Posted on 01/13/2010 9:58:31 AM PST by KateUTWS
Now that the first decade of the century is in the rear-view mirror, it's time to wave buh-bye to some ubiquitous design trends that have worn out their welcome. Here are my picks:
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Why can’t walls be made of something other than fragile, delicate sheetrock. You hit it with a piece of furniture, a door, and you get a hole. Try to get your kids and their spaghetti hands from the table to the bathroom to wash without touching the walls. Spaghetti stains white paint and you can’t wash it off, the paint comes off instead but a pale pink shadow remains. Try to find matching paint for touch ups. You can’t paint over sharpie writing.
I'd love a house with 12 little rooms...one which would be a library.
Oh yes, the brown and torquoise. I’ve seen that. Hideous. Like I said, I have the funds, but I’m waiting until something more to my taste comes along.
Our house was built in 1950, and is all hardwood floor. I never realized how sound seemed actually magnified by the floor, until I realized the loud noise I kept hearing every night was my (not fat, subadult) cat walking down the hall. The cat actually makes the floors creak, they are so old.
I can be in the kitchen and clearly hear my wife (at the far end of the house)in the bath tub summoning me for another cocktail; She knows I can hear her so there is no use trying to hide.
So yeah, all you folks with newer homes don't know what you're missing.
On the plus side, my home came with an old, decrepit nuclear fallout shelter underneath our back yard, which is totally cool, IMHO.
Alright, lets say its Dec,31,1999, 11:59pm
The clock ticks...Hurray! New decade!
2000 to 2001 thats the first year
2001 to 2002 second year
2002 to 2003 third year
2003 to 2004 fourth year
2004 to 2005 fifth year
2005 to 2006 sixth year
2006 to 2007 seventh year
2007 to 2008 eighth year
2008 to 2009 ninth year
2009 to 2010 tenth year
Thats ten years.
Jan 1, 2010... start over.
Hahaha, no. 2011 starts the eleventh year. Since this year is not over yet it has not been a full ten years = decade. So, that’s 9 years and 12 days and 15 hours and 14 minutes so far.
NO
How many years has someone lived if its their tenth birthday? They have been alive a decade on their tenth birthday.
Zero to one is the first year.
One to two is the second year.
So on, so forth....
Nine to ten is the tenth year.
You are mistaking for time lasp for anniversaries.
Zero to one is one year of time, the first year.
Even though someone is not 1 year old until their first birthday, zero to one was still their first year. Nine to ten is their tenth year.
“””””2011 starts the eleventh year.”””””
2011 starts the 2012th year.
2011 years have already passed.
Nope sorry. It is cheaper to build a 2 story home than it is to have the same SF on a asingle floor. I use my kitchen and will have commercial stainess steel appliances and probably the faux grante that is made from an eboxy and grantine scraps, it is more durable than real granite.
Me too. I hate homes that have tiny little sealed rooms. It makes the whole house look much larger whan the area is open like they were in old Victorian homes.
Most kitchen islands have a place to set. The island is there for extra work space if a family really cooks and they do have a purpose.
When I have had a dinning room we have used them as a dinning room. Great places to have when you have 30 people over for holiday dinners.
Years ago we turned our “dining room” into a 5th bedroom (we have 4 kids) and have never regreted it (except Christmas Eve).
We also turned our “living room” into a computer room with 3 desks and 3 computers. The future holds every kid doing assignments on computers and we don’t allow them to be in their rooms. So essentially our “living room” serves as a library/study center.
I live in CA (SF Bay Area), the most expensive area in the nation, and we make every sq ft count. We have less than 2000 sq ft and everyone has his/her own room and we are comfortable. Useless rooms are a luxury. I know many Californians who have turned living rooms into game rooms with a pool table (we have no basements in CA).
You eat in the kitchen, at the kitchen table, and ignore the cooking pots/dirty dishes behind you.
It’s worth it to save thousands of dollars for a smaller house. Dining rooms that are only used twice a year? Total waste of precious sq feet.
I eat in the dining room every day-so I don’t have to look at the kitchen while I eat.
Our house was built without one and it’s a pain when we entertain. I have no idea what the builder was thinking; I have a small kitchen, no dining room and a huge master bath room. Did they expect folks would be hanging out in there?
I know, I know, why’d I buy it? Mother-in-law in wheel chair; floor plan mostly worked.
You need to invest in a can of Kilz. It covers everything including Sharpie. I know this, because one of my granddaughters loves to ‘draw’ on the walls with sharpies. And try using eggshell finish instead of flat paint. It washes.
I love my formal dining room, but I could probably live without it (if we had a differntly designed kitchen). Lots of people scoff at formal living rooms, but that’s something I won’t give up. We use it all the time when guests are here and it’s my haven from the kids, TV, toys, etc. in the “family” room.
A trend I think should definitely go by the wayside is the “garden tub” in the master bath. I admit, when we built the house I thought it would be great, but once the kids came along, it just became the big bubble bath tub. I never bother with it and don’t miss it a bit. What a space waster. Would love to remodel and have a big walk-in shower with a built-in seat and wall niches instead.
I couldn't agree more. We have this triangle shaped thing that only gets used by the grandkids and the dog. I want to tear it out and turn that area into a dressing area. Our walk-in closet isn't big enough for the dressers and in spite of the huge bathroom, the dressers won't fit in there either so we have to go into the bed room to get the 'drawer' clothes then back into the walk-in to get the hanging stuff like pants and shirts. I think our builder was smoking wacky tabaccy when he was drawing up the plans for this place. I wish I had a formal living room.....
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