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?
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
I'm just gonna have a curtain for my shelves.
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.