The key selling your home yourself is Advertising, Advertising, Advertising! A realtor once told me, while showing me a house, “The main thing people pay for realtors to do it advertise their home.” So if we learn to advertise our home and consider it a job then hopefully it will pay off! {photo credit modified [...]
How to Stage Your Home to Sell
May 7, 2012 By
Last month I talked about living in limbo. During that time we had to try to prep our house for sale. I love searching from homes online as well as just looking at homes for fun. Through this hobby I’ve learned simple things about what is pleasing to the buyer and what is a major [...]
When Is DIY a Bad Idea? Making DIY Fit YOU!
February 21, 2012 By
We all like to make improvements to our homes, and now with the addition to Pinterest in a lot of our lives we are constantly bombarded with all of these delightful DIY spaces, most with not-so-wonderful price tags. It is advantageous to gather new ideas, but keep in mind a few noteworthy things: Your personal [...]
DIY Mud Room Coat Rack
February 18, 2012 By
We’re a busy family of five. Between having young children and a farm, what we seem to have the most of is DIRT. Keeping shoes and coats in our little mudroom helps corral the dirt (and the dust and hay and pebbles and feathers and crunched-up leaves and everything else that little boys wander around [...]
How to Do Art for Walls: DIY Wall Art Without Vinyl
February 9, 2012 By
Vinyl wall art: gracefully-written scripture, phrases or poems to display on the walls of our homes are downright stunning. I’ve long admired such beauty. Knowing that it wasn’t exactly in the budget, I finally realized, that with a bit of effort, and perhaps some trial and error that I just may be able to do something similar myself! So I did! And [...]
Draft Stopper Tutorial: Easy Fix for Drafty Windows and Doors
February 5, 2012 By
My house is one of those fixer upper houses. In fact, it has been since we moved in…11 years ago. To be fair, we’ve done a lot of work here and there. But it seems there is ALWAYS something to be done. Right now, it’s our windows. They are so drafty, and in such poor [...]
Grateful for my Home!
November 29, 2011 By
photo credit We bought our first home in 1996, two years after we got married. We bought in the booming ‘90’s with every intention it would be a “starter home”. Boy did we have a LOT of growing up to do! I never really loved the house; it was totally decorated with 70’s décor and [...]
NOT a DIY Diva {Giveaway}
October 25, 2011 By
So, how many of you visit, or have visited The Inspired Room? Isn’t it magnificent?! Those gorgeous pictures inspire me to want to do so much to my home! Did you know that Melissa, creator of The Inspired Room has released a new e-book today? Mmm-hmmm and she wrote it with the busy [...]
