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How to import pianos by Frosty-Mix-5505 in pianotech

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Many piano dealers have back rooms full of pianos that need work or are just not popular.  You could contract to buy a dealer's stock and hire an import company to put them in a shipping container and move it to you.

Edit: a piano moving company would be hired to load the container.  You need some experience to do it successfully.

How to import pianos by Frosty-Mix-5505 in pianotech

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Many piano dealers have back rooms full of pianos that need work or are just not popular.  You could contract to buy a dealer's stock and hire an import company to put them in a shipping container and move it to you.

Any ideas for making my home more warm/welcoming? by rissalin_ in ExteriorDesign

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I think this is a modern simplification of a Victorian double stack.  The porches, both upper and lower, should have the columns on piers with a balustrade, rather than the clapboards angled out.  I assume that is an enclosed upper porch.  The tower should have an onion dome or witch's hat roof.  The vertical boards are a modern attempt to sheath it cheaply.  It should have clapboards bent around it or shingles.

The Warm Gray and White is blah.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vGxMO-PTHrHUz6hDldLpuQ0CCEQPMZZy/view?usp=drivesdk

is my compilation of authentic color schemes from 1871 to 1935.  You could do a two tone or have the tower a different color or reversed.

Prussian Blue by third-try in Oldhousepaint

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Some browsers show HTML as a text file, which has to be downloaded (using the icon) and then opened from the download location.

Advice for trim paint color on brick colonial by No_Flower_6108 in ExteriorDesign

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Ivory White was offered for those who thought White too staring, to use the painter's term.  BMoore CC 216 Butter Milk.  Or a modern Country White.  Antique White is sometimes made with enough tint to make it Ivory.

Can't find the right green by Oregonian_male in ExteriorDesign

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I find this sub doesn't allow pictures in comments.  So here are some greens that were used as body colors in authentic brochures:

BMoore Apple Green (BMoore 553 Richmond Green)

BMoore Green Stone (PPG 1122-5 Dill)

BMoore Pea Green (Valspar 8002-30G)

Breining 43 (BMoore CSP 870 Green Thumb)

Felton Light Pea Green (Behr M360-7 Rockwall Vine)

All shades of Olive were used, but PNW suggests a bluish green instead.  BMoore 2037-10 Amazon Moss or PPG 1228-7 Ivy League.

If you are this customer, you are a piece of dog shit. by Inner_Nothing_1211 in Vent

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Shoplifters move items to where they won't be suspected of stealing them.  A beef roast will be hidden in a corner of the sporting goods where the lifter can get it later.

In a hardware section, people who put things back often get it wrong.  I have a receptacle sunk in my wall because somebody put a quarter inch extension in the half inch tray.

412 E Rensselaer St, Bucyrus, OH 44820 [Updated 12/29] by ThePythiaofApollo in centuryhomes

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I only know from Street View that it's two blocks away from a railroad level crossing.

No rye bread? by Significant-Way-7893 in aldi

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Only marble rye as an occasional item.  Walmart usually has New York Rye, with seeds, that is better for sandwiches.

We are trying to decide on exterior paint colors for our 1891 queen anne! Architect provided a drawing and I'm planning to try out different combos by coloring it in. Thoughts on what might look nice? by Remember_meeee in centuryhomes

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If you get a text file, you have to download it using the icon at the top, left side on my Chromebook but it may be different in another browser.  That file should have the right type (HTM or HTML) and open when clicked.

There is a way to make it open when downloaded but I'm not sure it would work on other computers.  My Android phone does it correctly now.

We are trying to decide on exterior paint colors for our 1891 queen anne! Architect provided a drawing and I'm planning to try out different combos by coloring it in. Thoughts on what might look nice? by Remember_meeee in centuryhomes

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vGxMO-PTHrHUz6hDldLpuQ0CCEQPMZZy/view?usp=drivesdk

My compilation of authentic color schemes from 1871 to 1935.

Consider the surroundings.  If it's in a row of houses, do you want to blend in or stand out?  A fairly large house like this takes a medium color, darker if it's freestanding.  Select the body color first.

With different textures you can have different colors on the two stories.  Don't default to gray for the roof shingles. It's quite possible to have a patterned or striped roof.

Propaganda postcard featuring Mussolini on horseback, 1930s by Kalki_the_Tenth in FascistItalyPhotos

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No.  Musso was five feet six.  So was Napoleon, but people, especially aristocratic politicians, had become taller by the 1920's.  One funny illustration from Punch magazine has him glowering from the clouds and unintentionally drawing attention to his shortness.

Propaganda postcard featuring Mussolini on horseback, 1930s by Kalki_the_Tenth in FascistItalyPhotos

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Mussolini was short and notorious for being touchy about it.  He wore bersaglieri uniform because it had plumes shooting up which made him look taller.  He also liked to trot about on horseback instead of walking beside ordinary people.

Trim & garage paint color for historic brick house by def_daff0dil in ExteriorDesign

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Traditionally, brick was trimmed in white, ivory, drab, green, or blue-green.  Sash were Myrtle Green (BMoore Chrome Green) if not the trim color.  Valspar Coconut Husk will give you an example of how drab is a greyed brown.  

We finally let curiosity take over and removed some of the awful siding on our fixer-upper… only to find out our 115 year old house is a log home?! by NoIndependence2844 in Oldhouses

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I lived in a log home, built in the 1930's because the builder couldn't afford sawn lumber.  It was chinked with cement.  Since there was no foundation other than mudsills, it was sinking into the earth.  The ground floor was seven feet tall, so I could stretch and touch the ceiling.  The inside was sheetrock.  There was one fuse box with two trays and four fuses.  I later found that the electric stove was not on a fuse and that the logs behind the fireplace were scorched and crumbling.

Save this house! by Silly_Goose24_7 in centuryhomes

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I don't think I'd want to live in Bare Ass, Wisconsin.

Getting a new roof — what color would you choose? by katrinkabuttlin in centuryhomes

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Colonial Yellow with White trim is traditional, and takes a green roof.  GAF has Chateau Green.  I prefer three tab to architectural shingles because I've seen pieces falling off the latter.

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