think I see something. "While the Downses encountered some problems with their home after moving in, the neighborhood had issues they did not expect: late-night noise from nearby bars, suspicious activity and push-back, some of it anti-“Fixer Upper,” from local residents when they complained to police." They were complaining to the police about noise and 'suspicious activity'. Doesn't say what sort of suspicious activity, but usually that is people hanging around where you don't think they should be hanging around -- and since they were new to the neighbourhood they could have been reporting people who live in the neighbourhood for hanging out in the neighbourhood, lol. Bar noise is going to spike every weekend. If they were calling the police on their neighbours on a weekly basis, no poo poo people don't like them.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:45
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Flipperwaldt posted:Just put a tv in both nooks This is the pro choice. Somebody walks in front of the screen? No worries, just turn your head and look at the other screen. You can also do next level picture-in-picture. While everyone is watching the movie, you can have the game on silently on the other screen so fans can keep an eye on it.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:47
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Bad Munki posted:I think you're doing it wrong: if you have two TVs, you have the movie on one TV with the volume up and the game silently on PiP on that TV, while on the other TV, you have the game on with the volume up and the movie silently on PiP.  You, sir, are a genius.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:07
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Jaded Burnout posted:Just order a five pack of bungalows from Amazon Subprime and throw them away when you're done. Subscribe and save.
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Jul 11, 2017 23:13
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Baronjutter posted:This is my kitchen. That's my kitchen! No, wait, that's slightly more spacious than my kitchen. Looks like yours is about 6 inches longer. (that's what she said) Mine has the fridge next to the sink, and the sink is a bit closer to the wall, so there isn't enough room for a normal size dish rack. The "generous" counter space next to the stove is like 80% occupied by the microwave. In the 70s they didn't plan on everyone having a microwave.  The stove works fine though, so that's a plus.
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Jul 11, 2017 23:21
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Hide your tv by never turning it off. It's a flat screen hung on a wall, pretend it is a classy painting by having it display a classy painting. Sure, the electrical bills will pile up, but think how classy it will look. For bonus points, put a big gaudy picture frame on your tv.
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Jul 12, 2017 04:32
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Youth Decay posted:And this I'm pretty sure was built by someone with an actual loving-on-counters fetish. You could hide a childs play fort under that without losing any useful cupboard space. Or a very small panic room. Or that whole end panel could fold down to reveal a secret staircase. Obv the secret staircase would lead to your sex dungeon, filled with even more and larger countertops.
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Jul 13, 2017 03:05
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:That countertop dwarfs the tank they used to dissect a colossal squid: IMO dead colossal squid are a poor interior design choice.
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Jul 13, 2017 03:23
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YamiNoSenshi posted:So if granite/stone countertops are a fad and awful, what's the SA Thread Approved(tm) kitchen counter material? Pallets.
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Jul 18, 2017 21:27
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Haifisch posted:
I kind of like the utility of this. Assuming your house doesn't have 5 other bathrooms, having an extra pooper in with the laundry machines seems like a good use of limited space. Less danger of a load being forgotten in the washer for 3 days.
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Jul 19, 2017 02:30
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Roofing material hasn't recently become immortal, has it? All those incredibly fussy roofs are going to need to be re-reroofed at some point? That's gotta be painful for whoever owns the house then. Probably be a trend for shed roofs some day in the future. Just a single flat slope. Easy to maintain. Oh, looks like that already happened.   
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Jul 21, 2017 05:19
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm the unmitigated lack of taste throughout. I don't know. It has . . . character. This is a house people are living in the way they want to live, not a bland beige box where every decision is based on maximising resale value.
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Jul 23, 2017 10:30
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learnincurve posted:The fact that they have a second living room with a modern television and really comfy chairs makes me wonder if the spanial room is some sort of preserved in time shrine. Having 2 living rooms was a thing. One fancy for having dignified conversations with guests, one comfortable for watching tv with the family. Back in the 70s one of my aunts literally had a velvet rope blocking access to the "good" living room, so it would always look like she was waiting for a Better Homes and Gardens photoshoot.
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This was the thread with the 'hide the tv, no I don't want to hide the tv in the tv watching room' derail, right? Use those ideas to hide the kitchen appliances instead. An art hung to hide the countertops. Microwave that folds up into the ceiling.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Also some nasty reports of what happens when a cat or dog shits on the carpet just before the roomba makes its rounds. On the other hand,  
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Doctor Butts posted:All that open space, and not even a refrigerator. Think of the easy clean up though. Splash red wine and easter egg dye on your wall? NBD, you can clean it up later.
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