Trying to Purchase a Home in COVID-19 - Continually Lose Out, with Offers over Asking Price?

[Glynda]

I can see how the floors would make a difference. Area rugs too. We've had several exterior gray houses with red doors over the years. Oh, I just remembered that the exterior of our kitchen house here is gray with white trim and red doors. Until the gray and white bathrooms in our current house, I've never lived with gray interiors but I have grown tired of seeing so much of them in the magazines and on TV shows. Since the early 1980's I've often shopped High Point, NC, once "Furniture Capitol of the World." There used to be lots of outlets and stores. Most are gone now along with a lot of US furniture manufacturing. But I still love to go there and look at furniture, especially right after market. But it had gotten a bit boring with mostly beige and white, and then gray and white furniture. However, it's changing!

 

[klpca]

I'm completely good with neutrals because that allows me to bring in different colors in my accent pieces. I need to have neutral large pieces because I like to change my decor every 3 - 5 years and I just can't afford to change out the big pieces. I just repainted my master bath from Sherwin Williams Macadamia to Accessible Beige (kind of boring) but I was able to keep all of my existing 12 year old tile. Ask my husband - this is a full-on miracle. I have been redoing my master bedroom (white, navy, grays) so this bridged the two areas.

 

[rapmarks]

My kitchen and master bath are grey granite and white shaker cabinets. I accented the kitchen with burgundy and the bathroom with royal blue.

 

[PamMo]

We're at the point in our lives where we have no kids/pets in the house, so we're looking for a light, bright next home. Bring on the whites and pale greys! I've loved my Federal, Farmhouse, French Country, and Craftsman style homes with their "appropriate" colors and fabrics, but I'm ready for a change and think a pale palette will make a good backdrop for artwork collected over the years.

But, this thread is all about @Sugarcubesea! I hope she'll get multiple over-asking-price offers on her home, so she can keeping moving on!

 

[Sugarcubesea]

I love Grey and our realtor told us to paint our house grey and white...every house in our sub that has the grey colors has sold very quickly

 

[klpca]

We're at the point in our lives where we have no kids/pets in the house, so we're looking for a light, bright next home. Bring on the whites and pale greys! I've loved my Federal, Farmhouse, French Country, and Craftsman style homes with their "appropriate" colors and fabrics, but I'm ready for a change and think a pale palette will make a good backdrop for artwork collected over the years.

But, this thread is all about @Sugarcubesea! I hope she'll get multiple over-asking-price offers on her home, so she can keeping moving on!

I started a decorating thread in the lounge so that us wannabe decorators could binge, guilt free! Come join me!

 

[klpca]

So how is house selling/hunting going? Did I miss an update?

 

[Sugarcubesea]

So how is house selling/hunting going? Did I miss an update?

We went this weekend and looked at 3 new houses. One we totally dismissed as it would not work at all for us.
One had potential, but as we were waiting outside to see the home, the listing agent came roaring up and told us the agent in the home showing it to his clients called her as they smelled gas. We decided to pass on set the inside until they get the issue fixed. My realtor called and told me it should be fixed by Tuesday night, so we are going to see it Wednesday. We walked the outside and love the low maintenance it would provide us. The garage was heated and a 3 car, loved that aspect. The two negatives are it only has 1 bathroom and when we stood outside you could see the main road and the traffic. So we are a standstill. We are hoping to get our house listed in the next two weeks. Thanks so much for asking. Last week I worked about 58 hours and now I’m pretty tired.

 

[Sugarcubesea]

We're at the point in our lives where we have no kids/pets in the house, so we're looking for a light, bright next home. Bring on the whites and pale greys! I've loved my Federal, Farmhouse, French Country, and Craftsman style homes with their "appropriate" colors and fabrics, but I'm ready for a change and think a pale palette will make a good backdrop for artwork collected over the years.

But, this thread is all about @Sugarcubesea! I hope she'll get multiple over-asking-price offers on her home, so she can keeping moving on!

PamMo, I feel this thread is for all of us. I really hope I just get asking price. I had a rough week at work so could not work on the house

 

[PamMo]

I think sometimes you need to let go of all the stress. Send it elsewhere and trust your gut. Don’t try to second guess what could have been. You’ve done all the extra steps to get the house ready, so let good Karma and offers come in!

 

[Sugarcubesea]

I think sometimes you need to let go of all the stress. Send it elsewhere and trust your gut. Don’t try to second guess what could have been. You’ve done all the extra steps to get the house ready, so let good Karma and offers come in!

Your right, I just need to let all of the stress of the house selling, house hunt and my job, go somewhere else besides my body... If only my body would cooperate. I just got the news at an am doctor appointment today that I have Scoliosis. I have had back pain since I was a kid, so I guess I'm glad to know what the issue really is...