Hide the My Little Ponies and other tips: staging and photographing your home for sale
We sold our first house in 2007, just as the mortgage industry was crumbling around our ears. I credit staging and photography with how we were able to sell our house quickly. Here’s what I did.
Painting trees: asking for trouble or making a front yard awesome?
In front of my house, there is a very nice elm tree. I’ve been wanting to paint it. Is this resale suicide? Pure tackiness? Tree murder?!
Make it easy to use bike-centered transportation
Bicycling brought me together with my sweetie, Timo, and we were car-free when we got together. Here’s how we make it easy to depend on our bikes.
My partner wants a bland palette in our new home. What can I do to keep color alive?
If my current house was an analogy of a clown puking all over everything — which is a description I’ve heard — the new house would make that same clown drop dead from sadness. What can I do?!
One reader hosts an open studio tour, another makes driftwood useful, and there are a whole lotta clicky links in here
Also included: a hipster chandelier made of mason jars, cupcake wall art, and a documentary about Community Supported Agriculture.
Going into the closet: to, you know, work there
“Cloffice” kind of sounds like… I dunno, maybe an equine venereal disease. But sound it out with me and you’ll see we’re actually talking about offices built in closets. It’s genius, right?
Be ruthless: how to move the army brat way
I was a military brat from the age of six, and I eventually joined the Air Force. I’ve moved eighteen times that I can remember, and I know I missed one or two that happened before my conscious memories start. Suffice it to say, I’ve learned a thing or two about packing up one’s entire life and hauling it off somewhere.
Lindzilla takes a living room from white and bland to blue and just a smidge nerdy
Remember Sara, of the heavenly laundry room redo? This is her living room makeover. Enjoy!