I was hoping for an open concept, granite counters and subway tile backsplash...
mmitchell_houston
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I think I've been watching too many "House Hunters" and home improvement shows! The second I saw the Northern Terrance Kitchen, those are the thoughts that flew through my mind! Yup, I need a more open concept, and I wanted granite countertops and, of course, a nice backsplash with glass subway tiles. And I'd prefer slate on the floor. Also, for the Northern Terrace White Goods, I was hoping for all stainless steel appliances! But, at these prices (these items are a steal), I'll just have to compromise if I want to stay this close to the city center...
Just Kidding!
Honestly, these are great sets, but I've been watching waaaaaay too much HGTV.
I bought both of those sets (and the freebie), and thanks to the creators (Daz Originals, David Brinnen and Forbiden Whispers) for doing such a nice job on these. Also, thank you for making these compatible with Poser! I've been doing more work in Poser these days, so my purchases need to be compatible with both apps.
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I agree with everything you sead as I was thinking about the same way as you. As I also watch to much HGTV.
And thanks fo rmaking it Poser compatible as that means we can use it in Carrara as well.
STOP NOW!
Turn off the power and put the remote down. Slowly and cautiously walk away from the television...
Hgtv and diy lead to certain doom. DOOM I tell yee!
But yes, the Northern Terrace Kitchen looks great. I hope they make a complete Northern Terrace set.
I could not agree with ye more! They are the reason I spent two years remodeling my powder room! No, seriously... I spent that long doing demo (stripping off four layers of wallpaper, then texturing the walls), then ages deciding on the color scheme and new fixtures. And I also brought in a plumber to repair the sink and toilet mounts. That channel is evil! Ooooh, are The Property Borthers remodeling a beachfront condo while trying to preserve its Surf Era charm? Gotta go!
With a few 3rd party textures, I think your dreams could come true, but it would be better to nock out the wall and open it up into the living room...
AAAHHHHH!!!!!
Though Shalt NOT Speak of the Property Bros!!! Theyve achieved Voldemort status in my house... and theyre still always on!
My house is currently undergoing painting, etc, etc. I dont know what we were thinking. We dont have the time for that kind of stuff!
Greetings,
My wife and I watched DAYS worth of those damn shows; especially the first-time home-buyers ones, as we were getting ready to buy our own home. We ended up with a wonderful home that would NEVER have shown up on those shows, but we love it.
Then when we were getting set to have kids, we binge-watched Baby Story-style shows. And yes, when we were planning our wedding, before either of those events, we binge-watched a few series of wedding shows. If you don't have nearby family who goes through all those life experiences regularly enough for you to partake, it's a reasonable replacement as long as you recognize that they're there to tell a story, not the facts. :)
We've studiously avoided the remodeling shows. Maybe when we have the money to do that... _shudder_
-- Morgan
When our twins were born, I binge-watched John and Kate Plus Eight (the early seasons before their marriage's destruction became really obvious).
Twins didn't seem so overwhelming compared to 8.
We watch Love it or List it (The original Canadian couple, not the American ones, they stink!)
Can't stand the property Bro's as all they do is take a couple and say, "here's a house waaaaaay out of your price range, so why don't you let us just remodel your home?" Almost seems like on the verge of a scam to me...
But we do like Chip and Joanne's show Fixer-upper or whatever it's called and yes, our home has also been in a constant state of remodel for the past 4 or 5 years...
This (plus the other two) went straight in the cart and through the checkout. 3D rendering is very helpful for planning out kitchens, etc, which is what I'm up to at the moment. Think I'll be learning the geometry editor for separating any parts that aren't separate. My kitchen will be smaller than this one, and a weird layout.
I've not had a TV for over a decade so, thankfully, I've missed these home reality shows.
David (Brinnen) needs to get modelling bathroom stuff fast. I've got one of those to do as well.
I can't remember the last time I had cable tv, but I do have a roku with netflix, hulu, tubitv, youtube and plex so it's just like having cable.
If it's wrong that I have a man-crush on Matt Muenster, I don't want to be right.
I used to watch HGTV and DIY all the time when we had our house in NY. I think it was thanks to those shows that some of the remodeling we did helped sell the house when we moved! There were still things I had planned to do to that house thanks to those shows when I had to give the house up because my husband decided to accept the better paying job in Florida. I haven't watched a single show while we are renting, but as soon as we buy another house, I'm there!
I had a startling realization while in the midst of this mornings commute.
As this post has kind of developed into an hgtv sort of thang, I think its more than likely to say that one or more of the vendors have picked up on this...
...does that mean...
...no it musnt be...
Can we expect a d3d "Tiny House" !?
the horror...
We watched 1 episode of Tiny house hunters. Each house they looked at, they were like "well, it doesn't have this, it doesn't have that. It would be nice if it had this..." And they had a good size budget so the whole episode we were like "why don't they just get a normal house then?"
Lol, right?
I mean, I can kind of see the appeal. But when it comes down to it though, im sure they get just as hot/cold and stale as a regular trailor does. Not to mention zero room for growth.
That was one of the big things the wife was complaining about in the episode we watched, not enough room to grow. That and the husband was bent on having a composting toilet instead of a flushing one, the whole tiny house was his idea. I'm sure she divorced him not long after that show LOL.
Lol. I have no idea how composting toilets work as far as the, uh, er, odor is concerned. But I can only imagine that its best to keep something like that at a respectable distance away from the house itself.
Ah, that would then be called the Outhouse!
Yes indeed! That way, you would have more "storage space" in the tiny house
Every time I see some of those tiny house things, I think 'there are people without kids' and 'they better not be fond of Mexican food.'
But why is the dishwasher next to the clothes washer, and why is there no dryer?
This was kind of my question......Here in the USA, we don't usually have laundry appliances in the kitchen. Just like we don't have kitchen appliances in the laundry room (which is sometimes just a long closet.)
Is this kind of layout common somewhere?
Common in houses that don't have room for a washer anywhere else and where someone would typically be able to still hang clothes out even in winter. I've seen a few setups like that in older, smaller homes in the southern part of the US. Although, sometimes, the washer ends up on the back porch if there isn't any room in the house. Given that both David Brennan and Forbidden Whispers are, I believe, in the UK somewhere, it might also be typical where they are.
The layout is typical here in the UK (and laundry rooms aren't). Even less typical, especially in the northern part of the country, is the ability to hang clothes out in winter. Still, we laugh in the face of a challenge here and just bring the clothes in once they're frozen like boards so that we can display our misplaced optimism again the next day!
We were well ahead of the Native Americans across the pond when it came to figuring out how to get the heavens to open. No elaborate rain dances for us - our ceremony just involves pegging out the laundry. Guaranteed downpours, even when there's not a cloud in the sky :)
Some of us have houses where there is no room for a dishwasher, leave alone a tumble dryer. I have a drying rack that balances over the bath for those days when the heavens open (very frequent occurence in Wales).
Very common in the UK. Housing stock in the UK tends toward being older and smaller, whereas in the US it tends toward being newer and larger. "Northern" terraced housing in particular is likely to be Victorian or Edwardian (i.e.1900ish), and the properties, being made for poor workers (to rent) in a class driven society, were often small and crammed close together. The only conveniences these houses were likely to enjoy were cold mains water supply and connection to the sewage system. No electricity, no fixed bathing, no central heating (coal fires only). Some of the modernisation and extension jobs done on these places are small miracles.
In the decades following WWII, quite a lot of housing of larger types went up. Nowadays, new housing has reverted to being small and cramped. This is partly due to lack of space (developments in the countryside are mostly prohibited) and partly due to environmental controls. Progress!
So yeah, laundry equipment in the kitchen. The horror.
I grabbed all three items too, because.....you can never have enough kitchen sets!
Hmm. In California I'm used to seeing the laundry in a corner of the garage. Though there are occasionally laundry rooms and some appartments will just have a closet with a vertical combo unit. My appartment has a communal laundry room for the 4 tenants.
I can definately see the logic of the kitchen though - you've already got the water pipe in there.
We live in one of the small, cramped 'new builds' that Peter Fulford describes (built in 1989 to be precise, but it's hardly an historic building!), and the neighbours on either side both keep their dryers in their garden sheds. Our dryer lives in our kitchen (as does the washing machine), because we don't have to banish it to the shed as we don't have a dishwasher to find room for. The back gardens in this street are only 25-30ft at their widest and longest (ours is a bit less) and so we rely on our dryers a lot as the clothes lines are so short, and because most parts of the garden will only get the sun for a short time each day because the houses are so close together. The houses are semi-detached, allowing for a wide path next to the side of each one laughingly known as a 'drive' for the household to squash a car onto. My husband calls our drive 'Stonehenge' because the sun is only sufficiently aligned once a year for it to shine for long enough through the houses for him to do any work on the car!