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Selling a Home in Atlanta, Georgia
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Selling your home is an involved process that affects your family and your future. Before you begin this process, you'll want to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information. When should you sell? How do you get the best price? What kinds of renovations should be made prior to the sale?
These home selling reports will assist you in answering the many questions that arise during the home selling process. When you're armed with the right information, and an experienced real estate professional, you'll be closer to reaching your goal - selling your home fast, and for the best price. |
Please contact me if you have any questions about selling your Atlanta home.
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HOW TO LIVE WITH LESS FURNITURE....
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How much furniture do you really need? If you're drowning in "stuff," living in a small space or managing a tight budget, get brutal about the furniture pieces to keep or buy. Let's examine your minimum needs for each room.
Living Room
You need something to sit on, put your feet up on, set a plate, glass, newspaper or book on and a light to read by. That could involve just one furniture piece, such as a sofa with a flat, fat arm positioned beneath a wall-mounted reading light; or you can meet all those requirements with five separate pieces of furniture:
- chair or sofa
- ottoman
- end table
- coffee table
- standing lamp
Remember your new motto: Less is more. Consider these options:
- If you place a tray on top of an ottoman, it can double as a coffee table.
- If you can stretch out along a sofa or put your feet up on a coffee table, you can do without an ottoman.
- If you use a mounted light fixture, you won't need a standing lamp or an end table (since you won't need a table lamp).
- If you place a low cabinet with a table lamp against the back of your sofa, it could replace the need for an end table, a coffee table and standing lamp, as well as providing extra storage.
You'll probably want a place for a television and VCR. Ideally, it can be incorporated into a wall cabinet, but it can also live on a simple wall mount. If you prefer your television on the floor, you can use a simple platform on casters.
If your dining room or home office is part of your living room, pick dining chairs that can double as living room seating. Contenders are:
- Slipcovered director's chairs -- which can be folded up and put away when not in use
- Parsons chairs
- Any high-seated "slipper" chairs
- A bench covered with pillows (to combine many seats in one).
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You can use a console table or a "drape table" as your dining table or desk. Either one can stand on its own, topped with a vase of flowers, when not in use. Alternatively, a console table can double as a behind-the-sofa table; a drape table can double as an end table.
Create a combination drape table/storage unit by placing a circle of plywood on top of a filing cabinet or low chest of drawers and throwing a long round tablecloth on top. To create a flat work surface, place a circle of glass on top of the cloth.
Bedroom
Your bed can be as simple as a mattress or other platform on the floor. Then, the entire floor or the remainder of any raised platform, can serve as your end table.
If that doesn't appeal to your comfort or aesthetic requirements, consider a bed and dresser combination:
- A Captain's bed has drawers built into its base. Placed against a wall, with cabinetry built around it, it can serve your every storage need.
- A Murphy's bed, often available with accompanying cabinetry, is mechanically constructed to disappear inside a wall at the push of a button.
In a traditional bedroom, you can cut down on furniture by using chests of drawers as end tables. You can even create drape table/dresser combinations, as described above.
Note: Before doing anything decorative or structural, make sure you have the necessary permits, permissions, and knowledge and understanding of your structure's suitability. |
How to make your manly man feel right at home.
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The Basics
Forget queer eyes for straight guys. Let's hear it for men who believe no room is complete if it lacks a humongous widescreen TV, a mounted buffalo head, and a well-worn La-Z-Boy (snack trays and cupholders a must!).
Here's one manly man's advice on what a woman really needs to know if she's redecorating a home to please "the man of the house."
Sofa: Select one that's got good bones and is covered in canvas, leather, microfiber, or some other dark, heavy fabric. Chairs: Choose perennial favorites like a leather recliner or an armchair with an oversized footstool that can be used as an extra seat. If there's room, purchase a leather or canvas camp-style frame chair. Tables: Invest in a large coffee table, preferably with straight metal legs and a glass top. Plain mission-style tables are also favorites. Lighting: Stick with lamps that have simple white or beige shades and that are controlled by a dimmer switch.
Sources of Inspiration: Old Cary Grant and Rock Hudson movies Favorite bars, pool halls, and other guy hangouts Hotel lobbies
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