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cakesmith handyman posted:I was at a working woollen mill recently, with their original in-the-basement-hydroelectric-plant powered chain programmable looms, still cranking out jacquard woven wool rugs up to 4.5m wide. They'll happily make whatever you wanted if you work with their designer/loom programmer, I can imagine prices are thousands per metre considering the hundreds per metre they were charging for their standard tapestry fabrics. My well-off great aunt had a chaise longue and six chairs reupholstered back in the eighties and the jacquard fabric cost 25 000 FIM which comes to about 7 000 € today. And I bet it wasn't the fanciest pattern. The reason I remember the price might have something to do with me making GBS threads the chaise longue when I had a really bad stomach bug.
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Stag Ballroom, Mar Lodge, Scotland. https://www.nts.org.uk/venue-hire/mar-lodge-estate/private-events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqQ1OhW9rc8
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Jerry Cotton posted:That fabric is crazy expensive. It's what your grandma's sofa's upholstery was made cheaply to mimic. Oh, I don't doubt it. At least, that's the only way I can imagine that style of furniture being in that photograph. But considering that it is a photograph, I can't tell it apart from the cheaply-made stuff, hence the tonal dissonance.
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Honestly if I lived in Hearst Castle I'd do less blocky sofas and armchairs with less busy upholstery (like monotone fabrics where the patterning comes from variation in shade and texture rather than variation in color) because you really don't want to have furniture competing too much with the insane level of inbuilt interior detail, which is the star of the show.
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This is incredibly cool
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I hate interiors that make me think "how the gently caress am I going to hoover up there?" before anything else.
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I'm getting the weirdest deja vu, pretty sure I've been in that house. Where is it?
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peanut posted:Stag Ballroom, Mar Lodge, Scotland. Nothing says "I love you" like renting out a wedding venue with thousands of deer skulls peering into tour very soul.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I hate interiors that make me think "how the gently caress am I going to hoover up there?" before anything else. well, there is a master bedroom snow shovel so that train of thought goes nowhere good.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:I'm getting the weirdest deja vu, pretty sure I've been in that house. Where is it? the nice one is in memphis the still nice but affordable one is nearish minneapolis
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Enchanted Hat posted:This thread challenge is going to kill me. My brain can't even handle all this maximalism 
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This seems like a really good passive security system. How is a burglar even going to find the valuable things in this? e: You could have the Hope Diamond dangling from the ceiling on a string and no one will see it.
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Facebook Aunt posted:This seems like a really good passive security system. 
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Minimalism: Great for burglars, bad for you.
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Queen Victorian posted:Thread challenge: The kind of opulence I love is Beaux Arts turned up to eleven. Here's Hearst Castle, which owns: Xanadu is way cooler.
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Brother Buer posted:Nothing says "I love you" like renting out a wedding venue with thousands of deer skulls peering into tour very soul. That's metal as gently caress and I now regret renting a gazebo in the park instead, even if it was pretty baller grilling burgs in my wedding dress
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Is there a way to look at photos like this and know whether it's solid wood or laminated? I'm not terribly familiar with furniture shopping, given that I've lived in small apartments up until now. 
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Is there a way to look at photos like this and know whether it's solid wood or laminated? I'm not terribly familiar with furniture shopping, given that I've lived in small apartments up until now. Can't help you, I think it's solid (pine?) But I'm not clever enough to say why I think that. I like it though.
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The main way to tell is to look at the ends of the boards. If you can see end grain, then it's solid wood; if it looks like more long grain, then it's covered with veneer, which means that underneath the veneer is either particle board or plywood. Particle board is also super-heavy compared to solid wood, but you can't tell weight from photographs.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Is there a way to look at photos like this and know whether it's solid wood or laminated? I'm not terribly familiar with furniture shopping, given that I've lived in small apartments up until now. How to tell? It’s hard sometimes. Hints that it is veneer are that all the bits of wood look the same and are matched up well with each other. If you could look at the end of those drawers, you would see end grain (the rings from the tree trunk) and that means it is solid wood. Veneered particleboard in particular is heavy as poo poo. Antiques are often surprisingly lightweight and some modern solid wood stuff is too. That being said, solid vs. veneer is not in any way a reliable marker of quality. There is plenty of cheaply made garbage furniture made of screwed together solid wood that at a given price point might outlast similarly priced veneered stuff, but isn’t inherently more durable than a well built veneered piece. Lots of incredibly fine antiques, much mid century modern stuff, and a lot of. Very high end contemporary designer stuff is veneered.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I was at a working woollen mill recently, with their original in-the-basement-hydroelectric-plant powered chain programmable looms, still cranking out jacquard woven wool rugs up to 4.5m wide. They'll happily make whatever you wanted if you work with their designer/loom programmer, I can imagine prices are thousands per metre considering the hundreds per metre they were charging for their standard tapestry fabrics. tell me more, where was this?
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:It is oak, possibly ash, but 90% sure it’s oak. The drawer fronts and face frame at least are solid wood, as is the edge banding on the top. The top itself could be veneered or could be solid-it’s a bit hard to tell. I had heard that before. If that's the case, how does one identify quality pieces, lacking a significant manufacturer?
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Jaded Burnout posted:Is that where the word "gaudy" came from? I always thought so, but as it turns out, probably not.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I had heard that before. If that's the case, how does one identify quality pieces, lacking a significant manufacturer? If I have to do it at a glance, I just look at the back of something. If the back (or somewhere normally not seen) looks like poo poo, someones cheaping out. You can check something like a couch the same way by the same way by reaching underneath it. That's not the only way and its not foolproof, but it's a real easy way to flush out a lot of poo poo furniture that's just made to ~look fancy~
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I had heard that before. If that's the case, how does one identify quality pieces, lacking a significant manufacturer? Do the various components fit tightly together? Is it straight or crooked? Is the finish even? The really lovely pieces won't pass these checks. There's also things like, is there a frame that holds the furniture together that isn't just the face pieces? You can make a box out of four boards, but your dresser or table or whatever should have more than just those four boards, because without interior support they'll sag and separate over time. If the piece has drawers, and they're held together using dovetail joints, that's a good sign. It's by no means mandatory that drawers have dovetail joints, but if they do then that almost certainly means the piece was handmade.
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Jerry Cotton posted:My well-off great aunt had a chaise longue and six chairs reupholstered back in the eighties and the jacquard fabric cost 25 000 FIM which comes to about 7 000 € today. And I bet it wasn't the fanciest pattern. The reason I remember the price might have something to do with me making GBS threads the chaise longue when I had a really bad stomach bug.
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I appreciate the correct use of "chaise longue" while telling a story about making GBS threads on one
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Slugworth posted:Post the toilet chaise, coward!  Antivehicular posted:I appreciate the correct use of "chaise longue" while telling a story about making GBS threads on one Do people use it incorrectly?
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I'm the peeling wallpaper.
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Jerry Cotton posted:
It’s misspelled “chaise lounge” more often than not.
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Platystemon posted:It’s misspelled “chaise lounge” more often than not. hosed up if true.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:tell me more, where was this? Trefriw in North Wales https://www.t-w-m.co.uk/ They don't advertise the custom fabric on their website but I was talking to one of the operators while my kids were totally absorbed watching the machines working, they have done custom designs but it's a lot of set up
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Is there a way to look at photos like this and know whether it's solid wood or laminated? I'm not terribly familiar with furniture shopping, given that I've lived in small apartments up until now. It's oak, red oak to be more precise, and the word laminated has a lot of negative connotations. The top is probably oak veneer 'laminated' onto a stable substrate like particle board because using solid lumber in that situation is a headache. The edge banding is solid wood. Veneering does not automatically mean inferior, it's an ingenious method figured out ages ago by cool craftsmen, and dear lord the skill and labor they had to have then to peel it in consistent thickness. You can see the drawer fronts are solid oak, but they're 1 1/2" - 2" wide pieces that have been 'laminated' together to form suitable widths. This way oak's tendency to cup and warp is negated and you have a nice flat piece. It's solid oak lumber, yet way more practical than a single board width piece and way cheaper than quartersawn, which you see on cool antiques with that neat striation. The cost of having to machine it together is offset by the lumber being cheaper in narrow or odd width, and more of it can be used. It's not a garbage piece of furniture, if that's what you're asking.
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I think the top is possibly solid, it appears to be three separate planks, similar to the drawers. I feel like that'd be less likely if it were veneered.
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I think its painted styrofoam, perhaps even inflatable
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Antivehicular posted:I appreciate the correct use of "chaise longue" while telling a story about making GBS threads on one Was it a chaise or a recamier
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Bad Munki posted:I think the top is possibly solid, it appears to be three separate planks, similar to the drawers. I feel like that'd be less likely if it were veneered. Yeah good point.
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The top might still be veneered particle board, just the veneer might be made by sawing thin slices off regular boards, rather than peeing a single large piece off a log. One way to tell might be to remove one or two of the top drawers and look at the underside of the top panel.
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