The other day I met Sharon Foley—an amazing woman and the owner of Smart Boxes MN. It’s just a great idea. They bring as many boxes (7×8x5) as you need to your house, you pack them and then they pick them up and store them till you move. Then they deliver them to your new place. I’ve already told several staging clients about them. I’m so thrilled to finally have a solution for clients when they ask me what they should do with their stuff. Up till now al I’ve been able to say is “duh”. And did I mention, the price is very reasonable. If you’re moving check them out and tell Sharon I said Hi.
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While we’re on the subject of dated, the lately I’ve consulted on several homes with the planter/room dividers popular decades ago. Everyone wants to know what to do with them . You just can’t leave them because they are always in such a prominent location, usually right by the front door. My answer—cover the top with tile. At my suggestion, one of my homesellers did that recently and it looked great. It turned what was obviously a detriment into a real feature—the house sold within a couple weeks. If you still ignore my advice and use a lot of color, and you use different colors in spaces where you can see all the colors at one time, you can still make a sale a bit easier if you choose colors that are related. So instead of using yellow in the kitchen, green in the living room and blue in the dining room you could use yellow in the kitchen, a gold in the dining room and a brown-gold in the living room. This way the colors are all in the same family. You’ll still lose the buyers who don’t like the colors in that part of the color wheel but you might not lose the others. I’m really trying here, guys. |
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