#closet hutches

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Transitional Closet Portland Maine Example of a mid-sized transitional walk-in closet design with open cabinets and white cabinets

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Closet Cleveland Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary women's walk-in closet remodel with raised-panel cabinets and light wood cabinets

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Traditional Closet - Raised-Panel

Example of a mid-sized classic gender-neutral dark wood floor and brown floor dressing room design with raised-panel cabinets and white cabinets

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San Francisco Walk-In Closet

Inspiration for a sizable modern walk-in closet renovation with shaker cabinets and light wood cabinets that is gender-neutral

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Traditional Home Office - Home Office Inspiration for a mid-sized timeless freestanding desk in a home office with white walls, a vaulted ceiling, and light wood floors.

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Closet - Walk-In

Example of a large classic gender-neutral carpeted and beige floor walk-in closet design with white cabinets and recessed-panel cabinets

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Closet Cleveland Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary women's walk-in closet remodel with raised-panel cabinets and light wood cabinets

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San Francisco Closet

[mindyharington]

Traditional Closet - Dressing Area

[hometoursandotherstuff]

She's a beauty. Perfectly renovated and maintained home built in the late 1800s in Barrie, ON, Canada. 3bds, 3ba, 2,500 - 3,000 sq ft, C$1,375,000.

Lovely central hall with original stairs.

The sitting room is perfection.

Or sit in the cozy den.

Beautiful dining room. Love the wallpaper.

It opens to this pretty sun porch.

What a beautiful kitchen renovation. Love the cabinetry and the backsplash.

Very nice built-in hutch.

Details like an original heat register.

Beautiful 1st fl. powder room.

The primary bedroom on the 2nd level.

Walk-in closet with a window seat.

Tastefully renovated bath.

The 2nd bedroom has access to this wonderful sunroom that would make a perfect art studio.

Cozy 3rd bedroom.

Vintage bath reno is perfect.

Even the laundry room is pretty.

Lovely side entrance.

Gorgeous home inside and out.

Large driveway and beautiful garage.

I wonder why they bricked up that window. 124.00 ft. x 97.00 ft. lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/42-Burton-Ave-Barrie-ON-L4N-2R6/2057918326_zpid/?

[homestuckreplay]

TURNTECH GODHEAD JUMPSCARE!

(page 308-312)

OH PSYCHE????

This asshole came outta fucking NOWHERE right when I was looking at a cool wizard painting on Rose's wall. Truly Dave Strider is just like his raps, always showing up where he's not wanted.

'standing around being all chill, like cool dudes are known to do sometimes' would a cool dude think this? really? I mean, as a sword owner I WILL acknowledge that slashing things with a sword is pretty cool. I bet Dave has a Wii and attaches the remote to a sword. And it's interesting that we open on an action shot of Dave, as he literally forces his way into the story and then starts attacking, compared to John and Rose being more passive.

TT: I must have a weakness for insufferable pricks. (p.63)

TG: and for that matter you should probably wash your hands of flighty broads and their snarky horseshit altogether (p.204)

Both Dave and Rose's 'wrong' names as entered by the player come from pesterlogs where they're talking about the other, which is fun. John's been part of all Pesterchum chats so far, but I really hope we get to see Rose and Dave talk soon. They're both so obnoxious in different ways I really want to see how they'll bounce off one another.

Dave just looks so EXPRESSIONLESS with no visible eyes and the tiny straight line mouth. His SUNGLASSES show more emotion than he does. I guess this is the birthday gift John got for Dave that 'touched stiller's weird, sort of gaunt face at some point.' A quick search says these are from the Starsky & Hutch movie, which I guess I'll watch soon.

As for Dave's room, there's a LOT going on. The rooms are getting progressively messier, from John to Rose to Dave, so I can't even imagine GG's. The main feature here is the turntables hooked up to various computers and gadgets in an expensive, convoluted audio mixing system. I guess this is the turntech. And the godhead is Dave with his belief that it's okay to have a dozen trailing electrical cables in his room because tripping and electrocution aren't a risk to him.

This music studio combined with the extensive record collection and the record on his shirt really gives Dave the vibe of 'guy who makes music his entire personality'. The envelopes for the Sburb beta discs are next to the turntables, but Dave recently told John he lost his copy and that 'its a stupid story and id rather not talk about it' so.... did Dave try to play the Sburb discs on the turntables or what?? And like, can we really expect smart decisions from someone who has TWO issues of GameBro on his desk?

Everything in Dave's room is held up by cinderblocks for some reason. I don't know if this is a real thing that people do or not. He's also into photography, which is a great hobby, but all his pictures are just of him which for sure loses him some Cool Points.

Dave also has a poster of the Midnight Crew, as featured in John's and our favorite website mspaintadventures.com, and his playing card suit bedsheets might be a reference to that too, so this webcomic is another shared interest of theirs. He's also kept the box from John's birthday gift, and next to the box half-inside the closet is a bottle Dave mentioned to John on page 26: 'i just found an unopened container of apple juice in my closet it is like fucking christmas up in here.' I really love all these nods to John and Dave's friendship scattered around the room.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

The tree is up!

My ornaments are pins and buttons. I made this a couple years ago, and absolutely love it.

My hope was to make several more of these to list in the shop this year. That will have to wait until next year, which is fine by me. They take me about a week to make, start to finish. Excellent option for having a place to display your pin and/or button collection, and when yoy don't want to look at it, or simple put it away, roll it up and you're done.

More info below...

The thing behind the sign is where the old doorbell noise came from. Any gifts we get will replace the boxes currently there. We have no closets, so all our mittens, hats, and scarves, as well as shopping bags, are in there. I would love to get a nice breathable storage bag thing to put all the cold weather things in, and fit it under the bed. The suitcase houses the postcards I don't have albums for. Soooo...it's impressively heavy.

Zoom in to see the buttons. Several are from @spiralhouseshop and @pangur-and-grim and others from Kickstarters I supported, gifts, stuff I acquired at cons I've attended, free comic book day, and a pre-ordered book. My husband gave me the Spiderman pin even though I can't watch the film it's associated with.

I need pins from:

Dragon Age - If I manage to acquire a large number of them, I'll make another tree quilt to fit the theme.

Flowers - they don't need to ve realistic! My favorite flower is daisies, but I would love some colorful wildflowers, even dried flowers pressed into buttons. @spiralhouseshop I'm gonna work on snatching up more of those next year.

More pins by @pangur-and-grim because I love how delightfully weird some of them are.

Birds - my favorites are penguins, hummingbirds, and peacocks. In that order.

Tea related - I collect teacups and mugs, and looooove tea. I intend to make a tea quilt for myself, quilted tea decorations for my living room and "dining" room. That room will house my quilting frame, The Monster (massive hutch) packed with machine quilting stuff, my growing collection of teacups, mugs, and teapots, as well as all my small selection cookbooks. Oh, and it currently has my tea and snack station. We dine in the living room.

Fairies - I collect fairies, but I'm a little picky about them. Punk/rock/goth are a nope, but garden/whimsy/Brian Froud are my favorite.

It would be funny if I made trees for each of those collections and rotated them through the month of December. Buuuuut I need the pins and buttons first.

Tree themes I plan on making ans selling in the future:

Halloween - a few, with different colors and prints, and experiment with embroidery and lace. Make some more playful and some more goth.

Traditional winter prints - snowflakes, blue/white, snowflakes, tree and holly. No Santa stuff.

Animals - cheetah/leopard print, pets

Mushrooms and Plants

Food

Beverages - a friend suggested I make at least one that's wine themed and another with coffee. Another wants one that's all beer.

Sports - my husband is a steelers fan, and I want to make one for his space.

Fantasy - dragons are always popular.

As for why I made this in the first place...

A real tree, unless kept in a pot, will simply die a slow death. That's depressing! Plus, messy. As they rot, they shed all over the place. Oh, and they're a fore hazard.

A plastic tree is made if plastic, requires manually building it, takes up space regardless of being on display or stored, and it's too much work.

Decorations are expensive and take up too much space when not in stored.

Until recently, we had cats (RIP), and they love climbing things and exploring. They would destroy all the work put into decorating a tree. Oh, and knock it over.

Ease and Convenience! I can just roll this up when not using it, and unroll it when I want to display it. A whole whopping three minutes. Most of the work is attaching the drapery clips to display it evenly. I don't even need to take the pins off. Between chronic pain and ADHD, this is ideal.

I can add more pins and buttons, remove them too (buttons will be more work), and even add some patches.

I can make these any color I want, use whatever prints and fabrics I fancy, and that makes me happy.

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S2E3: Whatever Works

A spate of ritual murders leads back to a gang of dirty cops.

Okay: we have to address the elephant in the room first, which is "this is an episode about a historically maligned minority religion." In the grand scheme of Crime Show Episodes About Santería (yeah), I actually think they did genuinely try to be thoughtful and sensitive. This is not Starsky and Hutch Go to Voodoo Island. On the positive side, no one implies Santería is about devil-worship or blood drinking or human sacrifice, we have a respected college professor who is also a practitioner, Castillo knows enough about the religion to respectfully involve himself in some of its practices, and we are explicitly told that the murderers are going against the wishes of their gods to do murder. Also, it is strongly implied that Santería is just, y'know. Completely and totally real. On the other hand, the murderers are adherents, and we learn that the rituals they are doing alongside the murders are to, essentially, prevent the souls of the dead from ever resting, so they're not exactly painting their religious practices very kindly there. I will admit to significant ignorance on the topic of whether or not any of the terms they use are correct (or just total made up bullshit), but I did note that the man Castillo speaks to is referred to as an "orisha," which I'm pretty sure means spirit or god? So either they mistook orisha to mean priest, or uhhhh Castillo communed with a traditional Yoruba deity.

Basically: it's a bit of a mixed bag, but it could've been so, so much worse.

Also the episode opens on THIS image, which really has a hell of an impact:

When the body is discovered at the beginning of the episode, there are a bunch of beat cops who basically react to this by saying "oh, they want a war? Good, let's give them a war and kill everyone." Castillo, with distressing mildness, is like "don't, please." Broski I know you are the commanding officer but also they are not going to listen to you, here.

Castillo and Rico speak briefly on their concern that these are ritual Santería killings, and Trudy asks the pair of them for clarification. She seems to accept that of course weird-and-spooky Castillo would know about this sort of thing, but appears deeply baffled that Rico does.

A bland 80's lady we never see again emerges from Sonny's boat as Sonny does... maintenance? In what are essentially his undies; she requests a call back and he strongly, cheerfully implies that is unlikely to happen. Later he picks up a bikini top from the deck and carries it around like someone left their dirty socks on board.

Sonny looks like he has no pants.

A bureaucrat "from the city" comes to repossess Sonny's Ferrari, and Izzy appears and menaces the man with a fish, and calls him, I think, "su-su-suit-io," in reference to the Phil Collins song. Sonny's car is repossessed despite this incredible show of force.

I had forgotten that this is the episode where Sonny and Rico roll around on the ground like they forgot where their own legs and guns are

So suave, so capable

Sonny is a dick about all the religious stuff; when they go to visit Castillo's friend who is a Santería practitioner (the illustrious Eartha Kitt) he says something along the lines of "a closet full of dolls and beads," and "what is this, some kind of get-even religion?" It's not his finest hour

I desperately want to know the backstory for how Castillo and Chata met

Sonny asks Izzy at one point in this episode, "are you out of your patootie?" Which I have to assume is accidental dad-speak slipping out

The coolest man on TV though, right, right

Two of the dirty cops pull over two young men in a Porsche, and everything goes as badly as it possibly could: the police are paranoid because of the murders, and immediately brandish their guns for what appears to be a routine traffic stop; the men being pulled over react with equal foolishness and threats of violence and try to pull a weapon of their own; the cops panic and kill the occupants of the vehicle in cold blood before anyone even has a chance to speak. Bystanders see this and run down the beach in terror as the victim's head leans lifelessly on the windshield wiper lever, and the cops continue to just stand with their guns in hand.

In the next scene, Sonny states-- "bad cops, Rico. There isn't anything lower--" he's reacting to news of their embezzlement. However, from an audience perspective its clear that these officers, who we just saw play judge, jury, and executioner on two young men for, presumably, driving somewhat badly, are corrupt on every single level-- and just like with real world mobsters, the only reason they're getting caught is because of the money.

At the bar, Rico orders a virgin colada, because he's cute as heck

The "house band" at the bar is The Power Station, and one of the Duran Duran boys practically palms Sonny's face while they're talking

Also I know the actual intention here was "oh, hey, did the two of you each separately get married to individual women since last I saw you," but like

That's how you choose to phrase that, huh

Rico (correctly) implies Sonny cannot be trusted to watch the dirty cops and tried to gently warn him off making trouble; Sonny starts a fucking bar fight, which The Power Station blithely plays through. This should be noted comes after Castillo explicitly tells Sonny and Rico not to let them know they're under investigation. Womp womp

What follows is an absolutely haunting scene-- rather than taking their frustration out on (white, Southern, good 'ol boy) Sonny who actually started the fight, the (also white) dirty cops follow Rico home, tailing him across jurisdictions to the strains of Dark Night by the Blasters, a song that opens:

Hot air hangs like a dead man From a white oak tree

It's a punch in the gut-- and a stark reminder that cops, on the whole, protect those in their midst who abuse power and use it for their own gain, and will turn on any "good" cops in rather than ever give up the ability to abuse those privileges. We realize that Rico is in no less danger as a Black cop as he is as a Black man; while he manages to bluff them off him, but the moment is one of genuine terror.

In order to get closer to the murderer, Castillo has Chata introduce him to another practitioner. She says he must be vetted by the orisha first; Castillo goes to an undisclosed location full of jungle plants and strange animals, and has a mystical staring contest with a man who steps out of a stone ruin. There is a cow on a stairway. That is not where cows belong.

I do not know that this sequence is any more or less inaccurate than other depictions of Santería in other TV, but it is certainly more interesting

We learn that the reason the Santería-practicing gangsters have been killing the dirty cops is because the dirty cops kidnapped one of the gangsters' children

When Castillo tells Sonny he has dealt with his car and he should be able to get it back now, Sonny straight up looks him he's going to suck Castillo's dick about it

While waiting to bust the dirty cop gang, Sonny and Rico are harassed by an old woman who thinks they're the actual for-real power company, and the two of them just chuckle like idiots about it

I sincerely hope this is a dummy but..... I think it might just be John Diehl hoping desperately he doesn't die

[wonderfulwonderholic]

Bedroom update~~~

Tasks completed today:

Decluttered and organized closet

Moved craft hutch to make more space

Cleared out some bins

Hung up fairy lights

Tasks that need to be done:

Put bins in storage

Declutter and clean craft hutch

Throw away old/broken bins

Install curtain for closet

Apply contact paper to dresser top

Change out drawer hardware

Replace bedside lamp

[dwellordream]

Most Black lesbians were closeted, correctly recognizing the Black community's lack of interest in our position, as well as the many more immediate threats to our survival as Black people in a racist society. It was hard enough to be Black, to be Black and female, to be Black, female, and gay. To be Black, female, gay, and out of the closet in a white environment, even to the extent of dancing in the Bagatelle, was considered by many Black lesbians to be simply suicidal. And if you were fool enough to do it, you'd better come on so tough that nobody messed with you. I often felt put down by their sophistication, their clothes, their manners, their cars, and their femmes. The Black women I usually saw around the Bag were into heavy roles, and it frightened me. This was partly the fear of my own Blackness mirrored, and partly the realities of the masquerade. Their need for power and control seemed a much-too-open piece of myself, dressed in enemy clothing. They were tough in a way I felt I could never be. Even if they were not, their self-protective instincts warned them to appear that way. By white america's racist distortions of beauty, Black women playing "femme" had very little chance in the Bag. There was constant competition among hutches to have the most "gorgeous femme" on their arm. And "gorgeous" was defined by a white male world's standards.

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

[astarab1aze]

in true wizard fashion, loux is a hoarder. deeply unfortunate, as he simply will not get rid of anything and doesn't really care if he ends up amassing enough crap to start a fire if he so much as farts the wrong way. he likes things, the type to collect lunchmeat tupperware to stuff full of sewing needles and thread, or buttons, mouse bones, feathers, and blackwyrm sacs. cookie tins for brachio seeds, old cigarette tins for harpy eyes, mason jars for blackwyrm eggs, beholder eye stalks, and gas adder acid bladders. crate upon crate of tungskin ready for sale, near endless stacks of old textbooks and stolen tomes, scrolls and diagrams, writs and treatises, crystals and gemstone clusters in wide range of shapes and sizes, hutches, display cases, stolen artifacts and weapons both human and nightfolk, cabinet upon cabinet of jarred alchemical ingredients and ritual tools - and a closet that'd blow any unreasonably wealthy person out of their own walk-in, both masculine and feminine.

he's by no means messy and keeps absolutely everything labeled and organized, regularly going through and tossing what's expired, outdated, or otherwise useless to him and replacing it all later - but he has so much. about the only thing that's regularly disorganized is his desk, and that's not likely to change since it's a place he can be found frequenting - the mess is basically in constant rotation between research, balancing his ledger, going through his records, transitory poition-making since he's a pacer, so on and so forth. that's where he does most of his...well, anything, be it magic or even sleeping (he really only sleeps in his bed if he has a partner). anyway, he keeps everything else very clean, charming a number of common household cleaning tools to automatically sweep, dust, make the bed, scrub the dishes, etc. so that, even while he's away, where he lives is always neat and organized.