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This is what my mom does: http://nancyswoodndesigns.com/ Which is only relevant because her first 3 books were published by the same imprint that published Frank and Judy Bilec's "Mosey n Me" books. Frank, my mom, the publisher's wife, and another lady who does primitive Americana designs were their first four artists. Turned out to be an unprofitable shitshow overall, but I did get to meet Frank at a tole painting conference, and he was super nice. Not my style of crafts, but I'm biased toward more detailed and cartoony stuff like my mom designs. My parents dragged me to every open house and builder showcase in a 1500 mile radius when I was a kid, so I should hate this poo poo, but now that I have my own place I Get It. Gonna try and hit up Street of Dreams in Portland this summer and see if my roommate and I can get more ideas for the house we're looking to purchase next year. Last year was all houses in Lake Osewego. Not sure they can top that this year.
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WrenP-Complete posted:Lake Oswego is certainly special. Yeah, the racist joke goes, what do you call a black person in Lake Oswego? A Trailblazer.  I have a cousin who moved to LO. Not wealthy, but reasonably well-to-do. The house they bought has a climate controlled wine cellar that can hold something like 300 bottles and is bigger than my apartment's master bedroom. They weren't really wine people, but since it's there and can't really be repurposed effectively, they've started paying attention to what they stock. They gettin' fancy. Also, my predatory, unstable former landlady grew up in LO, because her mom owns Pendleton. It explains everything.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I would love to see pictures! I'm always lusting after a Pendleton quilt The quilts are nice, but the family that owns the Pendelton Woolen Mills are reprehensible, criminal fuckfaces. Buy a used one. They don't deserve your money. E for top of page content. Have some dry reading on arson and big box stores and other poo poo these people try to pull. Howard Dietrich, Jr. literally got a law degree just to understand how to break the law more effectively. I can't even. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/09/owners_of_thunderbird_hotel_de.html http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/12/police_offer_1000_to_solve_thu.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-10450-big-box-big-suit.html http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-33711-thunderbird-hotel-is-multnomah-countys-biggest-property-tax-delinquent.html In interior design disasters, this fuckface insisted on being the contractor for his daughter's home. He built the bar in the kitchen extra high because he bought chairs he liked and decided to accommodate the chairs, making the bar about collarbone height for the average person. The guy he hired to do the building was a rapist with hep C who couldn't get hired anywhere else, who shat blood in every toilet and refused to flush, and couldn't install anything on a straight line. All the fixtures, like tubs and sinks, were hotel overstock. The tub had jets; they were not hooked up. There was an instant hot water heater, but it was in the basement, and didn't have enough pressure to maintain the hot output for a full shower unless you used one of those industrial water-saving showerheads. Most of that happened because he insisted on blowing the rest of the budget on moving the upstairs en suite bathrooms from one side of the room to the other, which then meant the closets had to go under the slant of the roof, cutting off about 3/4s of the original storage space. Oh, and they had no exhaust vents (this is Portland, it's a loving swamp with pine trees), nor did the walls reach the ceiling, so have fun peeing discretely when guests are in the room. Since he ran out of money there, he left the basement unfinished with a failed drainage system, so the place flooded in the spring until they slapped a sump pump in the basement and some roof tar on the exterior of the foundation wall. Then he failed to build enough parking spots, because he insisted on having an extra green space that no one ever used. In his infinite creative wisdom, he installed a remote power opener on the rear gate. Since the gate posts weren't sunk into concrete, they rotated under the force of the motor, causing the gate latch to move out of alignment until it couldn't latch at all. Or, if it did latch, it would refuse to let go, which caused all kinds of fun noises and alarms to go off. I eventually just removed the whole loving thing with a socket set and left it unplugged on the outside of the gate until his rapist weirdo builder came to get it. And then there were the dogs. Not exactly design related, but when you have two or more fully grown pit bulls, you need to take more proactive care of your furniture. She did not. Would also like to point out that this supposed professional dog trainer's dogs literally tore each other to pieces in the basement and had to be put down. That was the 4th time they fought to the point of injury. The 3rd time, the other renter and I had to wrench them apart with our bare hands, shoes, and jiu jitsu skills. I still have sense memories from cleaning up dog blood. $500 a month for rent is hard to beat, but not under those circumstances. Dirt Road Junglist fucked around with this message at 20:28 on May 15, 2017 |
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Baronjutter posted:Brutalist Interiors I'm very fond of concrete, polished and raw, but I think I'd have to add some splashes of color to make the spaces work for me. Just some accents here and there, y'know? Otherwise there's this expanse of Copic Neutral Gray N1 - N9 going on there.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:
My grandparents used to decorate their deck in an owl motif, so that's, uh...that's an extra level of terror for me.
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Is there a way to, say, put a gasket on a barn door like that to make it seal better? And not look like shite?
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Not opulent enough. Needs a tiny giraffe.
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I like that the clock both matches and doesn't match the a e s t h e t i cPhy posted:You know what'd be the finishing touch on this jawn, if we had a bright red shower poof just hanging out on the wall looking like a twenty foot clown in a transporter mishap The whole bathroom is a transporter mishap. Dirt Road Junglist fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:the theme of this bathroom is “surprise anal” Close up shop, we've achieved peak thread.
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I found some  who look like they belong in that bathroom.
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Azza Bamboo posted:There are no studs in this bathroom. There will never be studs in that bathroom.
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Tetracube posted:sometimes you just wanna shower with your bro, but you can't because it would be gay if you were within 5 feet of him DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS
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Grinning Goblin posted:$20,000+ and not a toilet in sight. 
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bEatmstrJ posted:This thread is moving way too fast so I'll probably have to space out my responses to all of your very important questions a bit. Can't wait for the next 200 "Your bathroom is poo poo" posts though... Very constructive guys. We're well past constructive at this point. Constructive criticism assumes a person is willing to listen to and consider it.
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RoboRodent posted:I thought you were taking your ball and going home? He's not gonna answer any of that.
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RoboRodent posted:I know, but I'm giving him the opportunity to prove me wrong. I mean, I'm the person who posted an I WANT TO BELIEVE meme upthread, and I really hope he does...but so far, any questions of substance have been ignored.
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This entire bathroom is a gallery deserving of Toilets with Threatening Auras, even without the toilet. Like, bEatmasterJ, I get that you got what you want. What confuses me is why you think it's what other people want.
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Feb 28, 2019 03:27
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Why are there surfaces that have wood grain but are also polished to a mirrored gloss?
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I recently had to help sell a house with an accidental "statement room," aka a professional recording studio with sound treatment, a 32 track mixing desk, a wall of instrument racks, etc. It took FOR loving EVER to sell, and the neighbors mentioned repeatedly hearing people walk out after a showing saying, "well, that's DIFFERENT." Didn't get a single offer until we tore out the studio and restored it to a generic bedroom. And this is a suburb of a city where everyone fancies themselves a musician. Point being, if this was an attempt to ADD value to the house, it's gonna take a real special realtor with a real special set of potential clients to make up for the WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT factor.
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Waiting for the inevitable repost of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" for one of his PM'd toilet pics. Even better if the actual toilet really is just an upended urinal with someone else's name scrawled on it.
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Who What Now posted:Man, I wonder where I Glancing over the page, I thought that was a cup by an MMA equipment company that thinks everything should look like it wants to fight you.
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So, I think we're focusing on the wrong sort of females here. We're thinking of bEatmasterJ getting laid his own self, but he keeps saying it's for who want to influence their male partner's house buying decisions by getting way too sploosh over this bathroom.
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P1h3r1e3d13 posted:He's got top men on it. TOP MEN! I know this is from several pages back, but I LOLd and wanted you to know.
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I'm the obviously horrified toucan in the background, raising my voice against the coming of the sea witch.
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sneakyfrog posted:Interior Design Thread: Tasteful Fuckbenches Someone needs to make this happen. Just like our friend made fiend holes happen.
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I like that chair on the left, and I like the little nest-able round coffee tables with metal legs. But Scandi Boho sounds like when you shop at Ikea and Pier One on the same day.
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BigFactory posted:That’s only a multi million dollar house on the coasts. If that’s in Montana or middle of nowhere Tennessee, which it probably is, it’s cheaper. Can confirm, a million dollar home in MT, especially in a less fancy town like Helena, is the kind of place that has a full sized basketball court in the basement, a heated indoor/outdoor pool, at least two bowling lanes, and probably some kind of aged copper accents on the exterior.
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My living room is also decorated with shipping boxes, but that's because I'm in the middle of packing pre orders for the record label I distribute for, and I'm still waiting on the last batch of merch before I can finally take all this poo poo to the post office. I COULD make it an a e s t h e t i c, but really, I'd just like to be able to have people over without directing them around the piles of unfolded cardboard.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:There isn’t a On the upside, post-modern architecture has its own LOL NO aspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_architecture
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Oh I know. I try not to ‘hate’ any school of design or art or whatever, but I really don’t love the aesthetics of a lot of postmodern stuff- especially a lot of corporate/government/commercial spaces, especially from the ‘90s-early ‘00s. I’m sure at some point I’ll find it endearing, but for now I can’t divorce it from how obsessed designers/artists/creatives in general got with poo poo like Art Deco and the 1930s and 40s during those years. Basically. It's like they reacted to modernism by saying, "Let's make everything DIFFERENT," and forgot that there are certain principles that are aesthetically pleasing for a reason. It's like Mannerism following the High Renaissance, they looked at that poo poo and said, "Yeah, but wouldn't it be cool if we just put a weird column over here, and like...just had bodies do, like, whatever? LOL, bones and anatomy and perspective, whatevs."
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Ikea also has stuff with real veneers that’s good. If you mix and match it in with antiques and pieces from other sources ikea’s really really great for the stuff they do well. Ikea's quite decent, but remember to disassemble it if you ever have to move it, or it'll disintegrate in transit.
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Queen Victorian posted:Fixed that for you. Slate is for roofs and chalkboards, soapstone is for being chemically impervious to any science/cooking horrors you spill on it. I just now realized why I've always wanted matte-ish black countertops. Thanks! Putting that on my, "future home options," list.
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Youth Decay posted:Here is a very ugly house Ooof, I had an art history professor at Montana State whose research career was focused on Marie Antoinette, and even he would find that place hideous.
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Boosh! posted:Any ideas for window treatment? I'd do two sets of blinds, one sized for the short and wide space, and one for the tall, narrow space. I recall my mom designed something like that for an oddly shaped daylight basement window in one of our houses. We had to make compromises due to the size of the lot, but it worked. I think we had to get something sorta custom, tho, and I have no idea what it cost.
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peanut posted:Nahhh it's just a safari wannabe Maybe they want to be a safari DJ.
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I guess it's more exterior than interior design, but I was out walking today, and it seems that person who couldn't line up tile to save their life is also into building fences. 
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luxury handset posted:is this a living room or a furniture store It looks like an extremely low budget knock off of the house from The Umbrella Academy.
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That table just reminded me to schedule a colonoscopy.
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