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- dpi0
Let's talk about kitchens.
It is struggle to choose what I want and most of the local kitchen designers are mediocre the best. Well known brands (mostly German) seem quality however not flexible. They have collection and you can get that. + €€€
So what do you guys think.
MDF for doors seems not so strong. Wood they say is not the best and mostly you have darker colours + wood texture. I have open living room with kitchen corner and I have decided to get something light and minimalistic.
Veneer - not many companies offer that. I really like Veneer + linoleum cover.Tabletop. Initial plan was stone however it seems but too classy or boring. I have been thinking about terazzo.
Would really like linoleum table top cover too however it probably won't last long + heat could cause problems. So today I found out that steel could be used too. I am wondering if it would last if steel is painted to light blue?And then you have appliances. I don't plan to spend time in kitchen. So probably I don't want to invest into Miele or other top brand. Bosch maybe, however I have heard that it is not very reliable recently. I could get Electrolux equipment with same spec much cheaper. I could even say that I prefer design for some Electrolux items but not sure how is usability and how reliable they are.
- Mdf will swell if moisture gets at it. The ones that have vinyl coating delaminates if it’s close to heat / moistureGnash
- Solid wood, painted or natural have the most longevityGnash
- Baltic ply with a good veneer is a nice option - the reveal on Baltic ply is beautifulGnash
- Zinc countertops are cool. unfinished —igets a nice patina after a whileGnash
- terrazzo is sweetGnash
- Bosch are no longer reliable from personal experience and long conversations with engineers fixing said appliances.fadein11
- Thanks! Yeah plywood looks nice however I feel that bit too much for small city flat. Zinc sounds interesting.dpi
- I've never had problems with Bosch equipment, but Miele does have a reputation for better quality. Even if you don't spend much time in there ...Continuity
- ... it's still worth investing in quality kit that you can have in good nick for 10-15 years or more.Continuity
- omahadesigns-14
I made a lot of money today.
- share the loveGardener
- government handout, unemployment, or legitimate work?monospaced
- stock? move to Capitalism threadgrafician
- Gardener5
Have entered this pic I took into a photo competition today
so fingers x it was quite by chance I saw this family walking
across the bottom of the road as I went to get a paper, the hot
air balloon and road closed sign and ominous sky were all a bonus.
- stoplying1
Just returned from some Sunday morning bass fishing with my older son. He helped me get my second (baby) bass off the hook and threw him back in the water. He did a good job and treated the fish with respect.
- SimonFFM4
Almost done with my new office space. The past few weeks, I build new furniture, painted the walls, changed everything. I think there used to be a thread for this, but I don't remember the name. Just in case anyone would like to see pictures (not that it is super interesting, but still I am happy to share how my workspace looks now), please let me know and I will take some.
- You should surely share!nb
- go this way please >> https://www.qbn.com/…
thankyauu :)sted - flexing threads always start with:
"Show us" :)sted - where did you set up your office?utopian
- Doest it have minimal furniture, nice overview and great looking models around?grafician
- https://i.imgur.com/…deadsperm
- Lol ^Gnash
- jagara-3
People who cut other people, who are trying to make a point, off with "OK boomer", should be:
1. screw-mounted by their wrists and ankles, on a concrete floor.
2. be electrically force-fed diarrhea from a mélange of only the sickest animals, in 1 hour intevals.I'm gen X, btw.
- OK boomerjagara
- It’s all they got. Let ‘me have itGnash
- they have a valid point.utopian
- but capitalismgrafician
- OK boomerpango
- lol did someone call you a boomer lately?pango
- stop calling ok boomers they might vote wrong again and fuck up our future!grafician
- @pango no, but I see it everywhere...jagara
- @grafician OK boomer :)pango
- Why, I find it's hilarious that there's finally one phrase to piss off an entire generation and it gets under their skin so much https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- not feeling offended 30's to 40's but WE HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE WE CONTROL THE ECONOMY :))grafician
- but no seriously we can't control shit we lost af, build a better future young guys, fuck adobe tho!grafician
- having a problem with 'ok boomer' is lame as fuck. sorry.inteliboy
- PonyBoy0
*sigh... it's not even MAY yet...
current conditions
101°F | 38°C... supposed to hit 105° | 41° Weds / Thurs... :(
- You report from Sahara?grafician
- bye bye Coronaviriusutopian
- 26° up in here on Thursday, that bitch corona is toast!grafician
- I'm guessing Arizonautopian
- I heard that Phoenix is hotter than monkey's uncle earlier today.utopian
- and of course all the fucking youth in the apartments have clogged the two pools... more space I have to avoid at my own home now :(PonyBoy
- ok boomer go outside wear a maskgrafician
- :) actually I thought I might head down to the pool w/my hairy back and beer belly blowing in the wind... put out the vibe... maybe break out into a nasty coughPonyBoy
- Climate change is real.monospaced
- Hahaha. Go clear out that pool area! Claim that shit. Let the hairy shoulders breath. Enjoy that kindle book.monospaced
- I would do the same if I could. Haha. Nasty cough and all.monospaced
- I'm usually all in on the kindle 'cept today will be difficult to concentrate w/all the southern rock I'll be blasting as I sip from my glass beer bottle :PPonyBoy
- don't forget the jointsmonospaced
- grafician3
upside of having no imac with latest software...
I LISTEN TO RADIO STATIONS FROM 2008 ON ITUNES
AMBIENTAL MUSIC
ALSO I have Photoshop CS5!!!
NO MORR SUBSCRIPTION BROO
I CAN CREATE ANYTHING NO MONEY SUBSCRIPTION
Can't post shit as most websites don't work in Safari from 2008, but I can save to my external drives and will post shortly after quarantine lifts and I can fix my imac and post again
Listening now to "Fresh Moods - Decisions I Made" some kind of ambient tune sooo smoooth you can't believe we had music this smooth back then guys!
So happy with less!
- Listening now to "Aphex Twin - Tha" on a 2008 radio station, love you guys!grafician
- Listening now to "Selffish - Easy, Mr. Palmer"grafician
- Listening to "Aqua Bassino - Na Na's Waltz"grafician
- Listening to "Unknown - Story of Live (Intro)"grafician
- Listening to "Orbital - Out there Somewhere"grafician
- I'm stuck with Groove Salad's stream... only instrumental ambientOBBTKN
- Now on HearMe.fmgrafician
- But listening to all these inside the old Apple iTunes app, 144 streams to pick fromgrafician
- look into command line players...like cmus ... https://cmus.github.…uan
- somafm.comsted
- ++grafician
- zaq11
Today is anniversary of another major disaster: 34 years since the Chernobyl accident. That actually made me realized that I've been through quite a few events.
- Chernobyl 1986
in 1986 I lived in the area that was affected by Chernobyl, west part of Belarus, 4 hours drive from Pripyat. That day I was in the nature outside of the city with my family.- The 1991 Soviet coup d'état
The beginning of Soviet Union collapse. It happened on August 21 1991. That day I was in Moscow, next day I landed in JFK, to start my new life in the US.- Dot com crash 2000
Prior the crash I was part of a new promising digital agency. We were acquired by a large company. The crash destroyed that company, eliminating our team on the way down.- 9/11
I watched both building collapsed with my own eyes walking distance away. At that time I lived in Lower East side. That day in the evening I sneaked to the closed area in hope to volunteer searching for survivors. It was a scary scene.- Hurricane Sandy 2012
Our house got flooded. Car drown. The whole experience was terrifying. My family got displaced for couple of months.- Coronavirus
Being in New York let me experience the pandemic firsthand. Close relatives & some friends got infected.Nevertheless life goes on.
- always there... coinsident?pango
- mostly here in New Yorkzaq
- no there as in where it happened.pango
- do you have real time tracking of where you are now... i want to make sure im at least 100m away from you at any given point lol.trooperbill
- ^100m is not very far, you need at least 1000km to be cleargrafician
- also zaq are you Boris the Blade?grafician
- Fucking lol at comments._niko
- zaq is going for the alien scenario in NYC, this man cannot be stopp!grafician
- zaq for president! he handles pressure waay better than anybody, disasters hate this guy!grafician
- @zaq kidding aside, stay safe buddy, maybe write some memoirs, bet you have some stories theregrafician
- Wow - this puts shit in perspective zaq. Stay safepedromendez
- Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
Been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to wastetank02 - Me too, I've been through all those! You missed one: March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, subsequently Fukushima.shapesalad
- Also Iraq/Afghanistan war, Bosnia/Serbia, and ongoing Syria. Not to mention Myanmar and a bunch of other semi-wars and genocides.shapesalad
- Well, I wasn't as close to those as Zaq mentions... damn...shapesalad
- Wow.garbage
- We need to have zaq's movements broadcast via an app.Nairn
- I stayed in Best Western Hollywood Blvd when was shot. And I happened to be at the funeral procession of Princess Diana.SimonFFM
- zaq cheers bud! :)sted
- zaq is unbreakable ... seriously though that is one hell of a timeline you’ve lived in.Ramanisky2
- Ramanisky, you are close, my other alias is Unclickable :)zaq
- qbneros, I am releasing a monthly subscription app with my location. First month freezaq
- imbecile11
so i found this... amazing
https://imgur.com/gallery/9AQqPz…
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByA7…
- Bennn1
how do you access the invisible thread?
- goodsted
- https://www.qbn.com/…Fax_Benson
- new one: https://www.qbn.com/…moldero
- fax is the destroyer of magicsted
- it has been saidFax_Benson
- omahadesigns-5
Was called both a design rockstar and wizard today by two separate coworkers on separate occasions.
- to go along with investment guru from QBN?_niko
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Nice one, ninjastoplying
- design rockstar > coke
wizard > lsd
two separate > clients
separate occasions > both corners of the streetsted
- grafician5
So I'm back 100%
found a repair shop that actually fixxed the imac today! ssd was fine, the logic board or something had a glitch tho'
cost 200
I had to get out of quarantine, take the imac into a cab, we were stopped by the police on the way, but the driver was cool and we made it without a ticket
status: amazed and very grateful
was interesting to browse QBN on a 10 years old MBPro and listen to ambient music for the weekend
- Great news. But why would you be stopped by the police?monospaced
- Only 200 to fix a logic board? You got off easy :)Gnash
- @mono i assume his city is still in lock down.pango
- boom!utopian
- @mono we're under strict quarantine, no going out unless for food, medicine or going to work (necessary work jobs only) until 15th maygrafician
- @gnash yup, was amazed too, the repair guy said to come back after the quarantine to get a RAM upgrade too :))grafician
- Sweet :)Gnash
- don't know why but I feel more confident now we're gonna go thru all this corona situation and come up on topgrafician
- lesson learned: backup files daily and also have a money stash for rainy days, just in casegrafician
- Lol. I know that feelingGnash
- just so you guys know: latest imacs have all the components glued in to the motherboard and can't be upgraded/fixed anymore like the old ones :/grafician
- so if you can, get an old imac 2011-2012 that can be upgraded/fixed easily, just for backup, they can hold up to 32GB RAM and a SSD, with i5/i7 processorsgrafician
- So what. They just pull over every single cab now because they might be illegal? Sounds like some bullshitmonospaced
- @mono to go out we need to have papers to attest the reason, without that, you might get fined about $3k, no kiddinggrafician
- the regular police and the military police patrols the streets and have roadblocks and checkpoints...it's all done to keep the idiots inside...grafician
- so we don't end up with stupid protests like the ones in the US spreading the virus further. All this by 15th of may, after that we relax the lockdowngrafician
- here we are 10k confirmed and about 600 dead with 3k recovered I thinkgrafician
- most of those dead had complications and other conditions pre-corona, as this is the main driver in deaths worldwidegrafician
- I had no idea, Romania is so strict.SimonFFM
- lolmonospaced
- yup we implemented strict lockdowns and it worked, 600 dead so far at a population of about 18 mil is very luckygrafician
- NBQ003
Sometimes I’m tired to go on. Not suicidal just tired. What’s the point in life. All this struggle for nothing when the universe will cease to exist one day anyway and in few billion years our earth will be swallowed by our dying sun.
- https://youtu.be/TNb…Gnash
- At the end of day nothing else mattersutopian
- nothing really matters (can be sad) :(
nothing really matters (can be happy) :)capn_ron - find a new passion brother!!moldero
- ^ What Moldero said, find something you can see yourself doing for years with layers of learning.PhanLo
- Make your bed and wash the dishes an you'll feel better...robotron3k
- “I was not; I was; I am not; I do not care”
Enjoy it and make the best of it while we're here, it's only an eye blink._niko - https://i.redd.it/4h…pango
- https://66.media.tum…pango
- go wank some more?pango
- My passion is you Moldy!utopian
- I feel your pain, mate... But, try to bring a smile to other's faces, works for meOBBTKN
- Jesus! Like when I write in english, sorryOBBTKN
- perhaps you just need some upvotes to cheer you up?!robotron3k
- Nah you're just tired of capitalismgrafician
- it‘s the problem with passions, they eventually burn out. try compassion as OBBTKN proposed.uan
- Try to spend an hour less on YouTube every day?webazoot
- @grafician Go communism!milfhunter
- Go read "Mans Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. It has the answer (weirdly and surprisingly, it actually does).jagara
- We all struggle with this from time to time. You're not alone.jagara
- Don't ask life for meaning. Life is asking you what the meaning of YOUR life is.
*pencil breaks*jagara - You just have to do your time while you're alive and do things you like. Enjoy the time you have. We will all be old fucks in no time.Bennn
- colin_s4
have recently been thinking of how 20 years ago for my first hotmail address / IM handle i chose "the pr0digal slacker" and how accurate that turned out to be in my life
that being said i'm thinking of moving to LA next month
- jagara7
Beastie Boys Story was fun, interesting, funny and occasionally touching. Recommended! :)
- Available on Apple TV and, err, evaluation copies.jagara
- I like this take on documentary. Very personal.DRIFTMONKEY
- so so good. 2 hours of joy and happy memories of youthfadein11
- and sadness of coursefadein11
- mg333
Jagara - RE Beastie Boys story
Watched it two nights ago and thoroughly and completely loved it. It answered a bunch of questions I've had over the past few years even though they're not a musical constant for me much these days. It was a fantastic distraction from this chaos we're living in.
It brought back a lot of great memories of how entrancing they were in my high school days. There's not a single other band amongst the big ones back then that ever made us think "I want to live like that. I want to be THAT cool." Other major bands made equally great music around that time (92-96 and on into college years) - Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, RATM, etc. etc. - but none of them for us as high school kids in suburban north Texas had the allure that Beastie Boys did. The Beastie Boys made NYC feel like this far off land of amazement that might as well have been the moon - anything we got our hands on, videos, articles, photos, etc. to me at least made me look upon that city as an epicenter of coolness and possibility (Sonic Youth had a lot to do with that as well back then) that no other band could come close to. Nobody wanted to learn about Seattle because of Pearl Jam. Nobody wanted to learn about Chicago because of Smashing Pumpkins. But the Beastie Boys at that time for me defined NYC. They created this mystique that only an urban city of that size and cultural melting pot could create.
Things I never knew...
I never knew how tight they were with Run DMC even though they started with that schtick of intentionally emulating them. Never knew they toured with Madonna.I probably never knew that full Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons story of their start. I never knew that so much of what they did was a calculated bit, and that's always been my biggest wonder. How much of what they did was a goof, a bit, a joke? It doesn't make any difference to me in the end, but it was enlightening to see just how much was schtick until they really morphed into genuine musicians and exploded creatively. Those clips of them on talk shows just being absolute fools were cringe-inducing, but at that time and that place they were loving it, and that was really cool.It was also cool to see how much Adam Yauch had to do with their image, creative direction, and song ideas. I'd known a bit about that over the years, but it's clear he was the brains behind most of what they did, but it only came together because of their equal dedication.
All in all, such a great documentary and great format as a live show being rebroadcast.. It made me miss being in high school, a world before the Internet when info about bands was far more previous and much less readily available like it is now. I'm glad I'm the age I am to have experienced that. It was kind of an innocent time in that regard... the power of seeing a band for the first, second, third time and not going into it full of pre-watched YouTube clips that wear down the mystique. The first Beastie Boys show I saw at Fair Park in Dallas in 1995 was an incredible experience. The walk through the parking lot full of every type of person you could imagine - hip hop guys with bass rattling their cars, afros, punks, jocks... Just driving out to Dallas in my dad's truck because my Datsun certainly wouldn't make it was an experience in itself. John Spencer Blues Explosion, and The Roots opening up... Beastie Boys just going berserk as we were in the general admission floor after jumping down from the bleachers and dashing past security guards. Hell of a time and the memory didn't fade for weeks. Such great memories.
- It was a great time for music before the internet boom. Everything has changed.Bennn
- My first concert was the Check your Head tour at small venue, Tabernacle in Atlanta. We’re on the floor pressed up against the main stage ..... lights dim ...Ramanisky2
- “To Allllll the Girls” starts playing —the bass is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before — and then they jump out on stage as Shake Your Rump kicks in.Ramanisky2
- Holyshit !!! me & my boys were shitting ourselves as Yauch and Adrock came by and gave us all high 5’s ..
Greatest fucking show EVER!!!!Ramanisky2
- Nairn0
oh no.
I just heard a laugh outside - it's someone I know. Very distinct laugh. Lovely guy - he used to work here. Made fantastic pizzas. Started the whole thing off here and made the kitchen Good. Lovely guy. Good chat. We had a lot of chats. A few shared drinks. He was here for years. Lovely guy. Good chat.
I can't leave the studio because I can't remember his fucking name.
- forgetting people's names in social contexts is my kryoptonite. I'm standing there with this singular thought whirring around my head as they talk.Nairn
- ...'what the fuck is your name?!?!'Nairn
- don't be a wuss - "get out there and say hey how you doing! long time" etc... i've had tons of conversations like that with people who's names i've forgotten.hans_glib
- it only gets tricky when someone joins in and expects an introduction...hans_glib
- meh inverted commas in the wrong place wevshans_glib
- Thing is, I've forgotten this guy's name before and just last week had an entire convo about one 'Tom', only to realise after I actually meant 'Jack'. Dementia.Nairn
- (Not my fault all you English are named after the ancient Saints of Enid Blyton Characters)Nairn
- lol, I'm American but I'm positive he'll answer to "Mate"robotron3k
- What's wrong with a 'Dude'?
eg: "Dudddeeee, what's hanging, hey, keep 2m away from me ya dirty flea bag."shapesalad - It's a rude disservice to forget someone's name, especially someone I really should know the name of. I've got a bit of a hang up about it, ok? hahaNairn
- I've found that an honest, "Hey, things have been crazy, I've had a new child, and I'm terrible with names. Please remind me because I don't want to be rude."monospaced
- It works. Most people reply with, "me too, I totally forgot yours too!"monospaced
- @bobo you uncultured animal that's australia.
@Nairn u gotta get that name somehow, thats your quest for the day. No sleep or food until you succeed.sted - Sorry sted, like Russel Crowe, mate is not Australian : )MrT
- I forget names the second people tell me. I am good with numbers though. My wife is the opposite.SimonFFM
- Deer MrT! I haven't said that the origins of the word "Mate" is Australia.But I came to that conclusion that this word is used by ozzies more than anything elsested
- drgs2
I stopped washing hands 2-3 weeks ago
- Why?monospaced
- stopped caringdrgs
- I was shopping groceries earlier today -- my impression of other people is the same. Maybe 10-20% are still doing social distancingdrgs
- People are growing tired. When summer weather comes no one will have more fucks to give.Not that I dont think the lockdown is important just making an obsrvtiondrgs
- shieeet how you mange to avoid washing during bath? they must be dirty af. after 2-3 weekssted
- I wear glovesdrgs
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- you wear gloves when you shower?pango
- I'm surprised that people weren't washing their hands in the first place. goobers.inteliboy
- never wash hands.. never !neverscared
- robotron3k-2
- Looks fake but https://youtu.be/fVG…robotron3k
- oh dumbobo
https://www.space.co…sted