<p>But after you’ve worn them on the street a few times, doesn’t the red rub off and get scuffed and look awful? And what if you have your shoes resoled? Oh, I get it – if you can afford Louboutins, you don’t need to get them resoled. Silly me.</p>
<p>OK…I painted 3 of my 5 bedrooms in yellow…(not my master)…am I screwed? The master bedroom looks good. The other bedroom was going to be painted a bluish color…</p>
<p>Depends on the yellow – no, of course you’re not screwed! Yellow makes a room look fresh and bright…which is what you are going for, yes?</p>
<p>Yes…it was…and the rooms do look bresh and bright. I just don’t know about boys in yellow rooms…</p>
<p>Yellow is a uni-sex color. </p>
<p>Pet sell real estate and it’s cheaper than fancy shoes:</p>
<p><a href=“Pets Help Sell Manhattan Apartments - The New York Times”>Pets Help Sell Manhattan Apartments - The New York Times;
<p>The previous owners at our house had an adorable little Shih-Tzu named Fred. We asked if he conveyed. :)</p>
<p>“Yellow is a uni-sex color”.</p>
<p>Good. Then I am worrying for nothing. I guess I will stop worrying. :)</p>
<p>My hallway is yellow (Sherwin Williams Ivoire) and boys’ bedrooms are blue, aqua and celery green. They’ll all be painted Ivoire when I put my house on the market.</p>
<p>What I’ve observed is that too many different colors in a staged house tend to make it look a little choppy. Just my opinion, but I think it’s nice to have a couple of neutral colors flow through a house.</p>
<p>H saw that NY Times article about pets. I guess our realtor doesn’t agree, though – she was pretty clear we needed to take the dog with us when we were clearing out for a showing. We have a Wheaten Terrier and honestly, he’s the friendliest dog in the world. He comes on strong though – jumping up, wriggling with excitement, etc. I guess if you’re not expecting it, his antics may not be seen as welcoming.</p>
<p>Bottom line – no shoes OR pets will help sell our house!</p>
<p>My living room is a light butter color, and IMO that was a huge improvement over the previous white – warmed it up a lot, looks great no matter what time of day, and is a great contrast with the white woodwork. I think I’m going to extend it into the dining room for now – it feels a lot colder in contrast to the adjacent living room. </p>
<p>Here’s my question on staging and model homes: why do they always have the coffee table (or equivalent) basically in the middle of the room, far from where any possible person could sit in any of the furniture and reach it unless they had arms like one of the Five Chinese Brothers? I keep seeing this, and it makes no sense to me.</p>
<p>LOVE yellow. I wanted to paint our kitchen/breakfast room/family room a light butter yellow. DH had a fit. So I painted the finished walkout basement that color and it is really bright and cheery and looks great with the white woodwork down there.</p>
<p>^^^ Our kitchen is painted in Benjamin Moore Provence Creme.</p>
<p>It looks really good.</p>
<p>[Benjamin</a> Moore 2021-60 Provence Creme | Myperfectcolor](<a href=“http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Benjamin-Moore-2021-60-Provence-Creme-p/mpc0004170.htm]Benjamin”>http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Benjamin-Moore-2021-60-Provence-Creme-p/mpc0004170.htm)</p>
<p>That looks pretty close to our color, at least as far as the monitor shows. It is a happy color without being excessively exuberant.</p>
<p>My favorite paint color is Behr’s Biloxi. It is a warm ivory that makes a great background for paintings, curtains, Xmas trees…</p>
<p>I used to buy it in 5 gal buckets. Eventually, it was in all the public areas of my old house except the dining room which was tomato soup red (from the previous owners…we never changed it) and we used a pale yellow in the formal living room. All white classical trim throughout…we even had columns, the home-builder’s signature piece.</p>
<p>At the same time we were preparing our house for sale, a couple of other similar models were also on the market. The one that stood out (!) was the two-story living room sponge-painted in tones of hot pink. They’d painted all the columns and trim a deep orange and had crimson curtains, also two-stories long. Do you really have to ask why I remember it?</p>
<p>Novelisto, DH and I still have vivid memories of what we called “the chnitzy house”. I also remember the look on our realtor’s face - at first, poor fella did not know if he had to laugh with us or lead us away. Every room in that house had walls artistically decorated with flowery fabric as wallpaper (with matching bedspreads, pillows, and decorative table covers): roses in one room, violets in the next one, whisteria in the third… We spent almost an hour “exploring” and ridiculing the house (okay, the realtor had as much fun as we did)… And no, it did not make it onto our short list. :)</p>
<p>When we started looking in our new town, two houses got their own names. One was the ‘tchotchke house’ in which every single space was stuffed with ‘collectibles’…dolls, Elvis, plates, Barbies, horses, limited edition this and only 10,000 made of that…thousands and thousands of dollars worth and all of it unrelentingly gawd-awful. </p>
<p>The other one was the ‘duck house’…prints of ducks, statues of ducks, lamps of ducks, wallpaper of ducks…in every room with the exception of one downstairs bathroom which was seashells. We figured the wife got one room to decorate herself. </p>
<p>We didn’t buy either one. The ‘tchotchke house’ was a very choppy floorplan and the ‘duck house’ was the highest priced house in the neighborhood and had little privacy. So though the decor didn’t put us off, it did help us remember the house!</p>
<p>Good luck to all listing their houses this year. I hope the market picks up. The house next door has been on the market for a while now. They moved out and staged the place perfectly, but no nibbles even for what I think is a good asking price. Scares me, because I’d love to sell my house but can’t for that low amount. If they can at least get close to their ask price, it would be heartening to me. Not much moving here except at bargain prices in the mid/upper range. True multi million luxury homes are moving and the inexpensive homes are selling but anyone trying to downsize is having a hard time here. Basically you get the privilege of paying to downsize.</p>
<p>Scary, cptofthehouse.</p>
<p>I’m a little worrried that I won’t be able to sell my house. I don’t see a lot of homes selling in my town.</p>
<p>And I am going to move out for the sale.</p>
<p>I don’t want to move back.</p>
<p>Your story doesn’t thrill me.</p>
<p>I’m sorry.But you are ahead of me and those like me who have not even put ourselves in the position to sell. There are people out there who pretty much have to buy something. There is some movement in the market. And many people like me who have not even bothered to put their homes on the market–for example, my neighbor does not have our house as competitions because I have not made the move as I might have, had the market been more encouraging.</p>
<p>So I give you a lot of credit. Like any lottery, you gotta play to win and there aren’t as many tickets in the bin as there might be. I do wish all of your luck, sincerely. This housing crash has been a big setback to us.</p>
<p>“This housing crash has been a big setback to us.”</p>
<p>I am sorry to read this…</p>
<p>Hopefully your neighbor will sell her house and things will pick up…</p>
<p>Around here…the home selling season doesn’t really start until this weekend…</p>
<p>The thing is inventory is low here…at least the published inventory…</p>
<p>Yet…buyers are just sitting…so far…</p>
<p>The big question mark is are the buyers going to start showing up?</p>