I want the American version of this couch!
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...(Homeowner) Luke says he refused to sign the delivery forms after it was suggested he cut off his bannisters...
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That customer sounds insufferable. Might well be the fault of the company but him going on about how much his house cost (and the sofa) makes him sound like a right tosspot.
I can hear that picture
This is why it can be easy to find a free piano. You can take it if you can take it.
Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you'll take it out of someone's house they'll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.
PIVOT!!!!
PIVEHHHHHHT
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!
"Hey Ross, when you were yelling 'piv-AT piv-AT,' what did you mean?"
Just take the feet off. It'll go.
Is this Dirk Gently's house?
I have a reservation at Esprit de Escalaire for 3 weeks ago if you're free.
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My grandpa got a pool table in his basement in a very similar stair condition. To this day, I have no idea how beyond the fact that he had a come along tied to a 4x4 across the basement door. We just left it down there when we sold the house.
I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.
the legs come off a grand, they turn it 90d and wheel it on a cart. seen this done, required tall doors tho.
Hmmm interesting. Still sounds very difficult.
it's quite the workout even with a bunch of big guys and the right equipment.
We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.
We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.
First they buy and place the piano, THEN they build the house.
There is a pullout bed in that couch, which makes this even more difficult because it is heavier, pops open when tipped, and will put you in the hospital.
Wow! A math meme! Is this the 3d version of the unsolved moving sofa problem?
It's a "Friend's" meme.
You haven't been doomscrolling enough lately.
It's also mentioned on the wiki page, I'm astonished it could be solved finally, lets wait for the reviews!
Damn, I am a math graduate and somehow I do not know problems like this
There is plenty of room to rotate it over the newel.
Do a barrel roll!
This looks a lot like a house i lived in during my studies. We had to known down the rail... :))
ETA: i mean it REALLY looks like the same staircase, including the little door.
I love older homes because they were built to last.
I hate them because you can't move anything anywhere without a saw.
Per the article posted in the comments, this is a new-build. In the UK, 90% of them are built in the same style that uses a lot of traditional features.
I do agree with the old homes being awkward though. Our staircase is straight, but narrow and very steep. The house itself was probably well built, but the decades of renovations made to it are not necessarily well done. We've found that we've had to strip rooms down to the brick and dirt floor to do it properly.
Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes werenβt repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasnβt uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.
In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.
Interesting. There are a ton of homes here built (starting about 1920) that still stand. And trust me they were built to last. Minor upkeep and they are still good today, but then everything is going to require minor upkeep.
Survivors bias. You don't see the old houses that weren't built well because they're gone.
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My house was built in the late 19th century with an expansion added on in the 40s. The build quality of the original part of the house compared to the later built section is night and day, with the newest part of the house being the part that has aged so much worse due to trying out this new wood framing thing they started really getting into after the war
Wood framing has been around a lot longer than that?
Specifically light framing which was pioneered in the early 20th century and became the dominant construction method in North America during the post-war housing boom.
... and no 90ΒΊ angle is actually 90ΒΊ
I feel this one in my soul.
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When moving into our house years ago I got our couch stuck in the stairs. I had to sawzall it into 3 pieces to get it out and take it to the dump
Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn't remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, "what the actually FUCK!?" there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, "surprise!"
She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.
Looks to me like they were trying to get it down narrow stairs into a finished basement. I've been in the same situation many a time. This is solvable, though still a pain in the ass even when you get it just right.
It always felt like something was missing from the stairs. This wasn't it, but it was a good try.
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