Month: November 2023

If you're trying to sell a house, it's a good idea to know the factors that affect the desirability of your home. From carpeting around the toilet to dated faux finishes, there are some things buyers can't unsee. Tune in as we share the styling details you want to avoid...lest they send buyers running away in horror.

good afternoon peeps friends and family and assorted others sorted others you’re welcome enemies yeah y’all can all watch yeah we do get some interesting emails from we do this is just for fun people don’t don’t be so serious relax it’s just for fun I don’t need negative emails uh well speaking of negative this episode is about horrify home Styles horrifying home Styles horrifying scary we should have done this for we should have done this for Halloween Halloween oh we’re recording this just a few days but that’s okay but that’s okay Rand and Dian bro here your local lady presc Arizona your local presc realtor team that’s right here in presc happy to uh help you out as you as you journey into our little town and try to find your next place so if you are this is primarily for sellers because buyers will know horrifying home Styles when they see them you may be a seller you may have inherited a home that has horrifying Styles in it now when you put these horrifying Styles in you know I’m sure it was the cats meow sure but we thought we’d mention just a few things that have been singled out either by us or experts uh as things you just you just can’t do so things that also make us laugh out loud so one of the things that really so saw this article article horrifying home Styles we had one we had we had a we have a horrifying home style in our home yes and that is the horrifying home style is bench seating at a dining room table I don’t see anything wrong with it I love it but hey evidentally it was a very trendy thing when we bought our dining room table that’s right it’s on the way way out it is on the way out something you might want to think about replacing as a practical standpoint if you are the middle person on the on in the bench you’re kind of screwed like if you have to go to the bathroom you got to it’s like sitting in the middle seat in an airline you it’s like you got to you got to get everyone up to to get out I agree but our friends are fun and it’s even more fun after several cocktails to see him try to wiggle out of try wiggle out yeah so that’s kind of part of the fun but apparently that’s dated evidently that’s horrifying that was that I didn’t think that was that horrifying I don’t think it was that yeah I cuz I own it yeah you know I have that so that’s kind of py I wouldn’t even blink at that but the other good one that we love is and we’ve come across it now several times saloon doors saloon doors into the bathroom yeah why yeah yeah saloon doors in a bathroom not saloon doors in the potty room yeah for your potty it’s just saloon doors that’s Salon doors I don’t know people well that’s not very effective if you know what I mean who side Cowboy I’m coming in I don’t know what the idea is I don’t know I mean you swing those doors open there’s no privacy because they don’t really cover anything uh it doesn’t cover anything and then there saloon doors just into the bathroom in general and it’s like wow saloon doors yeah we don’t have saloon doors no we don’t at least we don’t tell anybody Our Salon doors I don’t when we play Cowboy and make her go to the oh God yeah Sal doors listen saloon doors are a joke if you want to put saloon doors on your bar or your man cave is kind of something fun uh that’s fun and that’s fine we have restaurants downtown you know our town kind of has a little Western theme and they do the saloon doors but uh into the master bathroom not so much that’s a not not a western experience the other thing in bathrooms is all white whes white white white walls white counters white it’s too much yes it’s too much Hospital aren’t even all white anymore people will say oh it’s all white it looks like a hospital when’s the last time you saw an all-white hospital they don’t do it anymore they don’t cuz no one likes it looks clinical no one it looks yeah it does that’s a good word clinical and God forbid the splattering alone of any anything any any major event shows everything you might be having yes could be bad you want she that you don’t want to share that you don’t want to have carpeting carpeting in the bathroom carpeting in the bathroom that is horrifying particularly around the toilet oh every time and I’ve been in some beautiful homes with that carpeting all the way up to the potty and I think all the way up to the pot Yakama gross disgusting uh same thing splatter splatter I don’t want to even know what has been splattered on that carpeting yeah you you don’t put carpeting on a toilet seat you don’t put a carpeting around the toilet seed you don’t want anything absorbent other than toilet paper near your toilet it’s just none of none of that is good that is horrifying none of that is good peach peach walls peach peach Mau mauve mauve walls yeah peach peach is uh you know I I if you’re if you like Peach go a little darker for apricot or terracotta or up a lot yeah mix it up a little bit more the peach it was just overdone it looks very country in a bad the worst possible way uh yeah Peach and it looks very Grandma it screens old person lives here old person has lived here and our old person has died here yeah yeah yeah that is true that um and Mau walls and seafoam green carpeting all of that Let It Go Let It Go obviously popcorn sealings we talked about popcorn sealings in our ASB bestus uh video popcorn sealings are a no no yep um what else uh some of these swag light fixtures yeah that just scream again grandma lived here grandma recently died here yeah be real careful with faux finishes oh yes we went into a beautiful beautiful million dooll home giant pillars which that was okay but then they did a faux finish that I don’t even think the Romans or or the the Greeks had painted cuz you know the Greeks did paint very garish yeah they did originally they did did you know that yes they did I did so but we don’t need to duplicate it now in the 2000s no no and so don’t do faux finishes everyone knows those everyone knows those columns are not real marble even though you tried to make it marble yeah it’s not you’re not fooling anybody they they do have some Modern faux finishes that don’t look dated but if your faux finish is more than a if you do a faux finish it’s going to age quickly yes you know you know you probably don’t want to keep your faux finished for more than about three or five years because they age very they’re very trendy and they age very quickly yes yes so you know things like that columns are kind of dated columns are dated are very dated so when you’re getting ready to sell maybe have someone come out and see you know how about if I put like a beautiful wooden column you know like more rustic or something anything but how about U fake crysanthemum oh yeah I have to take a deep breath all the silk flowers the silk it has to go by byebye horrifying uh plant shelves uh with covered with silk on top not good yeah so so not to be uh not to be insensitive but just to kind of state it for what it is chances are if you’re incet and you’re a seller you are of a certain age if you are a buyer you are of a certain age but not as old as the first uncertain age so your sellers you know they have faux finishes that have been around a while or whatever you need to understand that younger people come in even though they’re not really young anymore they’re younger than you are and they have a different sense of what style is and they will be horrified by the thing horrify is a good word because we’ve had people like they can’t see past it they can’t get P at all you’re right and not only that curtains no one uses curtains anymore yeah so you go in a house with the heavy drapes and the what do you call them the pleat at the top at the top it just screams or what do they call it pooling at the bottom what do they call pudd puddling pudd anything called puddling I like puddling though I have to say I’m not opposed to puddling I was okay with it until I heard it was called puddling and then I’m back to the I’m back to the carpet and the bathroom we could never do puddling because we have cats and dogs that would sleep on it and decide that’s a good spot to yeah take a Le yeah all of these things that we’re mentioning they’re things that are relatively easy and cheap to fix absolutely so then you know just by adjusting those few little things helps you get top dollar and sell quicker and S quicker um people look at something and you know especially if it’s in a higher price point and they think well gez I’m spending over a million dollars and I got to come in here and gut it I got to repaint it I got to scrape popcorn just do it now do it ahead of time people will put an offer in right away and you’ll get top dollar and and the sellers will say you know yeah but buyers can see past it they can’t no they can’t they just they can’t they can’t it is so horrifying they run screaming from your house even my people who say oh I can see past anything they they’re they can’t they’re in the middle of it and they’re like I just don’t When Buyers come in we show them a lot of homes and uh there are a lot of good homes here so you’re kind of you’re competing with other good homes and the one that they’re going to buy is the one that’s going to touch their heart yep and no one’s going to you’re not going to touch anyone’s heart with carpet in the bathroom it’s not going to touch anyone’s heart it’s it’s just not it’s not going to be it’s not going to touch their soul it’s not going to touch their soul yeah so fix that stuff fix it yeah but anyway so that’s uh some some of the horrifying home Styles we wanted to share with you so that’s our tip of the day if you like tips and place to goes pickle 411.com that is our free information site whether you’re a buyer seller or somewhere in between there’s something waiting for you that will Amaze to stound inform and entertain you and it’s only $10 no it’s free it’s absolutely a subscription no subscription that’s a joke no subscription no 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