Originally posted by: phisrow
My understanding is that white lights are standard for exteriors, at least in climates with proper winter, because they are supposed to evoke the shine and sparkle of ice struck by light. Coloured lights are commonly used on trees, to augment their already colourful decorations. For other interior applications, white/coloured is at the discretion of the decorator, and dependent on the home's colour scheme.
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Is this turning into one of those e-penis threads?
Originally posted by: Amol
Not necessarily. Come to my town. There's a street here with a block full of houses that are about $4-6million each. They don't light up the houses, but they light up the trees (ginormous trees in the front) with multi colored lights. It actually looks pretty nice.
If anyone on here is near Pasadena and doesn't know of St. Albans Rd, I suggest you take a looksee.
Originally posted by: fanerman91
What's a vaulted ceiling?
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The new subdivisions here don't have trees. They clearcut the lush pine forest to build the houses, then plant little saplings in the yards.
Originally posted by: ballmode
we started having white lights and then the whole neighborhood got them following year
Originally posted by: mrrman
I like color lights over white any day...looks better
Originally posted by: forrestroche
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The new subdivisions here don't have trees. They clearcut the lush pine forest to build the houses, then plant little saplings in the yards.
Isn't uncontrolled development wonderful?
Originally posted by: mrrman
I like color lights over white any day...looks better
Originally posted by: Coquito
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: phisrow
My understanding is that white lights are standard for exteriors, at least in climates with proper winter, because they are supposed to evoke the shine and sparkle of ice struck by light. Coloured lights are commonly used on trees, to augment their already colourful decorations. For other interior applications, white/coloured is at the discretion of the decorator, and dependent on the home's colour scheme.
Seriously, you need to sit down and drink several gallons of eggnog right now!
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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.
Numbers are deceiving. House was only 1900sq' finished. Living room was 13x20' and since the house was relatively small we thought we'd raise the vault in the living room to give it a more open feel. Bought the place new in '98 for $187k and sold in '05 for $285k. Now-a-days, can't even touch a townhome sans yard for less than $200k around here. Not cheap; but then nowhere near the "Rich" category being snubbed.Originally posted by: forrestroche
14' ceiling = richOriginally posted by: Sketcher
We just put our tree up today. 9' Frasier (our old house had 14' vaulted ceiling so we usually got a 11' Frasier).
14' vaulted ceiling = nouveau rich
Originally posted by: forrestroche
Today they will fit almost a hundred homes on that chunk of land and give it a name like, "Willow Brook Gardens."
Originally posted by: forrestroche
Originally posted by: forrestroche
Today they will fit almost a hundred homes on that chunk of land and give it a name like, "Willow Brook Gardens."
Most of the people who subsequently buy these homes will use colored lights, and some, having seen Martha Stewart, will use white lights.
None of them will realize that the latest in thing is to decorate your tree with Luminol chemical light sticks.
The only point of truth in your post is that it does require sacrificing any development above that room; but depending on house architecture in the first place there may be no sacrifice at all.Originally posted by: forrestroche
Originally posted by: fanerman91
What's a vaulted ceiling?
Its a favored architectural feature of the cookie-cutter mansion. It is a ceiling, usually in the living room, that reaches to the roof joists. It is associated with middle and higher end suburban development homes because the ceiling requires the sacrifice of second story footage. It lost it's novelty somewhere back in the early eighties and now is viewed with disdain (or humor) within serious architectural circles.
Originally posted by: forrestroche
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.
Today they will fit almost a hundred homes on that chunk of land and give it a name like, "Willow Brook Gardens."
Originally posted by: getbush
In an urban setting you can easily get more than 5000 units on 26 acres. It's all relative, different strokes for different folks. With 300,000,000 in this country, we can't all live in a beautiful and unique snowflake of a home.
Goddamn you come off as a pretentious twat in this thread.