Certainly could be natural. Looks like a polished slice of a puddingstone-style conglomerate. Big old cobbles, though.
Conglomerate isn't "natural" in the sense I mean, though. If you put a bunch of stones into cement and then slice it up, I would consider that "manufactured to look that way."
Edit: ok I read further down the wiki article, the first paragraph made it sound like putting stones into cement. But it's a naturally occurring process that does that? OK. Still hideous.
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"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
It's slightly mind-blowing to consider how much it costs for them to cover their walls in custom stone pieces for each wall instead of tiles. Especially since tile - even tile of that same stone - would have been so much prettier.
Whatever kind of stone the last picture is, white with gold or brown shot through it, it looks exactly like plastic.
The kitchen stone is unsalvageable, but does that stone come naturally that way from the earth, or did they manufacture it to look so hideous?
That has to be manufactured to look so ugly, right?!
I don't hate the last one, and the very first one is actually kind of nice...just not on that scale. The red is bad and should feel bad. The yellow. I dunno, my gut reaction is ambivalence. Rest assured though, I'm sure my wife would find those all hideous. When we went paint shopping we discovered/decided that my brain does not in any way process color the way hers does, and I'm convinced I see color somehow wrongly.
I think all of those could look beautiful in the right context/application. Which is... not that.
Yeah, I think if it had been used for just the floors, or a single flat wall all those stone could work for something (maybe not the kitchen and bar stones, I don't like them).
But they all are so busy and have so much contrast and that is combined with all the little details and faceting on the walls and columns and that just does not work.
Like, look at the Barcelona pavilion by Mies van der Rohe as a pretty famous example.
It's slightly mind-blowing to consider how much it costs for them to cover their walls in custom stone pieces for each wall instead of tiles. Especially since tile - even tile of that same stone - would have been so much prettier.
Whatever kind of stone the last picture is, white with gold or brown shot through it, it looks exactly like plastic.
The kitchen stone is unsalvageable, but does that stone come naturally that way from the earth, or did they manufacture it to look so hideous?
That has to be manufactured to look so ugly, right?!
I don't hate the last one, and the very first one is actually kind of nice...just not on that scale. The red is bad and should feel bad. The yellow. I dunno, my gut reaction is ambivalence. Rest assured though, I'm sure my wife would find those all hideous. When we went paint shopping we discovered/decided that my brain does not in any way process color the way hers does, and I'm convinced I see color somehow wrongly.
Would you care to elaborate on this? I'm just curious, so if not that's totally fine
Except to an actual believable degree. Like, I'll say a shade looks purple, and she'll be like, "nah it's more wine, there's too much red" and I'm like "...???" and just agree.
Basically shades of red/purple and shades of blue/green I have a hard time distinguishing very slim differences. It's like, ever hear two musical notes, and when you hear them together you know they're different, but you can't really tell which is higher and which is lower pitch? It's like that. The ability to differentiate specific shades is different between us, either mine's below average or hers' above. Probably both. But she also paints, so she's likely a little more practiced.
I just get her back by playing music and quizzing her on where the down/up beats are. She has no ability to "find 1" (the first beat of the measure). I was in band all through school so it's just ingrained in me anymore.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
That kind of color differentiation is definitely a skill you can learn, and blending your own colors is the fastest way to do it. You know how at the paint desk at a hardware store, there are like two whole bays of nothing but shades of off-white? When you're first starting out, all those colors are infuriatingly interchangable, and you have no idea why they're always the ones that customers are mad about and trying to return.
And then after six months of mixing paint, just about everyone can tell you which colors you'd blend to get that shade, and have a pretty good guess at the actual ratio. Even though you're talking about a few drops of tint in a gallon of white paint. And they can definitely tell which one will look like a nice warmish white on a bookshelf but look like the ghost of Pepto Bismol if you try to paint a whole room with it.
I mean, the customers won't ever believe you until they have you ruin four gallons of paint and try it themselves, but it's a neat feeling to have your sensorium expand like that.
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MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
With anything like paint colors or furniture/rugs, etc. I may not be able to describe what I like, but I can instantly say if I like it or not at least. Usually works out ok for shopping with wife.
When we were repainting our basement, i couldn't tell why those four samples of light green were different, but immediately liked one over the others. Wife is like Tox's, talking about how one is warmer or more red tones, etc.
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Oh, thank god. I'd have hated to find that I wasted hundreds of hours of my one wild and precious life at the paint desk without something to show for it.
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I started that test and had to stop almost immediately, every time I moved something around what I thought was in place previously didn't look the same anymore.
I think all of those could look beautiful in the right context/application. Which is... not that.
Yeah, I think if it had been used for just the floors, or a single flat wall all those stone could work for something (maybe not the kitchen and bar stones, I don't like them).
But they all are so busy and have so much contrast and that is combined with all the little details and faceting on the walls and columns and that just does not work.
Like, look at the Barcelona pavilion by Mies van der Rohe as a pretty famous example.
Yeah, I could see the piss marble looking ok as an accent wall somewhere. Even the head cheese marble looks ok as the backsplash, just needs different floors, non-shiny cabinets, and more neutral counters.
Oh, thank god. I'd have hated to find that I'd wasted hundreds of hours of my one wild and beautiful life at the paint desk without something to show for it.
Wow yeah the monitor quality makes a huge difference. I couldn't see the difference on some of those pink ones, but as soon as I moved it to my other high quality monitor instead of my web browsing monitor it was night and day difference.
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MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
I got the exact same result as Rolo, a 2, between the 14 and 15. There were two colors on each of the 4 things that I just could not differentiate between at all.
If you enjoyed shifting colors around there's a game/app called I Love Hue where that is the entire point.
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Hmm. I also got a zero on that. My wife and I disagree on what color something is fairly often, and I've always assumed that I'm the one who's been wrong even though it's felt like I couldn't be at times.
Now to get her to take it as well.
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We found new construction being done in an area just outside where we were looking. Theres not much there but houses, but its in our price range and we can like...customize our house.
We found new construction being done in an area just outside where we were looking. Theres not much there but houses, but its in our price range and we can like...customize our house.
We have a friend hooking us up with a realtor.
Its happening. Dear god.
As an engineer my preferred options with a long term house was a new build or something we could gut to the studs. Sadly in this market, there is nothing in the latter category that wasn't scooped up by some flipper asap, so we went with a new build as well. The idea of being able to run Cat in wall to all the rooms and make sure there are plenty of outlets makes up for the stupid 30 year water/sewer line costs.
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Yeah, it's nice not to have to worry about the wiring, too. The first house I ever bought had like one or two ungrounded two-prong outlets per room. The second time I told my realtor that I would not be looking at any homes that had not been rewired more recently than 1990 or so.
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Conglomerate isn't "natural" in the sense I mean, though. If you put a bunch of stones into cement and then slice it up, I would consider that "manufactured to look that way."
Edit: ok I read further down the wiki article, the first paragraph made it sound like putting stones into cement. But it's a naturally occurring process that does that? OK. Still hideous.
I have good news, one of my cats will make your bathroom look like that for free.
I don't hate the last one, and the very first one is actually kind of nice...just not on that scale. The red is bad and should feel bad. The yellow. I dunno, my gut reaction is ambivalence. Rest assured though, I'm sure my wife would find those all hideous. When we went paint shopping we discovered/decided that my brain does not in any way process color the way hers does, and I'm convinced I see color somehow wrongly.
Yeah, I think if it had been used for just the floors, or a single flat wall all those stone could work for something (maybe not the kitchen and bar stones, I don't like them).
But they all are so busy and have so much contrast and that is combined with all the little details and faceting on the walls and columns and that just does not work.
Like, look at the Barcelona pavilion by Mies van der Rohe as a pretty famous example.
Would you care to elaborate on this? I'm just curious, so if not that's totally fine
Basically this is me and my wife:
Except to an actual believable degree. Like, I'll say a shade looks purple, and she'll be like, "nah it's more wine, there's too much red" and I'm like "...???" and just agree.
Basically shades of red/purple and shades of blue/green I have a hard time distinguishing very slim differences. It's like, ever hear two musical notes, and when you hear them together you know they're different, but you can't really tell which is higher and which is lower pitch? It's like that. The ability to differentiate specific shades is different between us, either mine's below average or hers' above. Probably both. But she also paints, so she's likely a little more practiced.
I just get her back by playing music and quizzing her on where the down/up beats are. She has no ability to "find 1" (the first beat of the measure). I was in band all through school so it's just ingrained in me anymore.
And then after six months of mixing paint, just about everyone can tell you which colors you'd blend to get that shade, and have a pretty good guess at the actual ratio. Even though you're talking about a few drops of tint in a gallon of white paint. And they can definitely tell which one will look like a nice warmish white on a bookshelf but look like the ghost of Pepto Bismol if you try to paint a whole room with it.
I mean, the customers won't ever believe you until they have you ruin four gallons of paint and try it themselves, but it's a neat feeling to have your sensorium expand like that.
When we were repainting our basement, i couldn't tell why those four samples of light green were different, but immediately liked one over the others. Wife is like Tox's, talking about how one is warmer or more red tones, etc.
this is so much easier on a better monitor
Oh, thank god. I'd have hated to find that I wasted hundreds of hours of my one wild and precious life at the paint desk without something to show for it.
Yeah, I could see the piss marble looking ok as an accent wall somewhere. Even the head cheese marble looks ok as the backsplash, just needs different floors, non-shiny cabinets, and more neutral counters.
Wow yeah the monitor quality makes a huge difference. I couldn't see the difference on some of those pink ones, but as soon as I moved it to my other high quality monitor instead of my web browsing monitor it was night and day difference.
It was the first row I did worst on
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Neat! I attribute this to having a monitor literally made for illustrators.
OK I did it.
If you enjoyed shifting colors around there's a game/app called I Love Hue where that is the entire point.
Now to get her to take it as well.
We found new construction being done in an area just outside where we were looking. Theres not much there but houses, but its in our price range and we can like...customize our house.
We have a friend hooking us up with a realtor.
Its happening. Dear god.
As an engineer my preferred options with a long term house was a new build or something we could gut to the studs. Sadly in this market, there is nothing in the latter category that wasn't scooped up by some flipper asap, so we went with a new build as well. The idea of being able to run Cat in wall to all the rooms and make sure there are plenty of outlets makes up for the stupid 30 year water/sewer line costs.