Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NY Home Improvement Blog Patrol
Battery Park City Photo by Brian BoydIf you're one of the lucky 17 people who've been able to sell a house or apartment over the last month, keep in mind that one of your most crucial concerns should be moving your valuables safely. With that in mind, check out Charles & Hudson's post on the subject. The jist is to move certain items yourself, like sports memorabilia and firearms...yes, definitely move your own firearms!
Moving Your Valuables / Find New York Movers on cityhammer.com
OK, so if youhaven't been able to sell, or you're just looking to boost your house's curb appeal. Here's a simple idea from Remodelista: House Numbers. In their lastest 10 Easy Pieces installment, you can see several fonts and styles to jazz up the front of your house and stand out from the rest of the block.
Lastly, moving aside, things could always be worse. Ask yourself how you would feel living in "The Smallest House in Toronto"? Pictures at The Home Crowd must be seen to be believed. Forget losing your house keys, what if you misplaced your house?
Labels: 10280, Curb Appeal, New York Moving Companies, Small House
Monday, June 23, 2008
Calling All New York Home Stagers...
Does Your Block Look Like This?Home staging, or real estate staging is said to be more of an art than a science. That said, ever since its beginnings in the 1970's, the home staging profession has been steadily gaining a larger recognition among not only real estate industry pro's, but the general homeowner populace at large. In response to growing demand for staging help and services in our current "buyers' market" for real estate, cityhammer.com has just added a category for Real Estate Stagers in New York.
Are you a home stager serving the NY, NJ, or CT area? Post your profile on cityhammer.com, New York's #1 Remodeling Directory! CLICK HERE
There's a widely accepted maxim in residential real estate that a buyer decides whether or not they would buy a home within 8 to 10 seconds of walking in the door! If that is actually even close to being true, then home staging could make a huge difference in terms of getting you that great first impression.
Stagers will typically employ tactics as simple as depersonalizing a room (hiding family portraits and vacation souvenirs) to more advanced techniques involving lighting, more neutral paint colors and even renting furniture to fill out an empty room, thus "enlarging" it in the eyes of a prospective home buyer. If you live in a condo or co-op in Manhattan, hopefully you have a nice lobby to help with the concept of curb appeal. If you own a house on Long Island or in Westchester, a stager will help with the clutter in the front yard or tell you what kind of impression the house is making from the street.
What kind of companies will you find in the Real Estate Stagers section on cityhammer.com? You will see specialists like Savvy Staged Homes of Upstate New York, interior design firms like ReDesign Works of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and even real estate brokers, who have gone the extra step and added a home staging education to their arsenal of services.
Whether you are selling a home or plan to in the near future, we recommend getting some estimates from home stagers, who can help you get closer to asking price and put your house in position to sell faster than other properties that haven't been optimized for a sale.
Labels: Curb Appeal, Interior Designer NYC, Long Island Home Staging, Real Estate Staging NY, Upper East Side, Westchester Home Stagers
