Projects/Home Improvement Thread

[Ndaccountant]

Trendy or not, that color reminds me of 1980's south florida decor. Something that would match the Golden Girls set.

 

[RDU Irish]

Wiz is kind of the Betty White of IE.

 

[Irish#1]

Sooooo I'm looking at a Ring type doorbell but want something that can integrate with an outdoor camera for the back yard, wife wants an indoor camera but I think that is creepy, too big brother (she doesn't need to see I only watch football while she works weekends). Any suggestions for a good system? Would prefer battery camera in the back so I don't have to mess with placement - obviously replacing batteries is a PIA but I don't want wires all over.

Anyone have experience with these things? Avoiding/minimizing a monthly service fee to have some level of video backup is a thing too.

Just now seeing your post. I got a "ring" type doorbell right before Thanksgiving. It has the video and audio built in. Quick and easy setup on the wifi. Right after installing we went out of town for a week. I kept getting notifications all the time. I'd check the video and never saw anything. After a while, I figured out it was my ND flag flapping in the wind. When we got home, my wife told me to take it down. I told her not until FB season was over. I wasn't going to jinx the season and have everyone mad at me.

I also have a security camera system, but it's wired. I haven't tried to integrate, but if you install a wireless system, I don't know why you wouldn't be able to add the doorbell. All you're doing is adding another IP address. you just need to make sure the system will accommodate the additional IP.

 

[Irish#1]

Wiz is kind of the Betty White of IE.

and ACamp is Maude.

 

[ACamp1900]

Wiz is kind of the Betty White of IE.

Nailed!

Lol

On the topic though, the worst design trend currently is taking these character having exposed brick fireplaces and painting them white,... people are so gonna regret that shit soon...

 

[Irish#1]

Everyone's house looks like Irish#1's bathroom, only they would have painted his nice dark trim white, too.

Tread lightly.

 

[RDU Irish]

Koon is Blanche

 

[Irish#1]

Nailed!

Lol

On the topic though, the worst design trend currently is taking these character having exposed brick fireplaces and painting them white,... people are so gonna regret that shit soon...

I would never in a million years paint a fireplace. The only way to remove it would be sandblasting. What a mess and nightmare that would be.

 

[wizards8507]

On the topic though, the worst design trend currently is taking these character having exposed brick fireplaces and painting them white,... people are so gonna regret that shit soon...

This.

 

[RDU Irish]

Nailed!

Lol

On the topic though, the worst design trend currently is taking these character having exposed brick fireplaces and painting them white,... people are so gonna regret that shit soon...

Bunch of folks have bought beautiful brick houses in my neighborhood and painted them - one was white which didn't look horrible, still not better IMO. Another picked some horrible beige color with no accents or shutters or anything, just turrible. Beyond looks, why take a no maintenance thing and make it require maintenance. Just stupid on multiple levels in my mind.

 

[Irish#1]

Bunch of folks have bought beautiful brick houses in my neighborhood and painted them - one was white which didn't look horrible, still not better IMO. Another picked some horrible beige color with no accents or shutters or anything, just turrible. Beyond looks, why take a no maintenance thing and make it require maintenance. Just stupid on multiple levels in my mind.

TBH I would entertain painting a brick house if the color of brick warranted it. The yellow buff color that was popular in the 50's, 60's and 70's hasn't stood up to the test of time.

 

[Wild Bill]

Wiz is kind of the Betty White of IE.

Betty White could probably figure out how to use anchors to hang a TV.

 

[NOLAIrish]

I don't understand the current fad with this stuff.

My FIL just sanded down like three separate furniture sets for different people, and then sprayed them at his paint booth to be aquamarine.

I understand sanding old furniture, and then refinishing it with stain for a new wood color, or sanding and painting white, off-white, or even grey... but why the aquamarine that all the ladies want these days?

Was it pervasive in home design at some point in the past, and now it's a "what's old is new" thing?

That's exactly what it is. It's a super 1950s color, which is apparently very in right now. I always called it seafoam green (they call it turquoise here, which I always thought was more to the blue side; equally retro, though):

http://betterlivingsocal.com/iconic-colors-of-the-1950s

 

[wizards8507]

Betty White could probably figure out how to use anchors to hang a TV.

In a corner? Enlighten me, smarty pants.

 

[Wild Bill]

In a corner? Enlighten me, smarty pants.

Couple different ways depending on what you want. You can use a mount with a swinging arm. Hang it right off the corner in a position where the arm be maneuvered back to hang the TV in the corner. You could also build out the corner and give yourself something to hang the TV on but that would require creativity and skill.

You've probably done some of your best work in a corner. Give it a shot.

 

[NDohio]

Bunch of folks have bought beautiful brick houses in my neighborhood and painted them - one was white which didn't look horrible, still not better IMO. Another picked some horrible beige color with no accents or shutters or anything, just turrible. Beyond looks, why take a no maintenance thing and make it require maintenance. Just stupid on multiple levels in my mind.

Because Joanna Gaines does it...

 

[NDRock]

TBH I would entertain painting a brick house if the color of brick warranted it. The yellow buff color that was popular in the 50's, 60's and 70's hasn't stood up to the test of time.

Agree. There are some ugly brick ranchers out there that look much better painted, IMO.

 

[NDRock]

In a corner? Enlighten me, smarty pants.

Don't they sell corner mounts? Why would something like this not work?

https://www.amazon.com/Mount-MI-484C-Articulating-Premium-Capacity-x/dp/B0052HT3UO

 

[ACamp1900]

Because Joanna Gaines does it...

Haha it kills me,... “don’t do it Joana! That fireplace is perfect as is!!”

Wife, “ Calm down babe, it’s just a show.”

Me..... “calm down!?!.... That’s a real fireplace she’s murdering!!!”

 

[Circa]

The wife is trying to convince me to go with an aquamarine TV stand. I sort of don't hate it. The rest of the room is a lot of beige, brown, and brick. Two walls are windows so there's loads of light in the daytime, but it's a bit dark at night (but good ambiance with the fireplace insert going 24/7).

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[NDBoiler]

That's part of it. The positioning of our studs doesn't allow for mounting a TV in the corner any bigger than 48.

Are you set on putting the TV in the corner? That sounds like an odd setup, and I feel like it would give your furniture an odd setup too (I’m visualizing a couch set at an angle in the room to be parallel with the TV). I’m all about straight lines and right angles when it comes to that stuff, and I think you wouldn’t be maximizing space usage either.

 

[NDBoiler]

Because Joanna Gaines does it...

 

[Circa]

I live in a center hall colonial in central Connecticut. Right color scheme, wrong pattern. We're thinking something like this.

It's a retaliation against the design aesthetic of 10 years ago, which was to paint everything white. Everyone's house looks like Irish#1's bathroom, only they would have painted his nice dark trim white, too.

I would also never, in a million years, tolerate an entire furniture set that color. Our coffee table and side tables are from the Hooker Tynecastle line.

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[Irish YJ]

That's part of it. The positioning of our studs doesn't allow for mounting a TV in the corner any bigger than 48.

if your studs are standard 16-24 (regardless of position), you should be able to go bigger.
have you looked at one of these?

if the above doesn't work, and if you don't mind a trip to home depot, you can easily solve your problem with a 2x10 and a couple corner braces. easy cuts, and will be totally invisible to the eye done right.

 

[Irish#1]

Are you set on putting the TV in the corner? That sounds like an odd setup, and I feel like it would give your furniture an odd setup too (I’m visualizing a couch set at an angle in the room to be parallel with the TV). I’m all about straight lines and right angles when it comes to that stuff, and I think you wouldn’t be maximizing space usage either.

Feng Shui baby.

 

[RDU Irish]

Every single one of those HGTV shows needs to revisit these remodels three years later. All the people who do not own a hammer that have this stuff done for them stand no chance maintaining the stuff they conjure up. I especially love the over night yard face lifts - guaranteed to be a complete mess within six months.

Just shiplap the brick ranches. Should stand up just as well so the test of time as dumb colored brick ranches. I do agree that most of them look better painted like being described - kind of like putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[ACamp1900]

Wall mounts are why I love my wife’s family.... “Babe, can you call one of your cousins over from Home Depot?... I don’t feel like messing with this shit.”

 

[wizards8507]

Are you set on putting the TV in the corner? That sounds like an odd setup, and I feel like it would give your furniture an odd setup too (I’m visualizing a couch set at an angle in the room to be parallel with the TV). I’m all about straight lines and right angles when it comes to that stuff, and I think you wouldn’t be maximizing space usage either.

I don't like furniture angled towards the television, so I deliberately avoid it. The visual focal point of the room is the fireplace, not the television.

But I'm open to suggestions.

I think the "correct" place to put the TV visually would be over the fireplace, but 1) I hate that look and 2) we run the fireplace 24/7 in the winter and it would be damaging to electronics mounted there.

 

[Norcal Irish]

Do we have any Tile Setters here at IE?

 

[ACamp1900]

Oddly the great room in our new home in El Paso only works with a corner mount...