Thursday, May 16, 2013

Top 5 tips to sell your house

Why buy new when used is just as good? Building a house takes up time, money, and space and takes a long time to sell because of how much money was put into the house. Buying a used house saves money and you can make it like brand new; when people are searching for houses they're looking for nice and cheap houses. Here's a couple tips that can make your house brand new for the market.

GO NEUTRAL
Bold colors don't sell, but painting all the rooms in the home neutral gives the "new" home owners a chance to make it unique. "Painting your home has got to be up there on the chart rundown of tips because it is something we can all do," said host Clive Pearse.


DECK IT OUT
A living room which happens to be outside increases the money. People want that feeling of a house inside and out. "People are buying square footage, so tend to your backyard and make it a usable space," advises designer Toniya Nayak.

MAKE IT ALL ABOUT THE BED
The headboard draws much attention and makes the room/bed more fancy. "When a buyer walks into a master bedroom, they are expecting to see luxury, to see comfort, to see elegance," says real estate expert Bethany Souza.

COOK UP YOUR KITCHEN
Up grading your kitchen will bring more money in. The heart of the home is considered to be the kitchen, the kitchen can make or break your sale. "If you want to put money into your home before you sell, put it into the kitchen," advises real estate expert Donna Freeman of the L.A. team.

COMPLETE THE PICTURE
Finishing a room that is unfinished will bring in the money once on the market. "You're more likely to get top dollar if your house is move-in ready," says LaPorta. 


These tips will bring in the money. There are many more tips that are very helpful as well but these are just five I liked. Make sure to be resourceful when selling or buying a house. Remember why buy new when used is just as good!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Art Deco Kitchen


This art deco kitchen would be desgined for a family that wants elegace but also a bubbly kitchen. It gives off a calm mood, but also spunk because of the wall paper choice. I think any family that wants a fun kitchen that can also can keep classyness; would want this kitchen.

My Room

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Housing Styles Accessories


Gable Roof- Most common residential roof. 2 sloping sides meet to form a ridge.

Hip Roof- Similar to gable roof but with 4 surfaces. Intersecting surfaces are called hips.


Gambrel Roof- Typical "Barn" style roof. Lower level is a steeper pitch while higher level is slightly less. Only on 2 sides.

Mansard Roof- Same as gambrel but lower and upper levels are on all four sides.

Saltbox Roof- A building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house.

Bay Window- A window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.

Casement Window- Is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges.

Clapboard Window- also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weatherboard (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is the siding of a house consisting of long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.

Dormer Window-  a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface.

Eaves- is the portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall. All houses have eaves.

Fanlight window- is semi-circled and often times found above doors.

Palladian Window- features largely in Palladio's work, almost a trademark in his early career. It consists of a central light with semicircular arch over, carried on an impost consisting of a small entablature, under which, and enclosing two other lights, one on each side, are pilasters.

Pediments- are triangular crowns used to cover over doors, windows, or porches.

Portico- is a large porch with a pedimented roof supported by classical columns or pillars.

Rafters- are the roof beams that slope from the ridge to the wall. In most houses, rafters are only visible from the attic.

Sidelights- are the windows on either side of the door.

Turrets- are small towers, often on the side of a home or building.



Thursday, April 25, 2013

Housing Style

Tudor Style Home: Mostly upper class upscale suburbs homes, with half-timber, brick, stucco, and wood all in twined.
Neo-Classical (Greek Revival) Style Home: "The national style" Greek revival house consisted of pillars, columns, formal balance, symmetric appearances, brick, and wood.
Queen Anne Style Home: A romantic Victorian house with porches, balconies, and bay windows were used to add variety and "bring the outside in." Elaborate exterior woodworking called "gingerbread".
 
 Bungalow Style Home: The bungalow wood was left natural or stained,  with exposed rafters, and long low picketed roof with a shallow "shed" dormer.

Ranch/Split Level Style Home: The ranch is partly shaped by the automobile. The front dominated with a large "picture window" and by a large garage.

Prairie Style Home: Horizontal lines rule the Prairie style, accented by wide eaves. Windows are grouped in horizontal bands, and bricks are narrow to accent the horizontal. The Prairie style home allows natural textures and lines of the structure to speak for itself.

Colonial Revival Style Home: Most popular housing style for a family. These houses are inspired by Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial, New england, and Georgian.

International School and Contemporary Style Home: These houses are "Neo-Eclectric." Theses houses include a turret, a set of palladian windows, arched windows, and sharp gables. A Modern Art Style "less is a bore."
Cape Cod Syle Home: Characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation. Very simple: symmetrically designed with a central front door surrounded by two multi-paned windows on each side. Homes were designed to withstand the stormy, stark weather of the Massachusetts coast.
Colonial Revival (Dutch) Style Home: A style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house.
Neo-Eclectric Style Home:considered an outgrowth of postmodern architecture. It differs from postmodernism in that it is not creatively experimental.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Under the sea with spunk

sea themed
My sea inspired room is called under the sea with spunk. The room is brought together by unity with the sea inspired room. The teal, coral, and green show how many different colors are in the sea. There are a variety of things in my room, including the different visual textures and tactical textures. The different colors also allow a variety of colors.