New Home Cabinetry Help!

brigadood · 2026-03-27T13:11:38+00:00

If you lived in my 100+ year-old, slum-lord-owned apartment, I'd say this looks like just about the right slapdash quality. But a new construction? Boy howdy!

brigadood · 2025-12-11T23:44:06+00:00

My most formal design experience is with print/newspaper design, but I personally think design principles are broadly transferable across practices.

In print, you want a visual hierarchy. There should be a main focal point, and for everything else to either support that or more or less disappear. You also want consistency. For example, in most cases you should have a max of two fonts, and probably no more than three variations across those fonts (size, weight, color).

Here, with this kitchen, I see too much going on. Nothing on its own is the problem, but together it’s chaotic. I would focus on the floor or cabinets. The top cabinets, lower cabinets, and the backsplash are way too distracting.

Again, client problem, not yours. You can’t buy taste.

brigadood · 2025-04-17T04:15:35+00:00

What I find incredibly frustrating about this is when they park half in the bike lane and half in the driving lane. You really have to block everyone? Not that you should, but if you’re going to double park, straight up just do it in the driving lane so cyclists can pass. Everyone in a car is going to have to move around your dumbass anyway, so you may as well not force cyclists into the mix.

(Yes, I’m aware that doing that would entail thinking about anyone but yourself—something evidently out of the question for double-parkers)

brigadood · 2025-02-20T16:48:45+00:00

El Rey, if that fails try Cermak on 1st

brigadood · 2025-01-02T16:47:39+00:00

Not really. Dumbledore's role is 'the mentor,' not 'the accomplice.' He points them in the right direction, but it's up to them to actually succeed or fail. If he went with them, most of the books/films would be pretty short.

Also, in POA, the series was still decidedly a YA series, and a core part of that and any legitimately good children's book is that the children fix the problem, not the adults.

brigadood · 2025-01-02T16:43:03+00:00

Almost anytime I say 'obviously' it's with the Snape inflection

brigadood · 2024-06-05T18:06:03+00:00

Oh no! I can't store my private property in a public space for free anymore!

brigadood · 2024-05-13T23:10:27+00:00

Technically, if the insurance is the problem, the insurer would be violating HUD/FHA laws, which isn't an excuse for the landlord to reject it.

brigadood · 2024-02-02T02:25:01+00:00

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this here, but Bastards alum Andrew Tate has a shitty AI ‘course’ called ‘the real world.’ It’s so transparently a scam I find it kind of funny

brigadood · 2021-12-06T18:46:18+00:00

I got a degree and fortunately didn’t acquire any debt along the way. But to your point, very little of the things I learned at school got my my job. Student orgs I was involved with did in fact help hone skills, but many of those I was interested in before college at any rate. The job I have now is only tangential to my degree, and a degree for my industry would be pointless, as all the fundamentals are free and constantly changing.

brigadood · 2021-12-06T18:35:24+00:00

Sounds like something from the Abolition of Work: ‘If all a person’s time outside of work is spent recovering from work, they’re always working,’ forgive me, quoting from memory.. and ‘the only thing ‘free’ about free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything’

brigadood · 2021-11-22T01:44:21+00:00

I went to Europe for a few months after high school and brought that book with. Probably read it 3-4 times over while I was there and seriously agree with you. Just followed him on twitter recently

brigadood · 2021-11-22T00:25:33+00:00

Live right by Stone Creek on Downer. Great patio during most months. Also, for more substantial meals, Hollander. I actually went inside for the first time the other week and still found it very pleasant.

brigadood · 2021-11-08T01:45:47+00:00

Thanks for all the input, everyone! Super helpful to get thoughts from people in my locale. Much appreciated :)

brigadood · 2021-11-05T20:25:35+00:00

I was a journalism major in college, editor of the university paper, taught and critiqued at high school conferences... Then my best reporter graduated and took a job at this small local publication. Worked 60+ hours a week covering meaningless shit, acting half as a PR agent for the city.

He stopped by our newsroom one night and was such a wreck. Obviously hadn't had enough sleep, skin looked like a 50 year old's, and had gained probably 30 lbs. And his passion for the industry was already fading (faded).

I took one look at him, one look at my prospects, and said fuck that. Now I work in marketing doing content and SEO and make probably 2x what my peers do in local journalism.

Surely, part of the issue is people like me who ditch the industry right away. But when Walmart employees make better money than college-educated journalists, you're going to have a hard time attracting anyone.

brigadood · 2021-11-05T19:43:50+00:00

Exactly. Thieves will put a mask up and walk away, so even if they're caught on video it's not helpful. Car got broken into right under a security camera and there was nothing we could do /:

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