#old house love

[saopauloantiga]

Uma charmosa e bem preservada casa antiga da década de 1960 em São Caetano do Sul (SP)

[oldfarmhouse]

Dreamy light spilling into the dining room in Sedgwick.

𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/christinasalway

[my-wife-doesnt-approve]

I want play, too! Our bathroom had an original ungrounded non-gfci outlet in the floor next to the toilet! They had run romex for the last bit, but it was powered by knob and tube on a 15 amp breaker!

(knob and tube circuits are only rated for 10 amps, all wet areas need GFCI outlets - the square ones with a reset button, bathroom outlets super duper need to be grounded, putting an outlet next to the toilet means any plumbing problems become electrocution/house fire problems, too!)

Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.

[enimaximus]

I love how House MD episodes have these side plots where House is examining these random patients and every time it's some stupid shit, like yeah there's a patient with this extremely complicated case and we need to figure out a diagnosis but we can't ignore the guy with AN MP3 PLAYER UP HIS ASS in Exam Room One

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

[false-heteros16]

I always wonder why House never went into family therapy. Like yes he hates therpaists but he enjoys the drama so much. He’s SUCH a gossip. Look at his face when Chase x2 are having a medical cat fight. HES SO INTO IT. Diagnostic head with a specialty in dragging ur shit.

[thevisualvamp]

Sweet

100 year old porch, their first home. (at Austin, Texas)

[ynnu-64]

Hilson :)))) I made them as Mii’s and very much obsessed with them

[goryhorroor]

“horror movies were reborn in the 1930s. sound revolutionized cinema across the board and had a huge impact on the horror genre— and not just in the form of dialogue. sound effects added an extra dimension to terror, from creaking doors to echoing footsteps to the rumbling of castle thunder. music cues built suspense or signaled the presence of a threat. as screen storytelling moved away from symbolism towards realism, the dreamlike wraiths of silent cinema were replaced by monsters that grunted, groaned and howled.”

[saopauloantiga]

Uma residência encantadora na rua Padre Marchetti, Ipiranga

[okct]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

The spooky atmosphere of Fall of the House of Usher (1960) // dir. Roger Corman

[my-wife-doesnt-approve]

The wife sent me this. We have basement workshop tools and garage shop tools, because the garage is a separate building 30' of rain and cold away.

I've also started a kitchen drawer tools for the most frequently used, because walking to the basement also sucks.

Unfortunately, neither the wife nor I are good at putting things away 100% of the time. Fortunately, anything important exists in triplicate.

Organizing a workshop is virtually impossible. If you try to plan ahead, you’ll quickly find out that your amazing plan didn’t match with reality. Eventually, you will run out of bins before you run out of kinds of things, and the entire endeavour will go to hell in a hand-basket. Having one bin store two kinds of things is awful, maybe even more so than having a bin that stores one single lonely, unloved part that you nevertheless will hold onto until your next of kin have to throw it away for you on the afternoon after your funeral.

If you look online, you’ll find a lot of fancy, designer-esque photos of workshops. They’re clean. They’re sorted. They’re well-lit. Everything is within reach. The secret, explain the owners, is minimalism. Make sure you only have good stuff, and put it back where you take it out. What they don’t show you is the entire basement full of random garbage that they’ll spend a whole weekend in as soon as they realize that their grand plan didn’t include a security-bit Torx T8 driver.

Me, I have a very different strategy for this. I buy doubles, triples of tools. Back in the day, tools were expensive, and having two sets of screwdrivers was a ridiculous, bourgeois expense. You’d buy one set of screwdrivers and hold onto it forever. Nowadays, tools are cheap. Why would you bother spending all that time walking upstairs to go get a Phillips #2 from your workshop when you could just buy another $16 set from Home Depot and chuck it downstairs, vaguely close to where you might have to work on a badly-made, inexpensive clothes dryer?

If there is a downside to this behaviour, it’s that once you use every room in your house for tool storage, you give up all hope of ever being able to quickly locate tools at all. In a workshop, there are only a few logical places in which to lose a wrench. On the workbench. Under the workbench. Under another tool. Inside a project. Raccoon took it, the little bastard. In the rest of your house, who knows? Last week I found a 3/8″-drive stubby ratchet inside my furnace when I went to go change the filter.

[therichwife]

[datcravat]

I LOVE KAY

[divorceblogger]

this show rules sorry