Do any of you remember the Sesame Street skits with Grover painstakingly demonstrating the difference between ‘near’ and ‘far’? I kind of feel like that’s what I might be doing here today. So, if you wanna laugh, feel free.
If you haven’t heard by now {How couldn’t you? I mention it daily. Are you tired of it yet?}, we’re downsizing and trying our hand at selling our current home by owner. As in, we’re not listing it with a realtor at this time, although we’re open to paying a buyer’s realtor commission. A few things we’ve done to market our home is to pay for an MLS#, list on fsbo.com, and DIY a listing brochure. Each of these marketing strategies pack more punch when pictures are included. So, I devoted an entire day a few weeks ago to taking pictures of our home to be included with all the listing info.
Some of you have asked for advice and info on selling your home…whether by owner or with a realtor. And while I feel that offering up go-to advice would be premature at this point {our home hasn’t sold yet but we did sell our very first home by owner}, I would like to mention that taking pictures of interiors for selling purposes isn’t exactly the same as taking pictures for designing purposes. Let me give you an example.
Here are a few vignette images of our bedroom that would be suitable for H*T.
And here are the ‘home for sale’ bedroom images.
In the listing images, I was more concerned with showing the size and layout of the room as opposed to the things in the room. You can see that the room offers two large windows that let in lots of natural light, plenty of space for a sleeping area along with a sitting area, a vaulted ceiling and an on suite bathroom. Those are the things I’m trying to sell, so that’s what I capitalized on in the images.
Now do you get the title of this post?
Is it overly apparent that I took that ‘Grover’ picture of myself after being outside *makeup-less* on a verrrry windy day and used a stack of cookbooks as my makeshift tripod? {Notice how I’m explaining with my hands.} Ok, good. Because that’s soooo what I wasn’t going for.
Somebody buy my house before I make a fool out of myself.
Oh, wait.
images: 1) slightly altered image from MGTOW {which I do not read…just used their image} 2-6) Dana Miller for House*Tweaking
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