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elizabeth ran the challenge for November and I'll be doing December. :)
Theme for Friday, December 13th: HOME
Montreal was my adopted home for several years. I feel a bit homesick for it sometimes.
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I'm at work, sitting and waiting for a restaurant owner to meet with me. -why do we love restaurants so much? Because we spent much of our evolutionary process huddled around communal fires, hearths. The kitchen is the heart of the home. You have a great one. We do too, and I'll miss it:
Yes, it's a convection oven if you so choose. It's also a grill. It's about 50% of the reason I bought the house. It's probably 80% of the reason the people that are buying the house from me are doing so. If you want to sell your house, put in a bad ass kitchen. Spare no expense. It's amazing to me how bad some people are at staging their homes. Clutter, personalized crappy art. Some are really great though and can make a house seem much more appealing than it actually is. -There's a real art to it.
Nice. I saw the flat portion and that enormous hood, so I assumed there was a grill. Not that I have a home to sell, but I agree. Especially the hood. You can have a really great range, but it's useless if searing will smoke up your house every time. My aunt is a realtor, dealing with high-end properties and she said the same thing. She told me that staging a place can command a much higher price, especially if the buyer likes the staging enough to buy the place "as is". It's funny that you mention staging, as I was just talking about it with a friend. My aunt also told me that a lot of the furniture she uses in staging properties just gets thrown out and that I might be interested in selling some of it. If I can figure out a cheap storage option and a cheap way to get access to a truck, I've got some ideas that I think could work.If you want to sell your house, put in a bad ass kitchen. Spare no expense.
It's amazing to me how bad some people are at staging their homes. Clutter, personalized crappy art. Some are really great though and can make a house seem much more appealing than it actually is. -There's a real art to it.
Rico 30 years from now: "Well, we started with just one van and a few pieces of furniture that my aunt gave us from a house she staged. Now we're in all 80 states and we are going to be the first furniture reseller on the new colony."If I can figure out a cheap storage option and a cheap way to get access to a truck, I've got some ideas that I think could work.
-That's a good idea. Be careful, this is how long-term businesses are born.
Great photo, my good friend is from Montreal and he is unfortunately moving back there in six months. I'm going to miss having him around but I'm excited to go visit him once he is there. I hear wonderful things. The topic this week is a very prescient one as I've been thinking about "home" a lot. A few months back I put our house on Zillow's "make me move" service, in which you can name a price for your home that would "make you and your family move." Turns out that somebody wants our house and has put in an official offer. We have an inspection on the 20th and close on January 13th. This is all happening very quickly. We need to find a new home to either buy or rent. I've looked at probably 20 different options in the last four days. Looking at other homes will help you more appreciate what it is you love about your current home. The more houses I see, the more I question whether we should sell. But, I'm also considering, for the first time ever, purchasing a home that needs renovations in order to make it more of my home and less of me buying someone else's vision, you know what I mean? Here is my current home: Here is the place I'm considering renovating: but when I think of "home" there is one house that stands out over all others and that is my grandparents house on my dad's side. We called it "The Stone House." My grandparents sold the home several years ago. Someday I will buy it again and allow any relative of mine to stay there anytime. If your last name is Clausnitzer you will be able to stay at the Claus-House. -A "home" for all wayward krauts.
I'm kind of hunting for a new home right now too, except I'm looking for a new city in a new country rather than a new house. 13 job interviews in the past week--a lot of them terrible jobs though. I've been thinking about my past and current homes a lot recently, and thinking about how much easier it would be to stay in a comfortable familiar place. Your current home actually reminds me of my grandma's house a bit, so I feel a little nostalgic looking at that photo. :)
Good luck with the job interviews. If you could live in any of the places that are on your list of options, which would it be? We actually decided tonight that we should rent for a while and take our time to figure things out instead of quickly buying. I really love both of the homes pictured though. Ranch style homes are often associated with grandparents :) Not sure why. I find them to be my favorite types of homes because they sprawl over a lot. I'm not much of a fan of two story condensed living.
I'm looking mainly in Seoul or several smaller cities near Seoul, but it's looking increasingly like anywhere that will offer me a half decent job. I think it's both the ranch style and the giant trees around it that make me think of my grandma's house. The house I grew up in was a newer one so the trees where I lived were all quite small, but all of my grandparents had older houses with huge trees in their yard. I always loved the trees at their houses because they looked so much more impressive.
Another, also not mine:
