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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| I think it has a lot to do with | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I think it has a lot to do with the internet. I'm old enough to remember when you would find out about the latest trends pretty much only by reading House Beautiful once a month. And maybe when your local department store got new stuff in every 3-6 months. But now the trends spread like wildfire. Some little thing that would be appealing the first or second time you see it is suddenly everywhere and you HATE it. I mean, like within a week or two of the first time you saw it. I remember when that journey from love to hate would take a year! Or more! I wonder when it'll change. Or how it'll change. Or are we stuck with lightning trending for good? | |||||
| Penetrol | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Penetrol Have you tried contacting the manufacturer of Penetrol in Australia? Their website is quite thorough in describing their products, and they may be able to help you. They also have a few different products for different applications which may change in the way the product can be removed short of sanding. Was the Penetrol applied directly or mixed with paint to extend the drying time so that the paint could flow more evenly? XIM-extender, from what I have heard, does the same thing without yellowing and with less sheen. I am currently using Penetrol on a project but am thinking about switching to XIM for the non-yellowing aspects. | |||||
| Pegboard | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| Pegboard I was thinking the same thing when I saw this post. At some point some saw Lovig Dansk on one of these and made a bad assumption then every one else fed off of that.. The word Dansk simply means Danish as best as I can tell. I can see where it started with the American company naming itself essentially "Danish". To the OP's question. Definitely do not cut the desk. Modify the hardware to fit or have some custom made. It will be more expensive initially than cutting the wood, but you will devalue the desk enough that modifying the hardware is in reality the cheaper way to go. | |||||
| Destroyed.. | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | RetroSixty | General discussion | |
| Destroyed.. Had a (very) annoying accident earlier today. Whilst moving a matress I stupidly forgot to take some art off the stair wall - managed to knock an expensive print off the wall, smashed the frame, smashed glass, and sadly destroyed my Artimide umbrella rack at the bottom of the stairs. The only good thing was the glass hasn't damaged the print touch wood. | |||||
| Don't know much... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Orleans USA | General discussion | |
| Don't know much... but I ran across a bunch of fiberglass shells and I've been changing the mount config to narrow instead of wide. I don't know if the adhesive I use is good for rubber to wood but it works GREAT for rubber to fiberglass. The description says it's good for wood. JB Kwik Weld If the 3M doesn't work, check out Bad thing is that you have to have some practice or that stuff runs. I can remember the first few shells I reconfigured. BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! disclaimer: I am not responsible for your "do-it yourself" decisions haha! | |||||
| just to be a pedant, | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | VinnyV | General discussion | |
| just to be a pedant, I'll point out, re. the following "In an epic couplet in poetry a poet is trying to jam in as many allusions as possible into two lines." that there's no such thing as an "epic couplet." Couplets, usually, rhyme. Allusions not required. Now, I agree with you, dcwilson, that the chair sucks as a chair (& its purported wittiness fails to compensate). But let me strongly urge brevity upon you. One of the dangers of pontification is that people get bored; another is they get irritated and look closely to see if you know what you're talking about. Which, in the case of couplets, you don't. | |||||
| The lack of vision usually... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| The lack of vision usually... The lack of vision usually lies with the buyers. But, as you said, your house is a far cry from your regular ol' McMansion or cookie cutter house. I think that whether you have carpet or not, or repaint or not, the house will still be sold to someone who "gets" it. It will be someone looking for just that. There's a good chance that person will come in and say, "I love it, but I'm going to have to tear out all that new carpet." I think the responsible, and even green (if you're concerned with that) thing to do is leave it alone. If you were in a normal house I would agree with the realtor. If I were you I would rather take what I would spend on it and throw in an "allowance" to the buyer as incentive. That way they get to pick their own if they even want it. | |||||
| I agree on your every point,... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| I agree on your every point,... I agree on your every point, but not on the heavy emphasis on gentility. I will take tart and interesting over banal and genteel,and they are very often found paired.There is such a thing as informed personal taste,everyone has personal taste.I do try to impart information when I can,and I glean something from every field,even the seemingly fallow.Olive has posted some very interesting threads,I must respond.Annette,I am pleased you are back and look forward to your insights.azurechicken | |||||
| the_beloved | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| the_beloved I love that you posted that, seeing that i lived it every day in the 50's, I grew up in conservative Oklahoma to parents of wealth as my dad was in the oil and gas business and we had a beautiful home done in traditional furniture of Baker and Henredon, I hate to say but in the late 50's if you had modern you were considered rather weird or different, one of my parents best friends loved modern as they were from NYC and came to Oklahoma to find new wealth and ended up starting a multinational business headquarter in Oklahoma,, they brought the modern ideas and when you went into their home it was the future, and almost 50 years later, I can remember the Eames CSU and the saarine Tulip chairs and womb chairs and the Eames lounge chair, and their modern home, I know my parents generation thought it was so far out, but of course being the good people that they were embraced them as they were great people and way ahead of their time ,but not there modern looking homes and furniture, Most of the folks in the neighborhood were content to have the traditional look and some the ghastly early American furniture that could make me throw up just cause it looked so ugly, It is hard to believe that one who has tried to be come a Expert on Modern Architecture and mid century modern took so long to get with the modern ideas and the program , My first home was a large country English home with every thing that comes with it, although I was some what rebellious with the first wife, i had to display my modern art collection ( even though i knew it really did not go in the house but i was still determined to display it , Then one day in the early 1980s while at a flee market i realized that the look that i really wanted was the cool look of the 50's and 60's but not the cheap dime store kitschy stuff, that was all around, I had been buying great art all modern since 1973 and that is how I got into the furniture and one thing and then another, and here we are 30 years later and modern has survived and in my opinion better than ever, a book that i suggest that every modern thinker will enjoy reading is book my Thomas Hine called Populuxe a great book that tells us where this all came from , you can pick it up on Amazon | |||||
| ercol chair | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| I bought a chair today for $10.00, its a low seated Windsor Ercol, doesn't rock but is in pretty nice shape, original upholstery. I thought it might have been Wegner in a conventional mood but only found the Ercol sticker when I got it home. Value estimates seem to vary wildly, some 400 pounds others 100 dollars, whats the story? Should I hang onto it and wait? Or is the Ercol thing just a fad? Its quite well made. PS If anyone can tell me if the chair in SDR's 'Boomerang' thread came in a dining chair version I would fall over with gratitude. | |||||
| Sebastian, I'm not one to | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | tktoo | Repair | |
| Sebastian, I'm not one to discourage collecting tools and developing new skills, but it would be far more economical (time and expense) to have a pro spray the frame than to assemble all the necessary equipment, prepare appropriate space, and acquire the not insignificant experience involved in making a proper job of it. There are various lacquers available in aerosol spray cans if you do a little goggling. That's the way I would go if I were determined to stick to lacquer. Edit: One advantage of using lacquer rather than a traditional brush-on varnish is that it is much easier to remove if you need a do-over. Dries to the touch almost instantly, too. Which can be either a good or bad thing! | |||||
| Greets to all! | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Mark | General discussion | |
| Greets to all! My last thing is another paper box, created by the same brilliant child who sits next to me on most of my Illinois to Florida weekend flights. The talented little tyke cranked out another folded paper box for me using nothing more than a page out of a geek magazine. This is the third example that I've been gifted whilst sipping my vodka high up in the sky...one got crunched. SDR would be proud of this kid. Best, Aunt Mark | |||||
| Thats an odd use of wood at... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| Thats an odd use of wood at... Thats an odd use of wood at the top of the leg where it joins, like it was made out of scraps? Perhaps SDR has an opinion. I agree with you about having dedicated ID threads, if you'd suggested we ban all ID/value threads from passers by for 6 months I'd have baked you a cake. Last thing I acquired? %250.00 worth of Lophostemon confertus (pink box), an Australian native and a popular street tree in the US apparantly...for a new workbench and the left overs for turning chisel handles. Hard as a rock and comes out the thicknesser looking polished, high silica content, why not just plane dirt! | |||||
| I would be careful.. | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I would be careful.. ...with anything that will be absorbed by the porous clay and could show up on the outside surface of the vase. Poly-urethane is probably safe, but I have never tried it, so I would not recommend it. The same thing of course would apply for any kind of polyester. I would always glaze the inside, no matter how low the temperature (there are glazes for as low as 850 degrees Celcius)of the firing is, but that's too late now. A collegue of mine is producing funeral urns and to avoid the problems, one can only imagine, when the urn falls during the ceremony (it happens)the urns are coated on the inside with a rubber coating that is available in most car part stores...I will try to find out | |||||
| That table... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| That table... ...is all over the place in Denmark. We lived there for a year and I saw it in many homes and also in every other store, it seemed. Even their Home Depot-type chain store carried a knockoff of it. And the Jacobsen 7 chair was most commonly used with it (either the real thing or one of several knockoffs that were also ubiquitous). Anyway, just thought you might like to know that. I loved the table when we were there and wanted one badly. Then we moved back to the US and I saw it so seldom that I nearly forgot about it. I'd hang a Poul Henningsen pendant over it, like this one. It just seems right to me. Predictable, but right. http://hivemodern.com/products/?view=sub_product&sid=2059&cid=357&cid2=362 | |||||
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