Once again we are living in a house for sale. This time we don't own it. This makes the entire enterprise harder to get comfortable with. You'd think it would be easier since it isn't our place, but the proscriptions on how to behave are much more precise for that scenario. You know you want the house spotless and you want to be exceptionally accommodating. Now, we just don't want people to think we live like slobs. We don't really- but our decor is definitely "grad school 101". No, my furniture in grad school was actually much nicer.
Anyway, Tuesday a photographer came to shoot images for the on-line listing. She brought her step ladder and a very wide angle lens. The result is a view of our house that has never been seen before. I feel like we must be living in a "fun house" and expect that the mirrors are all wavy so you look either 50 kilos heavier or very, very thin. (See how I slipped in that Australian metric measurement. Smooth.) You'll see she REALLY focused on the dining room- and totally skipped the "lounge"-- lounge population 1. one small end table/bookcase combo jobby and 2. two cans of clams sitting on the floor covering possible spider entrances. It is a fine room. It has a red wall. I often spread out my yoga mat and stretch in there.
You'll see I made the bed. I didn't hide the front of the drawer to the dresser that has broken off. The photographer didn't either. She probably didn't notice until she got home and looked at the photo. I'd have tried to photoshop it out. She did, however, remove some of the piles of papers that sit forever atop the desk in the computer room. It looks positively neat. Neat- with the world's crappiest love seat.
Saturday is the first open house. I'll be at work so it will be Kevin's duty to be scarce with the dog. He hasn't had practice with this. Hope he isn't too stressed! Zelda should be able to show him the way it is done.
4 comments:
Wow, will you have to move? I guess it depends on the intentions of the buyer - if they buy it as an investment they may be happy for you to carry on in it.
is that a fireplace I see in the dining room? envy envy - our house is just the wrong design to have a fire or woodburner. Such a shame.
Oh and on your PB page, the red flower, I would have said it was a Rata, except I've never seen a pic of Rata with berries before. Pohutukawa also look a bit like that, but the leaves are wrong I think
V popular NZ trees, we Kiwis have a great affection for them, particularly the pohutukawa
We don't know, Cathi, about moving. The realtor told Kevin that we'd be able to stay til our lease expires without a change in rent. After that, it depends on who buys it and how they change the rent. Now that I'm working, I know better places (more convenient) to be living.
Yes, it IS a fireplace. Don't you think it is odd that none of the photos really show it? Seems to me that it might be something a buyer would want to know about. (You can see the fireplace in the halloween photos.)
And the flower... What is a PB page? I'll look up rata and pohutukawa on the internet. I need to know the much loved trees of the kiwis!
Sorry, PB=Photobucket, ie YOUR photobucket page :)
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