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Comments (51)My other is a hoarder, my grandmother and aunt are worse. I'm okay, but only because my boyfriend helps alot. Because of growing up in that environment, I can't see messes, dirt or piles. I can really only notice differences. In order to maintain my own house, I try and keep it as sterile as possible. When I have been good for a while, I'll put a few things on the counter that looks nice. Looking nice is my entire motivation for keeping it clean. But if I have a towel on the floor, I can't tell the difference between one towel and six of them until I notice I ran out of towels or its brought to my attention. I notice one dish in the sink, but not all of the dishes in the sink. And I cant see dust until I put something down and it leaves a mark, because it accumulates so slowly. For me, it isn't about wanting to keep things, and I think that most of these people are similar. There are plenty of excuses to avoid drastic change, and some of them include sentimentality. If they give you a reason why they want it, and they give themselves a reason to keep it, than they feel less pressured and more justified in their pattern. Change is terrifying. It is unexpected and unsettling and very hard to emotionally handle, especially when your possessions give you a feeling of security. In order to maintain my home I have to avoid sentimentality as much as possible. So I believe that they leave the place looking sterile in order for the hoarder in question to notice when there is one thing out of place, because once that one thing becomes two things, they can't see anything out of place. It is an incredibly hard concept to follow, but it is a real thing none the less....See MoreAbout those REAL 'English Kitchens'
Comments (32)We're looking to buy a lovely home built in 1914. It's original kitchen is the only room that has been changed, but fortunately we have the plans for the house, so we know the original layout. We're actually going to go ahead and recreate it. This was a very expensive home, with electricity, gas, running water :) etc. The kitchen had a free standing cabinet, a sink area and a gas stove, quite a large one actually. It's been replaced with wall to wall counters and the sink has been moved to the window area (this was a house with servants so the kitchen was originaly planned around work zones verses being "pretty"). The original design made more sense. The sink, while on a wall, was located between the cold room and the butlers pantry. This way dishes were dispensed where they would most likely to be cleaned and efficiently put away. Moving them across the kitchen to the window might be nice for today, but it's still not efficient. The only change I'll make to the plan is to hide a fridge in a custom amoire most likely. The original plan had a work table in the center, which will house a sink now, but really, it was a great plan and made perfect sense then and now, except I'll have the hot and cold water coming out of the same tap :oP (ok and there will be a dishwasher who won't be on the payroll!)...See MoreA Scary Report about the Real Estate Market
Comments (8)I wouldn't exactly call that a "report." It is a blog entry from what is euphemistically referred to as a "bubble-head" or BH for short. Bubbleheads and housingheads argue back and forth on numerous blogs and message boards around the country. (Check out the housing discussion board on Craigslist, for example.) No one on any of those sites ever tries to post a rational, objective position on the issue at hand. Everything is slanted one way or the other. If you want to get a feel for what you are dealing with on patrick.net, just go to that site's home page. It still amazes me that people post links to blogs and other such nonsense and try to pass it off as news articles or reports. People, just because something can be found on the Internet, that doesn't mean that it has any worth or any validity....See MoreDesign Around #20 Post Real Estate REmodels.
Comments (60)We've always said it's never too late to post to a DAT, and I'm testing that theory. I've been working on this one since May. The house is another Oakland hills home, but definitely a nicer one than the one I previously posted. This one is on the uphill side of the road and so has an exterior elevation worth looking at. Here is a shot of the living area with the dining room in the background. The kitchen is through the door at the back of the dining room. The living room is all neutrals, but the kitchen walls are green and the bedrooms were all painted shades of blue, green and aqua. Here's the kitchen and the room past the peninsula: It looked to me as if the homeowner spruced up the kitchen for sale by painting the cabinets white and putting in new black counters. But the black and white seem too stark to me compared to the rest of the house, and with the large west-facing window, the kitchen gets a LOT of light, and it just makes the black and white more stark. Now, if I really bought this house, I would probably live with the kitchen indefinitely. This design is more about what I thought the homeowners should have done if they were staying, and I riffed off their design choices elsewhere in the house. I wanted the kitchen to be a bit softer, and transitional between the neutrals of the public spaces and the water colors of the rest of the house. The cabs read a bit pinker than I wanted; I was going for a creamy neutral. I took out the uppers on the outside wall and the suspended cabinets over the peninsula. I left the layout the same otherwise, including the cooktop on the peninsula, however questionable that may be, although if it is feasible (couldn't tell) I would look to moving it to the interior wall. The adjacent space beyond the peninsula looks like it was intended as a breakfast nook but with the dining room and peninsula seating already, more space for eating seemed like overkill. Since the deck is off that room, it seemed like it would be nice to have a space that worked for indoor/outdoor entertaining. So I turned it into living space. What I wanted to do, but didn't have enough energy to do a board for, would be to do a wet bar at the far end of the room, behind where the white loveseat is. The room also has what looked to me like mirrored closet doors, which I replaced with something I liked better. So below I did board for the window wall, a view of the peninsula, and the living area facing the interior wall. Kraftmaid cabinets, maple in canvas Counter: Silestone Unsui Kohler Iron/Tones sink in Palermo blue Heath tile robins egg blue Kohler Purist faucet Maytag dishwasher Paint Benjamin Moore Acadia Green White oak wood floors woodfloorsonline.com Wolf gas cooktop Rangecraft Landau range hood angelo:HOME Ennis Shoreline 3 piece sofa collection (Overstock.com), only used 2 pieces C.R. Laine Pendleton chair in Kyoto Wasabi Abaca ottoman (Overstock.com) (this is just like the one in the existing LR, although I didn't do that consciously) Target Andres seagrass barstools (I picked these before the ottoman and now I think it's too much seagrass, but I didn't have the energy to look for replacements) Closet door pic from door.clutchot.com Both paintings are from 1stdibs.com, Energy, and The Rose and the Nightingale....See Morewritersblock (9b/10a)
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