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learnincurve posted:The thought occurs that the non-Brits won't know about this. It's basically house porn. https://www.theguardian.com/money/series/surreal-estate I was just saying to myself "I really want to procrastinate by looking at cool houses, wonder if anyone posted something interesting in the design thread" and here you are.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I was just saying to myself "I really want to procrastinate by looking at cool houses, wonder if anyone posted something interesting in the design thread" and here you are. How about the exact opposite of a McMansion, went up for sale last week: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/700-W-Boston-Blvd_Detroit_MI_48202_M36072-12188 I love it aside from some things that look like bad staging choices.
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Here's a good reason not to do that hidden fridge thing. When your just-so handle inevitably breaks under the repeated strain of a really heavy door assembly, it's quite the loving production to get it fixed.
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Subjunctive posted:Here's a good reason not to do that hidden fridge thing. When your just-so handle inevitably breaks under the repeated strain of a really heavy door assembly, it's quite the loving production to get it fixed. i hate that (is it even a trend?) like, people know you have a fridge somewhere in your kitchen, everyone has a fridge (EVEN 99.7% OF "POOR" HOUSEHOLDS!!!!), fridges don't have to be ugly, they make all kinds of fridges, you don't have to pretend it's a pantry door
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Jul 25, 2017 01:35
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It's for visual uniformity more that MGS-grade stealth, but it's still annoying because it's a bitch to open even before the handle sheared. It wasn't enough to keep me from buying the place, though.
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Subjunctive posted:It's for visual uniformity more that MGS-grade stealth, but it's still annoying because it's a bitch to open even before the handle sheared. i guess if you have like a Kitchen Theme or something. do they just jankily attach to the fridge handle (and probably apply weird stresses to it) or do you have to buy a fridge intended for use with one of these?
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SoundMonkey posted:i guess if you have like a Kitchen Theme or something. do they just jankily attach to the fridge handle (and probably apply weird stresses to it) or do you have to buy a fridge intended for use with one of these? You buy a fridge with no handle and an unfinished front. It has mounting brackets for the cabinet front to connect with. I don't think it looks janky, it's just a bitch to open. The handle matches the rest of the cabinets.
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Jul 25, 2017 02:30
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Why not hide the oven behind a panel too? Hide the stove top so it looks like a counter, hide the counter so it looks like more cabinet walls, fake doors on the ceiling, fake fridge doors on the floor, absolute madness.
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Baronjutter posted:Why not hide the oven behind a panel too? Hide the stove top so it looks like a counter, hide the counter so it looks like more cabinet walls, fake doors on the ceiling, fake fridge doors on the floor, absolute madness. god i want to see a place with an induction range disguised as normal countertop now, the comedy possibilities are endless "NO gently caress DONT PUT YOUR KEYS THERE" edit: although it WOULD make it trivially easy to give someone the ol spicy keychain
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Jul 25, 2017 03:31
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https://www.engadget.com/2015/04/20/ikea-concept-kitchen-2025 Someone will do it.
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This was the thread with the 'hide the tv, no I don't want to hide the tv in the tv watching room' derail, right? Use those ideas to hide the kitchen appliances instead. An art hung to hide the countertops. Microwave that folds up into the ceiling.
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Facebook Aunt posted:This was the thread with the 'hide the tv, no I don't want to hide the tv in the tv watching room' derail, right? Use those ideas to hide the kitchen appliances instead. An art hung to hide the countertops. Microwave that folds up into the ceiling. when i reno my kitchen i'm going to get fake/reused appliance fronts to hide the cabinets "oh, the soy sauce? second microwave to the left of the real one"
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I was just saying to myself "I really want to procrastinate by looking at cool houses, wonder if anyone posted something interesting in the design thread" and here you are. Okay, are you ready to see the ugliest kitchen ever? Only thing worse than a tiny useless sink is a tiny useless sink that is nowhere near any food prep areas.  How many of these cabinets do you think they actually use? I bet only the one next to the terribly-camouflaged fridge.   Rest of the place is pretty fugly too. And now a palate cleanser: Look at this cute old house! Sold furnished and can be yours for $75,000.  Wonder what this room used to be before they added indoor plumbing to the house   These folks probably do more cooking in this kitchen in a month than the owners of that fugly kitchen above do in a year.  More neat houses This is my kind of mansion Weird combination of mid-century and rustic cabin styles. So ugly it's cute Chestnut-wood house with old wide shiplap walls and wide plank floors (can't find that size lumber anymore) Needs some work but you literally couldn't build this house today. You're in the jungle baby, you're gonna dieeeeee
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crosspost from crappy construction thread since it seems to fit here so very well not only are there a million different roof lines, but on the far right, two of them actually intersect
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I swear nearly every house built after the 80's or so has been procedurally generated. Developer or client selects the number and types of rooms from some drop down menus, there's an option to type in a "seed", and then the generator takes over using some simple rules to place a bunch of interconnected rooms. Once the layout looks acceptable after a few re-rolls you click "GENERATE ROOF" and the program processes for a few moments, sometimes having to retry due to it trying to generate non-euclidean geometry, but eventually shits out a roof plan.
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Youth Decay posted:Okay, are you ready to see the ugliest kitchen ever? That's probably for a wetbar you plebeian. But seriously, that looks like my grandparent's house which now makes me wonder if there's some kind of set style of gated-community-with-a-golf-course home that was big in the 80's.
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Youth Decay posted:
Shame someone spilled coffee all over that sandstone before sealing it. SoundMonkey posted:i hate that (is it even a trend?) like, people know you have a fridge somewhere in your kitchen, everyone has a fridge (EVEN 99.7% OF "POOR" HOUSEHOLDS!!!!), fridges don't have to be ugly, they make all kinds of fridges, you don't have to pretend it's a pantry door In the UK at least "integrated appliances" behind fake-o cabinet doors is beyond a trend, it's now such a standard that people will look at you weirdly if you want anything else. Hidden fridges, freezers, dishwasher, bin, boiler if that's where you keep it. Whenever you're in someone else's house you're always opening four or five cupboards until you find the utility you're looking for. I got mocked by the builder for laying out the chest freezer at the end of a countertop, and the kitchen designer herself was visibly taken aback at the idea that I don't want an integrated fridge/freezer. Yeah dudes it's a kitchen, for cooking.
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Jaded Burnout posted:In the UK at least "integrated appliances" behind fake-o cabinet doors is beyond a trend, it's now such a standard that people will look at you weirdly if you want anything else. i'm real sorry, but even as a colony... what the gently caress? like do people really want to spend part of their finite time on this earth explaining to guests where the fridge REALLY is? i want my fridge to look like a fridge so when people walk into my kitchen and think "where can i keep my drinks cold", they don't have to root through every cabinet to find out.
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Youth Decay posted:How many of these cabinets do you think they actually use? I bet only the one next to the terribly-camouflaged fridge. Why would you want your kitchen to look like a badly designed locker room?
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It was funnier in the 1990s. See what we did in the Uk was this... *turns off lights and holds torch under face* the appliances that came as optional extras with fitted kitchens would have vinyl wrap on the front of them which exactly matched the wood grain on the cabinets
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SoundMonkey posted:like do people really want to spend part of their finite time on this earth explaining to guests where the fridge REALLY is? I'm staying with my father at the moment in his new-ish house, I think it's maybe 7 years old. Here's two photos I've just taken of the kitchen, there are three fridges and a freezer in these shots:  
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That's very very close to my kitchen design right down to the dining area  only real wood, decent counters, and a nice oven - where the built in oven is a door to my pantry.E: good lord I just saw the difffernt flooring with laminate in the dining area, which I also have. learnincurve fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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That cupboard is like Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:That cupboard is like Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs. gently caress, that was my exact thought when I saw it.
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learnincurve posted:That's very very close to my kitchen design right down to the dining area Howdy neighbour? I don't remember which home extruder built the houses here but I guess they used the same templates for yours. There's a lot of "coving hides a multitude of sins" going on in this place.
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I live in an ex-council house built in 1948.  They used the same basic template for all the "new build" estates but whoever the person in charge was was really forward thinking for his time. He recognised that everyone living in the exact same house would be dehumanising so no two houses are the same on the inside. The old estate I lived on could be described as "let's get creative with staircases!" This one is "1001 interesting things you can do with doors"
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Youth Decay posted:More neat houses $2.4 mil and all they have is a lovely above-ground pool? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5orvamhsgOY This house just came on the market in my city and I'm totally in love with it. Commercial-grade kitchen and the whole thing is like a house out of old Hollywood. Gives me a very L.A. Confidential vibe.
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Here's one that isn't for sale, I really like it. Designed by Frank LLoyd Wright for his son David. A real estate developer wanted to level it a couple of years ago to build McMansions, but it was bought and is now a museum. http://davidwrighthouse.org/ https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=e...uDRAQoioIgwEwDg
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:That cupboard is like Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs. Gotta hide that old tube TV somehow. After all, we can't have people knowing that we (gasp!) watch television.
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Here is "Asian inspired" design done right IMO. Helps that it's in an amazing location of course.        
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Youth Decay posted:Here is "Asian inspired" design done right IMO. Helps that it's in an amazing location of course. i mean i appreciate that they didn't just 90 it into the wall then 90 it straight back up, but that range hood vent is kinda comical
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That's really well done, the exterior is perfect, too. I would believe it was actually Japan except for the shower  So close! If they had a fabulous bathtub and/or wetroom it would be in the photos.
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peanut posted:That's really well done, the exterior is perfect, too. I would believe it was actually Japan except for the shower can we please not encourage wetrooms in this subforum any more
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Youth Decay posted:Here is "Asian inspired" design done right IMO. Helps that it's in an amazing location of course. How do you get to these books? Is there a movable stairs from Home Depot just out of frame?
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Drape Culture posted:How do you get to these books? Is there a movable stairs from Home Depot just out of frame? There's a rolling ladder in one of the other snapshots; maybe you just use that one, or there's another one that's not up for some reason?
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These two houses are basically across the street from each other. The McMansion sits on 0.75 acres and costs $650,000. The dope "Queen Anne Inspired" is $75,000 less and on 5 acres. Probably comes with cool ghosts too. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3079-N-Merlot-Pl-Star-ID-83669/72699485_zpid/     https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4095-N-Pollard-Ln-Star-ID-83669/82790387_zpid/     
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TheManWithNoName posted:These two houses are basically across the street from each other. The McMansion sits on 0.75 acres and costs $650,000. The dope "Queen Anne Inspired" is $75,000 less and on 5 acres. Probably comes with cool ghosts too. For a 1991 build the latter house has some decent detail. Shame it's a 2,458 mile commute!
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Goddamn is that second one awkward. The kitchen situation is bizarre(what is that nook thing? why so many drawers? why so few cabinets? why stainless appliances when they don't go with the style?), there's too goddamn many windows and none of them are spaced well, this stairway is a mess, there's bits of odd geometry throughout the rest of the house(nice nub), there's a bathroom with a patio for some reason, and also this thing: Think about the logisitics of using this shower for a minute:  Also this is just hideous, as easy to fix as color choices are:  Basically I'm dying to get the McMansion Hell girl to point out everything that went wrong here.
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