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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Your fridge confuses me Is it the baby lock on the ice drawer?  Stop it, baby!!!!(Top half fridge, middle left is for ice cubes, middle right is a fast-freezing drawer. Upper bottom (lol) is a tallish fridge drawer for drinks and lower bottom is the main freezer.) It's a very normal fridge for Japan. If you open your freezer more than your fridge, you're lifeing badly. peanut fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Your fridge confuses me That is indeed a strange fridge. peanut posted:Is it the baby lock on the ice drawer? It's the apparent multitude of drawers.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Please just stop. This thread has one rule, you're breaking it. Leave. You appear to be the one that can't stick to your own rule. I have paid my $10--didn't know certain threads were off limits. Stick to talking about interior design and if you have nothing to add to the conversation just don't post. If you feel the need to continue the personal attacks please leave it out of the thread and take it to PMs.
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peanut posted:Is it the baby lock on the ice drawer? Coooooooool. That sounds really useful! Does the fast-freezing work well? And if you've successfully got a baby lock on there you're ahead of the game. I'll never forget the time my parents spent an entire saturday babyproofing every cabinet in the kitchen, only to turn around after finishing the last one just in time to watch my brother unfasten the first one and hand it to them. Also I'd like to talk about how lovely your china cabinet is - such clean lines! The two skinny drawers on the left look really handy for silverware and things like that. Haifisch posted:Stolen from the crappy construction thread: Aaaaa... imagine that pink one first thing in the morning  Oh also, small vintage apartment-havers: This thing was a goddamn lifesaver. It doesn't look like much but it actually fuckin' works. It's basically just a single-rack dishwasher that you put on the counter and hook up to your kitchen faucet with a hose. If you've got the counter space to spare (lol) it will change your life. The only tricky thing is the spikes are kinda close together so you need pretty shallow plates, but you can easily get a couple days' worth of dishes for a two-person household in there, and when it's finished it beeps a song to you in a pleasing Japanese fashion.  The one thing it's bad at is drying, so I recommend venting the steam immediately after the rinse cycle when you can (just pop the door open and closed again) and using one of those water-spot-fighting additives like Jet-Dry Tiny Brontosaurus fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Jesus Christ gently caress off Tiny Brontosaurus posted:If someone posts for help with a design goal, your options are:
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"Help or don't post" isn't a personal attack against you. Just move on.Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh also, small vintage apartment-havers: 
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Maybe if we post enough other things, the derail will go away. Have a lovely ms paint of the kitchen layout of my childhood home, which was 100% planned by my parents. You can tell because it was a loving dream to work with:  The walls not taken up by counterspace/cupboards/cabinets are the ways out to the dining room and hallway. God I miss having that much room to work with and storage to store in. e: Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh also, small vintage apartment-havers: Haifisch fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Does the fast-freezing work well? In reality, I just keep my grab-it-fast little stuff like ice packs and corn and pre-cut green onions in there, but there's an aluminum tray inside that freezes stuff fast and flat. The China cabinet is 80s af in a good way and I can't put baby locks on it so for now, those drawers are just stuff that baby can't shatter like bento boxes, plastic cups and dessert spoons. Tried to angle this to hide all the dishes and mail... the other half of our galley-ish kitchen. We reused this "system kitchen" from the old house because it got new pull-out drawer hardware about 10 years ago. I built a janky lil table over the trashcans (with 3 sets of old baby locks) to expand the counter space for the dishrack. Our dishwasher is bad and not good and I don't use it. Edit: In summary, our kitchen is lacking in counter space but has an excellent work triangle. peanut fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Anne Whateley posted:"Help or don't post" isn't a personal attack against you. Just move on. How's your floor space? I eventually put mine on a rolling steel cart like they used to keep the projector on when I was in elementary school because I'm a thousand years old. Worked great! Haifisch posted:Maybe if we post enough other things, the derail will go away. Haifisch posted:Any recommendations like this for washing machines? I'm fortunate enough to have a dishwasher in my apartment, but I irrationally hate having to drag my clothes upstairs and feed the coin laundry. I'd honestly prefer doing a million tiny loads of laundry if it meant less lugging stuff around and getting quarters.  peanut posted:In reality, I just keep my grab-it-fast little stuff like ice packs and corn and pre-cut green onions in there, but there's an aluminum tray inside that freezes stuff fast and flat.
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Haifisch posted:Maybe if we post enough other things, the derail will go away. https://smile.amazon.com/Haier-HLP24E-Portable-Stainless-Pulsator/dp/B00WSVFM7K
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Jellyfish seem like a dangerous choice for kitchen seating. quote:I've never found a countertop washing machine that worked worth a drat - they don't agitate enough and don't drain well. I have lots of experience doing laundry by hand if that's at all helpful to you though
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Haifisch posted:It was actually (kind of uncomfortable) chairs like this, but I decided to capture the essence of them. And by that I mean I can't draw worth a poo poo. Oh those! The official chairs of the nineties! They were kind of uncomfortable. My grandma had these little cushions for them that tied onto the back, but they were only half an inch thick and the ties always came loose and it just wasn't worth it at all. Oh also: Laundry-haters who live in cities, look into fluff & fold. It costs about $1-2 a pound, and two weeks of laundry was about 30 pounds for me. Hardly cheap, but laundromats are getting so expensive these days the difference isn't HUGE, and you get your weekend back. Tiny Brontosaurus fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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There was an old UK comedy sketch where this fellow would be sent out for something simple like eggs by his wife and he'd come back with increasingly random stuff and go "I bought a china elephant, a pogo stick and a fez" "did you get the eggs?""no" I went to the charity shop/thrift store for tv cabinet, bought a coffee table, corner unit and humongous display cabinet/dresser. I'll upload pictures when they are delivered.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:That cabinetry is beautiful! God can you just send me like, a lot of Japanese woodwork. I can pay you in dinosaur gifs. Lol don't get ahead of yourself praising the 2009 Panasonic home utility catalog. If you want jerk off material, try GISing tansu 箪笥 wooden dressers shokkidana 食器棚 dish cabinets horigotatsu 掘りごたつ sunken table ranma 欄間 decorative partitions washitsu 和室 tatami rooms The results from daidokoro 台所 kitchen are... not as nice. peanut fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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peanut posted:Lol don't get ahead of yourself praising the 2009 Panasonic home utility catalog. If you want jerk off material, try GISing tansu 箪笥 wooden dressers. The results from daidokoro 台所 kitchen are... not as nice. So that's a whole portable furniture piece? Does it come apart? That's so cool. I don't know if I googled correctly, but I've always thought these were really neat: 
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Haifisch posted:It was actually (kind of uncomfortable) chairs like this, but I decided to capture the essence of them. And by that I mean I can't draw worth a poo poo. I, um, have 4 of those exact chairs around my kitchen table. We bought them for dirt cheap back in 2003. They're certainly not the most comfortable chairs, but they've held up through multiple moves and 2 kids.
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Haifisch posted:
Look if you're gonna go, go hard. And you reminded me that poo poo like this exists, lmao  MAN FRIDGE FOR MY MAN CAVE WHICH IS THE GARAGE WHERE TOOLS GO EXCEPT HERE THIS IS WHERE MILLER LITE GOES There's a whole kitchen suite you can get that's covered in diamond-plate but I can't find it now Peanut, what's your bathroom like? Do you have one of those short but super-deep tubs, or a wet room? Tiny Brontosaurus fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh also, small vintage apartment-havers: There are also floor standing 'portable' dishwashers that are either full size (24" across) or small size (18"). These pretty much behave like normal dishwashers except they have wheels on the bottom so that you can cart them over by the sink when you want to hook them up. The inevitable kitchen remodel is still a couple years off, so we got an 18" one of these in the meantime. If I had known about these while I was still renting, I'd have saved a boatload of money just picking a cheaper place that didn't already have a dishwasher.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Look if you're gonna go, go hard. Guinness from a bottle jfc Let me store it alongside my manly pellegrinos
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peanut posted:shokkidana 食器棚 dish cabinets  
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Be careful when tumbling into the 雑貨 家具 (kawaii furniture) rabbit holes! VVV A+++ cabinet peanut fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Progressive JPEG posted:Guinness from a bottle jfc I'm curious which western market they're aiming for, gotta be the US since they're pretending that Stella is fancy.
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May not to be to everyone's taste but here we go, my new living room unit. 
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learnincurve posted:May not to be to everyone's taste but here we go, my new living room unit. I can't understand how it hides the TV though. 
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learnincurve posted:May not to be to everyone's taste but here we go, my new living room unit. I love the woodwork and the leaded glass. Solid choice. My uncle (the same one who renovated my mother's and did the fantastic interior work on my aunt's mid-1800's farmhouse) took after my grandfather and got into woodworking. Also like my grandfather, he will only build in oak. If you request something be made of, say, pine he will hem and haw and push back the project, and when you say, "Go ahead, do it in oak," it shows up a week later. At one point he built a cabinet that was supposed to be wall-mounted somewhere, and ended up in my parent's basement. I didn't particularly want a wall-mount cabinet, so he built a tray on four legs for it, to which I added some levelers because of our wavy-rear end floor, and voilą:  I love this thing. It's pretty stable despite Wavy-rear end Floor, but I drilled a hole through the back and used a washer and a #24 3/16" machine screw into a Toggler (linked because these are the best wall anchors ever, I have them in maybe four different sizes for various things) in order to add to the stability. Unfortunately, our house gets so dry in the winter that the trim separated slightly, which is visible on the lower right corner. I want to get a whole home humidifier, but because we're cast-iron radiated heat and ducted A/C, we'd have to use a steam humidifier that calls the air handler to circulate, which is a fair amount of electricity use. On top of that, we have two air handlers, so we could only humidify two levels unless we added another unit. Fine, humid air rises, so we'd put it on the lower level. But then on top of THAT, as we are Very Old Stone Construction, you have to be careful adding water content in the air that might freeze inside the mortar, and you also might get condensation inside the wall cavities. Arrrgh. I'm still not sure what to do on that front.
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There's an interesting thing I've noticed in this thread, y'all really like old poo poo what of the kind my nanna used to have. Pushback against chipboard flatpack aside, what's the deal? There are well-made things that don't look like they recently acted as a framework for the slow-onset rigor mortis of a heart attack victim.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:How's your floor space? I eventually put mine on a rolling steel cart like they used to keep the projector on when I was in elementary school because I'm a thousand years old. Worked great! Haifisch posted:Any recommendations like this for washing machines? I'm fortunate enough to have a dishwasher in my apartment, but I irrationally hate having to drag my clothes upstairs and feed the coin laundry. I'd honestly prefer doing a million tiny loads of laundry if it meant less lugging stuff around and getting quarters. HycoCam posted:Look for portable washing machines: At the end of a wash cycle, it spins strongly enough that your clothes come out only a little damp (like you definitely couldn't possibly wring out a drop of water). I put them on hangers on my shower rod, and they're dry the next morning. The only downside of the whole system is that you obviously can't really do that with sheets and towels, so for those you do need to make a trip to the laundromat, but only for the dryer.
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Well if I'm honest I would like to only own Queen Anne furniture but in the absence of obscene amount of money I'll settle for a nice bit of real wood. I'm old enough to own teenagers and have learned over the years that chipboard is a false investment and that your nana was right, shopping trolleys on wheels are awesome. You can fit a 20 kilo bag of dog food in one and wheel it around like it's nothing. If you like a thing then buy that thing, don't worry about it 
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Jaded Burnout posted:There's an interesting thing I've noticed in this thread, y'all really like old poo poo what of the kind my nanna used to have. Which is why we have these chairs:  Sure, they're not going to work in everyone's house, but I like how they work in ours.
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My grandparents had exotic modern plastic laminate things from the 60s and 70s, not boring old wood. My parents bought the wooden 40s and 50s furniture after the owners died in the 80s. These things uhhh skip a generation?
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peanut posted:My grandparents had exotic modern plastic laminate things from the 60s and 70s, not boring old wood. Um. About that...There is a legitimate reason for me owning this I swear but yes, feel free to mock this one. (It's used for storing parrot food and toys)  This is the corner unit, it's too dark for the room but again real wood and the others they had were poor quality, also it was £30. 
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Jaded Burnout posted:There's an interesting thing I've noticed in this thread, y'all really like old poo poo what of the kind my nanna used to have. I like actual old modern stuff that generally has the nice clean simple design and lines of Ikea but isn't flatpack particle board poo poo, it's all teak and poo poo. I'd fill my house with mid century Danish modern if I could, and slowly am. I really don't like heavily ornamental antique looking stuff and despise faux-rustic french country kitchen sort of stuff. But my apartment is in a 1950's building with a lot of classic mid-century design, if I was living in a 1910 building and my apartment had a bunch of period design built-in I would probably get furniture that matches. What I really can't stand are clashing pieces and homes with absolutely no design direction. You don't need a perfectly matching theme but, just some sort of direction. You really liked that ridiculously ornate oriental style dresser so it's in your bedroom, next to your ikea bed, flanked by some rustic pine bedside tables. Your living room has a big particle board entertainment cabinet with a matching ugly over-stuffed leather sofa but the coffee table is a purple "distressed" looking reclaimed wood thing and there's some weird almost art-deco glass display shelves over in the corner which are not being used to display anything nice but instead full of random junk and papers. The dining room has a bunch of newly bought ornate but cheap Queen Anne looking poo poo except there's a big original arts and crafts buffet along the back wall. All inside a newly built series of soulless drywall cubes with cheap wall to wall carpeting and popcorn ceilings.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Some people think they're ugly, but it's more about how they're a very visible trend from a distinct period of time, which means they're guaranteed to look dated eventually. I keep trying to find discussions on this exact thing. What are the trends of today that are going to look horrifically dated in the next few decades? For kitchens I think it's the granite/marble counters with the stainless steel appliances. It's hard to imagine what will come after that, because they seem so tasteful and futuristic compared to the 60s puke green appliances. Are there any other trends from other rooms that might fade away in the next few decades? Much like shag carpet in the 80s? Or are there new trends that are already preferred to things like granite counters and stainless steel?
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Yeah, after I posted I thought it rude and went to take some pictures. No frame yet, but our plan is to make it uncomfortably ornate for a picture of our dog. What.... color is that paint? It reminds me of unsavory things. But, I love the surrounding decor.
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CmdrRiker posted:What are the trends of today that are going to look horrifically dated in the next few decades?  While I can't imagine people calling them hideous, I can see them eventually saying "mid to late tens renovation, huh?"
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Was the original house some great historic structure worthy of being saved? I don't know. Maybe not. But to pay a premium for that land (and trust me, knowing its location, they did) to build this insane thing that's way out of proportion with the rest of the homes around it is loving ridiculous. But that is definitely the trend, and a good way to combat unnecessary sprawl. Also, it will help drive up all of the neighborhood's home prices over time. Flipperwaldt posted:I watch a lot of British daytime tv, including property renovation programs. There's an enormous, sudden surge of using subway tiles like this for kitchen backsplashes: Ah yes. That along with glass tile backsplashes in kitchens is so huge now. The only issue I have with the subway tile is how dirty the grout will eventually look over time compared to the tiles. The glass tiles usually don't have visible grout, but I can definitely see how that has a certain look that people will either love or hate. CmdrRiker fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh also, small vintage apartment-havers: Ohh, that looks interesting.....$1200 Canadian dollars?
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learnincurve posted:If you like a thing then buy that thing, don't worry about it Nicely put, I added that to the OP  To clarify my thinking behind the run-in yesterday: This thread should feel free to mock all the reaper fridges and McMansion orgycounters it wants, but when people are posting about their homes, well I mean, that's somebody's home. And decorating it the way you want is frequently a long-held, long saved-for dream, featuring furniture or art your family members gave to you or even made for you if you're lucky enough, pieces people acquired during the adventure of their lives, and we're not going to sneer at any of that in here. How do I know that that crappy Ikea entertainment unit you're holding onto isn't because putting it together is when you realized you were in love with your spouse? Maybe after years of hard work you've finally got enough space of your own to host your D&D group, and you're looking for living room skull thrones to celebrate that fact. I think we've got enough people here that everybody's got some design taste in common with somebody else, so if something isn't your taste just wait for a post that is. Or post one yourself! Flipperwaldt posted:I watch a lot of British daytime tv, including property renovation programs. There's an enormous, sudden surge of using subway tiles like this for kitchen backsplashes: You reminded me of the thing that I think is really gonna go out of fashion quick, those horrible glue-on mosaic panels for kitchen backsplashes.  I think as a general rule of thumb, cheap shortcuts and artificial/simulated finishes get the sledgehammer, while expensive stuff becomes "charmingly retro!" A high-end stainless-steel range is never going to be a detriment to selling a house, but wood laminate flooring, even though I think it looks nice currently, might be.
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