With one more wave of decluttering washing over our house, we’re looking back at our last yard sale as well as the unusual trick we used to make it a fast-selling success (and the minor detail we overlooked that nearly turned it into a major disaster). We’re likewise talking about how we sold both of our homes without a realtor, as well as what five things you ought to think about before you go the available for sale By owner route yourself – including the huge misstep we made when putting our first home on the market. You’ll likewise hear why we’ve given up on one area of our yard looking pretty anymore (we’ve just chose pure function), as well as Sherry shares her new favorite footwear.
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Above are two photos we included with our yard sale noting a couple of years back when we were clearing out our storage room before finishing our reward room. It was mostly unused design as well as leftover projects from our book, so naturally we had to style a good plan as well as break out the good camera, right? #crazypeople
If you missed our original podcast about dramatically paring down our kids toys (and the unexpected effect it had), you can listen to it below (Episode #45)
And if you want much more yard sale stories as well as pointers, here are some suggestions from our first yard sale as well as some suggestions for keeping a yard sale from stressing you out.
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Above is our much-asked-about under-counter microwave (you can read much more about our kitchen remodelling here)
In our past kitchens, we’ve likewise put a microwave in a pantry, hid a microwave in an upper cabinet, as well as built an above-range microwave into a spot that WASN’T above the range.
And if you have our second book, Lovable Livable Home, we run down the pros as well as cons of various microwave placements on page 114 (including one more twist on the under-counter microwave).
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Here’s Lonny’s list of 25 interior design trends That Are much better In Theory
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Here’s much more info on what we did to sell our second house by owner and a accurate timeline of how it all went down
Here’s what we learned from selling our first house by owner, as well as much more info about how we handled (mishandled?) showings with potential buyers
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Here’s the hose reel that we got to finally wrangle our garden hose in the backyard (and we repurposed the old hose pot as an actual pot for a fern)!
I likewise contemplated one like this, however I imagined myself having to failing to regularly clean leaves as well as spiders out of the box, just like my failed hose pot situation. (Rule #1 in hose-wrangling: know thy self)
Although I am considering a down-the-line upgrade to a wall-mounted one so I won’t have leaves collecting around the base of the cart version I have, however so far I’m loving the reel function.
Last however not least, here are the “incognito flip-flops” that Sherry’s loving – Havaiana’s freedom sandal as well as Flash urban sandal (they look like sandals however they feel like flip flops).
If you’re searching for something we’ve dug in a past episode, but don’t remember which show notes to click into, here’s a master list of everything we’ve been digging from all of our past episodes.
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