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I love the looks of a Craftsmen house but I have never been in one.
I love my open kitchen. If I didn't have that I would never see my DH, lol. He likes the recliner and TV and I am either cooking, cleaning or sitting at the island.
I am only in the "living room" a couple of hours a day....maybe
Lisa, I think you should re-name your living room the "lounge room".
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I totally agree. I love cooking and being involved in the house goings on at the same time. I hate prepping an elaborate dinner tucked away - but I love prepping dinner. Nice to be able to do both.
Agree, though I don't love cooking - for me it's a necessary evil and I'd hate to be, as you say, "tucked away" while doing it.
One of my girlfriends told my husband he must be very secure in his masculinity when I painted our bedroom pink. I do know he likes the color. We've also had pink walls in a kitchen before, at his suggestion.
Here's something from the site I linked earlier about how pink and blue weren't always designated for girls or boys.
Thanks for the link. Yeah it's hard to get out of those gender stereotypes. I did read a non fiction book set in NY in the very early 1900's and it was fashionable for the men to have pink shirts.
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I can't like that show, because, surely, every house in Canada can't posiibly be shoddily built and have nob and tube wiring.
I'm sure they are not But I like that he is drama free.
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Lisa, I think you should re-name your living room the "lounge room".
Agree, though I don't love cooking - for me it's a necessary evil and I'd hate to be, as you say, "tucked away" while doing it.
For Mike I should call it his throne room. A man, a recliner, a TV and a remote. He is king, lol.
I totally agree. I love cooking and being involved in the house goings on at the same time. I hate prepping an elaborate dinner tucked away - but I love prepping dinner. Nice to be able to do both.
My brother bought a 100 yr old Craftsman style home this year, and from the outside, it's perfect. But once you walk through the front door, it's several small, closed off rooms. Like you, I prefer openness.
My brother bought a 100 yr old Craftsman style home this year, and from the outside, it's perfect. But once you walk through the front door, it's several small, closed off rooms. Like you, I prefer openness.
My husband and I travel extensively, and have lived all over the world. We lived in a delightful craftsman in Los Angeles, and it was charming, but I do prefer the open loft style apartment we retired to in Manhattan. So nice for entertaining.
I totally agree. I love cooking and being involved in the house goings on at the same time. I hate prepping an elaborate dinner tucked away - but I love prepping dinner. Nice to be able to do both.
I prefer a closed-off kitchen. They contain cooking smells better and I don't like sitting in the family room and being able to see piles of dirty dishes in the kitchen.
I prefer a closed-off kitchen. They contain cooking smells better and I don't like sitting in the family room and being able to see piles of dirty dishes in the kitchen.
I agree with this.
To me, the perfect combination is a LARGE closed off kitchen with plenty of room for people to congregate, with seating - in other words, a combo kitchen/breakfast room. In my experience, when a house has that combo, people don't tend to "leave the cook in there by themselves." They tend to congregate in THAT room till the food is prepared. But then the smells and sights are not in plain view (or so pervasive) when people relax elsewhere after the food prep.
Getting back to HGTV, I actually think some of the shows are ok. Fixer Upper does a few things well. But if you want to talk about a show that is a load of baloney, let us consider Property Brothers.
The plot device I hate most on that show is when they take the buyer to see homes and the first one has everything they want. They really try to sell them on the house, acting like it is a reasonable contender for them to buy.
Then, when the tour is done and the buyers want to buy it, they casually drop the bomb "But you can't because it's way over your budget."
Ooooh, I wanna smack them when they do that!
Apparently they think adding the stock line "We did this to make a point...." somehow makes it ok to do something that, well, only a jerk would do in real life.
Just once I'd like to see the buyer then sock one of them while saying "And I'm doing THIS to make a point."
Seriously, if I ever had a realtor pull that stunt I'd switch realtors so fast it would make you dizzy.
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