"The selling and leasing markets are both saturated, and yours quite frankly doesn't come up to scratch.." he said, matter-of-factly. My friendly local Estate Agent says that I appear to have a turkey on my hands. A big one. One that even Nigella would be proud of serving up on a Christmas Day.
My beautiful little house in Norwich has been deemed superfluous to the housing world's requirements, and worse still it is 'un-lettable'. I know its a little quirky, and the kitchen *is* terribly eighties... but I always thought it was rather cute. Something made *me* fall in love with it - why not anyone else? Perhaps nobody else is that daft! ;-)
Anyway... so... what to do? The pedant in me wants to get over there, and paint it up (the external paintwork is a bit of a mess) - restore it to its former glory, and battle off the potential buyers with a big stick. Ahem...bump. I was instructed that "doing something purely for the sake of completeness" might be a costly affair - and worse still, a complete waste of time. I had in my head a picture of it beautifully painted (in a lovely shade of biscuit, offset with a white picket fence) with gingham curtains, and a small rainbow poking out from behind the lavender bushes. Apparently, (and it is very hard for me to believe), but other people might not share my vision?! Don't they know who I am? What I stand for? My sister owns a nice deli for Godssakes... of *course* I have good taste!
I guess I will have to think it through. God, I hate 'thinking things through'. I am impulsive... artistic... ummm... undecided! The 'credit crunch' has suddenly come up and pecked me on the bottom... it's real! Panic everyone!!!!!!
Love, Peace, and "Ain't got time to fix the shingles"... as they say in Quebec Road.
Hayls
xxxxx
2 comments:
Hi Hayley
Love your blog!
Tarting up a house makes a huge difference to its saleability. If it looks loved people are automatically attracted to it and assume that it's been loved and looked after by you!
I do a lot of tarting up houses for sale. The returns usually are treble the investment on the outlay of labour and materials.
You can paint kitchen units (even melamine ones. Use a special preparation that you can find as a good builders merchant - ESP). And then paint with undercoat and eggshell and change the handles.
We did this to the 1980's kitchen here. Most people thought that it was a new kitchen.
I thought your house was lovely! And were I not firmly ensconsed in Oval, I would live there like a shot!!
It'd be lovely to see you... shall we try and meet up in September???
Treks
xx
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