The Home Ownership Thread

[HRoi]

Boomers say you can take my house from my cold dead hands; spending $100k+ to not have to move out.

Meet the boomers who’d rather spend $100k to renovate their homes than risk the frozen housing market: ‘It would be too hard to purchase anything else’

“The growing older demographic is more knowledgeable about renovations and planning for their future needs, especially as they prepare to age in place,” says a luxury bidet company exec.

fortune.com

Mildly interested in the concept of a luxury bidet

 

[double00]

Mildly interested in the concept of a luxury bidet

 

[SixOhNine]

Second - our society is only getting older. It might be a smart investment to make your house more attractive to geriatrics.

Geriatric accommodating design is just good design. We have a special needs kid, so when we were building our house, we made sure that it could accommodate him and any of his special needs friends. It's a zero entry house with wider interior halls and doors, walk in shower, etc. No one even notices those things, but all of it makes living here easier and more pleasant.

We're not planning to age in place, though. We're selling and getting something a lot smaller in some place a lot cooler, on all senses of the word.

 

[double00]

Geriatric accommodating design is just good design. We have a special needs kid, so when we were building our house, we made sure that it could accommodate him and any of his special needs friends. It's a zero entry house with wider interior halls and doors, walk in shower, etc. No one even notices those things, but all of it makes living here easier and more pleasant.

+1000 . integrated accessibility is such an important lodestone for humanistic design

 

[Gibonius]

Geriatric accommodating design is just good design. We have a special needs kid, so when we were building our house, we made sure that it could accommodate him and any of his special needs friends. It's a zero entry house with wider interior halls and doors, walk in shower, etc. No one even notices those things, but all of it makes living here easier and more pleasant.

We're not planning to age in place, though. We're selling and getting something a lot smaller in some place a lot cooler, on all senses of the word.

My in-laws have a gigantic house and use maybe like half the space in it, but they're never going to leave. They've already talked about putting an elevator in if mobility restrictions get to them.

It'll take something huge to get my parents to leave their place, but my dad has already said that whoever owns it next is already in for an experience. They're either going to really love gardens or haul out tens of tons of landscaping boulders lol.

 

[Piobaire]

Something for the Boomers to remember: if the spouse dies you have a calendar year to sell, still get the deceased spouse's cap gains exemption, plus 50% of the value of the house gets the step up in basis.

 

[brokencycle]

Something for the Boomers to remember: if the spouse dies you have a calendar year to sell, still get the deceased spouse's cap gains exemption, plus 50% of the value of the house gets the step up in basis.

She's worth more to me in lifetime income tax reductions.

 

[nootje]

Boomers say you can take my house from my cold dead hands; spending $100k+ to not have to move out.

Meet the boomers who’d rather spend $100k to renovate their homes than risk the frozen housing market: ‘It would be too hard to purchase anything else’

“The growing older demographic is more knowledgeable about renovations and planning for their future needs, especially as they prepare to age in place,” says a luxury bidet company exec.

fortune.com

This sounds good and all, but only works if the mind doesn’t go. My mother build a house for exactly this purpose. I have had to move her out just a week ago because she broke her hip for the second time, due to her forgetting stuff because of dementia.

My point is that the place might be perfect for getting old in, but if you lose your ability to drive you’ll get lonely very quickly, and if you lose your mind no place is safe.

I’d much rather see old folks move into communities, it probably adds to their QOL as well.

 

[beargonefishing]

You can almost break a toe just by looking at it.

Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins - Core77

I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision: That's the Wabi-Sabi bed, by furniture designer Ethan Stebbins. The wood is White Ash, and the

www.core77.com

 

[Joffrey]

I regularly stub my toe against my wooden bed so I hurt just looking at that.

 

[double00]

You can almost break a toe just by looking at it.

Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins - Core77

I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision: That's the Wabi-Sabi bed, by furniture designer Ethan Stebbins. The wood is White Ash, and the

www.core77.com

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needs a pounding promontory . and a Rock of Cuck

 

[HRoi]

God dammit…”wabi-sabi” is a word that’s now going down the road of “curated”, isn’t it?

 

[jcman311]

You can almost break a toe just by looking at it.

Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins - Core77

I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision: That's the Wabi-Sabi bed, by furniture designer Ethan Stebbins. The wood is White Ash, and the

www.core77.com

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Can I get a pic of the matching cuck chair please?

 

[venividivicibj]

You can almost break a toe just by looking at it.

Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins - Core77

I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision: That's the Wabi-Sabi bed, by furniture designer Ethan Stebbins. The wood is White Ash, and the

www.core77.com

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Hey, at least the corners are rounded - can't count the number of times I've stubbed my toe on a sharp ass corner

 

[Fueco]

Can I get a pic of the matching cuck chair please?

What are you going to stub on that?