Hey on that note, does anyone have that AI-generated picture that looks like an attic full of clutter but when you look closely at anything your brain slides off it and nothing actually makes sense as a real thing? Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I've been trying to find it again but no success
The only thing I can make out is what looks like jewelry display cases
Yeah! I don't think that was the exact one I was thinking of, but it was something really like that
Thanks!
There's always something so creepy to me about these AI-generated images. Just this slow uncanny valley realization where it looks fine at a glance, but the more you look, the more you realize everything about it is just wrong.
I've seen a few public/semi-public spaces that just have a piano in the middle that anyone who wants to can just sit down and play, and I feel like they have universally made them far better spaces, much more communal vibe that makes people aware of each other even if it's just amongst a bunch of shops.
So even if there's no market for selling old pianos there's way better things to do with them than make a fucking uPcYcLeD rangehood out of them
I wish places like this had guitars! It's been ages since I touched a keyboard or piano.
I assume there are a lot of old pianos that have their shit irreversibly fucked up. Like in my dorm we had a piano that had a crack on that huge wooden wall thing where all the string connect. Pianos like this are absolutely worthless. You can old ones that weren't taken good care of but not as fucked for absolutely free.
A town in my province had ten or twenty in different spots around the downtown, at least one summer. It was pretty amazing.
That sounds cool! And they even get free labour cos there's always some elderly person starved of human contact who gets to feel like they're actually part of a community by plinking away at old songs and being a centre of attention for once
like it does look like it is an induction oven so it is not that bad but that wood surface will be destroyed over time by heat and steam from the food
I can't understand people really choosing to live in houses made mostly of wood.
It's so...ugly. Like, the piano isn't ugly, and the kitchen isn't ugly, but the combination is terrible. There's nothing else in the room that lends itself to any kind of theme that might successfully incorporate a piano vent hood. I will give them credit for repurposing what I assume was a piano beyond repair. B+ execution, D for the design.
To be fair a lot of old stand up pianos are simply trashed because no one wants to move them. check your local craigslist and theres probably a few free pianos that require you to move them. Some will even move them for you.
There were a lot of stand up pianos made back in the day when music was how you entertained your family.
Not saying I support it, its ugly as shit, but its not super sacred either.
Edit: dang I just looked it up and its expensive af to get a piano re-strung if the strings go bad from a humid environment or something.
Yeah, its possible it was just a lost cause, maybe a cracked sound board, many broken/rusted strings, a bunch of broken mallets, etc. it probably cost a lot less to bolt a piano to studs than it does restore it.
I have no idea the background behind this but it very well could also not be an actual piano. I mean, i do woodworking and making something that shape wouldn't rly be all THAT hard. Its all the inside shit that's the hard part. It would have to be hollow anyway to fin the fan and vent and shit in there. It would actually be easier to build a whole new shell shaped like a piano than to hollow out an actual piano without damaging the exterior.
Like i said, idk if that what was done. Just offering my take.
I've had several elderly relatives die over the last two decades, so I've learned that there isn't much of a market for old upright pianos. So part of me is glad someone found a new use for one, but at the same time, yikes. Also this one has nice carvings, so maybe it could have found a home where it could still be played. So it's sad that it's stuck up on a wall where it can't make music any more. Now on to its new role in the kitchen. Who on earth wants to cook in a kitchen where there's no handy storage over and to the sides of the stove for the things you need? And all that open shelving right over a major work area? Madness. Sure, put some decorative open shelving over to the side where you can put some of your nicer looking stuff, but you want function where you're going to be working. Do kitchen designers even cook?
Do kitchen designers even cook?
Architects don't live in their houses. Maybe they sleep and lounge there, but never have to try to clean their bathrooms nor the grease in their kitchens butt oh turns out the walls texture is imposible to clean who the fuck was the idiot who designed this
Lol exactly. That vase never leaves the stovetop because it never gets used.
We just moved one into my house, and I've realized how nice it is to have a physical piano to sit down and plunk at. I'd also like to throw 19th century parlor parties when COVID is over where I play for my friends while they dance.
That's lovely! You could sing together too. That sounds so nice and cozy. :comfy:
I have just now come to the conclusion that cabinets are bourgeois.
Somewhere along the line, someone decided that their pans and glasses and stacks of dishes were not nice to look at, and thought "y'know what? I'm gonna cover them up with nice-looking wooden-paneled doors".
Thank you for playing a part in my philosophical development.
Well yes, but there's also the practical consideration that things out in the open gather dust. That's the main reason, beyond not wanting too look at my jumble of secondhand equipment, that I'd never want open shelving in my kitchen. I don't have that much excess stuff in my kitchen, but I do have things like a mixer and a crockpot and a large stockpot that I'm not using every day so if they're out in the open, I'm going to have to clean them when I put them away to get the food off, and clean them again before I use them to get the grime off. I'm too lazy to find that appealing. Now for real decadence you can have a china cabinet so your dishes stay nice and clean behind their glass doors, but people can still see the fancy stuff you've got on display.
That'll be pretty! Use outdoor upholstery fabric so you can just wipe them down when they get dirty so you don't have to take them down and launder them.
Style aside, I love to install extra shit to bang my head into when I'm cooking
IKR? Particularly made of wood so grease ruins it and with as many intricansies as possible so it's harder to clean.
Saw this on the last episode of "My Dream Home" on HGTV. I cried.
This is what happens when Wile E. Coyote hires the Roadrunner to do interior decorating
