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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 30, 2018 13:05:28 GMT -5
I.... why can't you put your feet on a coffee table? Generally I try to keep my feet off of surfaces that I put food on - or keep the food on some sort of tray. Plus coffee tables frequently come with glass panels to discourage this practice. I just have so many questions here. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 30, 2018 13:05:29 GMT -5
I hope this isn’t controversial, but I’m going to come out against coffee tables. The main reason for my antipathy is, admittedly, my tendency to hurt myself bumping into low furniture (magazine racks are also on my shit list), but I also find them impractical: you can’t put your feet on them like an ottoman and they just collect clutter in the middle of the room. End tables or sofa tables are far more functional and unobtrusive. They’re also cheaper in many cases, so you can get something more unique that you can switch out easily. I.... why can't you put your feet on a coffee table? Because the Lego and Star Wars figures are in the way. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 30, 2018 13:58:38 GMT -5
I.... why can't you put your feet on a coffee table? Because they are hard and uncomfortable when you aren't wearing shoes, whereas an ottoman is comfy and wonderful. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 30, 2018 14:07:53 GMT -5
I will belatedly third this dislike of coffee tables. They collect crap (in my experience) and are generally just in the way. End tables and maybe a narrow behind-the-sofa table are where it's at. Side note: do any TIFers live in a place opulent enough that all of the living room furniture *doesn't* need to be placed with its back basically against a wall? I've house sat at a place like that but it doesn't seem like a thing I'll ever have in my own life. My living room is long and narrow, so the couch runs crosswise in the middle of it. And we've got some annoyingly-placed built-ins along one of the walls (as well as a defunct fireplace), so the other armchairs have to float a bit askew. Basically, my living room is dumb enough that it doesn't have walls that furniture can be placed against! Our previous house was a big open-floorplan space, where foyer, living room, and dining room flowed together, so all the spaces had to be defined by furniture placement. Since it was our starter home, we didn't have a ton of furniture, so very little of it could be wasted by putting it against a wall when it could otherwise be deployed to suggest the end of one room and the beginning of another. It was by no means an opulent home, just a built-in-the-early-'90s townhouse with no interior walls. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 30, 2018 14:08:29 GMT -5
I.... why can't you put your feet on a coffee table? Because they are hard and uncomfortable when you aren't wearing shoes, whereas an ottoman is comfy and wonderful. As I have explained many times to my daughter, "can't" and "don't want to" are not the same thing  |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 30, 2018 17:54:45 GMT -5
I hope this isn’t controversial, but I’m going to come out against coffee tables. The main reason for my antipathy is, admittedly, my tendency to hurt myself bumping into low furniture (magazine racks are also on my shit list), but I also find them impractical: you can’t put your feet on them like an ottoman and they just collect clutter in the middle of the room. End tables or sofa tables are far more functional and unobtrusive. They’re also cheaper in many cases, so you can get something more unique that you can switch out easily. I.... why can't you put your feet on a coffee table? Because your mom will slap you upside the head for putting your feet on the coffee table. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 31, 2018 9:04:50 GMT -5
Because they are hard and uncomfortable when you aren't wearing shoes, whereas an ottoman is comfy and wonderful. As I have explained many times to my daughter, "can't" and "don't want to" are not the same thing In this case they are! That's the beauty of being a grown-up, dammit!  |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 31, 2018 12:53:02 GMT -5
As I have explained many times to my daughter, "can't" and "don't want to" are not the same thing In this case they are! That's the beauty of being a grown-up, dammit! …she wrote, driving 90 miles per hour as sirens wailed in the distance. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 2, 2018 12:56:09 GMT -5
So when listening to Visible Cloaks’s mixtape of eighties Italian ambient music ( it’s good, and a nice follow-up to their Japanese mixtape, which got me interested in all that weird Japanese stuff from the eighties), I wondered where the “cover” image was from. And it was from the Munari apartment in Venice, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Aldo Cibic:
I have to admit I like the idea of adding color to the room by just adding a big panel colored to it (certainly better than the naughts property bubble accent wall trend). Works in an interesting way with the old wooden beams holding up the roof. A few more pictures:
Definitely letting the lighting (either electric or natural) do a lot of the work with those spare walls.
And here’s Sottsass’s own Milan apartment in 1959—while the woody palette does scream 1950s, I really love the use of pattern and and the color spectra he uses on those hangings(?):
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Post by moimoi on Aug 2, 2018 13:21:01 GMT -5
So when listening to Visible Cloaks’s mixtape of eighties Italian ambient music ( it’s good, and a nice follow-up to their Japanese mixtape, which got me interested in all that weird Japanese stuff from the eighties), I wondered where the “cover” image was from. And it was from the Munari apartment in Venice, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Aldo Cibic:
I have to admit I like the idea of adding color to the room by just adding a big panel colored to it (certainly better than the naughts property bubble accent wall trend). Works in an interesting way with the old wooden beams holding up the roof. A few more pictures:
Definitely letting the lighting (either electric or natural) do a lot of the work with those spare walls.
And here’s Sottsass’s own Milan apartment in 1959—while the woody palette does scream 1950s, I really love the use of pattern and and the color spectra he uses on those hangings(?):
These pictures have me wondering if I need more rugs. Also, JLL, I wonder if you might like Peter Saville's aesthetic - particularly his design for the Hacienda?  |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 2, 2018 14:17:53 GMT -5
I really like that 1959 apartment. I might change just a couple of minor things (like the checked blanket) but overall I really like it.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 2, 2018 14:19:20 GMT -5
moimoi Yes, it’s very apiece with that sort of bold eighties aesthetic.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Aug 3, 2018 9:14:19 GMT -5
I really like that 1959 apartment. I might change just a couple of minor things (like the checked blanket) but overall I really like it. HA! I was just coming to comment that I LOVE that checked blanket and want one for myself now! I think you and I might be terrible roommates!  |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 3, 2018 13:11:10 GMT -5
I really like that 1959 apartment. I might change just a couple of minor things (like the checked blanket) but overall I really like it. I have to admit I’m thinking of ways to bring some of that character to my place, too.
As much as I’d like to have the balls to do something like the 80’s apartment, my place is too small to pull off that sort of aesthetic. |
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 8, 2018 16:10:56 GMT -5
I can't remember if we discussed exposed brick, but, we're having it in the kitchen: Where the chimney meets the door frame will be a fun trim carpentry challenge when we get to it. I'll strip the side I started on and the side to the right. Eventually the stove will go in this little alcove next to the chimney. The fridge is there now but it's out of the picture to the right leaving the weird dead space you see. The fridge will go in the weird little alcove that used to be the icebox once I get it framed to the ceiling height. Swapping the stove and fridge will give me enough space to put an 18" wide base cabinet next to the stove to give a little bit of adjacent prep space. Weird little alcove that currently hold the stove, will eventually hold the fridge for reference:  Also, god I fuckin' hate the red in here. The floor tearout was a recent project as well. I'm planning to just give it a sanding and finish it with its 80 years of old staple holes and everything else in it. Going for that "loft in a converted factory" look with bright white cabinets and stainless appliances/hardware against the old floor and exposed chimney. since it's self-done, I'll be finished in about a decade.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 9, 2018 14:11:49 GMT -5
Been working in two separate cafés in the past two days, in two different neighborhoods, and in both there’s been an interior designer presenting a fairly extensive (shifting walls and such) condo renovation project to a client.
ETA: Also found out on Tuesday that Bruno Munari was a fairly prominent artist and designer in addition to have a banging house.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 13, 2018 11:41:30 GMT -5
I'm beginning to more fully flesh out kitchen ideas and am intrigued by this one as I too have a rather tall but small footprinted kitchen. What do you all think of the floor? I have "in both good and bad shape" wood floors and this idea is intriguing to me.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 13, 2018 12:44:34 GMT -5
I'm not sure I like that floor. Maybe it's too light wood with the black contrast?
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Aug 14, 2018 12:01:22 GMT -5
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 14, 2018 13:27:47 GMT -5
Eventually... I really like a lot of what it has going on, the white cabinets, the white beveled tile backsplashes and walls, even the black trim and blinds. I can't remember if I shared the completed de-plastering in the homeowner thread but we now have a brick chimney in the kitchen, awaiting trim carpentry to tie it in with the door frame and the walls(that's a winter project): |
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Post by moimoi on Aug 18, 2018 22:54:45 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 21, 2018 7:25:01 GMT -5
On the sliding scale between "hobbit hole" and "mountain lair", this falls much more on the villainous side of things. I mean, it even comes with a heliport!
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It's a little pretentious for my tastes, and for that price, it should A) come with a minion or two and B) not be in Arkansas, but otherwise, damn. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 21, 2018 8:14:09 GMT -5
Well, that was something. I'll pass though.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Aug 21, 2018 10:19:29 GMT -5
On the sliding scale between "hobbit hole" and "mountain lair", this falls much more on the villainous side of things. I mean, it even comes with a heliport!
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It's a little pretentious for my tastes, and for that price, it should A) come with a minion or two and B) not be in Arkansas, but otherwise, damn. Oooh, that is EXTREMELY villainous. I think it's the round beds that really put it over the top into "I'm pretty sure this was a setting in one of the lesser Roger Moore Bond movies" territory. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 16, 2018 15:53:19 GMT -5
I've been watching a lot of HGTV and I've noticed the patterns:
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HE is a snail wrangler and amateur elbow model. SHE is an artisanal lawn trimmer. They want to move out of the closet under the staircase in his aunt's house and into a 3700 square foot mansion. Their top budget is 788,549.81 and not a penny more.
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HE is a quilting fanatic. SHE runs the Mars Rover from a dedicated server room. They and their 15 children are looking to move into a 394 sq.ft. tiny house.
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This husband and wife team will personally convert a Superfund site into a replica of a 14th century Irish castle. HE has a crowbar. SHE never takes off her heels.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 16, 2018 18:08:56 GMT -5
There's a show on Netflix called Stay Here. Everyone needs to see the house that's on ep. 7 - it's a Palms Springs mid-century modern house mostly untouched since 1969. It's amazing!
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 28, 2018 9:24:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 28, 2018 9:31:28 GMT -5
Ha! That's hilarious!
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Oct 19, 2018 14:09:29 GMT -5
Like two miles from the beach. Small but honestly about the size of my house now. CLEARLY it's been recently remodeled in the hipster Apartment Therapy fashion, which is mostly ok, but I do want to Talavera up that kitchen something fierce.
Look I don't care if Galveston will be underwater in 30 years; by then I'll be solidly into my crazy beach witch phase and anything I do while they're dragging me away will just add to my legend.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Oct 19, 2018 14:15:06 GMT -5
Man if it doesn't come with the house, no sale.
Wow that house is gorgeous except for the kitchen.
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