#attic storage

[geniewithwifi]

Garage - Craftsman Garage

Large detached workshop garage with four cars in the arts and crafts style

[marzipanandminutiae]

Another Logic Exercise With Marzi

Claim: during the 19th century, homeowners built in "disappointments rooms" in which to chain up/hide disabled or mentally ill children (or modified existing rooms into such), with special features like metal floors with grates or doors that locked from the outside only

Discussion questions:

Most builders were hired locally back then. Do you think that entire crews of builders constructing or renovating these rooms could have been trusted to keep quiet about their existence?

The original "disappointments room" that went viral online was in the 1857 home of Laurie Dumas, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. It featured a metal floor. Would a child trapped in a room with a metal floor make or less obvious noise than one in a room without? What does this mean for the effectiveness of such a room as a hiding-prison?

Above, but with the fact that the room has exterior windows on the front of the house.

The girl they assumed was locked in there- Ruth Carpenter, who died in 1900 at age 5; no known evidence of disability or mental illness -has a very public grave and was therefore known in the community. Is it likely that a child that people wanted to hide away would be publicly acknowledged?

Laurie Dumas was told about "disappointments rooms" by a random lady at the public library. Is that a reliable source?

Would building a purpose-made room to lock someone away be more or less cost-effective and private than just confining them to an existing room in the house or institutionalizing them?

Is there any other sort of use for an attic room that IS attested at the time? Like, say, a nursery, staff bedroom, storage room (coal or otherwise), etc? Could a given alleged disappointments room be explained by one of those known, documented room types?

And once again: am I believing this because it sounds like a horror movie- there literally is a horror movie about this concept, in fact -and I want to believe it even though it falls apart when one applies logic?

[milkandcookies-222]

A very old picture of my Webkinz Pom Pom Kitty, Fuzzy. She was my third ever webkinz. She's currently in storage though 💔

[sandybrett]

How to name your audio drama

"The"

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Human-made location

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Medium of communication, pluralized

[musubiki]

insane to think about how much raw power is collected together in the cats guild and yet from any onlookers perspective it just a bunch of college aged kids living in a house together

[vintagehomecollection]

Gruneke designed his home to be a place of spacious diversity beneath its steeply sloping roof. Beams, rafters, and boards are all white; the built-in storage is minimally designed and functionally effective.

Rooms by Design, 1989

[degenezijde]

I cleaned the hobby room and I'm very happy, but I cannot share a pic bc it's still so messy by my inner Pinterest standards.

[conservethis]

Having just experienced this myself, let me encourage everyone here to check in with their family about where they are storing precious and irreplaceable things like family photos, documents, or other things with sentimental value. Now is the time to move them someplace better, even if they’ve been in that spot for years already. Early intervention can do a lot for preservation. Anything you do now can help prevent worse damage later, or even complete destruction.

Because my in laws just told me they’d been keeping some important colored slides in their garage. In southern California. Slides are made of plastic, it gets hot there, so yes, that was not a good location for storing those sides.

My simple advice: if it’s comfortable for humans, then that’s a good place to store family documents and photos. If you don’t want to be in the attic in summer, or the basement when it’s raining a lot, then the records of your family’s history don’t want to be there either!

Even shorter advice about choosing storage spaces for photos and family artifacts:

Good: air conditioned, dry, dark, not full of bugs, inaccessible to animals (raccoons, pigeons, rats)

Bad: no temperature control, very hot, freezes in winter, damp, leaks when it rains, full of bugs, accessible to other critters (raccoons, pigeons, etc)

[desnayy]

Finally found the pictures of the house! These are old pictures, so things would be changed but it's almost 2am and I don't wanna open up Minecraft rn lmao

So we got the house itself, the sitting room, the kitchen, three different photos of the bathroom lol, the upstairs general room, the actual bedroom for Ai, and the attic space which is storage/enchanting

Obviously with the mods in QSMP, the kitchen and bathroom can be actually furnished, and I would change things in the rest of the house but again, too lazy to actually open Minecraft rn <3

[the-busy-ghost]

Been stressed out for the last couple of weeks by issues with my roof and now it's getting looked at but all I know of the process is what I can hear through my windows.

It sounds like the roofers have just met the spiders.

[purenguyening]

I wish I had masking tape, but the desire to not leave the house is stronger, so I'm just going to have to suck it up and use whatever scotch tape my dad stole from work.

[marzipanandminutiae]

i just reblogged that post about saying nice things abt prev but i wanna send an ask too, so: thank you for being one of the only people to be correct about the winchester mystery house and sarah herself!! so many people spread the stories of her being weird/crazy/whatever when she was just. a woman who suffered some tragedies and liked architecture.

i went on a tour of graceland recently and was intrigued by how they barely talked about elvis as a person, whereas winchester tours are basically a trap where you think you're getting to explore a weird fucked up house but actually you're going to hear about how wonderful sarah winchester was for an hour and if you say anything mean about her design skills one of the tour guides will push you out the door to nowhere.

i go through your winchester tag sometimes when i'm nostalgic and missing the house (i got laid off during quarantine) and it's just nice to see that even people who didn't devote years of their lives to the house can genuinely understand and appreciate it.

I'm so glad it's gotten better! Someone once anonymously told me the guides had to sign a contract saying they would only stick to the story made up by that ridiculous carnie family that bought her house in the 1920s, and even though it was an anon and therefore unverifiable...I believe it, sadly. For Profits often are more about...well, profit. As opposed to history. But it's good to know the guides care about getting the truth out there.

In Sarah Winchester I see a woman whose character assassination for being different(tm) has carried on after death. It's not that she was perfect- far be it from me to lay perfection at the feet of a white 19th-century gun fortune heiress -but she seems like a genuinely caring person in many ways, about her workers and her community. She was an unattached woman of means with an unconventional hobby (architecture), though, and that seems to have made wagging tongues nervous. During her lifetime that meant claiming she thought she'd live forever if construction never ceased (it did, several times), and after- well. The tale of the mad widow fleeing from invisible ghosts has come to prevail.

It feels unfair to me that she should forever be remembered by what her detractors said about her, instead of her own triumphs and setbacks, merits and flaws. And that her beautiful house, where she poured so much love and attention, should be so misrepresented. I'm glad people are trying to fix the narrative.

[cauldronoflove]

[middle-aged man ripping from his extensive lp collection and uploading his favorites to youtube thereby preserving music that likely exists nowhere else on the internet] my favorite kind of guy for the 22nd year in a row. and also my dream life

[crowleyaj]

I moved yesterday and after almost two years of absolute shit wifi I got a fast one and holy shit I am NOT used to this anymore wdym everything loads immediately and a torrent downloads in like 50 seconds

[musubiki]

Didn’t you say once that Oscar was the one who like inherited or bought the place that they run the shop out of and live in? So… is Oscar technically the boss cause he owns the place?

THAT WAS AN IDEA I HAD YEAH!!!!!!!!! i do think its a very funny idea if mochi does not actually own the lease to the building so one of them has the leverage to hold it over her head. cant be mean to oscar otherwise hes gonna kick us out LOL

but i think she does own the actual shop!!! hed be more like a landlord at that point

i had that idea back before lime joined the m34th because reasonably at that point oscar would be the only one with actual income, but actually now that lime has a really good job it wouldnt be too farfetched to say that hes the one who bought the house........hm.....

[simayeeet]

he should be more hostile more often