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Post by Dr. Rumak on Oct 13, 2017 20:29:56 GMT -5
I also require a two-bowl sink for my sloppy lifestyle of dishes and work so any "farmhouse-esque" number would still need to have some sort of division. I just like the look of the "big honkin' apron sink" even though I logically know that "undermount that you can just sweep all the crap into" is the way better functional choice. Surely they make apron sinks with two bowls? Indeed, they do. And stop calling me Shirley!
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Post by Not a real doctor on Oct 13, 2017 21:00:29 GMT -5
I also require a two-bowl sink for my sloppy lifestyle of dishes and work so any "farmhouse-esque" number would still need to have some sort of division. I just like the look of the "big honkin' apron sink" even though I logically know that "undermount that you can just sweep all the crap into" is the way better functional choice. Surely they make apron sinks with two bowls? I'm now wondering if farmhouse sinks and apron sinks aren't the same thing. I though they were? And yeah, they totally make stainless 2 bowl farmhouse/apron sinks. Now I'm self-Conscious! Is this something where farmhouse=1 bowl, apron=everything else? Have I made a huge pinterest-thread faux pas?!?!?!
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Oct 14, 2017 0:08:41 GMT -5
Surely they make apron sinks with two bowls? I'm now wondering if farmhouse sinks and apron sinks aren't the same thing. I though they were? And yeah, they totally make stainless 2 bowl farmhouse/apron sinks. Now I'm self-Conscious! Is this something where farmhouse=1 bowl, apron=everything else? Have I made a huge pinterest-thread faux pas?!?!?! yeah I was wondering the same thing; I don't get the difference.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Oct 14, 2017 12:37:35 GMT -5
Surely they make apron sinks with two bowls? I'm now wondering if farmhouse sinks and apron sinks aren't the same thing. I though they were? And yeah, they totally make stainless 2 bowl farmhouse/apron sinks. Now I'm self-Conscious! Is this something where farmhouse=1 bowl, apron=everything else? Have I made a huge pinterest-thread faux pas?!?!?! I always thought farmhouse sinks were just those giant (apron) single-basin things. That my friends put in during their kitchen remodel, and it makes me crazy every time we go over for dinner and the sink is piled to overflowing with dirty dishes and whatnot, and they're still just trying to cook around it. I don't know how people live like that! But I always thought the divided ones were sort of hybrids. All the looks of a farmhouse sink, all the functionality of a multi-bowl one. But I'm no expert! Maybe I'm wrong!
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Oct 15, 2017 10:35:13 GMT -5
This woman on Property Brothers just said (about tile), this is millennial crap! Those people can't afford our house!
It just struck me as really rude, especially coming from a woman who looked to be in her early 30s. I hope a bunch of millennials come to her open house and make nasty comments about old people style.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Oct 16, 2017 18:42:19 GMT -5
So there are some really quirky houses in Salisbury, Maryland evidently. This HH episode with the widower with 4 kids is showing some pretty nutty houses! I like them.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Oct 22, 2017 16:32:39 GMT -5
I'm liking this scheme for my living room/dining room/stairwell which I'd describe as currently painted in shades of "flesh" and "turds"* *I understand the direction the previous owners were going ("shades of earth tones") but like everything else in the house (e.g., battleship grey bathroom), the execution was wide of the mark.
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Post by moimoi on Oct 22, 2017 18:58:54 GMT -5
I'm liking this scheme for my living room/dining room/stairwell which I'd describe as currently painted in shades of "flesh" and "turds"* *I understand the direction the previous owners were going ("shades of earth tones") but like everything else in the house (e.g., battleship grey bathroom), the execution was wide of the mark. Sophisticated. I painted one of my bathrooms a similar color (Sherwin Williams Prairie Grass) and I got a lot of compliments on it.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Oct 22, 2017 19:47:17 GMT -5
I'm liking this scheme for my living room/dining room/stairwell which I'd describe as currently painted in shades of "flesh" and "turds"* *I understand the direction the previous owners were going ("shades of earth tones") but like everything else in the house (e.g., battleship grey bathroom), the execution was wide of the mark. My apartment walls are painted like a shade darker than the Yellow Sage (it's almost a khaki green) and I loathe it. With every fiber of my being. Aside from the fact that it's a sloppy paint job, it makes the apartment very dark.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Oct 30, 2017 20:56:23 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it. ...and now my wife wants that rug. Tell your wife to BE JEALOUS, cause I am GETTING THAT RUG FOR MY BIRTHDAY
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Oct 31, 2017 17:09:09 GMT -5
Will someone please tell me why home builders are STILL putting laundry rooms between the garage and the kitchen?! It's so ridiculous.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Nov 1, 2017 14:44:57 GMT -5
Will someone please tell me why home builders are STILL putting laundry rooms between the garage and the kitchen?! It's so ridiculous. We had a very pared-down list of requirements when we were househunting: 1. Enough bedrooms for all the residents. 2. Bones of a good kitchen. 3. Standalone laundry room that is not a point of entry for the house. Walking into the house through the laundry room sucks!
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Nov 17, 2017 13:48:45 GMT -5
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Nov 17, 2017 14:27:24 GMT -5
I've been looking at UK real estate, because I can, and what is this thing in the shower? I've seen it in several listings. Also what IS the British obsession with ( really terrible) wallpaper?
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 2, 2017 10:58:49 GMT -5
This homebuyer's friend is so negative! She wants the friend to buy a house in a "nice, normal suburb". And she seems to think if the friend lives out in the country that she'll be attacked immediately by some axe-murderer. I'm pretty damn sure that's code for "there's black people out here!"
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Post by Liz n Dick on Dec 4, 2017 11:29:28 GMT -5
Thanks to my company's selling off its collection, I've got new artwork! WOOOO! I picked up three framed prints last week, two of which have a kind of "artwork from a mid-century travel poster" kind of vibe (one a ski scene [very unusual in the corporate collection; most everything has been of the "benign and bland landscape" school] and one a sort of mountain lake scene with a French Riviera color vibe), and one of which is a print of a New England landscape pastel. One of my colleagues was googling the artist from a couple of prints she'd picked up, so I decided to poke at the internets about the New England artist. I ended up finding a gallery selling her original work, and in the span of 24 hours after randomly buying that print at the random art sale randomly at work, I purchased two original oil paintings from a random gallery in New Hampshire. What a fascinating modern age we live in! Anyway, I was going to post pictures of the paintings here, but the gallery has taken them down from their website, duh, because they're not for sale anymore. Heh. Rats. This is making this post a lot less interesting. So I guess my story is that I am very excited, completely blew up my December budget doing this (the paintings weren't that expensive, but they weren't $20 like the prints at work were...), and now kind of love having the origin story of several art pieces in my house being "I bought it from my workplace." Oh, and it should be noted that while it's great getting cheap prints that, for a change, are actually plug-and-play with regards to being able to hang framed stuff up on the walls, the frames are in pretty rough shape and are very "corporate office". They have pretty monumental matting, which is nice if you're not going for the "gallery wall" look, but needs to be undone for our purposes. And the frames themselves are plain, very square-edged wood. With hard wear on them. They're all going to need to be redone eventually.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 7, 2017 20:17:16 GMT -5
These stupid fuckers on HH are boasting about planting over 10,000 square feet of grass. In Las Vegas.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 7, 2017 21:02:39 GMT -5
Hey, Flip or Flop Atlanta - teal does not go with navy blue. And it doesn't look like a deliberate design choice - it just looks like you're bad at colors.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 8, 2017 9:21:22 GMT -5
These stupid fuckers on HH are boasting about planting over 10,000 square feet of grass. In Las Vegas. That's what I hated the most about living in Arizona -- all the stupid fuckers trying to turn the desert into Iowa. Just enjoy the natural beauty and xeriscape, you idiots!
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Post by Liz n Dick on Dec 8, 2017 9:33:49 GMT -5
These stupid fuckers on HH are boasting about planting over 10,000 square feet of grass. In Las Vegas. That's what I hated the most about living in Arizona -- all the stupid fuckers trying to turn the desert into Iowa. Just enjoy the natural beauty and xeriscape, you idiots! YES! I could never figure out why people there wanted to have to tend to lawns. And honestly, if you want to live somewhere with green grass, then don't fucking move to the desert. It's not that hard! (Of course, I'd be more than happy to let my lawn revert back to meadow here in NJ, so maybe I'm not riding with the mainstream on the topic of lawns in the first place...)
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 8, 2017 9:56:30 GMT -5
When I was married and owned a house, we were seriously considering razing the front lawn and letting a strawberry patch take it over, but figured the person whose land abutted ours wouldn't be as happy mowing strawberries. We did clear much of it to grow food instead, but still felt obligated by societal pressure to have some lawn.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 8, 2017 10:02:03 GMT -5
I recently watched an episode of Adam Ruins Everything (I love that show!) about the suburbs - it kind of confirmed what I've thought about lawns for years. And I actually do like the look of a green lawn, but if I lived in Arizona or New Mexico, there's no way I would have a green lawn. Even in Dallas, if I owned a house, I'd want to xeriscape.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Dec 8, 2017 10:06:03 GMT -5
When I was married and owned a house, we were seriously considering razing the front lawn and letting a strawberry patch take it over, but figured the person whose land abutted ours wouldn't be as happy mowing strawberries. We did clear much of it to grow food instead, but still felt obligated by societal pressure to have some lawn. Oh man, a full-yard strawberry patch is the stuff dreams are made of! We also have nodded to societal pressure (and local restrictions governing residential property upkeep) and have retained some measure of what technically passes for lawn. But I don't think it's actually got much grass growing in it; it's mostly all dandelions and clover. But it gets mowed to a uniform length and it looks green, so no one seems to be pissed about it.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Dec 8, 2017 10:07:02 GMT -5
I recently watched an episode of Adam Ruins Everything (I love that show!) about the suburbs - it kind of confirmed what I've thought about lawns for years. And I actually do like the look of a green lawn, but if I lived in Arizona or New Mexico, there's no way I would have a green lawn. Even in Dallas, if I owned a house, I'd want to xeriscape. What did the show say about lawns? I love to get my dander up about this!
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Post by moimoi on Dec 8, 2017 11:19:37 GMT -5
I have to retain about 250 sq. ft. of lawn because my front lawn is connected to my neighbors, and as long as I need to have a lawnmower for that, might as well keep up the postage stamp patch in back (I do plan to get an electric mower though). I'm going to spread white clover in the 'hellstrip' since it's low-maintenance, nitrogen-fixing, and easily propagates to cover up doggy damage. If I lived in an arid climate, I'd do a rock garden with re-cycling fountains.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 8, 2017 12:08:37 GMT -5
I recently watched an episode of Adam Ruins Everything (I love that show!) about the suburbs - it kind of confirmed what I've thought about lawns for years. And I actually do like the look of a green lawn, but if I lived in Arizona or New Mexico, there's no way I would have a green lawn. Even in Dallas, if I owned a house, I'd want to xeriscape. What did the show say about lawns? I love to get my dander up about this! Mostly that they are a holdover from British upperclass people who decided in the 1800s to start planting lawns based on landscapes being painted by Italian (?) painters that featured very pretty lawns. He also talked about the design of suburbs and how the way they're designed makes them completely unwalkable, and how suburban school end up being segregated whether that's the intention or not.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 11, 2017 9:16:51 GMT -5
I was watching an episode of Property Brothers wherein one of the seeking couple jumped into a king-size bed, declaring "I've never been in a bed this big before!" The couple's budget was just over $1M for their renovated-by-Jonathan house. How do you manage to amass a million dollars without ever having slept in a king-sized bed? I mean, even shitty hotels have them!
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 14, 2017 15:08:09 GMT -5
My house has a long side corridor that connects the entire main floor. It's fairly dark (it shares space with the stairs to the second floor and I will probably paint the stairwell the same colour.)
At the moment the front half of it is a pale blue, the back half is a faded taupe colour. I'm probably going to do the same colour front and back this time but ugh, picking a color is hard, especially since the window/door trim is dark brown wood. It adjoins my vibrantly greeny teal living room (which I love) and my incongrously bright orange kitchen (which will get repainted at some point but likely not til I redo the cabinets.
I'm seriously mystified at what to go with though, I've had various samples hanging on the wall for a month now and the only one I even like a little is a smokey grey with the slightest hint of purple to it but I worry I'd find it boring after a while.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Dec 14, 2017 15:58:03 GMT -5
My house has a long side corridor that connects the entire main floor. It's fairly dark (it shares space with the stairs to the second floor and I will probably paint the stairwell the same colour.) At the moment the front half of it is a pale blue, the back half is a faded taupe colour. I'm probably going to do the same colour front and back this time but ugh, picking a color is hard, especially since the window/door trim is dark brown wood. It adjoins my vibrantly greeny teal living room (which I love) and my incongrously bright orange kitchen (which will get repainted at some point but likely not til I redo the cabinets. I'm seriously mystified at what to go with though, I've had various samples hanging on the wall for a month now and the only one I even like a little is a smokey grey with the slightest hint of purple to it but I worry I'd find it boring after a while. Do you not like the orange in the kitchen? Or is it just too O R A N G E ? I mean I can like teal and orange, if they're the right shade of each. I would say do the hallway something that complements the teal, and then later decide what colour for the kitchen complements the hallway. If the woodtrim is actually stained & looks like wood and not painted, personally I never really factor that into a color scheme. Wood looks nice with everything (unless it's, like, cherry). You can image search "teal complementary colours palette" and come up with a whole bunch of stuff that might point you in the right direction. Like this!Or this!Or this!
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 14, 2017 16:06:18 GMT -5
My house has a long side corridor that connects the entire main floor. It's fairly dark (it shares space with the stairs to the second floor and I will probably paint the stairwell the same colour.) At the moment the front half of it is a pale blue, the back half is a faded taupe colour. I'm probably going to do the same colour front and back this time but ugh, picking a color is hard, especially since the window/door trim is dark brown wood. It adjoins my vibrantly greeny teal living room (which I love) and my incongrously bright orange kitchen (which will get repainted at some point but likely not til I redo the cabinets. I'm seriously mystified at what to go with though, I've had various samples hanging on the wall for a month now and the only one I even like a little is a smokey grey with the slightest hint of purple to it but I worry I'd find it boring after a while. Do you not like the orange in the kitchen? Or is it just too O R A N G E ? I mean I can like teal and orange, if they're the right shade of each. I would say do the hallway something that complements the teal, and then later decide what colour for the kitchen complements the hallway. If the woodtrim is actually stained & looks like wood and not painted, personally I never really factor that into a color scheme. Wood looks nice with everything (unless it's, like, cherry). You can image search "teal complementary colours palette" and come up with a whole bunch of stuff that might point you in the right direction. Like this!Or this!Or this!The kitchen is far enough from the living room that it's not really an issue it goes... [living room opening (small)] -> [short length of hall] -> [closet] ->[bathroom/minibranch hallway to guest room] -> [short length of hall] -> [Kitchen] I actually having nothing against the orange, it was just so shittily done. There are random green tiles glued on above the sink with no grouting and none of the orange paint behind or between them. They painted as far down behind the oven space as their brush could reach etc Just awful. The living room is seperate enough that I'm not fussed about it being a pure complimentary colour as long it doesn't look actively bad (edit: the wood trim is nothing special, sadly despite it being a 110+ y/o home except for the living room they pulled out everything really nice wood wise during one of the rebuilds over the years, I just can't be fussed to replace it all, especially the windows.)
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