Remember the “Purple Angel House“? It got a lot of you talking when I posted it earlier this year.
This may look like a fairly normal house on the outside, but that purple door hinted that there were surprises in store when you stepped inside.
It’s a rare thing to find a house with decorating that’s so [...]
Sometimes I have to wonder what real-estate agents are thinking when they take certain photos of a house they’re trying to sell. Especially in this less-than-desirable real estate market at the moment, you’d think they would want to try a little harder than usual to capture a potential buyer’s imagination.
Instead, this agent decided to take [...]
Hmmm. Something’s just not right with this kitchen. Did they think those pendant lights were intended to keep the french fries warm? My six-year old daughter Lily just walked by, glanced at this, and said, “They better be careful. Those lights might burn up the countertop!”
This kitchen belongs to an older home in Cincinnati that [...]
Today my husband Handy Dave and I set out to shop for dining room furniture with high hopes that we were going to find exactly what we needed. We spent the afternoon wading through four different national home furnishings stores and found nothing but fugly (furniture that was, you know, ugly).
I found myself asking, out [...]
What do you suppose lies behind this mild-mannered exterior? And what do you think the Realtor was thinking when he took the photo (”pretty sky!”)?
Take a look at what $1.6 million buys you:
Welcome to the first installment of “Just Say No.” As I search the MLS each week, I occasionally run across rooms like this that need serious intervention. A room in a high-end home that costs more than most of us could ever dream of owning. A room that would’ve been perfectly lovely if it hadn’t [...]
This may look like a fairly normal house on the outside, but that purple door hints that there are surprises in store when you step inside.
Discovering this house on the MLS (selling for $316,900) made my day. Why? Because, thanks to a proliferation of TV shows like “Designed to Sell,” “Sell This House,” and “Get [...]
