HurlyBurlesque's Profile
| Display Name: | HurlyBurlesque |
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| Member Since: | 9/5/12 |
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It is a broiler pan, but I have one and I use it much the way nurself theorised; to double-boil ordinary pots Do You Know What This Perforated Metal Mystery Pan Is Used For? Good Questions |
4/12/13 12:54 AM |
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I would Looooove to see floor plans, it's always more fun when you can get a sense of how everything fits together and the flow of the space The Sweet Sound of Renovation: A Concert Hall Loft |
1/3/13 12:09 AM |
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A couple additional points: If transport is an issue, look into local car co-ops. Some have a steep buy-in but some don't (and some only have a steep deposit, so if you have cash you can temporarily part with then it works out super cheap), and getting an account that lets you borrow a pickup truck on rare occasions for barely more than the price of petrol can be a pretty sweet deal. Clothing Storage Suggestions Under $300 (No Ugly Dressers!)? Good Questions |
12/12/12 3:20 PM |
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Without a real sense of what your style or tastes are ("not ugly" is a little vague), it's difficult to be too specific, but these are the options that come to mind: Clothing Storage Suggestions Under $300 (No Ugly Dressers!)? Good Questions |
12/12/12 8:20 AM |
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Before I got a proper double boiler I used two ordinary saucepans, but because they weren't even close to matched I would use a vicegrip to clamp their handles together, keeping the top on level. Workbench to Kitchen: This Tool Works Great in the Kitchen Too! |
12/8/12 2:30 PM |
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I find this whole discussion a bit baffling. No one has ever worn shoes in my house because that would be ludicrous and horrible, not because I have some sort of personal rule about it. I have never ever had to Ask someone to take their shoes off, I don't even know what I would do in the case that someone did that, I suppose just try not to stare and hope they pick up on the awkward from everyone. Seriously, how is this in contention? I have a relatively large flat in a very densely packed city so I end up hosting a Lot - everything from massive all-night house parties full of friends-of-friends-of-friends to large formal meals to after-theatre cocktail parties. I've had little children and people's cousins from the interior and comically rude artists and fucked up junkies, but no matter how crass or clueless, none of them has been such a thunderingly gauche nightmare that they would just barge in and tromp about indoors in their shoes. Everyday vs. Party Time: Should Guests Go Shoe-less? Apartment Therapy Reader Survey |
11/22/12 5:39 PM |
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LED "white light" is an optical illusion. Any other light source (incandescent, daylight, even chemical lights) produce a broad swath of colour frequencies which we interpret as white light. Sometimes a "white light" will be cheated a bit and have more of some frequencies than others, so if the light has slightly more towards the blue/violet end of the spectrum then it will be cold light, and more towards the red end will be warmer. Basically, though, they emit pretty well all the frequencies in the human visual spectrum at approximately the same amounts, which then bounce off of stuff or get absorbed into stuff and our eyes use that input of which ones get to us after bouncing (or not) to determine colour and all the other information that goes along with that. Best Buy Debuts Affordable Entry Into LED Lightbulbs Daily Tech Find |
11/16/12 1:01 PM |
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Since you're renovating the kitchen anyway, I would say DEFINITELY open up that window at the end into a door, and then give your brother the full space of Option 1 to the kitchen wall. For the pass, either block it up entirely (boring but sensible) or go to some jumble sales and flea markets and find a stained glass window that will fit and put it in. If you put it on tracks on his side of the wall, it can work like a sash window only without having to tear apart the whole wall. Suggestions for Location of Third Bedroom in Small Apartment? Good Questions |
10/31/12 12:44 PM |
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I would suggest cold-adding the salt for people who haven't done this before and aren't used to the proportions. Taste-testing boiling water is annoyingly slow. Add the salt to the cold water and stir occasionally as it warms, it should still be a comfortable temperature by the time it's all mixed in and you can see if you need to add more then. Once you're familiar with the amount you like, then just add it at the boil, it dissolves almost instantly in a roll. Dinner Tip: "Salt the Pot, Not the Pasta" |
10/23/12 7:52 AM |
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I would cut the "dining room" element entirely. Unless it's important that you be able to have formal dinner parties, you're probably better off combining parlour and dining space over on the kitchen-adjacent side of the main room. Get several soft-seating pieces (arm chairs, fainting couches, love seats, chesterfields, whathaveyou) and arrange them around a large, square coffee table and then add a few small side tables so everyone has somewhere to set down their drinks and plates. This frees up the other half of the main room for bookshelves (I'm a huge fan of cutting up a space with bookshelves that are placed off the wall), work surfaces, office space, &c. How To Be Original in "Cookie Cutter" Apartment? Good Questions |
10/9/12 4:10 PM |
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The problem with light-quality from LEDs isn't simply their colour. LEDs actually are tricking your eye into thinking it's getting way more information than it is, and creates a disorienting and dead quality of light that has nothing to do with whether it's weight to blue, red, or green. A normal white light is made up of a reasonably balanced collection of pretty much every frequency in our visible spectrum. If you look at the Spectral Energy Distribution for an ordinary white light, it pretty much looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/8ahemxu which is a slightly warm white light. Alternatively, you could filter some of those frequencies to make a bright red light: http://tinyurl.com/8fs5rc6. With that filtered red, you're only going to be getting information back that can reflect those frequencies, so "everything looks red" in red light because you're only seeing the redness of things. An object that is perfectly primary blue without any red to it at all will look weird and black in red light because it's not giving you as much information as you're used to seeing. LEDs, on the other hand, give you even less. Where that red SED curve was a wide section of frequencies from the red end of the spectrum, a red LED is one very narrow spike. Same with blue and green. You're not just being limited to the information in that one area of the spectrum, now you're only seeing what can reflect that one narrow band within that area. And then we mix them, and it looks white to us, because we've got red, blue, and green information coming in, but it's not that broad SED like the warm white light, now it's three balanced spikes. So your eye gets tricked into thinking it can see everything, but you'll find yourself losing depth perception, trying to focus and not quite being able to See the thing you're looking at, and everything looks dull and flat. LEDs are evil. How To Make Any Lamp Cordless View Along the Way |
10/7/12 1:08 AM |
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I had a neighbour a few years back with the "bill-wi-the-science-fi" one. I always wondered who it was, they seemed like someone I would want to know, but that building had super tiny units and everyone had wifi, so there were like 40 networks on my "available" list, could've been anyone. The Funniest Home Wi-Fi Network Names |
9/18/12 2:36 AM |
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Duvet covers are the easiest possible sewing project imaginable. Instead of buying the duvet cover, buy two flat sheets (or if those are ridiculously overpriced as well, go to a fabric store and find a pattern there that works for you both). You just take big flat rectangles in the size you pick, and sew their edges together. Leave a slot, hem it, add buttons or ties or velcro or - hell - go wild and lace it like a corset or put buckles on it. Ta da. Duvet Cover For Less? Good Questions |
9/14/12 5:26 PM |
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It doesn't need help being "modern," but "now" isn't really a single style, so I'm guessing you've got a Different "modern" aesthetic in mind? Don't know exactly what it is, but making it less cookie cutter sounds like you want it to have more pop. If the "more grey, more glass" ideas work for you, then yay, you're covered, but me I'd go the opposite direction. Of the two ideas which strike me as best suiting the space, numberone is quite modest and number two is quite all-encompassing: How To Make Cookie Cutter Condo Kitchen More Modern? Good Questions |
9/14/12 5:15 PM |
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DULCIBELLA is definitely right on, every one of those ideas sounds amazing, the only comment I would have is that you're not doing these up for resale, let alone mass production, so you don't need to make sure the images are uncopywritten :) How To Upcycle Cheap Chests? Good Questions |
9/14/12 4:03 PM |
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The simplest answer to actually replacing the standard couch-and-chair seating convention is to string a full sleeping hammock as a couch and hang a couple hammock chairs. Keep a few throw pillows in each to hold them open and make them look approachable and inviting. For the couch-hammock, you want to be sure and get one that doesn't have the helpful bars at each end - the bar keeps it flat for sleeping end-to-end, but without that bar the hammock will form a backrest for people sitting on it. Getting Comfy in a Dorm That Doesn't Allow Furniture? Good Questions |
9/9/12 4:35 AM |
