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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.
 

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Disown is a strong word, but I'm non-contact with a chunk. It probably qualifies as disownment though I suppose. Things like committing a crime against you or someone you love, or a very serious insult/hurtful comment and being non-apologetic/remorseful about it would be things for me.

Repeated abusive/nasty behavior coupled with a lack of remorse would be the same. And that plus the hurtful comments/behavior would be the reasons I have people I don't interact with.

I'm pretty sure allergy issues count too.
 
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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.
Those bastards.
 

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Apparently the security firm I hired to monitor my PC has gone out of business and I have 2 years left on my contract. I'm supposed to call so they can refund me.

I'm half tempted to call and see how they plan on scamming me.
 

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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.
Reminds me of the time we took down a big, healthy ash tree we revived. Boss put an extremely high price on it to dissuade the homeowner from taking it down. Didn't matter. You pay to have the tree revived, it comes back, then you pay an insane amount to take it down. ****** idiot.
 
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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.

That’s too bad. I thought mixed woods were still “in” at the moment. Our house is 11yrs old and we have all white trim but cabinets are darker (not cherry). We even did dark wood blinds in our bedroom because we have darker wood furniture.
 
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That’s too bad. I thought mixed woods were still “in” at the moment. Our house is 11yrs old and we have all white trim but cabinets are darker (not cherry). We even did dark wood blinds in our bedroom because we have darker wood furniture.


We built ours in 03 and went basic (I figured the kids would either destroy it or we’d move by now) so we are a lighter medium oak. No painted wood inside the house, it bothers me having anything painted that doesn’t HAVE to be painted.
 

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We built ours in 03 and went basic (I figured the kids would either destroy it or we’d move by now) so we are a lighter medium oak. No painted wood inside the house, it bothers me having anything painted that doesn’t HAVE to be painted.

My parents’ new build have very little “natural” colored wood other than floors. Cabinets are cream, kitchen island, downstairs bar cabinets, and fireplace surround are black, window trim is white. Only wood is on the stair railing.
 
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We built ours in 03 and went basic (I figured the kids would either destroy it or we’d move by now) so we are a lighter medium oak. No painted wood inside the house, it bothers me having anything painted that doesn’t HAVE to be painted.

My parents’ new build have very little “natural” colored wood other than floors. Cabinets are cream, kitchen island, downstairs bar cabinets, and fireplace surround are black, window trim is white. Only wood is on the stair railing.
 

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So the Corporate Gaslighting news is teasing about today's big obits, and I fall for it and then they go on about comedian Dave Einstein (no relation to Albert) dies who appeared on "curb your enthusiasm". That is the credit they gave them.....that's it. When I saw the image, it was Super DAve Osborne!!! Super Freaking DAve! He had so much more cultural impact than what the news gave him credit for.
Mean Gene too. Sad day.
 

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Gosh, that's a toughie. I became estranged from one grandmother when she pulled some stuff at my mother's funeral (I was 23 at the time). Basically, she forced my grieving father into some things that he didn't want to do, and blamed him for my mother's death. My mother collapsed with a subdural hematoma (brain aneurysm); my sister performed CPR and when the paramedics got there they got her on life support and transported her to the hospital where she remained comatose. On the second, third, fourth days she had a total of 3 flat-line EEGs. By the fifth day she had developed a massive, systemic staph infection (she had osteomyelitis from the age of 13 on so she always harbored staph in her body). We made the decision to take her off life support as she was no longer "there". My father was NOT to blame for my mother's death. The aneurysm was.
My grandmother died about 9 years later. I have no regrets about having no contact with her in the interim.

Siblings - I will always love my sisters. However, we are very different people, and sometimes I don't like them very much. But if one of them needs me, I'm there.

Kids & Grandkids - same as my siblings.

I'm curious as to why you asked.
 

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That’s too bad. I thought mixed woods were still “in” at the moment. Our house is 11yrs old and we have all white trim but cabinets are darker (not cherry). We even did dark wood blinds in our bedroom because we have darker wood furniture.
The floors in that house are all natural wood and all of the base shoe was left alone (which was a pain by the way) so there is still a little bit of mixed wood. We went through a phase where I think we painted 10 houses in a row with grey walls and white woodwork. And the trend also applied to the exteriors. They say "modern"; I say "boring" but I guess I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to interior design. :rolleyes:
 

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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.
I love wood furniture, trim, cabinets. I just CRINGE when people paint wood cabinets, tables, dressers, etc.
 

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I've been painting houses over break with the company I used to work for in the summers. Today we went to a house with BEAUTIFUL stained cherry cabinets in the kitchen, a matching vanity in the bathroom, and a matching hutch in the hall. The rest of the woodwork in the house is white and the owners wanted everything to match, so guess what we did. We painted all of that gorgeous cherry white. It was a terrible feeling knowing that with every brush stroke no one would ever see the cherry again and they would just be plain white cabinets.

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My reaction might be a BIT stronger because my tween/teenaged bedroom has a cherry bedroom set that belonged to my great-grandmother. Two twin beds, nightstand, vanity with bench, and a tall chest of drawers. They're pretty banged up, but I would NEVER think to paint over them. Oy.
 
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