Design: Home for Sale

Setting up kids rooms for living means different things to different people. Most parents want their children to learn organizational skills and pick up their own rooms from early ages, so designing the room for easy organization is important. Some prefer a decorator look with less organizational matter, and both work well, depending on parental lifestyles.

Since organizational skills are imperative in my household, I’ll opt for the neat nick room and decorate around that style. The most important pieces come first.

• Bed
• Desk
• Dresser
• Chair
• Shelves

Once those are in place, consider the arrangement as “areas of the room” and organize each area for optimal space and use of the space available. Dressing area would be closet and dresser. You’ll need to add a mirror and any specific dressing aids the child will need to this space.  If the closet is large enough, confining all clothing storage to inside the closet is a boost to the use of space in the room, because that expands wall space for other details of the child’s room.

Forming an L in a corner with the desk and shelves makes the best use of both time and space for studying.  Not only is  your space efficient to use, but it’s efficient when you’re studying too. All your books and supplies are readily available within an arms reach of your chair. Can’t beat that! It works well and it’s a great looking area when people come by to see you.

So, now we’re ready for the bed.

Put the bed on the largest wall, out from the wall for ease of making the bed. I always suggest the head of the bed in the center of the wall and adjust around that, when I can’t see the room. Otherwise, I’ve found that offsetting the bed just enough to make allowances for other furniture is a good option.

Baskets, buckets, tins and other organizers work particularly well to either grow with the child or be used elsewhere in the home as children outgrow the need for clutter-storage. Effective storage usually comes in a variety of styles and colors for children, though I’ve found the best appearances come from a uniform/same color look.

While small children relate to multi-colored baskets, older children prefer something less “pre-school” for their organization.

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Are you selling your home in Denver? There’s a better way. After several months of searching for a realtor I could count on, I found one that understood my search for an above the bar house on a below the bar income.  She not only understood, but found the perfect house.

In the back roads around Denver, she found a home that fit my family and suited my needs that was still in my budget. That meant more than you could imagine. Then I realized the most important part of the value… The home was move in ready.

How can you stage your home for better sale value for the buyer?

Create a move in ready home presentation for your realtor —

• Take time to freshen up the paint on the interior and exterior of your home.  Color is important to buyers and in this day, their money is precious – they want updated colors and clean fresh lines. Cut the white glow and add “coffee shop cozy” colors to your home for the ultimate showcase home.
• Carpet, in a word… “NO!” Your buyers want hard wood floors, natural slate tile and ceramic or granite floors. Upgrade to wood for a faster sale and get rid of that awful, allergic response carpet.
• Counters must be granite. Seriously, if you’ve left the counters formica – change them. Granite is awesome! Everyone here in Denver loves granite and stone kitchen counters.
• Bathroom cabinets and counters are important. Select high end design, even if you are cutting corners, be choosy enough to create the best design possible, for your budget.
• Ceilings should have some style and design, even if it’s simply painted on texture. Layered texture with molding can give the look of a tray ceiling even if it’s flat as a board.
• Heighten awareness of any architectural features with moldings and trim designs. Painted a vibrant, bright white, molding can emphasize the architectural value of your home and highlight the best parts.
• Entry and exits should reveal extra high impact colors and values for making the best impressions.

Tip: always place a mirror just inside exterior doors for new home buyers. They’ll be able to literally SEE themselves in their new home.

Denver area realtors offer high benefit selling points for home owners. Use their expertise when preparing your home for sale. Better yet, call a Home Stager for spectacular Sale Value and a memorable presentation of your home.

Contact one of our home stagers for a complete review of  your home’s selling points at 303.968.6863.

Moving out of winter white means bright spring colors with bold accents and clear strong neutrals to anchor a family living design creates instant change from winter blues. Whether you bounce color off the walls or chase pillows around the room, setting color into motion brings a room to life.

Warm Up a Color Scheme with Hot Yellow Brights

There was a reason for the yellow daffodils in the garden. The hot yellow bright color warmed up winter white in one bold stroke of genius planted at least one season before the need arose. Way back when people thought ahead for more than a year, perennial flowers grew in the same garden year after year, for the same family. Purple crocus and yellow daffodils were an instant wakeup from winter’s sleep hibernation.

Inside, rooms come to life painted the color of a bold yellow green leaf, or sunshine yellow, or even crocus purple.

Conservative Neutrals Anchor the Space Providing Restful Allure

Dress accents, woodwork, and heavy furniture in neutrals to give the eye a restful place to linger when the colors might get too bold. Floors and ceilings in pale beige, crepe paper tan, or rice paper gray offer a hint of conservative drama to the brilliant colors of springtime. Keep the colors lively, by providing a crisp outline of neutralization.

Accent with Delicious Fruit Colors and Risky Bursts of Over Bright Surprise

• Linear metal frame tables painted watermelon red, lamp bases painted jolting orange, or curtain panels in a jolting shade of sunshine yellow make a statement in a bold green room softened by neutrals.
• Sky blue lampshades and grassy green voile curtain panels blowing in spring breezes bring light to a richly purple room, while a brilliant yellow throw turns up the heat.
• Crisp green lines on accent tables covered in bold floral print fabric dress up the sunshine yellow play room just enough to let checkered blues and reds dance to the rhythm of family living.

Looking for a cure for the winter blues and can’t find the way out of enclosing white walls, beige floors and boring vertical blinds that blend into the furniture, add a jolt of color and see if the solution doesn’t appear. Quickly interview family members and gather their favorite colors into a color scheme that works with neutrals as the foundation.

By using one color as the high intensity foundation on walls and grounding the scheme with neutrals in a bold wheat color, other colors create a jolting sensation of personality and pleasure as they dance through a room filled with family heirlooms, priceless memories and daily activities. Provide storage containers for each family member in their favorite color and toss any belongings that get left behind in their container. When it’s full, they have to empty the container.

Living Well with Color

Trendy decorating colors blended with gentle neutrals make living with color easy. Significant amounts of black and beach colored sandy colors in a room can meld even the most radical color scheme into a simply adorable color palette. The old rules of color schemes haven’t totally disappeared, but migrating away from the set standard allows family living to be the basis of the design.

The best part about increasing trendy use of color in living spaces is that family color preferences blend together in a loving family home. That makes living more fun!

Tags: Bold Accents, Color Scheme, Warm Color Scheme, Winter Whites

Homes are on the market all over Denver. If you’re trying to sell your Denver, Colorado home too, you may want to have a Home Stager on your team. Consider for a moment bringing in a consultant to redecorate your home using what you already have on hand, to make your home more inviting and ready for a buyer? Can you imagine a faster sale? We can help you with that process…

1 – Home Stagers offer Innovative Views

A fresh look at your home can give you a better idea of what might sell, or what might not. Consider having a fresh new view of your home to determine the real value to a new buyer – the buyer will see their view. You’ve lived there for a while and what has become comfortable to you may not even grab the second notice from a new buyer. A home staging professional can take one look at your home and share the most effective presentation, encourage you to sparkle and shine the areas that need attention and give your buyer the very best overview of your home. Innovative views will keep the cost to a minimum, shrinking the overhead of marketing your home in a market where  you can’t afford to waste money.

2 – FSBO Marketing Specialists

If you’re selling your home yourself, there are a few things about marketing you should know. We can’t give you realtor advice, but we’ll get detailed about how to market your home, where to present the pictures and how to make the most of your home’s curb appeal and interior design to get it sold for the buck.

Often for-sale-by-owner means the signs will fall down and you’ll replace the roof twice before the buyers catch on, but it doesn’t have to be. You COULD call a stager and hit the ground running with buyers who can’t resist the cutest home on the block. Open your OPEN HOUSE with cozy nooks, welcoming entries and picturesque views of the home your buyers are dreaming of – using the same furniture you’ve been sitting on for  years. Staging your home doesn’t have to break the bank or the budget. Call US!

3 – Helping Buyers locate Your Home

Attracting buyers when you choose not to use a realtor means bringing them to the key function of your home. Do you have a great key component of living in your house? Maybe it’s the best show stopping house on the block? Great views? Tell your buyer before they arrive what they can expect.

A high-quality home stager can give you the best suggestions for selling your home, presenting the pictures and descriptions for buyers and even tell you WHERE to market your home for sale in the Denver area (or whatever area you live in).

Call a Home Stager in Denver to make your home sparkle and shine before the first buyer stops by. We do Consultations by appointment – in your home. Call 303.779.0241 for a quick quote and 15 minute discussion.

Tags: consultant, Denver, for sale by owner, Home Stager, sell your home, selling your home

Capture a Rocky Mountain High Décor with 3 Step Color and Style

Lifestyle in Denver trumps design on most days, but in the end, great color, style and function win in every home staging project. Can you imagine settling into the home of your dream only to realize there’s no functional sense to your home?

“We wanted to stage our home for sale, but we knew the design had to be functional, because we had to live there at least for a few weeks,” explained Dianne Carter, new staging client for a Denver metro real estate office. “Staging for function meant our dream would be a living showcase.” Continue Reading »

Tags: Denver Showcase, Home Staging, home staging project, living showcase, open house, Real Estate, stage our home for sale, staging for function, staging home, staging your home

5 Steps to Selling a Home Fast in ANY Real Estate Market

Installing a new welcome mat, lighting up the rooms and washing down the exterior of a home bring in new buyers. The key to selling a home may be a bit more dramatic.

Staging a home for sale means updating the overall home presentation and giving new buyers a fresh perspective of residential living. Buyers realize that cob webs, dust, and clutter are realities of living in any home, but they seek new, fresh spaces for their personal belongings. In order to sell a home, they must view the space as fresh and new. Continue Reading »

Tags: Denver Metro Area, Fast House Sale, Home Staging, Quick Sale, Real Estate, Stage a Home

Apartment dwellers often spend the majority of their time away from home, simply because their lifestyle demands it. But, on those days when you just want to curl up and live the moment, enjoy your own company and hide away from the world, here are a few tips for decorating your home for a better experience.

Color Balance

Even if you’re stuck in a womb of white walls, white carpet and white window coverings, you can add color to your space. A vibrant throw rug in the middle of the room will add color and save your rental deposit from those nasty stains of white carpeting doom. Select the darkest color and buy a sofa in that color – or cover your current sofa with a dark throw. Toss on a selection of brightly colored sofa pillows and a light throw for a cozy evening cover-up. Add in a couple of colorful chairs and you’ve got a magnificent conversation pit, don’t forget to invite friends over.

Lighting Your World

Ceiling light fixtures are mostly a thing of the past, and present. Apartment dwellers have found for years, that many apartment complexes offer little if any fixed lighting. Solve the problem with a variety of lamps.

Floor lamps and table lamps come in a wide variety of styles and colors. Go complimentary to your furniture selection and don’t skimp. You really will find a place for the extra lamp, and it will come in handy. If you prefer soft lighting, use smaller wattage bulbs. For bright light, raise the wattage.

For brighter task lighting, inexpensive utilitarian lights can be clamped to most any surface and work well to focus light on a specific project. These clamp on lights come in handy for most any purpose. In fact, one gentleman used them in place of lamps for the longest time in his apartment. They made a decorative statement with lower watt bulbs.

Personality Picks

Minimalist societies often skimp on the personality picks, but you can be assured, personality will spice up your home and make it more livable. Just add a bit of you and see how much more cozy your space feels.

Bookcases hold your favorite tombs, accessories, and a few requirements. For those who are studying for a better education, a bookcase protects your school books and improves your organization skills. Videos and photo albums always look more attractive when shelved for easy access.

An entertainment center can display or hide your attraction to mass media. Select one that allows easy viewing and plenty of storage for your equipment.

Arrangement

Be certain your arrangement allows for easy movement around the apartment, even when you have a crowd. Traffic flow is important because nobody wants to feel claustrophobic. Give yourself some elbow room. Most importantly, use the space to your advantage.

A bicycle could be wall art, if you hang it properly, easily accessible for use later. Consider those baskets you need to carry laundry and other equipment as decorating elements to be used for other purposes when they don’t provide carry-all duty. A breakfast tray or T.V. Tray can be an end table you can either set up or take down as needed. An unsightly pair of file cabinets in your dining room office may do double duty as a buffet for a party with a covering of something pretty.

Use your imagination to create a home you will love, even if your home is an apartment.

Tags: apartment living, color balance, spacious living, staged decorating, white walls

Much has been said about buying houses over the past several months, but there’s still a need to purchase homes, relocate, and even sell your home. If you’re struggling with a change of address, you don’t want to hear that homes are still sinking in value where you’re moving… However, it’s better to know that buy unaware.

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Tags: buying houses, change of address, housing costs, purchase homes, relocate, sell your home

Profit Through Tax Property Auctions and County Tax Lien Property Investments
By Nicole M Brooks

During these times of global financial uncertainty, some investment strategies that had been out of favor during the boom years are now making a re-appearance. One investment opportunity that has been around for years, but are now becoming highly profitable investments Continue Reading »

Tags: investment, property investment, Property Tax, Real Estate, tax lien

How to Profit From Foreclosure
By Kevin Simpson

There has been tremendous growth in the real estate market. The ratio of new homes is increasing continuously. Every vacant land is been converted into ready to build homes. The foreclosures are also increasing. Foreclosure takes place when the borrowers are not able to make the timely payments to their lenders. In this case the lender would try to sell the property and get back the loss that they have incurred in your property. The lenders would sell the property as soon as possible. The price of the foreclosed property is very low as compare to the market price of the property. The following are some tips that would help you to make huge profit from the foreclosed property. Continue Reading »

Tags: bank foreclosure, Foreclosure, profits, Real Estate