Okay this time last year I was asked to view this property online via the realtor's website prior to doing my consult. My immediate reaction was, WOW such a small kitchen for the price that they are asking for the house. Do you agree?
Well to my surprise, when I got to the property I noticed that right over the countertop island was a huge room that had only a couch in it and off that room to the right was another 1000 sq. foot room that had a few misplaced pieces of furniture.
Now if I was a buyer and I was looking for a large eat in kitchen/family room type of environment I would have certainly passed up the gem due to the photos on the realtors website.
I immediately went to work by removing the small table the clients had in the "eat in kitchen" area and staged the huge room off the kitchen with their large wrought iron table. This not only made for a large kitchen, but can you imagine how nice it would be having breakfast every morning overlooking that beautiful back yard?? And it really was beautiful.
This house reminded me of a classic Bed and Breakfast. It was fabulous!! What was supposedly being used as their family room/office, I turned into 3 working spaces, as you can see. The front of the room I placed a small writing desk for a woman who could work from home and watch and her children play in the yard. The back of the room I set up as TV viewing and playing and the far back right corner I made a separate office for the husband.
I used all their furniture and accessories which worked with the theme of the house. YES THE HOUSE SOLD AT OPEN HOUSE!!
The funny thing about this job was that the clients left for the weekend and we had full reign of the house. They had no idea what I was going to do. Don't you wish all your jobs were that easy?? When they returned they were quite surprised and wondered why they NEVER had their kitchen table in that room all those years living there. They enjoyed that space by the yard until the house closed!!
Realtors, watch what your pictures are showing buyers!! You could be losing clients and not even knowing it!
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