Clunky, poorly proportioned and ugly. It also does not appear to fit the site. And what is with the "colonial" style door and cheap side lights. The wood siding reminds me of hippy self-builds i...
Then paint them some other color. I painted my lower cabinets in my previous house a bright red, installed simple birch upper cabinets (from Ikea) and a pantry and cabinet around the fridge.
I bought this book a few months ago and have to rank it as one of my favorite house book purchases.
If you like Scandinavian modern style and fantasize about a little house in the woods, then...
I'm pretty sure that the arm spread should be equal to your height for normally proportioned people. I recall a fifth grade class exercise in this matter.
Bertoia chairs are not painted. As far as I know, Knoll has always used process that essentially coats the wire frame in a plastic (chrome plating for the silver ones).
I'm not sure what the...
Ditto on mdeathstar's comment on the toto low flow. My version uses just 1.3 gallons per flush, which is about half of what a normal low-flow toilet uses. I have never had to flush the thing twic...
Amen to that. I learned my cheap furniture lesson in my first apartment after I bought a new $300 couch that lasted all of one year. The subsequent couch, a vintage model, also purchased for $300...
Burke chairs are fun in their own right, but they are pretty much a knock off of the original Saarinen design, which I'm pretty sure was originally manufactured by Knoll and still is.
I remem...
The capitalist pig part of me thinks that it would be incredibly frustrating to purchase a building and not be able to rid it of unwanted tenants.
The socially aware angel says side with the...
When my partner and moved far away from our families, we decided it would be comforting to have some of their pictures in the house.
We bought a bunch of mismatched old frames from second-han...
I left one of myElephant Stools outside on the patio for a year, and it is completely ruined from the sun.
I suggest keeping those inside or storing them in a protected place when not in use....
My partner and I chose an ebony finish when we had the red oak floors in our house refinished. Our house has a lot of very large windows and natural light, so it seemed like a great choice.
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I think the same rule holds true for furniture and other household items.
Much of my kitchen utensils have been sourced on the cheap from flee markets, second-hand stores, estate sales, relat...
When I renovated my first house, I was very pleased to discover the original wood bead-board walls preserved under a layer of thin drywall. While I cursed the former owner for many of the so calle...
Did you or your tiling installer seal the grout?
I just had penny tiles installed and had to have the tiling contractor return to fix some cracks as well. The sealed areas disapeared when we...
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Barcaloungers. Especially the couch version with a built-in cooler in the arm rest. Eek. It's all so wrong.
Clunky, poorly proportioned and ugly. It also does not appear to fit the site. And what is with the "colonial" style door and cheap side lights. The wood siding reminds me of hippy self-builds i...
Then paint them some other color. I painted my lower cabinets in my previous house a bright red, installed simple birch upper cabinets (from Ikea) and a pantry and cabinet around the fridge.
Looks like garbage.
I bought this book a few months ago and have to rank it as one of my favorite house book purchases. If you like Scandinavian modern style and fantasize about a little house in the woods, then...
I'm pretty sure that the arm spread should be equal to your height for normally proportioned people. I recall a fifth grade class exercise in this matter.
Bertoia chairs are not painted. As far as I know, Knoll has always used process that essentially coats the wire frame in a plastic (chrome plating for the silver ones). I'm not sure what the...
A really long single-row version would be really cool running along a long hallway.
Oranges, candles, weed...ho, hum, just another evening at an artists house in Copenhagen.
Ditto on mdeathstar's comment on the toto low flow. My version uses just 1.3 gallons per flush, which is about half of what a normal low-flow toilet uses. I have never had to flush the thing twic...
Amen to that. I learned my cheap furniture lesson in my first apartment after I bought a new $300 couch that lasted all of one year. The subsequent couch, a vintage model, also purchased for $300...
Burke chairs are fun in their own right, but they are pretty much a knock off of the original Saarinen design, which I'm pretty sure was originally manufactured by Knoll and still is. I remem...
The capitalist pig part of me thinks that it would be incredibly frustrating to purchase a building and not be able to rid it of unwanted tenants. The socially aware angel says side with the...
Original Navajo rugs are timeless and beautiful.
When my partner and moved far away from our families, we decided it would be comforting to have some of their pictures in the house. We bought a bunch of mismatched old frames from second-han...
I left one of myElephant Stools outside on the patio for a year, and it is completely ruined from the sun. I suggest keeping those inside or storing them in a protected place when not in use....
My partner and I chose an ebony finish when we had the red oak floors in our house refinished. Our house has a lot of very large windows and natural light, so it seemed like a great choice. ...
I think the same rule holds true for furniture and other household items. Much of my kitchen utensils have been sourced on the cheap from flee markets, second-hand stores, estate sales, relat...
When I renovated my first house, I was very pleased to discover the original wood bead-board walls preserved under a layer of thin drywall. While I cursed the former owner for many of the so calle...
Did you or your tiling installer seal the grout? I just had penny tiles installed and had to have the tiling contractor return to fix some cracks as well. The sealed areas disapeared when we...