“Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!”

[torino10154]

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Gilderoy Lockhart

Sex Ed

Honey

Birds of a Feather

Well-Bred

Total Eclipse (of the Heart)


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Comments

Re: kitchen counters

[songquake]

I had a kitchen once that had enough FLOOR space for a dance party but still not enough counter space.

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Well then, you could have put a lot of things on the FLOOR (I do).

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

I sometimes question whether architects have ever lived in homes. Are they grown in a lab somewhere?

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Have you ever looked at a copy of "Architectural Digest"? Either those dudes were in fact grown in a lab or else they came from another planet.

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

For real, there are always just basic human considerations missing from so many places. I can't realistically complain about my current apartment because it was, in fact, converted from being a 1920s hotel room. (zero counter space, a single closet for both clothes and cleaning supplies and general storage, and I have to awkwardly twist to reach the toilet paper roll which is mounted on the back wall behind me, etc)

But I've seen so many places that are otherwise upscale and are still missing basics like counter space, closet space, have awkward kitchens & bathrooms, have no flow around entrances so you can picture people having to say "excuse me" constantly to get around people in the kitchen to get out the back door, etc, etc. And, Lord, sound insulation. Can we please normalize sound insulation as a standard (not just luxury) feature? I don't want to always hear what my neighbors are up to.

And I don't understand "open" floorplans that mean no one in the home has any privacy at all. I think open floorplans were designed by single people who throw a lot of parties. That's the only scenario where they feel like they make sense. Do you want 30 or 40 people to be able to mill around while listening to the same music? Fine. Do you expect a family to share a space where one person is playing video games and another is trying to study and one is trying to work and one is trying to cook and one is trying to watch TV or listen to music? Chaos.

Re: kitchen counters

[torino10154]

My neighbors and I all have ~almost the same house but some are more open than others. The original model was VERY open. We closed the dining room, with French doors and a door to the kitchen. Plus we have a separate living room/office and the TV or Great room. Other people that all is like an L shaped open space. One neighbor is kinda halfway between where they can have doors open or closed between the living and TV room. But as you say, if the TV is on, everyone on this floor can hear it if you can't shut the doors. That would drive me bonkers.

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Can't stand being forced to listen to what someoene else in the hosue is listineing to and also dont want to impinge on the thoerh person being made to listen to myu stuff. Headphone-listiening is a REQUIRED thing in my household.

Ooops. Wasnt'k I supposed to be ficcing now, deep int The Drunkening?

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

actual conversation overheard from neighbors: "Angela! I ruined my hair! It looked good and then i ruined it"

I should not be able to make out actual words being spoken in the apartment next door. ( I wll forever wonder what Angele's friend did to her hair.)

Neighbor also likes to play Jingle Bells on the keyboard and just ... why are you playing Jingle Bells at this time of year?

very very minmal progress with the ficcing so far

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Youar Jinble Bells comment mande me LOL, so I had to go use one of my Christms icons....

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

I had a friend (now ex-friend thankfully) who was very judgemental about my taste in music. (She literally mocked all my "best of" CDs at being a sign of my low-brow tastes, but "best of" collections are the chepest most ifefficiet ways o getting good tuens.( And I still sor t of have it in my head that people wil ljudge me fr my "basic" taste in music. so in addition to it just feeling polite to not sbuejct my tmusic on others, I allways wear headphones when listening tomusic so I odn't have to worry about wohat other people thinjk o fome.

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

"cheae=pest" pre-streaming era obviously. I can't remem er the last time I paid for music. I thiknk it was a CD I bought at a concert which wold mk it like 10 years ago.

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Becmong less coherent plus gotta get to myu fic now, but first agreement in suport of "best of" collectins!

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Even in our 2-person household in a Chicago-style bungalow it's not easy to have a space where one can be "uninterrupted". The first floor is so "open". I've always had an idea about making the attic into a kind of writer's retreat, but have just never been up to dealing with making it a lighted and heated space (and also the space is impacted by the low and angled roof line -- the space was never meant to be "live-in" space.)

Re: kitchen counters

[oldtoadwoman]

Sometimes I just fantasize about a dream home and I picture a three-story with a sort of secret attick. nt syre wherei'dhidethe stairs to getup there, but the dream is to have thislibrary type space on the third floor that no one else realizes is more than just "attic" space but it would be a full comfy floor with books and comfy chairs and maybe a bathroom and kitchenette so I could just have a seret apartment where NO ONE BUGS ME because apparetlny my biggest fantasy invlives hiding from other humamn.s

Re: kitchen counters

[ride_4ever]

Excellent secret hideaway fantasy si excellnt!

Uh...am i writing mro FWF fic yet?