House Update

 

Well, it is now day ten since we listed our house and guess how much interest we have had?

 

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

 

Blah. It's hard not to be discouraged. Our house is move-in ready and in a great school district. There are only twelve other houses on the market in our town, and ours is the only one at our price point. We really thought that by the end of the first week, we would have at least one offer.

 

We had a good turnout at our first open house, but there were a couple of negative remarks.

 

One, being my dressing room. This one kind of surprised me, but people were commenting that it showed the lack of closet space in our master bedroom. While this isn't true, I can see why they may have thought that.

 

The second remark was the lack of a dining area. Ahh, I knew this would get us. It was one of my biggest gripes with the house as well.

 

So after some thinking, and talking with our agent, we decided to make some changes. Here's the photos of what our house looks like now!

The upstairs second bedroom, staged as baby girl's nursery instead of a random room with a futon.

Our bedroom, with my dresser moved upstairs to fill some empty space.

Our focal point wall, we just swapped out the lamp on the table.

A little bar area in our new "dining room".

And our dining table brought back in and placed in the open space next to the kitchen.

A MUCH better flow and use of space!

My old dressing room, now re-purposed as a family room/den/playroom. I love how cozy this room is!

This room was empty when we listed it, so we moved the futon down and added a desk and two bookshelves. It now feels more like a guest room.



 

The rest of the house stayed the same and we have scheduled another open house this weekend. We are hopeful that these changes will sell our house!

Will you keep your fingers crossed for us please? And tell me, what do you think of our new layout?