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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Aug 18, 2017 10:41:57 GMT -5
you know what, tinypic, screw you for not working.
GODDAMMIT Y NO GOOD CODE FOR PICS
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 18, 2017 20:16:09 GMT -5
So I'm watching Lottery Dream Home with David Bromstadt and these idiots with 4 children are looking at houses in the $650k range. They won $1 million. I can't imagine that they even got more than 650k after federal and Massachusetts (Taxachusetts) tax.
Oh now they want to go even over that. I gotta wonder what their financial position is going to be in a couple of years.
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 19, 2017 12:27:01 GMT -5
Every time this thread catches my eye I think it's about British playwright Harold Pinter, and then I'm disappointed.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 19, 2017 21:37:43 GMT -5
So I'm watching Lottery Dream Home with David Bromstadt and these idiots with 4 children are looking at houses in the $650k range. They won $1 million. I can't imagine that they even got more than 650k after federal and Massachusetts (Taxachusetts) tax. Oh now they want to go even over that. I gotta wonder what their financial position is going to be in a couple of years. I mean, if they have 2 professional level salaries, they could probably afford a $300K mortgage and only require $350K as a downpayment. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 23, 2017 19:52:37 GMT -5
I was window-shopping for houses last night on the internet, and started noticing a weird trend in the pictures. I don't know if was the way they showed up on my Kindle Fire or if there was some kind of weird filter, but all the pictures looked odd, like they were more artist's renderings than actual photographs. Maybe it's just me and my vision is failing.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Aug 24, 2017 9:37:18 GMT -5
I've suddenly developed an interest in Scandinavian winter cabins designed by cool architects, because, you know, I'm such an outdoors-in-winter kind of person. And such a Scandinavian-minimalism kind of person too. I don't know! I can't explain it! But yesterday I fell in love with this cabin. I was all ready to pull up stakes and move there, but then Hugs pointed out there was no bathroom in the floorplan. "Don't be silly," I thought, "Of course there's a bathroom!" But then she actually read the text accompanying the pictures, and pointed out there was no kitchen sink, either, because there is no running water. Jesus Christ. I think I won't bother moving to this place after all. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 25, 2017 5:54:04 GMT -5
I've suddenly developed an interest in Scandinavian winter cabins designed by cool architects, because, you know, I'm such an outdoors-in-winter kind of person. And such a Scandinavian-minimalism kind of person too. I don't know! I can't explain it! But yesterday I fell in love with this cabin. I was all ready to pull up stakes and move there, but then Hugs pointed out there was no bathroom in the floorplan. "Don't be silly," I thought, "Of course there's a bathroom!" But then she actually read the text accompanying the pictures, and pointed out there was no kitchen sink, either, because there is no running water. Jesus Christ. I think I won't bother moving to this place after all. On the other hand, that might be perfect for transforming the current NC house to, because anyone who would be looking to buy it, would just park their RV next to it. Anytime they needed electricity or water, they could just go back to the RV. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Aug 28, 2017 11:18:05 GMT -5
Man, I wish I could afford terrazzo: I love those chairs in the second picture, too. |
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Post by moimoi on Aug 28, 2017 12:27:20 GMT -5
Man, I wish I could afford terrazzo: I love those chairs in the second picture, too. I think that's a type of bistro chair. My favorite chair forms: for reading/loungingWing chair  Club chair  Peacock chair  for eating Bistro chair  Pierced Splat side chair  |
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Post by Incense on Aug 28, 2017 12:45:30 GMT -5
I love those chairs in the second picture, too. I think that's a type of bistro chair. My favorite chair forms: for reading/loungingWing chair Club chair Peacock chair for eating Bistro chair Pierced Splat side chair OMG, My two favorite chairs are the peacock chair and the papasan. I'm lucky enough to have one of each. My peacock chair isn't as dark, and has no scrollwork like that, but I'm so happy with it. One year, on my birthday, I wandered in to a Goodwill to get a little quality thrifting in, and there it was; in great shape and all of $6. I use it as my "dressing chair." I drape whatever I'm going to wear the next day over the back. The color on the wing chair you posted is gorgeous, btw. And I love the bistro chairs too. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 28, 2017 13:36:41 GMT -5
moimoi, I just love the fabric on the back of the wing chair! I probably would have gone with navy or something on the front though.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 28, 2017 14:20:46 GMT -5
moimoi, I just love the fabric on the back of the wing chair! I probably would have gone with navy or something on the front though. Yeah, a heavy navy silk would look more opulent. |
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Post by moimoi on Aug 29, 2017 20:48:04 GMT -5
Every time this thread catches my eye I think it's about British playwright Harold Pinter, and then I'm disappointed. You could start a blog about Pinter called Pinterest, which would in turn disappoint many hobbyists and brides-to-be..? |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 6, 2017 4:29:05 GMT -5
Man, I wish I could afford terrazzo: The floor of our Florida house is terrazzo. I wish we could have just restored it, but previous owners removed it by putting some awful tile over it in one room and parquet flooring over it in another. The grout and glue just completely ruined it. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 6, 2017 8:58:46 GMT -5
Man, I wish I could afford terrazzo: The floor of our Florida house is terrazzo. I wish we could have just restored it, but previous owners removed it by putting some awful tile over it in one room and parquet flooring over it in another. The grout and glue just completely ruined it. Why would you even put tile over terrazzo? Isn't terrazzo a type of tile? Why am I even asking? I've seen some horrifying things done by home owners in my years of watching HGTV. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 6, 2017 10:41:42 GMT -5
The floor of our Florida house is terrazzo. I wish we could have just restored it, but previous owners removed it by putting some awful tile over it in one room and parquet flooring over it in another. The grout and glue just completely ruined it. Why would you even put tile over terrazzo? Isn't terrazzo a type of tile? Why am I even asking? I've seen some horrifying things done by home owners in my years of watching HGTV. Terrazzo is like one solid block. No grout required. But that means when its damaged, it's harder to repair, because you cannot just replace individual tiles. We did end up putting the tile over the terrazzo floor, because there really was no better option. But its a much nicer tile than the previous one, and it flows through the whole house instead of all the rooms having dramatically different flooring. People complain about 80s music, but that's nothing compared to 80s design choices. The original 60s mod feel of the house would have been so much better than what ended up happening. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Sept 6, 2017 14:18:38 GMT -5
YES PLEASEMinor details aside, this is pretty much a dream house for me.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Sept 6, 2017 14:30:57 GMT -5
YES PLEASEMinor details aside, this is pretty much a dream house for me. Wow, that's freakin sweet. |
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Post by moimoi on Sept 6, 2017 19:29:27 GMT -5
The floor of our Florida house is terrazzo. I wish we could have just restored it, but previous owners removed it by putting some awful tile over it in one room and parquet flooring over it in another. The grout and glue just completely ruined it. Why would you even put tile over terrazzo? Isn't terrazzo a type of tile? Why am I even asking? I've seen some horrifying things done by home owners in my years of watching HGTV. Crazy stuff the previous owners of my house did: - lay cheap black low pile carpet over the concrete entry steps in front and the wooden deck stairs in back
- lay (nice) marble tile over carpet (i.e. the tiles are set in the carpet, essentially)
- paint the bedrooms on one side of the house a shade I can only describe as "fleshtone"
- put down thick pile white carpet in the basement, which incidentally required a subfloor that raises the floor height 4", making for a very low ceiling
- installed an extra door from the bedroom next to the main bathroom to try to fake a 'master suite'. Unfortunately the doors are all too close together and hit each other, rendering the extra door a useless waste of space
- move the basement kitchen out from under the main kitchen to under one of the bedrooms, which means that kitchen has no ventilation
- cram the washer and dryer into a tiny space behind the boiler and HVAC system
- lay patio tiles in such a way that the lawn forms a C shape, interrupted by mounds of hosta. Before I fixed this, mowing the lawn was near impossible and one had to follow the C shape to get from the main house to the garage. After one winter of shoveling in a C shape I said "fuuuck this" and had the patio re-laid in a straight line the following spring.
- put weird shutters over the window in the front door
- cut weird sconces into the mirrors in the living room
- cheap fluorescent lights all over the place
- sliding shower doors with frosted swans on them
Note, some very nice stuff they did:
- gorgeous paneling and trim throughout the living and dining room
- the aforementioned marble tile in the kitchen, along with granite countertops and backsplashes
- retained the original brass doorknobs from 1920 throughout the house
- this $700 chandelier in the living room (one of the things that made me fall in love with the house
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 13, 2017 8:53:41 GMT -5
YES PLEASEMinor details aside, this is pretty much a dream house for me. OMG, that is such an adorable house! The design element I want above all other things in life is a brick wall somewhere on my property's grounds (which would probably necessitate a brick house, but we overlook that), and your dreamhouse has such a darling one on that front porch! GAH! I want to live there!! (My dream brick wall situation is a walled garden, with espaliered apple and pear trees on the wall, and a perfect "cozy murder mystery set at an old manor house" kind of mist rolling in off the vast orchard beyond. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?) |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 13, 2017 9:25:44 GMT -5
moimoi, your chandelier is awesome!! When Hugs and I bought our first house, it was an open floor-plan townhouse, where you walked in the front door and were confronted with a front-to-back single room that was meant to be the living room and dining room. There was some angled fireplace element, to demarcate the spaces, but essentially it was just one big thing. The person we bought it from had a triple-tier old-lady brass chandelier, the style that has a bunch of fake candlesticks with those 40-watt "candlefire" bulbs on them. But it was fairly monumental, and filled the space reasonably dramatically. That was what was hanging in that space when we looked at the place, at any rate. When we moved in we discovered the chandelier did not convey, and she had replaced it with... something somewhat lesser. So, we replaced the builder-grade chandelier with one that spoke much more to our style; you can see it in our current dining room:  It looked amazing in the old house, this bold, modern-at-that-time-at-any-rate, funky piece that worked overtime as decor from every vantage point on the ground floor. We sort of expected to have to refer to it as "our chandelier, that nobody loves but us," but instead everyone who came into our house would, the first time in the front door, gasp, "I love your chandelier!" A young, single, cool New Yorker bought our townhouse from us (she was planning to commute into the City, because she is a crazy person. Our old house was not especially conducive to a NYC-based job, but hey -- not my problem!), and I'm sure the chandelier was included in her vision of life there. Instead, she got the same thing we did when we moved in there:  HA! (I don't even think we replaced the two burned-out bulbs!)
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 13, 2017 9:32:39 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Sept 13, 2017 9:51:56 GMT -5
YES PLEASEMinor details aside, this is pretty much a dream house for me. OMG, that is such an adorable house! The design element I want above all other things in life is a brick wall somewhere on my property's grounds (which would probably necessitate a brick house, but we overlook that), and your dreamhouse has such a darling one on that front porch! GAH! I want to live there!! (My dream brick wall situation is a walled garden, with espaliered apple and pear trees on the wall, and a perfect "cozy murder mystery set at an old manor house" kind of mist rolling in off the vast orchard beyond. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?) I have a brick house, so I've been thinking about exposing some brick in the basement. It's really kind of impractical though, with junction boxes and such on most walls. What I really hope is that when I gut remodel the addition in back, I can replace the vinyl siding with brick veneer to match the main house. Then I will have my brick wall garden backdrop! |
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Post by Not a real doctor on Sept 13, 2017 14:08:27 GMT -5
OMG, that is such an adorable house! The design element I want above all other things in life is a brick wall somewhere on my property's grounds (which would probably necessitate a brick house, but we overlook that), and your dreamhouse has such a darling one on that front porch! GAH! I want to live there!! (My dream brick wall situation is a walled garden, with espaliered apple and pear trees on the wall, and a perfect "cozy murder mystery set at an old manor house" kind of mist rolling in off the vast orchard beyond. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?) I have a brick house, so I've been thinking about exposing some brick in the basement. It's really kind of impractical though, with junction boxes and such on most walls. What I really hope is that when I gut remodel the addition in back, I can replace the vinyl siding with brick veneer to match the main house. Then I will have my brick wall garden backdrop! Ah yes, exposed brick! I'm fairly sure the chimney that runs through the kitchen is brick under plaster and I'm thinking of trying to expose it when I do my kitchen remodel (potentially this winter, I need to do a little bit of framing and roofing on a nice day this fall so I can move swap the fridge and stove). Aw hell, anyways, here's the current "weird-ass stove alcove" (sorry it's mostly hidden by the ladder):   And the "gigantic sad fridge by itself with weird dead space next to it:  So, the plan is that the little stove alcove will lose the crappy window above it and get framed up to ceiling height so I can move the fridge in there (it's thankfully wide enough and deep enough already and has electricity) and the stove will go where the fridge currently resides along with ~24" of counter space next to it. The house mechanicals are directly below where the stove will go so a new gas supply to it straight through the floor won't be a problem. I was going to do the upstairs bath first but trying to cook with no "landing space" next to the stove was such a pain in the ass that I'm going to tackle the kitchen layout fix first. Framing, roofing and siding the little alcove shouldn't be hard or take very long, I just need a weekend of good weather so I can avoid getting rained on while the old roof is torn off. Once that's done, the rest is inside work and I can tackle it over the winter. The cabinets are new but need paint (they're a hideous 'pickled' finish) and the floor is a sheet vinyl nightmare, and the fridge is a double-door monstrosity with much less useable interior space than it should have. But! they're all liveable-with for a while if I get this layout mess squared away. Oh, and the brick red color is hideous and claustrophobic in person as well. The aforementioned likely brick chimney is to the left of the stove in the bottom pic. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Sept 13, 2017 15:40:20 GMT -5
Yooouuuuuu guyyyyys we can all pitch in and remodel this houseI am kind of in love with the kitchen* and that amazing shower in the big bathroom *not the colour. I like the tile counters and the cabinetry and the sink and the layout. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 13, 2017 16:54:15 GMT -5
Am I the only one who doesn't really like exposed brick in a house? And Not a real doctor, that stove niche is just weird. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 13, 2017 16:57:43 GMT -5
Yooouuuuuu guyyyyys we can all pitch in and remodel this houseI am kind of in love with the kitchen* and that amazing shower in the big bathroom *not the colour. I like the tile counters and the cabinetry and the sink and the layout. Six bedrooms and only two full baths? No. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 13, 2017 17:01:10 GMT -5
Yooouuuuuu guyyyyys we can all pitch in and remodel this houseI am kind of in love with the kitchen* and that amazing shower in the big bathroom *not the colour. I like the tile counters and the cabinetry and the sink and the layout. That was a weird house. I wonder the last time anyone actually lived there. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 13, 2017 17:30:47 GMT -5
I'm watching Property Brothers and this woman is completely freaking out because Jonathan wants to switch her dining room and living room so that the living room is in the bigger room. It's all going to be open concept anyway. But there's a fireplace in the room Jonathan wants to make the dining room, and this woman cannot understand how anyone would want to buy a house with a fireplace in the dining room. Like, she's crying!
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