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Old 06-05-2012, 10:49 PM

Hi hippymiester!

Cherry, my dad's house is the same way. The master bathroom is COMPLETELY carpeted (including the steps up to his big tub) and the dining room is carpeted (which was never used as a dining room, but still, wut?).

I hate the wooden steps that have only a carpet strip down the middle. I always feel like I'm just going to slip and fall. They should just be carpeted or not, no inbetween! xD

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Old 06-05-2012, 11:19 PM

All of my family's dining rooms were carpeted, except one which was a combo kitchen and dining room. It wasn't a big deal though, since we never used the dining rooms for eating except once in a blue moon.

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Old 06-06-2012, 03:36 AM

:lol:
In my old house, most of the rooms were carpeted an UGLY, dirty pink. :(
Crazy people.

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Old 06-06-2012, 04:55 AM

Oh, our carpet has that beat. It's a light tan with darker splotches. It's not stained, it was designed that way. Brand new, it would have looked dirty. :/ That's not even "hiding dirt"! :gonk: Gah, the people who had this house before us had the worst taste in the world. Everything was just... hideous. We've lived here ten years and have fixed up a lot of the problems. Painted over ugly paint, tore down ugly borders, but we haven't been able to afford to replace the hideous flooring or the ugly slider door to my bedroom.

The kicker is that there is nice hard flooring underneath the carpeting. But the house was expanded before the carpet was put in, so that nice flooring doesn't extend to the walls in any room except the dining room and one bedroom. We tore up the carpet in those rooms, so our dining room has a cool retro tile and the bedroom (now a computer room) has hardwood floors. But we're stuck with the carpet everywhere else. ><

Though I recently discovered that I have hardwood 100% in my closet, so I'm going to tear up the carpet in there in the next few months. I just so wish I could do that for the rest of my room, but the hardwood only covers about half of it. They actually did a sloppy job of the expansion, and they didn't account for the new part of the house settling. So even though I have carpet down, I can find the exact line where the hardwood ends and the expansion begins because there's a drop in the floor of about an inch. :lol:

Oh, oh, and more about the sloppy craftsmanship! A lot of our electrical outlets are very visibly crooked. Like, you don't have to get a level, all you have to do is look at it. But our gutters? You know, that are supposed to be a bit slanted so water runs down them? Almost perfectly level. :rofl: What morons. I mean, the houses in this neighborhood (all built around the same time, about the same size) are pretty small, I'm glad ours was expanded. But holy crap, they should have hired professionals, seriously.

They put an awning cover over the back patio, but it slants in towards the corner of the house some, so water pools there, drains into the house and causes structural rot. Nice. And the house inspector we hired when we were buying the place? Missed all of this. Another moron. We seriously would not have bought this house if we had known its true state.

As a result of all this, I'm going to be so freaking picky when it comes to house- and apartment-hunting, even for just temporary residences. But my poor parents, they're gonna live here forever. I hope they'll be able to get these problems addressed eventually.

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Old 06-06-2012, 01:31 PM

:gonk:
Problems in just basic design kill me. / wants to be a civil engineer/
Did they seriously hire like the worst architect in the world? Did the not have civil engineers? When were these houses built?
/raaaage/
Honestly, stuff like this... should be avoidable.

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Old 06-06-2012, 02:57 PM

I worked with a home inspector (former home inspector, but he was still licensed) when doing flood relief in South Dakota. I went on home visits with him once to lay out work plans for my team and give estimates to homeowners about how long it would take for the work we would do to get completed.

One home we looked at (which had like zero flood damage, leaks in your roof are not from flooding! :angry:) had a sun room tacked onto the side of the home at some point. They had this sheet metal for the roofing, with these slats to direct rainwater off of the roof. Except the builder mounted it wrong, so it slanted perpendicular to the slats and the water would just pool there and leak into the sun room instead of running off of the roof.

Here's what I'm talking about.



Now turn the roofing 90 degrees, and that's what the builder had done. Moron.

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Old 06-06-2012, 05:40 PM

:lol:! Wonder how he thought that was supposed to work!

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Old 06-06-2012, 05:45 PM

I'm a total DIY-er, I doubt I'll ever have contractors work on my home unless it's something I really just can't do on my own (too big of a project like a whole new room; too technical for me like new wiring).

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Old 06-06-2012, 06:01 PM

How willing I am to DIY something depends largely on whether or not I'm doing it at the time. :lol: Not painting a wall? Sure, I can do that! Actively painting? THIS IS TERRIBLE LOOK AT THE CEILING THERE ARE SPLOTCHES ALL OVER IT I HATE PAINTING I HATE MY LIFE CALL A PAINTER.

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Old 06-06-2012, 06:19 PM

I've never used professional painters. Neither have my parents. o_o

I've considered having flooring installed by professionals (for future purposes), but I am feeling confident in my ability to do that myself, as long as I am not doing tile and grout.

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Old 06-06-2012, 06:25 PM

I had issues with painting my room. The bulk of the walls went just fine, but where it meets the ceiling and kickboards, I had a lot of problems. Even with painter's tape, I couldn't get a clean line.

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Old 06-06-2012, 07:15 PM

Yeah, I know what you mean. I like to do that stuff with a really small brush by hand, but sometimes even that doesn't help.

ALSO I MUST ANNOUNCE THAT AFTER SIX MONTHS OF FUNEMPLOYMENT I GOT A JOB INTERVIEW.

//sorry. super excited about it. :ninja:

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Old 06-06-2012, 09:04 PM

Woohoo, congrats! :boogie: Good luck, let us know how it goes!

Yeah, I was trying to use a sponge brush, but it just wasn't doing it well. It kept leaving horrid streaks. And there was wallpaper under a few layers of paint (again - clueless previous owners), and the wallpaper was kind of coming unstuck at the top. I cut off anything that was sticking out too much and used plaster to sort of fill in the indent. But when I took the painter's tape off the ceiling, there were places where apparently it was stuck to the wallpaper a tiny bit, so then it'd start ripping off. :gonk: At that point I had been painting my room by myself for, like, four days in SUMMER, and I was just ready to cry. I actually still have this little strip of tape on my ceiling because I was like "NO, FUCK IT" and haven't gotten around to getting a ladder to get it down. :lol:

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Old 06-07-2012, 02:38 AM

Oh gosh, I know what you mean. I think it's so dumb when people paint over wallpaper! THAT STUFF WEARS OUT YOU KNOW. :gonk:

Also, wallpapered bathrooms are a stupid idea and my mom never should have done that. :roll:

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Old 06-07-2012, 06:05 AM

... We have wallpapered bathrooms too. :lol: Again, it came that way. It's just... they were so, so horrible. And the thing is they fixed it up before they sold it. I don't even want to know what it was like before. There was freaking blood on the ceiling! When the man was working on fixing it up he cut his hand on a buzzsaw. :gonk: Flung blood up on the ceiling. I feel awful that happened to him, but holy crap, why didn't they clean it up?!

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Old 06-07-2012, 11:41 PM

Ew that's totally gross. :gonk:

I think wallpapered bathrooms are a stupid idea. We had one that was wallpapered and it looked horrible. I don't know how old it was, but it was peeling at the top and bottom. ><

The only thing I really want to do in this house, assuming we stay here and don't move, I want to paint my bedroom, because plain white walls annoy me.

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Old 06-07-2012, 11:46 PM

I agree that is gross. I tend to lack common sense from time to time, but I would have definitely cleaned something like that up. Geez. :gonk:

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Old 06-07-2012, 11:46 PM

I can't stand white walls. Ours are very close in the kitchen (it seems to have just yellowed with age I think) and I hate it. I wish we could just do one wall in something vibrant just to spruce up the place a bit, but we're not allowed to really do much decorating :C

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Old 06-07-2012, 11:50 PM

My step dad is a painter and sort of a handyman. My house has come a LONG way since how it was when we first moved here. I think our walls used to be white, but they were eventually painted over with a beige color and it looks much better.

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Old 06-07-2012, 11:54 PM

Ugh I hate yellowish colors too xD

Our living room walls (if you catch the living room at the right time of day) have grayish walls, but it's a warm gray which I don't particularly care for. I wish they were a little darker and a little more bluish. But, at least they're not white.

I think I might go with a primary wall in slate with the rest in a lighter cool palette like blue or lavender in my fantasy living room. I have very modern decorating tastes. Hubby enjoys it, his mom decorated in traditional and antiques. I promised I would never take him antiquing because I will never ever decorate our home that way xD



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Old 06-07-2012, 11:59 PM

I'd like to paint the walls something light, but I don't know what color. Just something not blue. I wouldn't even mind having beige walls or like the really light yellow colors, just not white.

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Old 06-08-2012, 12:05 AM

I think I don't like yellow because it radiates "artificial light" which I HATE. Good thing for me hubby used to be a lighting designer (not for architectural applications, but still, he understands color theory). I want colors that exude natural light, which is more bluish than yellow incandescent bulbs.

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Old 06-08-2012, 12:10 AM

If you want slate walls, Keyori, I highly recommend Martha Stewart Driftwood Gray. It's what I did my own bedroom walls in. It's definitely not too dark and certainly not too light. It has a slight bluish tint to it so it's cool-toned, but it's still ultimately gray. It changes a bit with the lighting and just about every color goes with it. It's truly a fantastic paint color. The brand is a bit more expensive, but at the time I looked (about 2 years ago), there wasn't a nicer gray available.

I agree, white walls tend to be bad. Sometimes I see them in magazines in a way that really works, but that's never the type of white that your walls come painted with, that's for sure! :lol:

Kita, I know green is one of your favorite colors. I've been looking at lightish, springy green walls lately, maybe that would suit you?




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Old 06-08-2012, 12:18 AM

I love the dog in the first picture and the walls in the second xD

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Old 06-08-2012, 12:22 AM

The doggy is Martha Stewart's Chow Chow, Ghenghis Khan. :)

 


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