Lists: Your Friends

Yes lists are your friend, don't be with out them. Look them over many times to make sure you have not overlooked something important to do.

Then rank them in order of what must be done. Leaving the least important for last. Now where dop you start, well you already have. the lists are so important to keep you on track. For those not knowing even where to begin with the lists. Ok well start in the most important room in the house, the Kitchen. Ladies and some men, want a place that will be fun to cook in. It must be clean and inviting to work in. I love a creamy white or white for the kitchen, it says clean. If you can't paint the wall by all means clean the room spotless. make sure you could eat off the counters or at look like it!

In the Family Room off the Kitchen did not need much but a cleaning. Oh the rug that had been it that room was dirty not just dirt but had spots all over it. It must go. I also wanted the room brighter so I picked out a creamy white to almost match the cabinet in the Kitchen, because they were next to each other. It really made a big difference made the room look bigger too.

As you can see in the pictures some much brightness and here in Seattle is a plus.
Picking the right pictures for each room is important too.

Tell next time think Fabulous ~
Ter

 Looking at your house as the buyer!

That is the number one key to success, in my book.

Well let see what we need to do to look at your own home as the Buyer.

What I did is look to see what the kids and dog have done to the house ~ scuff marks and scrapes on the walls. Do you need to repaint? well if it is not a neutral color ~ seriously consider painting the walls. If you don't think it will go with just about every color Paint The Walls!

Now you can leave really wonderful rooms in Not neutral colors like light blue or even dramatic colors in the Powder Room. the extras in the room comes in Staging the House.

The kitchen in the pictures all creamy white needed to be spot painted. If you can mix the same color you can do this. They went to a store and had a color mixed, but when they painted the spots it was apparent that the color did not match well enough. I took the time to mix the paint to match, and no one could tell they had been spot painted at all. For another tip look around to see if anything jumps out at you. Case, when I went into the Kitchen and like a buyer started to open drawers and OH MY what did I see ~ chipped and unsightly drawer edges, well I took the brush myself and painted the edges and WOW that made such a difference. Like magic it Looked Brand New, now that would be called move in ready, and beautiful all at the same time.
So you see, literally, is what will make the difference in how the Buyer will see your House!
Tell next time, look around and see what needs to be done, make your lists!
Ter

Good Day Everyone,

As I told you I would post some helpful hints to make your House ready to Sell. I had so much fun redoing and retouch ups for this house, now I am starting to get jobs for others.

It is knowing what needs to be retouched and knowing how is the key to success I worked in my family's Decorating Business for oh so many years as a Color and decorating Consultant. I would select colors and coordinate wall paper and stains for Houses and Churches. I grew up playing with wallpaper books and color charts. So I fell into this redecorating and consulting work very naturally.

Here are a few pictures of the house that I was instrumental in determining
what decorating needed to be finished before listing the House for sale. I also mixed paint and stains, something that Home Depot could not do, correctly, to match the existing ones in the house. Looking at your house as a buyer is what you have to do, to make good decisions what to fix and paint. The first agent had the house listing if we were to list it at that time 130,000 less than we listed it for after all the painting and fixing. which 18,000 was spent to fix and decorate it. Which in any ones estimation would be a great profit, for the little work done. The work was done by the owner, except the roof.

So you see if you know what to do you to could accomplice the same type of improvements and staging.

I will talk about staging Your house in a later post.

Have a great day,
Ter

Hi ~

I have been busy doing some different things, like helping a client get ready to sell their house. 
Also running a small PI business helping prove or disprove if a Husband is cheating!
These are so different but to me they were fun. I could use my skills on different kinds of work.
Now If any one has any questions in either area, I am here for you. I will share how to do these things as I did them, I am not a licensed PI just so you know!
The fun will be to help others do and get information that they can use and do these things themselves.

I will be showing you how I did some of the retouch up work so not to have to paint the whole Kitchen again.
This amazed many people in His family, they thought it could not be done, but they never watched me work. After years of living and cooking in their Kitchen there were many chipped spots on the cabinets. So I went to home supply Store and bought paint ~ that they mixed up; but I was not sure they did such a wonderful job matching it to the cabinets! So I tried the paint and I was right, it did not match well enough. So I though to get it right I will have to mix it myself, and that is what I did.

Oh Yes, I am still collecting Antiques and making Jewelery, which I will put in here from time to time.

AHH! June is here.


 I always love June it is the start of Summer for me, plenty of sunshine and flowers all around us, just smell the Lilics and  oh so many others.

 

  A statement of wonderment, where are you going and where will you take this little piece of beauty next? You are supplying a next exciting journey for these BIJOU!  Luggage Tags in Sterling Silver sparkle and shine and follow you where ever you take them, a tag along, you could say.lol  I truly wish they could speak and tells us of all the journeys they have traveled. What countries, OH the excitement of exotic places makes my heart beat faster, with anticipation of what could have been!

My wish for you, enjoy the little things in life and what means he most to you.

Stay Forever Fabulous!