Thursday, May 16, 2013

How to stage your home!

Staging your home is an important part of selling it.


To spice up your home for staging try some of these for your exterior
~Have a fancy door, or patio, this would be good because first impressions are everything in selling a home
 ~ Make sure your back yard is cleaned up and the grass is green and looks health. Try putting nice furniture out on the patio and in the yard to make it look good.
~Gardens are every floral and attract people in. There colorful and provide calmness to everyone, so plant some flowers and get your garden on!

To make your interior look staged try some of these.
~Clean your house. Don't leave things on the floor, it will look really bad and people don't want to see a messy house.
~Put dishes put away! Dirty caulking? Replace it yourself and wipe it down with a sponge afterwards.
~ Try to fix those little defects.Worn out boards or linoleum? Toilet that doesn't quite flush? These seemingly easy repairs will leave a prospective buyer wondering what other repairs lurk beneath those floorboards. This will NOT get your house sold. .
~ The bedroom is for beds Besides the clutter they invariably drag with them, multi-purpose rooms make the house appear as if there aren't enough rooms in the house. Not a good sign to any buyer. The multi used room don't look every attractive.
~Olfactory sense The sense of smell doesn't just turn off when you look for a new home. In fact, it might go into overdrive due to the unfamiliar place, or in the search for offer-lowering defects. To keep that top dollar, remove any possible source of odor, and introduce sources of good smells, like open windows or baked goods.

If you use some of these ideas you are setting your self up for selling your home faster, staging your home is a very good idea for you to do.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Housing Stlyes


Gamble Roof-
The triangular section of a wass formed bu the end of a poited roof.

Gambrel Roof-
A roof with two slopes on each side, the loower slope having teh steeper pitch.

 

Saltbox

Pitched roof that slopes down to the back
Mansard
Same as gambrel but lower and upper levels are on all four sides
Bay Window
A set of windows that protrudes out from a wall. The window moves away from the wall to provide more light and a wider view.

Casement Window
A window that opens by swinging inward or outward much like a door
Clapboard
Long narrow boards overlapped to cover outer walls
Dormer
The setting for a vertical window on a roof
Eaves
The prortion of a roof that projects beyond a wall
Fanlight
A semicircular or arched window above a door
Palladian Window
A three part window with a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights
Pediment
A triangular crown used over doorrs, windows, or porches
Portico
A porch usually with a pedimented roof supported by classical columns or pillars
Rafter
A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall
Sidelights
Windows on either side of a door
Turrets
A small tower, often at the corner of a building
 

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Housing Styles!

                                                                                                                                                  Tudor Style Home!

 










                                                                                 This is a tudor Home because it has steeply picthed
                                                                                    roofs, chimneys, brick, and patterned stone.

                 Neo-Classical Style Home!




 







 
This is a Neo-Classical home because it has pillars that are symmetrical





                                                                                          Queen Anne Style Home!

                                                                                 This is a Queen Anne home because it has a wrap
                                                                                   around porch and bay windows and balconies.
 

Bungalow Style Home!

 
This house is an Bungalow style because
it has steep roofs and porches.

                                                                                        Ranch/Split Level Style Home




 
                                                                                This is a Ranch Style home because it has a large
                                                                                 porch, it also has picture windows as well.
 

Prairie Style Home!




 

This is a Prairie Style  home because they have
 widows that are grouped horizontal bands and
have bricks that are narrow to further accent the
horizontal.
 

                                                          Colonial Revival Style Home!

                                                                                                    That has gamble roofs, so it makes this house a colonial stlye house 

International School Style Home!


Large widow,that dominate large city skylines.
so its a international school styel house.

                                                                                    Cape Cod Style Home!

This is a Cape Cod Style home beacuse it has wood
shingles on the roof.
 

Colonial Revival ( Dutch)

It has a shed like roof, so its classified as Colonial Dutch
Revival.
 

                                                                                                 Neo-Eclectic Style House!

                                                                                  This house is Neo-Eclectic because it has pillars  
                                                                                               often supported a portico.
 
 
 




Monday, April 15, 2013

Principles of Design: Harmony

Principle of Design: Harmony
I did a beach theme. You can tell by the pictures on the wall and the overall look of the room as well.  

Principles of Design: Scale & Proportion

Principles of Design: Scale & Proportion
My room is really big, but all of my furniture is small.