Selling my house
Jul/02/2008 04:59 PM Filed in: Recent Work
Well, this summer has been a real eye-opener for
me.
I got to personally experience the pressure I put on my clients to get their homes ready for sale.
My husband and I decided that our home was just too much to take care of with two businesses, two children, two ponds, two out-buildings and over six acres of very landscaped property. We needed a break. Our dream is to downsize to something small and charming with a yard.
Six years of filling our barn (yes, we’re both collectors) to the rafters, plus the house and cottage made me feel like an anxiety attack was looming every time I looked at it all. Six dumpsters later, one for every year, and we were down to something manageable. What didn’t go into dumpsters went to charity, (it was a lot), and that was just the beginning...
Painting inside and out;
Replacing any rotting wood, and on an antique home... well, you know;
Making sure we were mulched and weeded and trimmed;
With two little bizarre empty rooms in the basement that became catch-all- dump rooms, we created a wine celler and an art room;
I redid curtains and reupholstered the sofa in the family room, and staged and staged and staged.
$20,000 dolars later, we sold our home to the first person who saw the house!
I did my job! We also got lucky on the timing front.
I have since vowed to do a mini cleanup makeover every year - I deserve to live in my home like I’ve always wanted, all the time, not just when I’m going on the market!
Cheers!
Gabrielle
I got to personally experience the pressure I put on my clients to get their homes ready for sale.
My husband and I decided that our home was just too much to take care of with two businesses, two children, two ponds, two out-buildings and over six acres of very landscaped property. We needed a break. Our dream is to downsize to something small and charming with a yard.
Six years of filling our barn (yes, we’re both collectors) to the rafters, plus the house and cottage made me feel like an anxiety attack was looming every time I looked at it all. Six dumpsters later, one for every year, and we were down to something manageable. What didn’t go into dumpsters went to charity, (it was a lot), and that was just the beginning...
Painting inside and out;
Replacing any rotting wood, and on an antique home... well, you know;
Making sure we were mulched and weeded and trimmed;
With two little bizarre empty rooms in the basement that became catch-all- dump rooms, we created a wine celler and an art room;
I redid curtains and reupholstered the sofa in the family room, and staged and staged and staged.
$20,000 dolars later, we sold our home to the first person who saw the house!
I did my job! We also got lucky on the timing front.
I have since vowed to do a mini cleanup makeover every year - I deserve to live in my home like I’ve always wanted, all the time, not just when I’m going on the market!
Cheers!
Gabrielle