Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

and has Salt and Pepa on his ipod.

http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/PushItRealGoodDoorSign.jpg

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Also IA: Whatever that roof style is called. When sunny and I were home shopping, I refused to even look at a house that had that Metallica logo styled roof.

They were also usually $300K more than we were willing to pay, so there was that too.

That looks exactly like my nephew's house in B'ham, right down to the little red yard sign.

It wasn't an issue in this round of homebuying, but I feel like when I do have enough to spring on a $500,000+ house, it's going to be a bitch to find one that was made in the last 30 years that doesn't have this style roof. I hate this as much as some people hate comic sans.

Recently constructed, faux-traditional (though in fact it's no particular style), cookie-cutter suburban...barns. I don't know what to call them. They're not McMansions, but they're meant to evoke the feeling of a mansion on a middle-class budget. They have two-story great rooms that you can't heat, and master suites with sitting areas that you never use, and people who buy them on TV shows always want MORE ROOMS, MORE SINKS, MMMMMMMORE!

You can tell I don't like them, either.

They're more like...barns for storing your furniture in. And your kids, if it comes to that.

Plus wall-to-wall carpet = nagl.

C'mon, someone get butthurt and argue w me because I said "suburban". It's Friday! Take the bait!

Where is jvc

people who just want a fight but don't care who with

(j/k)

Where is jvc

Considering I completely agree with you wrt those awful awful houses its not going to happen. I'm sure you enjoy painting me as some horrible person that exemplifies everything terrible about the suburbs, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about a lot of your conceptions about me. Have fun being a judgemental ass on the internet though!

i think when you're laying out that much money you always want more more MORE. also: i agree re carpet. fuck that

You malign me, Wm! I don't want a fight, just something diverting for a sleepy Friday.

barn to store children. not bad!
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god now i really want a barn

I know! Personally I want a house made out of repurposed shipping containers, but barns are also nice. Chilly, though, I hear.

I love this one:

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/images/features/intro-to-container-homes3.jpg

Mmm...looks buggy. No.

Yeah, I thought I saw a picture somewhere with the doors into the kitchen shut so you could treat that porch as a separate outdoor area.

Love that one.

Definitely looks like there are doors at the kitchen threshold. They kind of lost the barn in there somewhere though.

Thats a shipping container house, so no barn unfortunately.

Yeah, I could tell from the two square hallway/elements on the right that it was Laurel-bait!

Also the slight air of corrugation.

oh yeah. gotcha.

I love all those windows, especially the big ones that go up and out, but im getting to a point in my life where i have to weigh up how much cleaning will be involved against the WANT.

High-pressure hose attachment with a non-streaking wash spray in it could work from ground level? I'm sure there are ways (although I hear you).

What I hate about the houses like the Metallica roof one isn't necessarily the roof but the fact that for most subdivision-type houses built in the last 20 years the big ugly garage door is the primary focus of the front view. Also my tiny 1940 house could probably fit inside the great room in some of these places.

the big ugly garage door is the primary focus of the front view.

YES, this is very IA making. Thats what I love about our neighborhood, alley driven with the garage nicely tucked away in the back where they belong.

Yeah, you could build my house inside of that house too.

There was a bit on the suburb thread about how back alleys use up backyard space and mean that the middle of the block is less safe/savory, and that the European model of putting garages right on the street is better but they have to be integrated into the home design. For instance, garages stick out horribly in contemporary American homes b/c of the insistence on having the lawn set in and the house pushed back -- if there's no lawn, the garage doesn't have to protrude. Interested in that.

The thing I like about garages on alleys is that it reduces footprint needed for the lot. You can fit the garage within the same lot width as the house proper. Most times when you tack the garage on the side of the house, you increase overall lot width even if its just to bring a driveway around the side to a back or side entry garage. Alley garages also reduce the amount of paving on your lot as well. Driveways are a whole other issue, because I'm infuriated that I've run into quite a few municipalities that have codes REQUIRING concrete drives, thus negating any chance at exploring pervious options.

Right but the access street at the back reduces the space available to you within the lot, unless I'm thinking about it all wrong?

Oh it does, yeah, you're left with less space for a backyard, very true. But that sacrifice allows for denser concentration of housing, fitting more houses on a block. Its a push/pull thing. Personally I'd rather have a more semi-private yard space with a house on one side and garage on the other, giving up more yard space. Plus, less to mow!

Mowing is the worst. Right behind ditch digging.

"denser concentration of housing" sounds horrific unless you're watching either one of the hilarious sitcoms 'Bless This House' and 'Friends'

Man, if you use the phrase "denser concentration of housing" in the suburban thread, there are at least two ilxors that would, metaphorically of course, ejaculate with joy.

suburby successor

And three others who would literally ejaculate with joy.

lol

And three others who would literally ejaculate with joy.

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, September 23, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark

Is that where the dish detergent comes from?

I don't know maybe there was no lotion handy.

I lived in a house similar to those multi gable-roof houses upthread when I lived with my parents — fuckin thing was full of SCORPIONS

was it in their nature to sting frogs?

they were tiny, about the size of a small centipede — but a scorpion is a scorpion

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