Headzo's Profile

POWDER COAT. If this is a piece you really like and you want to ensure a quality finish, definitely get it powder coated professionally. Worth every penny, I've had it done on chandeliers and it's fantastic.

Lighting is impractical. Even if you put an outlet up there, how do you turn the lights on? Climb up and plug it in? They would never be used. So the other option is to hardwire the lights with a switch and that's not such a small job.

Not a fan of accent walls. Brights *POPS* of color won't look good with the tan color currently on the walls. Really the only accent you could do would be a darker shade of tan. I would not suggest that approach.

I think when you have a table big enough for FOURTEEN chairs, that's a serious statement. if you had 14 of those chairs i see in the background i think it would be great, and not too formal at all.

go for all the same. the mixie mixie thing is way over used now.

or "we were going to help our boyfriends paint their new places."

ha

gross gross gross

what's with that glaring fluorescent light? it looks like it was jacked off a bus stop.

sagekitten - if you need to brighten a room with no natural light, paint it white. end of story.

This is much better than the V but it's kind of clunky. I didn't do any research but I'm guessing this is made of wood, possibly plastic. Should have made it out of a thinner, stronger material it would be nicer - i.e. metal.

Books are clunky to begin with and if you put them on a big clunky shelf it all looks way too heavy in the room.

Take a walk in the woods. All kinds of em free for the taking.

and then when this whole fake tree trunk / animal head / antler craze is out of style in 7 minutes you can throw it right back in the woods and still feel good about yourself.

I like these very much, but you can see the problem in the lower picture - makes it hard to hang 2 or more bikes. They could potentially fit on top of each other on an 8' tall wall but it would be tight. Also, especially in NYC, we rarely have enough empty wall space to hang a bike like that. The racks which hang bikes vertically are much more efficient for small spaces.

Also, if you have a women's bike or anything without a horizontal top tube, this thing won't work.

Here's my concern with built-ins- Resale.
If you own the place and plan to stay, then do whatever you want, built in or otherwise.

If you plan on selling in the not-too-distant future, I wouldn't go for built-ins. Most potential buyers would see the bar seating as an asset.