How do you tell someone

[Rich Engelhardt]

what you think of the new kitchen they are so proud of?

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[Zachary Hoyt]

I would say "Isn't that something!"

[Curt Harms]

Good execution (great job!) leaving unsaid that the design sux.

[glenn bradley]

Ayyy man, dat is charp. Eeet matches dee interior of my chort wit da twice-pipes.

[Ronnie Hurst]

"You must be proud"

[Patrick McCarthy]

I did not do a google image search, but I ASSUME that is an old image of a kitchen located somewhere far from NE Ohio, and the guy sho built is dead by now. So, to answer your question: You don’t, because they can’t hear you.

[Bryan Lisowski]

I wouldn’t say anything, the whole time thinking, money doesn’t buy good taste.

[Ronald Blue]

Amazing! Do the doors come off to make a bed?

[Paul F Franklin]

As a female comedian whose name I don't recall once said: "If that's what you were going for, you got a good one"

[Roger Feeley]

Yikes! Maybe it belonged to the owner ov an upholstery business.

[Lisa Starr]

I'd just say something like "Wow, that's one of a kind. You must be proud of the effort it took to create."

[Lee DeRaud]

"It must take a lot of Armor-All to keep it that shiny..."

[Brian Tymchak]

Even my wife was at a loss for words when she saw that.

Can't imagine the oven was turned on even once after the makeover as I don't see any melted material.

[Doug Garson]

Very carefully. :eek:

[Alan Rutherford]

Those urns are the remains of the 3 people who said what they really thought.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

That's very unique and the upholstery is well tufted!

[Stan Calow]

It depends on who these people are and what, if any, relationship you want to maintain.

[Frederick Skelly]

Is that the kitchen in, well, a "house of ill repute"? Or a strip club?

I guess I'd smile wide and ask where he's going to install the dance pole. :) :) :)

[Mel Fulks]

That was not easy to do, but they tufted it out . Way out ! Federal government now requires that wall treatment in homes with Poltergeists.

[Lee DeRaud]

Is that the kitchen in, well, a "house of ill repute"? Or a strip club?

I guess I'd smile wide and ask where he's going to install the dance pole. :) :) :)My old dentist's office had a restroom that got similar comments. Apparently he'd done a bunch of dental work for a contractor and the patient paid off his fee "in trade", with the stipulation that he could use materials left over from a previous job. Black marble tile on the floor, dark mirrored tile on the walls and ceiling, gold-plated fixtures...I always expected to see a razor blade and powder residue on the counter.

[Kris Cook]

Maybe they get in a lot of fights in the kitchen...

[John Goodin]

Wow! I don't have the ability to build something like that!

[Mike Soaper]

Makes me wonder if the chairs around the kitchen table were tuffted lazyboyish recliners

[Bruce Page]

Liberace would be proud.

[Jim Koepke]

It makes a small galley style kitchen look big.

It looks like a kitchen for a pimpmobile.

jtk

[Prashun Patel]

I would just say it looks great. Costs you nothing, hurts no one. It just validates your friend on work he probably cannot undo anyway.

Every baby, prom picture, and kitchen of a friend is just gorgeous to me.

[Myk Rian]

My words? You must be kidding.

[John K Jordan]

I would just say it looks great. Costs you nothing, hurts no one. It just validates your friend on work he probably cannot undo anyway.
Every baby, prom picture, and kitchen of a friend is just gorgeous to me.

Excellent advice, reveals great wisdom.

[Mel Fulks]

I just remembered that when I was a kid the custom car magazines were full of “diamond tufted “ car seats. Everybody liked them.

[William Lessenberry]

I would be honest. "Wow, looks like saltines!"
BillL

[Brian Elfert]

The stove looks like those sold for use in RVs.

[Steve Demuth]

All of our friends and visitors have complimented our home, notwithstanding that none of them have or would build or buy one like it. There is a lesson in that, somewhere.

[Erik Loza]

Liberace would be proud.

I actually spit out my coffee on this one!

[Jim Koepke]

The stove looks like those sold for use in RVs.

That's what gave me the impression of a pimpmobile.

jtk

[Frederick Skelly]

So Rich, how about telling us the story behind this post? Did you just pull that pic off the web somewhere, or do you know this person?

[Bill Dufour]

Reminds me of the molded plastic Spanish style trim from 1970. I bet the living room has paintings on velvet. As Richardo would say made with rich Corinthian leather. Was that a code for naughyde.
Bill D

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

Oh come on, no different than when a wife asks "how's this look?" After a year, she knows how to interpret the real meaning of certain phrases like "Honey, you look good no matter what you wear." This year my wife lost 30 pounds and is almost back to the sexy figure she had when we married. In an effort to help support and encourage her struggle with weight, I would say things when she wore a new pair of smaller size jeans, "Wow, what a nice butt, etc." I made an effort to keep it up the whole time and then recently things just got so hectic, I forgot to say it a couple times. All of a sudden, I get questioned why I don't like her figure with the weight off. For future reference: No matter what I say, I cannot win.

[Jim Koepke]

Candy just now looked at it and said, "the oven is screaming."

jtk

[Bert Kemp]

I actually spit out my coffee on this one!

I thought it was a standard SMC rule to not drink coffee while viewing pictures or the levity thread:rolleyes:

[Alex Zeller]

Maybe the wife tends to throw stuff at the husband when mad. Would would want to see a dent in cherry from a cast iron pan?

[Kev Williams]

One man's hideous is another man's gorgeous, to each his own!

How many of your parents- or YOU- :D - have bought something resembling these?
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*** bonus points***
if you can name these 2 cars below, especially the white one :)
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IMO, those tuck 'n' rolled cabinets are MUCH easier to look at ;)

[Mike Soaper]

Those cabinets brought to mind a far distant post from a cabinet installer/maker? who said something along the lines of "if i install another "golden oak" cabinet i'm going to "lose it"", because he had installed so many that he found them extreemly boring.

So maybe he installed it, or did lose it and needed a padded kitchen?

[Mike Soaper]

green car - edsel
white and red car w/ roof rack - AMC pacer

[Jim Koepke]

Flat sided grey car - Citroen 2cv (deux chevaux vapuer)

I owned a Citroen Méhari (recreational version) for a very short time.

jtk

[Rich Engelhardt]

So Rich, how about telling us the story behind this post? Did you just pull that pic off the web somewhere, or do you know this person?
I just ran across this picture and figured this is probably the most "anti-wood" picture of kitchen cabinets possible & my fellow wood-nuts wood get a kick out of it. ;)

[Tom Bain]

I would be polite in response, but at the same time thinking to myself “this is where food goes to die”

[Lee DeRaud]

*** bonus points***
if you can name these 2 cars below, especially the white one :)
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Black one is pretty easy: Aston-Martin Lagonda. File that one under "Seemed like a good idea at the time."
White one, no idea: it's not really that ugly, it's just relentlessly generic. Mid-'80s Olds or Pontiac mid-size if I had to guess.

[Kev Williams]

I KNEW you'd know the Aston-Martin, Lee! :)

Believe it or not, the white car is a (cough) 1980 Dodge Challenger...

[Lee DeRaud]

Believe it or not, the white car is a (cough) 1980 Dodge Challenger...
Had to look that one up: actually a rebadged Mitsubishi...makes as much sense as a 4-door Charger, I guess. Urp.

[Frank Pratt]

I had a similar reaction to that kitchen to what I get from a lot of live edge, epoxy pour river tables :eek:

[Rich Engelhardt]

I had a similar reaction to that kitchen to what I get from a lot of live edge, epoxy pour river tables Somehow I can see that live edge table blending in quite well with those cabinets...they were made for each other. All that's needed is a shag rug and a Harvest Gold stove & refrigerator.

& flocked wallpaper in the dinette with the table......and a lava lamp on the table. No..scratch that. Lava lamps are neat. I like lava lamps....

[George Yetka]

Makes sense, you belong in a padded room.

[Frank Pratt]

Somehow I can see that live edge table blending in quite well with those cabinets...they were made for each other. All that's needed is a shag rug and a Harvest Gold stove & refrigerator.

& flocked wallpaper in the dinette with the table......and a lava lamp on the table. No..scratch that. Lava lamps are neat. I like lava lamps....

But the flocked wallpaper has to be deep crimson. And yes, lava lamps will always be cool.

[Rich Engelhardt]

But the flocked wallpaper has to be deep crimsonLOL! That's what I had in the laundry room of my old house! Somebody had purchased 6 rolls of it from the store I worked at and never came to pick it up. We stuck it in a closeout pile & it sat there for a few years. I finally got sick of moving it around and bought it for like $5 for the whole mess of it, then took it home and hung it in the laundry.

Yep it looked like exactly what you'd think it looked like ;) .

I should also mention - this was about a year after my wife had left and a few years before I met my present wife. No way that stuff would have gone on the wall with either of them around :D

[Rollie Meyers]

A new twist on the joke that safe sex is a padded headboard. One question is that in a trailer? The range looks European or RV sized.

[Tim Tucker]

I am thinking that the designer MUST be the love child of Elvis and Austin Powers.....

[Rick Potter]

Looks like an eastern European hotel suite to me.