Comments on: Live like you’ve always wanted to live — at least until the house sells

By: Glinda

Glinda — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:30 +0000

I still stand by my no photos creed. I’ve toured many homes and seeing a bazillion photos of the family makes me uncomfortable, like I’m invading someone’s privacy.

And hey now, I have Hummels given to me by my German grandmother, let’s not knock the Hummels!

The thing is trying not to off-put the buyer. If a buyer has a strong negative reaction to something in your home, that isn’t what you want. Even if it screams of your personality.

If you want to sell, unfortunately bland is the way to go. Your home is indeed a reflection of your personality, but not so much when you are trying to sell it.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:55 +0000

Hummels? Bleagh! Keep the heads!

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:15:04 +0000

Little Red — exactly! The overstaged houses have no personality! I don’t want clutter, but I want to know there is love and happiness in a home!

By: Jennie

Jennie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:46:30 +0000

Sorry! Cuse me! Awe Inspiring Artist!
http://www.seancorner.com/

By: Jennie

Jennie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:41:13 +0000

Ga’Linda (with a Ga) OK I just saw Wicked in Chicago! Loved It! Do you think that NtB’s note about staging unusual knick knacks in grouping of 1 or three include my collection of heads? One is split on the diagonal and screaming, another has a little head peaking out of the right eye, and a third is called slipping away where the halfs are sliding apart? (go to Sean Connor–Google it…) Just wondering if I should substitute Hummels for the tortured mind series???

By: Little Red

Little Red — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:17:19 +0000

Agents always suggest removal of photos when staging but then they end up looking like hotel rooms. Last summer, when I thought to move up to a bigger condo, I started looking at places and several of them were staged according to all those staging rules. But the problem was that they were all identical and impersonal.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:13:04 +0000

Glinda, I don’t mind personal photos. Indeed, I think they make the home look like a home instead of a hotel room. Not a refrigerator covered with photos and kids’ fingerpainting, mind you, but nicely framed, well placed photos do enhance a room. The nice photos — bride dancing with her dad, cute kid in a cowboy outfit — seem to improve a home’s karma. To me.

By: Glinda

Glinda — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:52:18 +0000

I would add also that you should take out all “personal” items such as wedding photos, kid photos and the like.

The goal is for people to see it as THEIR home, not yours!

And a coat of fresh paint. Always a coat of fresh paint.

Signed,

Someone who will hopefully be selling her place within the next year.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:30:24 +0000

How about “if the house stinks like wet dog, even Febreeze won’t cover it up, so don’t compound the error by leaving the bathroom a mess and a month’s worth of laundry on the floor” and “the life-sized Uncle Fester with the moving eyes and booming voice next to the tanning bed in the rec room should be put in storage.”

Just saying.

Signed,

Someone who has looked at 48 houses in the past three weeks

By: Twistie

Twistie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:20:23 +0000

But…but NtB! My penis-shaped lava lamp is the single coolest thing I own! I just know Patrick Stewart will love it when he drops by for tea along with Tim Gunn and Stephen Colbert.

Hey, it’s my imaginary tea party. I can invite whom I like.

I wonder if Amy Sedaris is free….