Hate to be picky, but if you're going with that setup and 3 TVs, would it be so hard to add 2 more to the left so you get 5 total, a nice symmetrical look. You know, cause why the hell not
I like where your head is at as long as the wall is long enough. You don't want to skimp on the size of the primary tv to get 2 additional side tvs.
Really like the high table with barstools for additional seating. And god, I really love the look of coffered ceilings.
You can put this under the stupid shit Rusty did but did you change the thermostat this year. I did and put a wire in the wrong place. AC worked fine but the heat would not turn on. Moved a wire and it worked fine.
That was already in the design for our plan. Our remodeler said they will probably make it and if we were to do it right now I would probably mimic the look of our dining room table & bench which I absolutely love. The high table is attached to the floor in the inspiration picture I posted because that room is rectangular and they don't have very much room behind the couch. Our room is more of a square shape so the back of the couch is approximately the midpoint of the room. We're going to leave our table/bar behind the couches detached so it can be moved around as furniture to be more flexible. Then we will have a kids play area and eventually shuffle board in the area behind that (doing a pool table would eliminate the chance to do this type of a bar behind the couch). Here is the rough draft of the plan from the architect. Our meeting with the interior decorator is Friday so I was skimming Houzz.com looking for inspiration. I think my search was "Basement Media Room" or something along those lines.
I'd pull that shuffleboard off the wall by 2.5' or so, but maybe there's reasoning it's against it. Looks like there's plenty of room between the high table and shuffleboard
That drawing was the architect trying to sell us (hence coloring it in) on doing the remodel so he was likely trying to make the room feel as open as possible. Right now there is a wall running down the middle of the front half of the house so he is pitching inserting a large metal beam to remove the wall and make it a wide open room for family to hang out. The shuffleboard table will be further away from the wall if for no other reason because the breaker box, security system panel, cable in, etc are located behind it and easier access is desirable.
Oh yeah, as an overboard Gopher fan, I am planning to have a Gopher theme and the wife is on board. We're going to try to track down a way to have these as our stools for the high table. (from the suites at TCF Bank Stadium) I like that it stays on theme while not seeming cliched.
So dealing with water in the crawl space to add to my never ending list of projects. The back of my house grades into the house which is most of the problem. There is also a section back there that has no gutters. Putting those up in the next week to get the water off the roof past the house. Also, putting in a french drain along the house where the water is getting in. Should be fun as this is under my back deck which is about 2 feet off the ground. Probably going to have to remove some boards to get better access.
Anybody have experience/suggestions with hanging Christmas lights on a two-story house with a steep pitch roof? Me and my acrophobia would really love to not climb a 30' ladder.
Just trying to look out for you. Only way to get around using a ladder would be to rent a scissor lift or a cherry picker.
A week and a half ago I got up on the roof thinking I would do it myself. I got about a quarter of the way done and decided it was a horrible idea. I'm either going to need a ladder to reach them or hire it out. We got a quote for $350 which seemed a bit much to me.
Mine is the same way. I am not doing it. I am going to hang lights only on the bottom(as in not all the way up to the top) so they are all flat and clean looking. I'm not dying over some fucking lights.
I'm sure we'd end up firing Mark and hiring the next Saban after your death. Good riddance, friend. Spoiler at us hiring the next Saban lol'd irl
This was me last year. My FIL was visiting that weekend, so he went out and bought us an extension ladder. Unfortunately, I still wasn't tall enough to reach to highest points of the roof line by a couple of inches, and my FIL has a couple of inches on me, so he had to do the very top. I'm not messing with it this year, and I'm not bourgeois enough yet to pay someone a couple hundred dollars to hang my lights, so I'll be doing staked lights in the ground for the next couple years.
Yeah, no. I want to single handedly take out at least 5 polar bears with all the energy I plan to use in December.
My coworkers husband just fell off of a roof. He's in pretty bad shape. Makes me even less inclined to get back on a roof.
I actually bid on a condo earlier this week. After their refusal to counter, I bid on an identical unit 3 floors below who accepted my offer today that was 90% of list and 80% of their original list earlier this year.
refi is putting untruthful people in jeopardy of getting choked out. About to shut this shit down and just go with my current lender even though they're a point higher.
Finally closed on the house I sold today. Gotta wait until Wednesday to close on the one I'm buying, so all of my shit is just sitting in a Uhaul truck until then
I have a ranch with nice shallow pitch and I got 400 feet of white led lights ready to roll son My neighborhood does red lights staked in front of every house, gonna go overboard with those too Then I got garlands for all my porch columns and two pre lit little trees in pots for the porch Is your house on fire Clark
I do have a baller ass artificial tree though. 7ft fully lit and decorated with the big glass and metal ornaments, paid like 150 the day after Christmas last yeast for the whole setup.
3 years ago my wife was 8 months pregnant so we decided to go treeless for the first time after a real tree every year. A week before Christmas something didn't feel right and off to get a tree. Not just any tree but one with a root ball that we could then plant. What a bitch that was getting it in and out of house. Plus I had to dig a hole in the ground the first week of January. Haha. Good times and still alive 3 years later.
Cabinets got installed. Leaving tomorrow to go home for the holiday. Granite should be in when we get back. Pavers also got installed for the driveway.
people promising shit that they can't deliver in hopes that i'll just get frustrated and say "fuck it" and capitulate. That is not happening
Educate me on hardwood floors gentlemen. I'm buying a 1 bedroom condo for cheap so sky is the limit because it is such a small square footage. I think I would prefer dark wood, but since I am in Virginia I would prefer something native to the state as a talking point, but I have no idea if literally everything is made in China. My only requirement is that I don't want to die of cancers so no lumber liquidators.
I'm by no means an expert but I've done some reading in preparation for my first home...Starting with big picture, there are finished and unfinished hard wood floors. Finished means they come with a protective coat/stain, unfinished is the opposite. Then there are solid wood and engineered wood. Solid is like it sounds, engineered means they put multiple layers together to make a plank...the sub-layers can be the same type of wood or a different species compared to the surface layer. Newer types are coming hand scraped or wire scraped. We selected this type which is a wire-brushed engineered hard wood: Go to a few places and find the wood you like then shop price. I was very ignorant when we started and got a ridiculous quote from the "design center" that my builder was forcing us to use and almost took it on the spot. We found an outside facility that will install everything for half the price so we are going to use them. Downside is we have to wait until we after we close to install the wood.
Also one thing I forgot to mention was shoe molding which goes at the bottom of your base boards. If you live in a high humidity area like myself you have to worry about the wood expanding and so they will often leave a gap at the edges, close to 1/4". Or they can carry it under the baseboard also leaving a gap at the edges. The shoe molding helps with this transition. Some go with wood stained shoe molding to match their wood floors but I don't think it looks good. I'd recommend the white shoe molding to match your likely white baseboards. This is what we are shooting for on our first floor: