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Yesterday, after a week of purging and cleaning, our Realtor arrived with his house staging expert, Francine. OMG! I hardly recognize my own home. We have relocated several pieces of furniture to the garage which will go into a storage unit. Much of our art work has been relocated or banished. She really like most of my quilts, but some I have been asked to take down and possibly display in the studio. Here is what is gone: a lovely game table and four chairs from the living room, three bar stools from the kitchen/breakfast room, the desk in the hallway, a side table in the bedroom and she wanted us to remove the credenza in the breakfast room, but we balked at that. It is very heavy and very functional – I really need it. We have to remove all of our personal family photos. She says "We want it to look like a model home and it will pay off in several thousands of dollars!" So we have to accomplish all of the transformations by late next week so that they can film for the virtual tour which will be available on line or on a free cd that prospects can pick up at our house.
Now, here is the kicker. Today the Realtor called and said that he has a weekly breakfast meeting with other Realtors and they exchange listings and try to match up with buyers. He thinks he has a buyer for our house at full price. I am so hoping that this works out. He worked out a deal like this for our assoc. priest at church.
Anyway, I have some quilting work to do. So tonight, I messed things up in my studio a little. I talked my art quilt into making a raffle art quilt for the guild; there will also be a traditional quilt. We decided to do Postcards from Sonoma County with viticulture, vineyards and wineries as our subjects. We will make postcards that measure 12 inches by 18 inches and choose a few to be collaged on a background. So I feel vested in this and want to get mine done by next week. I started mine in Sue Benner’s class. I felt it needed a focal point so I added a building in the background and a hot air balloon. The balloon is not fused down and does not have the basket yet. But here is a photo of what I have done tonight. It has no quilting done. It is still just fused.
I’m off to bed. Have to get up early and clean up my mess and get ready for the preview. Wish us luck!
I always think it is very odd that people cannot “see” what could be theirs…..that they require to be shown the “model” I can’t help but think their houses on not much more interesting….geat quilt!! the hot air balloon is really wonderful…and the challenge I referred to is the “changing perpective” I think it started on the QA list…there is a yahoo group….you could probably make a great quilt about this theme just now huh??? Ginger
what impressive detail in that quilt, mom. and i can’t wait to see your house “staged” when i come up on sunday!! should be interesting. i have been feeling a bit overwhelmed by the clutter in my house, so this weekend i am purging too!!
My mom had to go through the same de-personalization of her home before selling. Totally worth it!
It’s been great to see the evolution of your vineyard piece. The balloon gives it a nice focal point. Can’t wait to see it all quilted and done 🙂
My mom had to go through the same de-personalization of her home before selling. Totally worth it!
It’s been great to see the evolution of your vineyard piece. The balloon gives it a nice focal point. Can’t wait to see it all quilted and done 🙂
Your postcard looks great! Love the stripey hills! And I hope you took before and after staging photos! All your hard work and cleaning is paying off…Now I guess the trick is to keep it clean and tidy!
Gerrie, once again I love your work. I especially like the way the stripes and colors move across the field.
I found selling a house very stressful because of the constant cleaning. It’s so true that “designed to sell” is not the same as “designed to live”.
Hope something works out to make it quick and as painless as possible! Jen
Good luck in selling the house without the rigamarole!!
That vineyard postcard is too cool.
LOVE the air balloon quiltlet, Gerrie! Can’t wait to see it finished.
In all your “free time” (heh) you need to show us some pics of your house all Staged Up!
Very cool post card… I wondered how that “staging” bit went – hopefully it pays off!
Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!! LOVE the hot air balloon…are you going to put a tiny square for the basket under it? This is so painterly. I need to take a class with Sue Benner.
I’m sure your quilts will sell the house. Don’t you hate not being able to make a mess?