Hot Home Buying Trends
After all, I'm old enough to remember gold-colored blenders and avocado refrigerators, which were all the rage right after the chrome refrigerators that I grew up with went out of style. And guess what's back in favor today? Colored appliances and stainless steel refrigerators.
Although toasters are relatively inexpensive to replace, most other home features such as floors and fixtures are not. A lovely updated home in a Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento recently sold at a dramatically reduced price because the carpeting was hunter green. The kitchen counters, ceramic flooring and bathrooms were hunter green, too. Almost everything in the house was hunter green! It cost my buyers a ton of money to tear it out and redo it. Would you buy a home with hunter green sprinkled throughout if the price was low enough? Or would you pass it up in favor of today's hottest designs? . . . read more about Home Buying Trends.
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Hey Liz, except of you are totally right I´d like you consider that: 1. tastes differ. No I wouldn´t buy a home with a hunter green bath room. But there are definitely people who do. The point is, there are just a few of them so it might last longer to sell this house properly. On the other way your clients have to redo it.
2. It´s about the likelihood of taste-mathing. I´d say that most people would accept (maybe not prefer) gray, white, black, understated colors and stainless steel or the wodden style. Everything fancy and curious is like gambling.
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