RANDOM HOUZZ TRENDS ON NATIONAL LEVEL
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Comments (67)I have two trees from the same nursery, bought at same year. One receives sun 12-14 hours a day, zero shade, and insects love its' leafs, so I watered it with 1g of Bayer's insecticide (mixed in 5 gallon water) a month ago and it helped. This tree has smaller leafs. Second one, in 6-8 hours per day of sun, has twice larger leafs, and much less insect damage. No idea why. Both grow differently. "full-sun" tree has slightly weeping habit, and since I started training it and constant watering, it already grew 1.5' new branches this year which considered very fast. This picture was made 4 weeks ago; "full-sun"; top branches now started straightening up; and after 1st Spring growth strike I have new strikes at almost all branches (thanks to constant water dripping). I trimmed 2/3 of side branches this year and attached bamboo stick and just this already made it looking few feet taller. "part-sun" tree has much bigger leafs and deeper colour, not weeping at all, and grows much slower. Yes, as each beech tree it can reach 40'-60' in about 40-60 years, considering tri-color was discovered recently... in 1873, France... then should find huge trees in France? Tri-Color Beech is cultivar, mostly grafted on standard beech, so it all depends on graft quality and rootstock. SOme rootstock may grow faster; some may push tree higher....See MoreHome decor trends: top down or bottom up
Comments (26)I am not trying to say that Paul Evans in particular is an example of what is considered the taste, or good taste at the very top of the market. Just that it is something that's currently collected at the top of a market and a good example of something that will not trickle down into the middle. And, it not only won't trickle down now that the studio pieces are rare semi-antiques, it never trickled down much when he was custom making it for people 40 years ago because it was too taste-specific even then. I know Lane made some knock off brutalist style pieces, but I don't know that was ever particularly popular. To me, like cheap Spanish-Mediterranean, this smacks of porn movies shot in the San Fernando Valley in the late 70s and early 80s: yuck. Evans I think, has a particular appeal to those with an affection for une jolie laide, so to speak, or the beautifully ugly. But the knockoffs fail to capture whatever it is that is compelling about the ugliness of the original. But I think there is another high end that is not particularly driven by anything other than quality, and there is a high end that is also driven by discretion so we won't ever see what their houses look like to emulate in any fashion, anyway. I went to grad school with a woman who had two pieces of Nakashima furniture in her apartment, one of which was a long-arm chaise. The value of these is currently in the stratosphere, back then it wasn't. She also had a number of other pieces of good antique furniture (mostly Biedermeier). The Nakashima had been bought new by her parents at a time when it was comparable to any other hand made or studio made furniture (maybe like Thos. Moser today)--not the stuff of museums. The reason she had it at the time was that her parents were doing a major renovation and these pieces were safer in her apartment than they were either in the house being renovated or in storage somewhere. But anyway, I can remember people commenting at the time about her weird and ugly furniture. They had no idea what it was, they had no interest in what it was either. It was never going to have an effect on the middle. Now, there is a fair amount of furniture that is heavily influenced by Nakashima, for example and while you may see some influences in the organic modernism of stuff at WestElm which is "low" in terms of budget and maybe a little higher in terms of design-intellect, and you see a more direct influences of both Nakashima and Evans at the "high" budget end from firms like BDDW--we aren't ever going to see this in the middle....See MoreNew Build - Questions for Builder Before We Sign a Contract
Comments (133)@Rai Kai … I did learn so much!! Thanks for your contributions! @Beckysharp haha. I will be doing more research with the lawyer. I think overall my realtor was good—but I am not sure if overall we were the right fit. We will see if we stick with her. I know she put a lot of work and time into it --- so I do feel bad about us not going through with it. I will be doing more research and googling, and reading and using all my resources! Promise! @PitrateFoxy – I’ll probably be doing some research on a lawyer to have “on call” when we are at that point. You all were so right about all the other things – and I’m sure a few extra hundred bux (what like 500? ) will put me more at ease as I don’t like surprises unless they flowers, chocolate, or kisses :D @bellburgmaggie – isn’t that the truth. Alos.. Houzz app isn’t going anywhere! I love your story about finidng the right place! Man.. 3.5x your investment!! AWESOME!!! Were you ever concerned about over improving? That’s my biggest fear, especially if we buy very low… You know I always imagined buying the house with the crappy wall paper, shag carpet and pink or green tile in the bathrooms a horrible kitchen and then putting in my DREAM kitchen (or as im learning from houzzers, my 99% dream kitchen!). I think that’s something I was struggling with buying new. Even though I got to make a few selections… it wasn’t tailored to me really. So asking my husband in 3 years to redo the layout of the kitchen wasn’t going to fly :D Location location location is so hard for us. We are transplants – with family in the area, but are having a hard time finding the “right” home town. Everywhere we look is “safe” but I really want that neighborhood feel. I moved to Texas because I love saying yes sir, no ma’am, and I want to raise my kids like that. Sweet tea on the porch and waving to your neighbors. I want to make meals for new moms, or help out my grandparents when they need it. I may not have the Texas accent, and as the saying goes “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could!” @jannicone – I’m not deleting Houzz!! Just Realtor, Trulia and Zillow :D It may only last a week, but I need some distance! But I will use it as a resorce to keep an eye on the market and see what really happens during “selling” season. Happy to be sorta liked! @Denita , I should know better. I’m a firm believer that EVERYTHING is negotiable and if you aren’t willing to make any changes (they may not have lost me if they let me go to the design center and let me have 2 extra days – would have cost them nothing) I’m not inclined to play ball. Especially in an industry where negotiation is nearly expected. Looks like I have some more homework and research to do! I may need to find a new realtor. Not that she wasn’t good. I felt like she was doing a good job – but I’ll never know if she asked the builder for things. She did make us feel like her only clients, and she was very attentive and listened to my concerns. But I did get a slight feeling that she was “building” up the home a little more than she should have. We signed a contract for 6 months with her. She led with “if at any time you are done with me, I’ll just rip it up.” Who knows if that will come back to bite me in the butt. But, also thought we were going to end up with the first house and it would all be over. Again, lack of experience on my part. I've done some research on how you should select a buyers agent... and I did kind of do it all wrong....See More"White boxing" latest trend in Real Estate
Comments (40)Late to the party, but I can see this happening when you have a property that is otherwise unremarkable and in dire need of renovation, and has locations/views. If it is not a historic home or does not have great inherent features, but is just in need of an entire renovation, I think it might be a benefit to the buyer to know that the walls have been opened up already so the risk of surprises in the wall during renovation are eliminated. The downside is that people often want to move walls and change layouts as well. It dawned on me that our last purchase was this way -- essentially it was a stripped down condo and bare when shown -- but they completed work to a required point (it may have been required there to process a sale). We were able to pick finishes and alter certain things before completion....See Morehavingfun
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