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Doctor Butts posted:While going though some of the things I kept from my Mom's house, I found a Copyright 1979 Ethan Allen "Treasury of American Traditional Interiors" book. I'm using this and old pictures of my Grandparent's basement, and pictures of my parent's old house as a guide to remodeling the basement. Awesome, keep us updated. Also don't overlook how much people used neutrals even for the trendiest designs in that era. A lot of modern takes on midcentury kitsch pile color on color, but the big thing in the early 70s was to pair eye-searing shades with surprisingly muddy shades of cream and taupe. So a 70s color scheme might be candy apple red, slightly mustard-y yellow, avocado, and cream. Also I'd suggest deciding on either wood or plastic as your hard material and sticking to it rather than mixing the two, for proper vintage show-offiness. Or you could dip into that tiki trend back then and do it all in rattan  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. Lovely  It's totally okay to design for the period you're in. And just think about the wave of nostalgia that's going to hit people with someday . Did you install that lamp? It's a really nice touch.
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There's a lot of decor in that Queen Anne that gives me hives - the diseased-looking spotty armoire, the "amusement park theme restaurant" mural style - but special shoutout to the toilet tapestry. One imagines a desperate moment, an empty roll, a moment of panicked indecision... Edit: Upon closer inspection, that is an iron grate. Now I don't know what to think. Tiny Brontosaurus fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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If I ever had stupid amounts of space and money I could see having a "workshop" kitchen where all your Urban Homesteading projects happen (slowly losing what precious kitchen space we have to Large Brontosaurus's diy yogurt and charcuterie and sourdough starter and homemade pickles) and a smaller one for microwaving Trader Joe's curries on "gently caress it" days.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:59
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Baronjutter posted:I'm the loving queen anne stained glass version of "live laugh love" wall words. My favorite thing about that is in the wide shot it kinda looked like a tweet. Which sadly does NOT exist on GIS, so here's this: 
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Rabbit Hill posted:Also, this once again makes me think something I think every time I read this thread -- how does one go about cultivating good taste in design? Especially when everyone thinks their taste is good whether it is or not? That's a great question. I think it's like every other artistic discipline - you need to understand fundamental concepts like color theory, line, and form. For interior design I'd add in study of textiles and materials, so you know the difference between wool and jute in rugmaking and can tell hardwood from veneer from pressboard. You need to study the history of your discipline, not only so you have more exposure to good design, but so you can recognize and interpret references to the past - the influence of Egyptian art in the 1920s, for instance. Then you need to practice the art, so you can understand the limitations of material and fabrication and get comfortable with criticism and self-editing. Go to museums, read books, but also practice training your eye whenever you're in an intentionally-decorated space, whether you think it's good or bad. Can you spot any influences, motifs, or references? What's the color palette? Can you spot the primary and accent colors? Do they compliment or contrast? What period is the furniture from, or trying to look like it's from? How are people intended to use this space? Does the design help or hinder that?
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Jul 17, 2017 19:08
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Antivehicular posted:The "artist's studio" has "tile floors for easy cleanup." What's the over/under on murders committed in that room? Like, five? You are the first person I've ever seen on this site to use "over/under" properly.
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Jul 18, 2017 06:20
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Indolent Bastard posted:I would be willing to bet a couple of shiny nickels that you were looking at a four poster or canopy bed and not a bunkbed. It's just lacking the draperies to help hold in the heat during those cold nights in Medeival Europe. Nah that isn't the homeowner's furniture, it's all staged by the real estate company. They just did an extraordinarily lovely job of it, probably because none of those rooms make sense without whatever custom-made furniture they used to have in them.
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Aug 21, 2017 19:12
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cheese eats mouse posted:I am pretty much done with buying furniture. I get to pick this up next weekend. Gorgeous! How do the doors on the bottom work? It looks like there's only one handle right in the middle. Do they swing out?
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I now have so much storage!
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Christ, they didn't miss a trick, did they? This is like the 2010s equivalent of The Gobbler.
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Jaded Burnout posted:It did. It fit in our grandparents' houses. Now we make slightly bigger houses and buy better furniture. That's like announcing you hate t-shirts because the one you bought at H&M ripped. Cheap crap is going to be cheap crap. People aren't collecting the lovely MCM furniture - if it lasted this long it's because it was well-made.
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Jaded Burnout posted:It's more that the style necessitates it. Thin legs, thin veneer doors, no runners or soft stops etc. It's more likely that I have different standards to what I consider practical. I would not feel comfortable putting my feet up on an MCM table, or knocking into a leg while moving a chair, or doing many of the incidental things life does to furniture, no matter how well made they are. I do those things to my MCM furniture all the time. It's wood, it's fine. Again, the good stuff isn't made of "thin veneer." It's made of wood. You know trees? Those, but in rectangle form. learnincurve posted:The problem is that the well made stuff never existed in anywhere like the same quantities in the U.K. as it did in America. Furniture of that period has the same style, but it was mass produced in old aircraft factories out of plywood and veneer to replace furniture that had burnt up in the blitz. It lasted a long time because plywood is actually quite sturdy and people's Nans take care of their furniture. I honestly think you would struggle to get a full good quality MCM set of furniture in the UK at any price, the only people who could have afforded it at the time will have got rid of if it in the 1960s and they would have just thrown it away. Yeah I'm sure you're right, although it's surprising to me since the UK's so much closer to the countries where they were making the really good stuff, like Denmark. But it's easy to forget how economically catastrophic WWII was for the UK and how long it took to recover.
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Jaded Burnout posted:No you're right, nobody's ever made weak furniture out of wood. Oh I'm sure there's a long, long list of things you don't think are worthwhile. learnincurve posted:It took a long long time for a large part the general population to see anything but basic and functional as something other than "wasteful". War, general strikes, recession, makes it the mid 1990s when we actually fully recovered and started to come in line with America. I gotta level, that doesn't sound like the sort of story that's true, but I hope it is because it's hilarious. Can you even get automotive paint to stick to walls?
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Youth Decay posted:*pops out from behind Kessler screen* Did someone say Mid-Century Modern? These are masterpieces, thank you so much for posting them. But who the hell was rolling around with that kind of money in 1960s Ohio? Also what on earth would you guys put in all those bedroom cabinets? I'm thinking of using the long skinny drawers to each hold a single blu-ray from the Fast and Furious franchise. Drape Culture posted:I have this tub, except my blue mosaic has gold on it. For real? What's it like? What's the rest of your house like? Bad Munki posted:This is literally Cameron's father's house from Ferris Bueller, right? I'm not going crazy? Definitely the same vibe, but no, that one's really in the Chicago area: Why That Ferris Bueller House is So Hard to Sell Edit: gently caress Your Etc. Etc.  Alternate Joke: Oh no! Someone built a Prada Slut trap! Tiny Brontosaurus fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you lived in the same house for 30 years eventually all the storage would get full of stuff. Don't throw that out, it's still good, we can reuse that, everything comes back in style eventually. Slides are really neat though My favorite thing about a photography class I took in college was getting the slides made up so we could look at them in class.I just finished clicking through the first house, and while there are some really questionable tile decisions (what I thought was faux-brick linoleum at first, so bacon-red, paired with your standard seafoam glass subway tiles), it's such an appealingly warm house. I think what I love most about it is how it seems built for kids, much more than usual mansions. Take a look at that walkway going over the indoor pool and tell me that wouldn't have been the site of some epic super soaker battles.
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I don't know how many hours we spent in that basement watching vacation slide shows as grandma and grandpa um'd and uh'd their way through remember the details of all the pictures. These days the dozens of boxes of slides would all fit on a couple CDs.
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The Dave posted:I have seen hell... There's a really great term called "font adolescence," which is when people first discover that print design is a thing and get excited and use way too many fonts in everything they make. Our entire culture is in a sort of Eternal September of font adolescence right now, and I don't know if it's ever going to stop.
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Youth Decay posted:I unironically love this 1950s time capsule cabin. What do you call this style? Mid-Century Rustic? You're right, this is great. Surprisingly big windows for a log cabin too, and it's in Minnesota. 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. This looks lovingly custom-built so the style might not have a name, but I feel like you'd have to throw "knotty pine" in there somewhere.
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Don Dongington posted:First time posting in this thread (but I just blew about 20 hours reading it, what a ride) Don't you dare touch those ceiling beams or that brick arch. Man I've always hated those 60s lattice windows though. Was any of the furniture included? Uphholstery aside that dining set is beautiful.
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Is that your ceiling? Neat. Is it really woven like that or is it some sort of faux finish?
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Indolent Bastard posted:No home gym? No yoga/meditation space? What kind of fictional rich people have you created? The people in that post aren't culturally rich, only economically richer-than-most. The yoga/meditation space people are way way richer than that. TheMadMilkman posted:Use beeswax. It works way better than soap. I have the same kind of cabinets and if you want to take on more of a project you can gently sand the bottoms of the drawers to get rid of any lumps of paint that might be catching. There's almost certainly lead in the bottom few layers of paint though so follow the proper guidelines for protection and dust removal.
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Also please for the love of god don't put contact paper directly on the bare wood inside. Paint if you must, but adhesive never fully gets out.
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Liquid Communism posted:So if anything ever goes wrong structurally in any of those three houses, you're going to have to tear the wall down from the inside? It's really okay. Townhouses have been a thing for quite a while now.
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Bad Munki posted:If it were me I'd skip the metal thing altogether and just do a few courses of stones to make a nice and completely weatherproof fire pit. I mean you already have a perfect gravel bed, so why not? Example with the previous winter's Christmas tree ready to go: Those kids are ready to see some loving fire 
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surf rock posted:I feel like I have three options: If you have an area rug under the table the chairs will be on that, unless you like to sit a couple feet away from the table when you eat. You could easily put the short edge of a rectangular table up against the wall and still have all the seating be fairly easily accessible, but you've got the space so might as well float furniture whenever you can. A new lamp hanging over the table might help define the "zones" better too.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I'd get a Saarinen table when you're ready to buy. Yo do you got any good places for mid-century style hardwood dining tables that I haven't already heard of? I wanted to get this solid brass bistro table from CB2 but Much Larger Brontosaurus shot that down because "neither of us are dictators" 
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Southern Heel posted:Hi guys, looks like I'm only a few weeks away from my very own house - I'm so excited. If you remember, the vendors had something of a love affair with wood - not only have they sanded and waxed all the trim, but they've gone nuts with wooden furniture too. I'm definitely looking at some cool blues and greys, and area rugs, to balance the yellow in the wood. Here are some photos from the estate agent I LOVE Craftsman houses so I'll have more to say when it's not so late here, but mission-style furniture always goes well with Craftsman interiors, as does the more minimal Shaker style. Generally look for American furniture styles over European ones and everything should meld well. Don't try to match wood furniture exactly to your house - go for varied but harmonious woods. Also you might not find that cool hues "balance" the warm wood trim as much as you're hoping. It might be better to work with it, in non-lemony yellows, oranges, reds - warm tones that can ground the wood trim on a continuum of color.
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cheese eats mouse posted:Where are you located because i know some good dealers in the midwest. They all do vintage though not new. There's a couple in Michigan who seem to not be able to keep Brazilia away from them. If you want to go vintage really stalk your craigslist and the surrounding areas. Los Angeles, sadly. All sources of vintage furniture here are insanely picked over or insanely marked up (by the people who did the over-picking). I even finally made the excursion to the legendary Rose Bowl Flea Market and was pretty disappointed in the furniture offerings. So I think I'm gonna buy new but vintage-inspired, just looking for something nicer than West Elm but cheaper than DWR.
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cheese eats mouse posted:I've heard the west coast is brutal in terms of MCM vintage. Too rich for my blood  Hoping to find a table & chairs for under 1k
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Tricky Ed posted:For what it's worth, this was at the cheapest price point my local floor place had when I bought it: Looks nice!
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Bad Munki posted:I know there's lots of love for soapstone as well. It's certainly what I'd do if I were redoing my kitchen. Soapstone is my poo poo and one of the friendlier materials to be a klutz around (butcher block is the easiest but it's a lot of maintenance). Don't overthink it though, your house is for you and countertops are both easy to change and extremely faddish, so pick something that looks good to you and is easy to clean and let the realtor tell you about whatever rare South American gemstone slab you absolutely HAVE to install to sell your house when the time comes.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Look how edgy I am everybody Hey go gently caress yourself.
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cheese eats mouse posted:My friend had boxes of laminate flooring sitting around so now I get to cry into my subfloor as I square off an old house. Is that real Dorothy Draper wallpaper? Is it coming or going?
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Don Dongington posted:I'm currently alternating between sanding back 50 year old Jarrah boards, working my day job, an dreaming about death. Look at that beautiful wood though  What are you going to do with that room once you're finished?
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