Glad it helped!

Sorry for the possibly dumb question, but there are themes?? Where?

I actually came up with an idea - there's a woodstove in the room, so we are going to frame it out and make it look like deliberate tall, skinny log storage. We'll see how it goes.

That's a really good idea - we could even remove the shelves entirely and have it just be log storage since there's a woodstove in that room. That might be the solution!

That's an interesting concept, I'll have to find some inspiration to figure out what that would look like

Thanks, I completely agree. It is beyond ugly.

• Your first point: there is actually NO space above the support beam. Our HVAC guy grabbed a ladder and showed us. That beam is like 2-3 feet deep and goes all the way up. And they can't cut through because we're on a mountain and it has to support several hundred pounds of snow load.

• There is truly nowhere else to put the ducting. We walked all through the area with the HVAC guy and suggested idea after idea and there is physically no other location to run it. Hiding it is the only option, as horrifying as it is, unless we tear out the entire new HVAC system (which we can't do).

Possibly an orange glaze

One of the commenters on the article claims to be a mod from the sub. They've been reinstated with zero communication, probably from the media pressure. And the mod-less sub starting to go up in flames.