Facebook Aunt posted:

One of mine spent at least 20 minutes of perching on top of the garbage can staring at me intently, and she probably would have enjoyed a nice comfy chair instead. Unfortunately there is no room for a chair in my bathroom unless I replace the garbage can with a bar stool. But if you're going to have a hundred square feet of bathroom space you might as well have a cat chair in there too.

Haifisch posted:

So what you're saying is that if I make overpriced chairs patterned with fish skeletons and paw prints, I can make millions selling them to overindulgent cat people(whose cats will then refuse to use the chairs).

peanut posted:

The washer in the kitchen surprised me but makes perfect sense for plumbing and hot water. My friend's houses also had those on-demand water heaters on the wall in the shower like I'd only seen in SE Asia. Is that standard in England or just older buildings?

Southern Heel posted:

I just need to gain or hire-out the know how to help pull it all together to a broad set of materials, colours and layouts.

Subjunctive posted:

That's pretty similar to my house, huh.



*braces self*

Time Trial posted:

or bidet goodbye?

Parasol Prophet posted:

I will consider all of this. I didn't know it was possible to make a thread, and the idea scares me a little, but if there's interest I might try it. It'd also keep me from clogging up this thread as things get going, I guess. Especially since there are also exterior things like the front door that I could use advice on. I'll have to make sure I can keep up with regular updates first, though.

And thanks so much for the recommendations! One of the things I'm most worried about is making a huge sweaty mess-- I'm reluctant to even unpack anything, thinking it'll just be in the way. If I can reasonably keep things contained to one room at a time, though, that's a huge relief.

Bad Munki posted:

Look at you, thinking you'll have energy and time for that bullshit once kids are a factor.

The bunkbed may be a weekend worth of man hours, but when you only get to put in 30 minutes at a time, it's a six-month project.

learnincurve posted:

My other unit turned up I am fully aware that a lot of people are going to absolutely hate these.

Southern Heel posted:

^ to place your white books on a white wall with white boxes and white dividers, with white flooring and a white chair?


Honestly I'm trying to stay as far away from IKEA as possible - I'm in my early thirties and I've been around this furniture for 15+ years in various homes and flats and always been dissapointed.

Jaded Burnout posted:

Those are cables for light fittings.


For my own part, the desk is in another room. Three desks, in three rooms, for three purposes, in fact.



Thus. It's evening now.


The cables are for light fittings and are above head height. The point where the walls angle used to be a normal-height ceiling.


The skylight will have a blind on it and the windows will have proper curtains.

Jaded Burnout posted:

take some time to square things up in his mind and get writ with his true self.

PRADA SLUT posted:

E: also, you have too much poo poo on every surface, it makes the place look like a hoarder house. You need an actual place for things that isn’t “crammed under the coffee table” or “shoved in the corner of the bench”

PRADA SLUT posted:

Oh I didn't say replace it

vonnegutt posted:

Ask me how I feel about backsplashes, that One Weird Trick to sell extra tile that nobody thought about before 2010.

vonnegutt posted:

Perhaps I should have specified "backsplashes as decorative element". If you're redoing your kitchen right now, after countertops, the first thing everyone asks about is your backsplash. Is it going to be glass tile? What's your backsplash color theme? Have you seen what Chip and Joanna did to that one backsplash with the painted tile? Is subway tile still in??

Bad Munki posted:

SubponticatePoster posted:

So, get rid of the land mass couch? Keep rejiggering everything until it fits even if it's a suboptimal layout? What would you, random goon, do?

learnincurve posted:

That’s not even remotely true and comes across as quite a bit racist posted next to your av. The UK from above is very very green. It’s a complex issue stemming from the way old medieval cities were layed out (when the population was only a few million) and also how the new industrial revolution cities were thrown up to accommodate a massive influx of people that came in from the countryside as cheaply as possible.

What is strange is when the govenment new build estate building projects happened after the wars they went “I know what poor people with lots of children will want! Massive gardens!”