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Would you like 20 feet high ceilings in your living room, dining room, recroom/den etc to provide lots of space to hang lots of neat stuff?

Plants, lighting fixtures, ornaments...

Posted - November 15, 2021
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  • 13277
    We had those in our previous apartment on our brownstone's parlor floor, but we recently moved downstairs to a larger apartment with a backyard but much lower ceilings.
      November 15, 2021 11:19 AM MST
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  • 17570
    Sounds like a smart move.  Those high spaces increase heating costs and the downstairs is cold yet.  In my current house my stairwell is even higher to accommodate a ceiling sky light four floors from the downstairs floor.  .  It's no problem where I live because I'm happy the hot air has a place to live. 
      November 15, 2021 3:01 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Even smarter considering that we had the place renovated and rented out for $3250/month. The people down here before were paying $3850, so it wasn't a big income loss in exchange for a lot more space, although we spent a good amount on renovations.
      November 15, 2021 5:02 PM MST
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  • 53414

      Heavy-duty, steel-reinforced, lead-lined, airtight, fire-proof, floor-to-ceiling vaults for storing tildes? Yes, please.  Thank you. 

    ~

      November 15, 2021 11:55 AM MST
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  • 13395
    I'll send some robot dildees to guard tildoes!
      November 15, 2021 7:57 PM MST
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  • 53414

    Grrrrrrr. 

    ~

      November 15, 2021 11:41 PM MST
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  • 44553
    I would not be able to set up a ladder to try to clean the stuff.
      November 15, 2021 12:05 PM MST
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  • 13395
    A few cobwebs and dust might give your place 'character'.
      November 15, 2021 12:15 PM MST
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  • 10568
    No!   

    * High ceilings are hard to keep clean (dust and spiders don't need a ladder to get up there).

    * High ceilinged areas cost more to heat, (heat rises, cold air sinks) So you pay more to sit and freeze while the spiders are warm and cozy as they spin their "dust collectors".  

    * High ceilings don't reflect light well, thus making the area below them darker (did a spider drop down and .

    * Inevitably, where there's a high ceiling there's a large, high window (trying to compensate for the lack of light).  Cleaning windows at arm level is bad enough ... ..and trying to train spiders to clean windows is a huge waste of time (in case anyone was wondering, spiders do laugh).

    * High ceilings echo sound ... all sound - A car alarm system going off 10 miles away, the neighbor's tone-deaf kid practicing the trumpet, spiders weaving "death webs" to drop on you when you're all alone and the power goes out ... at night. 
      November 15, 2021 12:15 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Okay.. okay..!
      November 15, 2021 12:17 PM MST
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  • 6023
    Don't forget there's always the color change part way up, where they ran out of paint and failed to match the original color.
      November 15, 2021 2:22 PM MST
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  • 10568
    You probably can't teach spiders to paint either. This post was edited by Shuhak at November 16, 2021 12:20 AM MST
      November 15, 2021 8:46 PM MST
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  • 19938
    They are aesthetically beautiful, but hardly practical, as Shuhak has so aptly pointed out.
      November 15, 2021 1:36 PM MST
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  • 17570
    Not even sort of or maybe.
      November 15, 2021 2:35 PM MST
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  • 2964
    I'd like the last 13 years of my life back. 
      November 15, 2021 3:15 PM MST
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  • 13395
    That's rough... May Good Fortune come your way!
      November 15, 2021 7:54 PM MST
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  • 33875
    No. Just makes it hard to heat and cool. 
      November 15, 2021 6:53 PM MST
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  • 53414

     

      (20 feet high 20-foot high)

      November 15, 2021 6:59 PM MST
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  • 16647
    Vaulted ceilings were the way to go before air conditioning was invented - enclose as large a volume of air as possible inside so it gains or loses heat to the outside more slowly.
    Now with aircon, you're trying to cool as small a volume of air as possible so your power bills don't cripple you.
      November 15, 2021 10:55 PM MST
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  • No, I don't care for super-high ceilings. Our vacation home has them and it looks nice with the big windows and the pine wood, but it's not very practical. The lights are impossible to get to without a very tall ladder, they're hard to clean, and the living room is difficult to heat as a result.

    I prefer something a bit lower. I still have room to hang things. 
      November 17, 2021 12:10 PM MST
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