Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
We have been on a bit of a remodeling tear at our house lately. Updating a half bathroom (which we’ll blog about shortly), re-painting our foyer and accompanying woodwork, along with removing some wallpaper border. And getting rid of this guy. Well, two of these guys, actually. I hate these ceiling fans with a passion. They reside in our living room. Someone installed them who knows when. We’ve been living with them for 8 years
These three homes caught my eye because they looked so similar. Not identical, but pretty close. Standard floor plans and cookie cutter homes are not so unusual these days, or even during the post-war build-out of the country’s first suburbs. But it is less common to see three adjacent homes built in the early 1900s look so similar, even down to the same color scheme. It turns out that all three structures are on a
Stainless appliances are out; at least according to Whirlpool. Instead, we are all hereby instructed to select the new White Ice finish to show our superior taste when designing the ultimate kitchen. It’s been described by one reviewer as employing “Apple’s popular design language.” I have no idea if their bold move will catch on. I guess we’ll find out when buyers featured on House Hunters complain about stainless kitchens. But whether the next new
Unless you are a top notch professional designer, no one should ever paint anything in their house a color called “Nacho Cheese.” This color is reserved only for people who are paid for their advice and are featured in magazines. And even then, I would bet that most of them would not use it.
We sometimes see strange things when touring homes with clients. After walking through one property top to bottom, we were surprised to see a “meat grinder” listed in the circuit breaker box in big bold letters … where was the meat grinder? And why does a single-family home have such a serious meat grinder that it requires not only a dedicated circuit but also a double breaker? It seems that this relatively new home salvaged