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So... anyone fancy a bath outdoors?
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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16036 is a reply to message #16034 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 19:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Nice hedge. ROFL. I can't believe that there are plastic baronial chandeliers. What WERE they thinking?

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A small fireproof dish in which individual portions of food are cooked and served?
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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16037 is a reply to message #16034 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 20:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Well, a bath outdoors can be very refreshing. Wink (Even more so if there is no hot water...)
The important aspect of course is *position*. (And a good view of the countryside with no-one else in it)

And hurrah for the demise of icky tiles and icky light fittings! Very Happy

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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16038 is a reply to message #16034 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 20:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Last time my brother visited, he had a book of useless facts. One mentioned that in the state of Virginia, it's illegal to have a bathtub on your front lawn.

*ponder*

Smooshes!
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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16039 is a reply to message #16038 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 21:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What do they up-end to house their statues of the Virgin Mary in Virginia if they can't have bathtubs in the front yard?

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skating librarian wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 21:19

What do they up-end to house their statues of the Virgin Mary in Virginia if they can't have bathtubs in the front yard?





My god, seriously? Even we don't do that here in the central midwest. The BVM is usually found under miniature trellises here...

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Several morale-destroying light fixtures remain intact, unfortunately,

Gahhh! MDLF's must die!

I wouldn’t lie to you about something like this, you know–here are the famous duckie and chickie tiles.

Oh thank heavens. I was honestly afraid you'd have them ripped out before documenting them on film for us. Those are... breathtaking. I particularly liked that when I clicked to enlarge the photo in my browser, it opened verrrrrry sloooooowly top to bottom, so the duckie and then the chickies had a dramatic (and awful) reveal. Smile

I forget the story of how you came to acquire third house, did you actually MEET the person responsible for these decorative schemes or had the guilty party augered on before you came on the scene?

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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16043 is a reply to message #16034 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 23:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You know, Claude Monet was going to paint 'Garden Skip with Clematis' but got sidetracked by waterlilies.
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skating librarian wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 21:19

What do they up-end to house their statues of the Virgin Mary in Virginia if they can't have bathtubs in the front yard?



I'm...not sure what you mean. As far as I know, the Virgin Mary statues are doing just fine without bathtubs. o.o

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Re: Anyone fancy a bath? [message #16045 is a reply to message #16034 ] Tue, 12 May 2009 23:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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First thought on seeing the ducky and chicken tiles in the small picture: "Hmm. Those aren't nearly as bad as I thought they'd be."

Then I enlarged the picture.

Oh. Dear.

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Your pictures are bring back bad memories of the first house we bought when I was married.

I guess I was dazzled by the space and the fact we could afford it when we first looked at the house, so I missed a few details. Minor things, like the entry way being covered in gold veined mirror tiles, the orange shag carpet in the living room and the mustard colored vinyl tile in the kitchen.

Even worse? Every room was two-toned. The master bedroom was purple with a lime green ceiling, the guest bath was painted navy blue and brown.

But I think your ducky and chicken tiles and the plastic chandelier trump the worst things in that house. Those tiles were...awful.

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jmeadows wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 19:55

Last time my brother visited, he had a book of useless facts. One mentioned that in the state of Virginia, it's illegal to have a bathtub on your front lawn.

*ponder*




How about old cars, defunct appliances, tires, rusted agricultural implements . . .? Smile


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These pictures remind me of the two renovations we've done, both of which involved redoing bathrooms. Your builders didn't do too badly, piling debris in the bathtub. When the tile men--NO ONE was as messy as the tile men--were ripping out the bathroom in my first (1932) house, they just flung the stuff out the window.

The plastic chandelier can't be excused even on the grounds of thrift or poverty. The tiles are beyond words, although unfortunately not beneath notice. Way WAY worse than the ghastly geranium pot wallpaper I had to deal with. Thanks for sharing . . . Smile


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Diane in MN wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 01:05


How about old cars, defunct appliances, tires, rusted agricultural implements . . .? :)


He didn't mention! The book only mentioned bathtubs. :S

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katinseattle wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 04:06

You know, Claude Monet was going to paint 'Garden Skip with Clematis' but got sidetracked by waterlilies.

ROFL!!

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blondviolinist wrote on Tue, 12 May 2009 23:55

First thought on seeing the ducky and chicken tiles in the small picture: "Hmm. Those aren't nearly as bad as I thought they'd be."

Then I enlarged the picture.

Oh. Dear.


Me too! They remind me vaguely of very old computer art, actually, when they could only draw lines at 45 degree angles...
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Ithilien wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 03:29



Me too! They remind me vaguely of very old computer art, actually, when they could only draw lines at 45 degree angles...


Yes, me too! My first thought was that they looked like those crudely drawn and pixellated sprites from old console ROM games...

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Ithilien wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 03:29



Me too! They remind me vaguely of very old computer art, actually, when they could only draw lines at 45 degree angles...


Exactly Smile

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Artatex, isn't it? Very 1970s.

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My first thought is...oh good, a tub I can brick in and put right *here* as a feeder pool for the every-expanding and never-finished water garden. Or maybe it needs to be *there* with that salvaged carved stone whatsis mounted on one end with a water spout coming out, and then I could plant the little tropical water-lily which hates competing with the monsters in the main lily pond, and...or maybe *there*, but with rocks instead of bricks. And how heavy is it, and how hard would it be to haul out to the far end of the place and use as a supplementary waterhole for the new (still unfinished) rain-barn until I get the final water feature there finished (as if it ever will be.)

My next thought was *plastic* baronial chandelier??? ICK!

Textured ceilings--also ick, though our ceiling was textured later in its life by leaks. I should do something about that, but...there's writing, music, photography, land...what does it matter if there's stains on the ceiling if the roof no longer leaks?

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EMoon wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 11:49

My first thought is...oh good, a tub I can brick in and put right *here* as a feeder pool for the every-expanding and never-finished water garden.

Hahaha When I see a bath like that my first thought is "water trough!" The number of baths used around this country as stock water troughs.... *g*

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Yes. It's what those little fixture caps look like. Not in Oz?
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SNOOOORK.

Maybe they could come arrest my builders?
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Maybe it's a New England thing. We had the Virgin under the elongated half shell in Maine too.
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She'd DIED, poor old thing. So I can't even track her down and kill her. The funny thing is that she did a rather *good* job in the garden. And my realtor says she was a really nice lady. A really nice lady with REALLY BAD TASTE.
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*SNORK.* Sorry, if I laugh any harder I'll throw up.
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Remember also that these are *all over your kitchen walls.* There are not merely THREE of them.
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Oh gods! Gold veined mirror tiles! Orange shag carpeting! AAAAAAAAAAAUGH! I *looked* at that house! :)
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It's nice to be appreciated. :)

Yes . . . you can *almost* excuse the ducky tiles, especially if you've been recently pricing tiles yourself, on the grounds that perhaps they were CHEAP. But the plastic baronial chandelier . . . there is NO excuse.
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Golly. And here I thought they were just . . . ugly. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ugly.
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YES. Thank you. I kept thinking 'Aero' but it didn't google. It's apparently notorious among builders. That and the awful woodchip paint on the walls which I had stripped the minute the ink on the deeds was dry. There are LIMITS and that was even beyond the ducky tiles.
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Oh, gods, *uses* for a pulled-out bathtub . . . oh . . . gods. . . .
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I actually thought 'water trough' too. But my garden's a little small and the hellhounds already drink out of the pond. . . .
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I can't quite imagine it, I'm afraid. I think it's my lack of visual imagination. I Google-imaged cocotte and found a whole pile of delicious looking things in ramekins and casserole dishes. The light fittings we have at home are mostly translucent shallow dish things (oysters?).

Does it have STRAIGHT sides? Or is it curvy?

Ithilien, beginning to think that maybe she should just let this one go...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_madonna

See, it's true ... it's in Wikipedia. Vermont has a fair number of "ethnic Roman Catholics", mainly French Canadians and Italians who came to work in the granite and marble quarries.

I'm surprised that they didn't mention Northern New Jersey and Staten Island as prime spots for bathtub madonnas.

Of course there are also lots of bathtub watering troughs and salt licks in VT, as recycling has a long and glorious history here.

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Huh, interesting! I haven't seen any of those in VA.

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Oh my, those were some tiles. Maybe your can paint, put stickers, etc (I have no renovation skills, knowledge, talent).

The bath looks nice a deep.

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ChrisW wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 22:07

Maybe your can paint, put stickers, etc (I have no renovation skills, knowledge, talent).

Haha.... Robin is going one better - replacing the quackers!!

ChrisW wrote

The bath looks nice a deep.

Yes.... It would make a lovely lily pond.... Wink

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I must confess that I actually did consider this - I want water in the backyard and ponds are so expensive and a bathtub is just so convenient... But so far no bathtub (and no water in the backyard). I also looked at livestock watering troughs - is that more or less tacky?

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Robin wrote on Wed, 13 May 2009 19:10

Oh gods! Gold veined mirror tiles! Orange shag carpeting! AAAAAAAAAAAUGH! I *looked* at that house! Smile


I babysat in that house. How we date ourselves by these experiences . . .!


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