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dat homeonershit slippery slope.Dbest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:57 pm Originally I was thinking I'd throw laminate in that front room and surprise her with that. Well 3 different floor surfaces on one level would look weird, so I might as well do the whole floor. If I"m gonna do the whole floor I might as well do actual hardwood which adds value to the home. Well the bathroom has a big ugly vanity that sits empty, I'd like to replace it with a pedestal sink so I should gut the bathroom before the floor goes in rather than flooring around he vanity then changing it late. Well if the baseboard all has to come off I might as well replace it with 5 1/4" hard pine. While the baseboard is off that's the perfect time to paint. With new paint and some color added that's the time to change the window treatments. Since the bathroom sink is coming out I might as well do everything in there. If the bathroom light fixture is being replaced with a brushed nickel one I might as well to all of the light fixtures and the ceiling fan on the main level. Since there is new paint and window treatments we need some throw pillows and an area rug. A bench turned into a whole hell of a lot more
I wanted an accent color, it really does pop. I love the result.
MexicanYarisTK wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:27 pm looks good. that ski lift really compliments the xmas tree.
Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:54 am
dat homeonershit slippery slope.
5/7 writeup, enjoyed reading. Thanks.
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[sarcasm] but making it pretty adds zero value, total waste of money and effort[/sarcasm]
Yeah the location is truly what sold us on the property. we wanted a 3 car garage and a finished basement but we couldn't pass up the view and have single track out the front door.
That's a bit too generalized. Dark colors definitely shrink a space when they are warm colors, its not nearly as drastic when using cool colors. Our gray isn't super dark but ts not light either and we went kind of a dark gray with the floors but it look bigger and more open then it ever did before now that the spaces aren't divided by breaks in the flooring. Big bright contrasting baseboard helps elongate the appearance of walls as well. I used Bear Marque semi gloss for all the interior wall paints, the blue is calypso blueAcid666 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:47 am
We wanted darker grey walls, but decided against dark colors because we heard from everywhere that it would make the areas look smaller. We went with bright white accents (baseboards and trim) and a slight grey with a hint of blue.
In the master we put a dark accent wall, but I think we want color next time we redo things. We may look into a blue like that.
yea, id mtb errery day if that was in my neighborhoodDbest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:34 pm The single track is fun but it is small. There’s only like 4 miles of trails but it’s setup nicely. There is the east side and the west side. The west side has a handful of trails that run long way from north to south that loop around and insect each other so you do have a nice variety of routes you can take that keep it fun. The east side has 4 trails, the red line, green line, blue line, and black line. The redlin is your uphill to ride to the top then green blue black are downhill that get progressively harder. Green is easy, wide switchbacks lots of trail that’s side to side to keep speeds low, small banked corners, some rollers, stuff like that. Blue is a fast flowy high G force roller coaster of a route down. Black is basically the jump line. There fire road that connects the 2 sides. It’s certainly isn’t a destination compared to typical Colorado riding but you can’t ask for more when you can see it from your house.
Before having a kid that’s what we did. Get 30-40 minutes of dirt in afterwork before dinner. With a kid it’s cycling has become pretty much limited to paved paths with my son in a trailer. It’s goong to be awesome for him to grow up with that outside the house though.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 6:23 pmyea, id mtb errery day if that was in my neighborhoodDbest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:34 pm The single track is fun but it is small. There’s only like 4 miles of trails but it’s setup nicely. There is the east side and the west side. The west side has a handful of trails that run long way from north to south that loop around and insect each other so you do have a nice variety of routes you can take that keep it fun. The east side has 4 trails, the red line, green line, blue line, and black line. The redlin is your uphill to ride to the top then green blue black are downhill that get progressively harder. Green is easy, wide switchbacks lots of trail that’s side to side to keep speeds low, small banked corners, some rollers, stuff like that. Blue is a fast flowy high G force roller coaster of a route down. Black is basically the jump line. There fire road that connects the 2 sides. It’s certainly isn’t a destination compared to typical Colorado riding but you can’t ask for more when you can see it from your house.