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If music be the food of love, play on. Emmanuel Fonte website is about music, art, real estate, architecture, design and decor. Occasionally, I talk about my other passion, hockey.
Classic meets Contemporary. Ahead of the London 2012 summer Olympics, the organization that represents Canadian Olympic athletes has introduced a new logo that removed the gradient from their flame, creating a clean and direct visual identity (with a bolder font treatment) that puts the focus on the patriotic Canadian red.
The Canadian Olympic Team Brand from Canadian Olympic Team on Vimeo.
Dreaming a beautiful and unique bathroom may is a thing that ordinary people do every day. It is not wrong, because who knows that dream will come true. The following are design results of dreams from the great architects, showing the incredible uniqueness.
And this is the style of a contemporary design in 2011, using antique furniture as well as have a harmony with the interior of the room. Colorful attached to walls, floors, ceiling greatly attracted the attention of the eye and adds to the pleasure of a relaxing time in the bathroom.
Wooden furniture decor that gives a touch of nature indoors, warm sun rays that enter through the window a beautiful designed in accord with the color of the room. Please enjoy the uniqueness bathroom decoration here, hopefully you got a lot of inspiration from this design.
The rise of green building for commercial and residential properties is not the only response to climate change. The increase in fuel prices around the nation is making a significant impact on real estate sales.
As talk of carbon emissions and hybrid cars are part of our everyday conversation, people are more conscious of how their choices affect the environment as well as their pocketbooks. Now more than ever before, individuals are factoring the cost of commuting to and from work into the overall buying decision.
Suburban developments located many miles from city centers may not be as appealing as they once were, particularly to homebuyers who want residential opportunities closer to the workplace. According to RisMedia, consumers in the Los Angeles area are seriously considering fuel costs and commuting time when they choose to buy. The demand for housing is high for outlying areas like Santa Monica, Beverly HIlls, Bel Air, and Hancock Park, which are located near the city center. The CBS Evening News recently reported that Los Angeles commuter rail ridership went up by 8 percent from 2010.
Remember all those outdoor fixup projects you put off last winter, waiting for the warm summer months? Well, summer’s here and it’s time to think about getting some repairs in while the temperatures are still agreeable. Keeping your home in tip-top shape not only adds to its curb appeal but it saves you money as you ward off more expensive fixes down the road.
But look at it this way: Spend a couple of weekends outside, basking in the beautiful weather, and make sure your home looks fantastic while you can still enjoy its charms. Soon enough, it will be time to pack it up and head inside.
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Check out this unique secret garage door that your neighbors would likely be blown away with. This house actually used to be an aircraft hangar that was converted in order to make it more visually appealing. The only problem is that you have to have a great deal of patience, because the garage door takes a while to open.
World Wide Web is growing at rapid pace. On average, more than a billion new pages are added to it every day. To give you an idea of how big world wide web is, our Infographic 60 Seconds will cover some really interesting facts about websites that we use on day-to-day basis.
Infographic by- Shanghai Web Designers
Regardless of our selling situation and the market conditions, once the decision to sell is made, we all have the same goal – a quick sale at the highest price possible. Market conditions are out of our control, but the other factors that play into the fast sale/best price goal are 1) condition and 2) presentation – and those we can control.
The condition factor is easily controlled through cleaning and repairing, fairly objective goals. The presentation factor is more subjective, and this is where staging comes in – evoking the emotions of home to help potential buyers imagine their life in your house – from how their furnishings will fit to how their lifestyle will fit. Staging is the finishing touch that, as its name implies, allows your property to take center stage when buyers start looking – creating a neutral décor and adding accessories to bridge the gap between property statistics and dreams.
To disregard the presentation factor and expect buyers to “look through” your furnishings and decorating style is leaving much to chance. Most buyers think that what they see is what they get – everything from furnishings to décor colors. When buyers are either looking on the Internet or standing in your living room, they are usually eliminating before they begin evaluating. There are simply so many properties on the market at such fabulous price points that it can become overwhelming; eliminating is the default process to get the number of options down to a more manageable decision. Staging is the single most important activity to insure that your house isn’t eliminated without buyers truly evaluating its potential relevance to their goals and lifestyle.
A recent study by the Harrison Group revealed that since the recession began luxury homebuyers have narrowed the purchase time of a second home property from approximately two years to three months. They are doing the research on the Internet; think of it as pre-selling themselves. This places the importance of staging at an all time high – regardless of price and location, with so many purchase opportunities, it is easier to click on to the next property if doesn’t “feel” like home.
Through staging you can increase your chances of surviving the Internet elimination process and move your house into the evaluating stage more quickly.
