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That's certainly a start, thanks. You know those really skookum thick-walled aluminum wind chimes, the ones that actually sound incredibly nice instead of cheap and brassy? Corinthian bells or something like that. I want a doorbell that rings tubes like those. That would be my ideal. Long-tube bells, that are actually quality, thick tubes with some actual tone and depth, instead of a thin brass extrusion. If anyone has a lead on such a thing, I'm set. Anyhow, there's your derail for the day, thanks again. 
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Oh wow, that 1930s floor cabinet telechime, the one that's not for sale, that's so awesome. Not what I want anyhow, but so cool. That's a pretty nifty collection there.
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Jul 9, 2017 06:28
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Youth Decay posted:How not to stage a house (featuring Lisa Frank posters hung with thumbtacks) Daba dee daba die
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Jul 10, 2017 04:47
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Ouhei posted:Ugh, read a book you normies. But I burnt them all and now I say, "Ugh, I don't even own a book"
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Jul 10, 2017 19:02
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And a Fire in the Fire place.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:16
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HardDiskD posted:Is the TV showing a picture of the kitchen? I love it, that will perfectly match the picture of my breaker panel that I'm going to frame and hang in front of the breaker panel so I don't have to look at the breaker panel.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:18
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Facebook Aunt posted: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. 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.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:44
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You have a patch panel somewhere that you have a single in-wall run of HDMI to, then you have an input switch of some sort (receiver, or just an hdmi switch) for all your xborxes and ploystartions.
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Jul 11, 2017 20:37
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My kitchen is absolutely psychotic and I want to re-do the whole loving thing so bad but to do it right it'd mean moving it in a major way and changing windows and flooring and baaaasically redoing a significant chunk of the house, which is expensive, and I'm pretty sure I'd rather just take that money and put it toward building a new house, as the kitchen here is just a symptom of an underlying problem, which is lack of foresight in designing the place, and slapdash execution throughout.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:30
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah I'm kind of in the same boat. Our kitchen doesn't have nearly enough counter space, but it has a lot of space where counters could go. Only... the windows are much lower than counter height, and one of them faces the front so even if we took a drastic step it would make our house look lopsided. I'm hesitant to even put a prep table in there because I just hate obstructing windows for any reason. Luckily the window has glass shutters like this: I have six islands. They range from a respectable 12 square feet, to like 2 square feet. Well, two islands, one of which houses the sink, two peninsulas, one normal counter with the range, and a desk counter in a pocket. It's insane.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:57
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Does anybody ever use those desk counters? McMansion Hell calls them "etsy battlestations" Yeah, my wife does, but she's way more organized than I am, and it's an interim solution until we get her office in order, which is an actual thing she needs for her line of work, so it makes sense to not have that kitchen desk thing be JUST clutter. Once we get her in there though, we'll probably put a family computer there for the kids, as they're getting to the age for that to be necessary.
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Anne Whateley posted:Can we get a floorplan sketch? How does so much even fit into one kitchen? By just aiming your "countertop shotgun" in the general direction of the kitchen and seeing what happens. Counter fragments everywhere. Here:  I labeled everything as best I could, and put alpha identifiers on the various bits of countertop for the sake of discussion. It's not a great sketch and it's not to scale, but hey, the kitchen itself is not a great design and, well, it's not to scale either. Some notes: Counter "D" is our junk pile that would live on the desk "C" in most homes. Counter "E" is just big enough for a coffee maker, a knife block, and bananas. The mixer lives in the NE corner of counter "G", that actually works okay. The red lines are countertops. The brown lines are cabinets, except the table/chairs in the nook and the deck, obviously. In the original plans, that "dining room" at the far north was a guest room, and the wall was not open to the kitchen, it opened into that entryway, and there was just a wall running across east/west from the north wall of the nook there, with a countertop along it for the stove/range/fridge/etc, and the one big sink island still roughly where it is now. It would make for a much smaller kitchen, but it would be vastly more functional. As it is, doing anything in the kitchen involves doing laps around that square, central island. Two people in the kitchen means you're trying to squeeze past each other between DEF, or having to loop around because the oven is open and blocking the way through FG. If you open the drawers on the east-most end of FA, they touch in the middle of that path. Here's what I want to do: knock out the rest of that partition wall, make the entire right wall from the NE corner all the way down to the corner of the nook a long-rear end countertop with the sink, range, and dishwasher, and possibly oven. No cabinets above, put in a couple big windows that look out over the back yard to the east. On the west side of that, tall cabinets on the whole thing with the fridge, oven, and microwave. Get rid of the existing island altogether, donate that space to the great room. Remove counters DEF. At the south end of the new long-counter, a small L out from the wall, double-depth so as to allow a large prep area, or somewhere for the kids to sit while we make dinner, and just enough of an L to fit the dishwasher under that part. The closet at the back of the new kitchen becomes a really nice walk-in pantry. That weird angled part by the garage entry behind D gets opened up so it's just a straight bit of wall. C can stay as-is I guess. Countertop along the east wall an extra 6" deep, since I wouldn't put cupboards above it, and that'd give on-counter storage space for various things (toaster, crockpot, mixer, frequently-used baking ingredients, stuff like that.) Here's an equally rough sketch of what I'd do if I had 50k burning a hole in my pocket that I also didn't want to put toward an ideal house:  It's sort of a galley kitchen. Sort of. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Oh, I forgot to make the closet up north a walk-in pantry. Well, you get the idea.Tiny Brontosaurus posted:This is delightful, more hand-drawn blueprints everyone. It's scary how close this drawing is to the real thing, actually.
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That may be but if you drape one over your tv, nobody will ever notice that the tv is even there.
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Jul 13, 2017 03:24
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CmdrRiker posted:My kitchen is the perfect example of what will look horribly dated in the next few decades: granite counters, stainless steel, glass tile backsplash, and white cabinets. Hey, we have the same counter tops, whadaya know.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:58
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Resin-impregnated compressed cheetos dust.
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Jul 18, 2017 21:28
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It should be a big partially frosted glass window door and have words stenciled on the glass like "HOT" and "CALM" and "RELAX"
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Jul 19, 2017 17:17
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YamiNoSenshi posted:Roomba. Not a Roomba or the Roomba. Just Roomba. Sure and I bet you have Internet and play with Lego and drink milk.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:39
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Look, if kids are cramping your style, just remember it's never too late for adoption.
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Aug 2, 2017 01:53
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learnincurve posted:if you boil a kitchen I don't think you know how to cook
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A pattern so brilliant it's almost...shining...
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Bad Munki posted:This thread is super germane to my interests right now and the title is on point. I'll be posting here a little later on with my current project: great room fireplace full makeover, featuring a 14.5' long, 4" thick, 16" deep live edge walnut slab that I finally found a log for, it's getting cut out of the tree in the next few weeks and then will spend pretty much all summer in the kiln. Rewinding to page 1 (in fact, the second post in the entire thread) to do a little crosspost here because I'm flipping out with excitement, because it's actually really happening: Bad Munki posted:I just wanted to share a picture of a piece of wood with everyone. It's my project, but I'm farming out a lot of the labor here because, well: Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Aug 17, 2017 |
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It's a bit  but replace the window, make the sill higher so you can fit a counter under it and make a big L to your fridge, move the sink to be under the window so it gets light and you can look out while doing sink work. Put the oven where the sink currently is. Dishwasher next to the new sink. e: You don't have a microwave? Put one above the new oven/range location, get one with a fan. Not sure what's above that room so it may have to vent inside but it's better than the current no-fan setup! Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:The mermaid floor definitely has to go... ...to the foyer???
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Aug 21, 2017 15:43
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This is literally Cameron's father's house from Ferris Bueller, right? I'm not going crazy?
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Aug 24, 2017 04:08
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In the movie, yeah, but I don't really know how the in-movie shots may or may not line up with reality.
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Hahahaha, wow. I mean yeah it's awful, but in a way that is totally self-aware, which I think puts it firmly in the realm of "I did this only for myself, consequences be damned" so I guess good job, person, enjoy your thing, you earned it! Like, I don't think it's entirely fair to critique that thing from an interior design standpoint, as that's not the intent of the installation? Or something. v v
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Aug 24, 2017 15:10
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tetrapyloctomy posted:But in the goddamned dining room? What the hell, man. I didn't catch this part. Yeah that takes it back to nuts. But like, if a person had a room dedicated to gaming (not gonna say I don't) then that'd be a perfect location for something crazy like that, go nuts.
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Agree re: basement. Like a basement rec room. Basically, if you're gonna do something crazy like that, you gotta do it in a room you don't have to see every loving day. You gotta be able to mentally put that installation away once in a while.
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The glass thing IS the faucet. The water comes out from between a couple plates of glass. The thing you were probably reading as the faucet is the handle. Now try to figure out how to clean it!
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Aug 25, 2017 05:23
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Look, basically I don't even want to talk to you if you haven't always dreamed of having your own personal tower of silence.
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Aug 29, 2017 00:13
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Fill it with kudzu, it'll be great, I promise!
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I wonder how stable the temperature is inside? It looks like there's no insulation but those interior logs could just be for effect I guess. Having lived in a legitimate log cabin with no wall insulation beyond the logs themselves in a place where the winters hit -60F for a month at a whack, it's fine, as long as the fit and chinking is good. That being said, all of the interior/exterior there looks cosmetic. I don't think I've ever seen a vertical-log cabin actually built of logs. Most likely it's just a bunch of split off surfaces used as cladding. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 02:16
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No need to limit yourself to that type of fixture if ceiling breasts are your thing, though.
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Post a pic of the room?
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Aug 30, 2017 16:35
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Subjunctive posted:I don't think I'll be doing a ceiling fan, but also I've never seen one with a non-ugly lamp component. Umm, three posts above yours, hellooooooo
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I believe all aircraft--even military ones--are required to have running lights.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:28
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Aren't we all.
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TheDarkFlame posted:Really it meams those stupid almost-double width fridge-freezers with a built in ice tray and so on but some companies just use it to refer to the double-door design on a normal width fridge which is dumb and they're doing it wrong. They're still expensive as hell though. But again, when you say double width, you don't mean, like, double American width, yeah?
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cakesmith handyman posted:No just double the normal human width, so 1 American wide Thought so, I'm about to blow your mind with my audacity, this how how you double-wide Freedom, no scrubs  e: shrank the picture so you don't steal my wifi password Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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