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when the boards are that wide, the difference actually shows very little when theyre next to eachother. At least the 10s and the 12s. The 8s obviously look smaller.


From an artsy fartsy perspective....

Walking in the door, the farther away things are, the narrower they look. Thinner (8") towards the door graduating to 10 & 12 further away would give the impression of bigger space at first glance. Of course after walking in and spending some time looking at it that effect would lessen and eventually turn into a head scratcher. Add in bed, some furniture, etc. presumably covering some portion of the wider boards and the effect may come back again.

Theatre/funhouse tricks. Eye/mind/perception, etc.

If the room has a second entrance/exit that changes things.
 
From an artsy fartsy perspective....

Walking in the door, the farther away things are, the narrower they look. Thinner (8") towards the door graduating to 10 & 12 further away would give the impression of bigger space at first glance. Of course after walking in and spending some time looking at it that effect would lessen and eventually turn into a head scratcher. Add in bed, some furniture, etc. presumably covering some portion of the wider boards and the effect may come back again.

Theatre/funhouse tricks. Eye/mind/perception, etc.

If the room has a second entrance/exit that changes things.
This is interesting.

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It comes from theater/stage tricks to create perceived space/depth where there really isn't. The carnival/fun house example takes it to the extreme where you can make it seem like water is flowing or bowling balls are rolling uphill when they're really not.

Not saying turn your house into a circus but you can borrow from that to make your spaces "feel" like something more.

Architects make a good living from doing exactly that.
 
Part one of floor epoxy paint done. Only took 25 minutes.

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The solar installed Ive looked into around here are stupid expensive
Product of being in "oil country", Id imagine
I paid $2.50 per watt installed with all the dumb incentives/tax credits/rebates rolled in.

That sounds bad when you look at the cents per watt that utilities pay for solar, but the other math works out well - I ended up at around 11¢/KWh of guaranteed production (they have a year over year guarantee on system production for like 25 years), and the guarantee was basically the very bottom of the barrel they could scrape with the production numbers, so I'll pay significantly less than that.

All in (everything charged per KWh), the rate with the power company I was paying before switching to solar was around 17¢/KWh, and the utility has filed twice for rate hikes since then.
 
Leverage short term debt to push yourself forward. Like if you could get a monkey to drive a cab for peanuts and give you all the $$ it might be worth it to go in debt on another Prius. ;)