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To sell a home in Minnesota, particularly Minneapolis, your property needs to be: updated, organized, staged, and clutter free. Homes that show in mint condition sell faster in any market PERIOD. Selling and buying homes is like chess: You need to look two or three steps ahead in the game. When updating your home in the Twin cities, you should always have potential buyers in; unless you plan on staying in your home for more than a couple of years. Whether you are looking to update your single family home to current trends or are looking to sell, simple renovations can be done by you on a budget. Depending on the current condition of your home, minor upgrades typically have a higher return on your money than tackling major renovations; the latter typically takes longer and easily go over budget. However, not all updates improve the value of your property. Limit your home improvements to the location, value of neighboring homes, consumer demands of that area. If you don’t have exceptional skills at home renovations, or don’t see the work as a hobby, stick to minor repairs and interior updates. While tackling larger renovations yourself may save money upfront an end result screaming “novice craftsmanship” will ultimately cost you more money than it would have if the work was done by a general contractor. A successful interior design project is not determined by the cost of its components. Keep an open mind and blend less expensive components with a few chick pieces by visiting thrift stores, antique boutiques, and warehouse retail stores catering to Minneapolis, MN real estate owners. There are different ways to do this and you do not have to spend a lot. Find a few easy to replicate ideas below. Add some Pizzazz Outside; It’s what brings buyers inside: The best place to start your updates is outside. Increasing the curb appeal of your home provides a great return on your money. Clear up clutter, dig up overgrown trees and shrubs and replace them with newer less expensive shrubbery. If you have the numerical portion of your address listed on your home, make sure they are visible and well kept. Make sure your deck looks nice and fresh. Nothing hurts the look of a home worse than a lackluster outdoor entertainment area. Update your doors by applying a new coat of paint, new hardware, or change them completely. You can find closeout doors at home centers, salvage yards, antique stores, flea markets, etc. Find a door that matches your home style and discard old and worn doors that date your exterior Make your interior sparkle on a budget: Once you have the buyer in, they are going to expect an interior on the same level of quality as they experienced outside. There are many ways to update the interior of your home on a budget. Clean and arrange the bedrooms, living room, bathroom and kitchen properly. Consult the internet or your real estate agent for staging tips. Organize otherwise cluttered spaces such as under counters in the bathroom and kitchen inexpensively with lined wicker baskets. Store away everything from hairspray, makeup and medicinal items to household cleaners and linens that would detract from the beauty of your home. Give your home a fresh coat of paint and keep up with current design trends, without being too trendy. Before you start painting, study what most buyers are looking for. Spruce up one tone interiors with an accent wall — a splash of color in an otherwise beige room can be very appealing. Custom Artwork on a dime: Reuse disposable pieces of your favorite products for custom wall art. Keep the corks from wine bottles and glue them into a shadow box for instant vino wall art. For a conversation centerpiece, place the corks of your favorite wines in a large decorative bowl on your dining room table. If you have a lot of space between your kitchen cabinets and the ceiling, wash and save empty wine bottles and decorate that unused space. Create simple abstract artwork. Purchase a few canvases and paint at your local craft store and let your imagination run wild. Give your bathroom the facelift it needs. Replace the standard plate mirror with a nicely framed one. Take black and white photos and enlarge them for a unique work of art. Plain or dated light switch plates? Buy sandpaper and spray paint for an updated look. Mix and match Drab and glam and create appealing Furniture on a budget: Each room within your home should have a lifestyle with a well defined function. Create unique room appropriate furniture in a jiffy. Take an inexpensive parsons-styled table and add a custom granite or marble top. Lacking furniture and visual interest in your spare bedroom? Easily update the room with: a fresh coat of paint, new bedding, and a custom headboard. Purchase a complete bedding ensemble and fit the sheets to the canvas. Does your kitchen need a facelift? Try resurfacing your current cabinets, applying a fresh coat of stain, and add new hardware. Have an open floor plan? Use furniture to define the space into distinctive living areas. Take an open sided bookcase and use it to break up a family and dining room. No room for overnight guests? Transform your office into an overnight oasis for visitors. Adding an office appropriate sofa sleeper and a quality wardrobe creates a multipurpose room without taking up additional space. While routine repairs and updates are necessary, updating your home does not necessitate a higher asking price. The true value today’s market is a reduction in the number of days your home sits on the market; leading to a higher sale price. A home that is well designed, organized, and appropriately staged will sell quicker than its less attractive competition (excluding factors such as pricing strategy, location, etc). http://www. kristinbolinske. com
Being on a budget doesn’t mean you have to go without. If your home needs a facelift, you don’t need to pay facelift prices to get the same results. Even if your talents are limited to hanging pictures, you, too can take advantage of some common household tools and turn those household projects into real DIY projects. Nothing adds value to a home like beautiful kitchens and bathrooms. Sure, living areas are important but chances are that these rooms look good because of your furniture. People place value in what you leave behind – vanities, cabinets, fixtures, newly done showers, etc. Those antique pillows and custom made coffee table mean nothing when it comes time to sell. If you’re new to this DIY thing, take care of the bathroom first. It’s the best place to practice and if you do make a mistake it’s easier to hide or even redo. Old cabinets and vanities can usually be painted. Try a new approach, though. Forget the boring can of paint. Try one of the new wall textures. A sandstone finish will resemble a poured concrete counter and this can be put over any surface at all. Check out wall cover options at your local home store in the paint section. Whatever you find can be ‘painted’ onto virtually any surface. Use your imagination. Sometimes all you need for an immediate improvement is a new faucet. New styles are gorgeous and easy to install. Even you can do it! They all come with instructions and most stores have instructions you can bring home, too. Don’t try to figure out how to lay tile. This is not something to practice on for your first DIY project. However, you can still work around the tile and spruce it up. If it’s chipped it can be fixed fairly quickly with a repair kit from a larger home improvement store. Have them tint the filler for you. For grout, you have a few choices. The easiest, however, is to put down new grout. This isn’t a big deal because they now have pen-like application devices that allow you to ‘paint’ on a new layer of grout in a wide variety of colors. Mix, match, whatever. These are mold resistant and can be used in any environment including inside the shower. If you haven’t put up chair railings in your home yet, now is the time to do it. A simple chair railing can character, value, and lend itself to even further decorating ideas. These can be added to any room that doesn’t have tiled walls. You need nothing other than a few nails and some perfect measurements, and you can completely change the look of any room in the house. Measure, nail it up. That’s it. Next, you may want to choose different color paints or materials for the top and bottom sections. Do you have wallpaper that you have nightmares about? You can take care of that, too. Myth: you can’t paint over paper. Fact: yes, you can! First, pull off the pieces that are loose and hanging. Next, rent a simple sanding tool with a medium surface and sand down the wall, right over the paper. Rinse it and let it dry. Now, paint! New paints will cover just about anything, including unforgiving walls. (This is an ideal time to add that chair railing, too. )
Woodworking plans give you an idea about how to design a particular wood working project for example a chair or a table or even a bird feeder. A wide range of wood working plans are available via the net, where you will get worthwhile info from step-by-step instructions that can be used for home refurbishment and furniture building purposes. On some online amateur carpenters share their experiences, tips and ideas with free wood working plans, that includes bookcase plans, bed plans, garden shed blueprints, work bench blueprints, garden furniture, indoor furniture and entertainment centre blueprints. Kitchen cutting boards: Making a cutting board for the kitchen is a terrific first woodworking for any beginner woodworker because the process will introduce you to a number of basic woodworking tools and techniques and you end up with a project that is practical and attractive. There are free kitchen cutting board project plans which include design ideas, patterns, and construction details to guide you through the stage, as well as how-to video recordings to aid the user along the way. Bookcase Woodworking Plan This is a comparatively simple to build bookcase that will make a nice addition to any room in your home. It’s designed as a floor-to-ceiling bookcase and offers ten shelves and cubbyholes for books, ornaments as well as spaces for audio/visual components, or what you’d like. Break Down Chair plans The woodworking project is a little more demanding, but can easily be done if you follow the plans and take your time. This is a high backed chair and has no wedges or pegs. It’s easy to make 2 chairs out of a 4’ x 8’ sheet of best quality plyboard. This type of chair is very easy to make. Antiqued Table: Clear pine tree is applied to make this antiqued beauty. Tools that are required to make this table are trim saw or handsaw, bits and drill, spray bottles, wet rag and belt or orbital sander. Materials that are required to make this table include legs, apron, fastening strips and table top. You also require screw and washer, shellac and carpenter’s glue and 8 hanger bolts. Depending on the size of table you want, select the dimensions accordingly. Circular Kitchen Table: Solid black walnut walnut tree is used to make this kitchen table. The tabletop which has a radius of 2 feet is a perfect circle. The circular top is on a pedestal base that’s constructed using laminated bridle joints. Warmth of this wood is heightened as tung oil and polyurethane are used for preserving the finish. The modern design of this antique table is much more attractive than formal dining style. Jointer, jigsaw, hand router and some other tools are required to make this piece of delightful furniture. This free woodworking plan can be found online. Mahogany bed: This master piece is perfect for any bedroom décor. The bed is made from solid mahogany. The bed with its contemporary style has convenient rail hangers. A series of slats are required for supporting the beds matress. A box spring is not required once you use these slats. Depending on the thickness and length of the mattresses the dimensions of the bed will vary. The dimensions should match queen size mattresses. The bed is designed in such a way that you can take it apart easily. This free woodworking plan can be found online. There are dozens of handy things to make in wood and most don’t call for a lot of tools to make them. If you have a garden, try making a bird feeder or bird house to start – they’re very easy to make even for woodworking beginners and it’s a great deal of fun and satisfaction when you’re woodworking project is finished, knowing that you made it yourself. All of the above mentioned woodworking projects can be found online at no cost.
Diy Holiday Gift Wrapping Ideas “It’s a wrap, stylish gift wrapping ideas”
Materials & Tools:
•See each wrapping description (MATERIALS AVAILABLE AT ARTS, CRAFT AND FABRIC STORES)
MIY INSTRUCTIONS:Think outside of the box for inspiration this holiday season by making the wrapping part of the gift. I even used clothing accessories such as a black velvet hat adorned with a feathered boa, a tasselled belt, a gold ascot and custom jewellery for savvy accents. Great wrapping concepts begin with fabulous finds such as jars, rice paper, feathers and Christmas tree trimmings. Fabrics such as satin, velour, taffeta, lace, toile prints and iridescent organzas combined with assorted trimmings from fancy elastics, satin piping, beaded fringe, to magnificent ribbons and tassels are key factors to these lavish presentations. Start by pressing all the fabrics and tissue papers with an iron set at a medium to low setting to remove all creases. Here are some left-to-right descriptions and simple how-to’s:
1. Toile upholstery fabric for a Renaissance style: roses and peacocks toile fabric, a plaid border, enhance with white fringe trim and a red and gold patterned ribbon. Wrap the present with the fabric, fold and tape just like a regular paper wrapping technique. Secure the folds, check border, fringe trim and ribbon with hot glue.
2. Feathered toile wallpaper fantasy: Wrap the present with the toile wallpaper, fold and tape, to secure the folds, the red and gold braided cord (wrapped around the gift in making an X shape), the red feather, a gold-leaf with a tiny ornamental ball, all with hot glue.
3. Maiden tasselled drawstring extravagance: Vertically wrap a strip of patterned sheer curtain fabric along the midpoint of the box, tape at the back. Then wrap the box with red and gold Jacquard fabric, over the sheer fabric leaving a 6-inch opening at the center of the box. Fold and tape at the top and bottom of the box, securing with hot glue. Measure the white elastic eyelet trim to make sure the eyelet loops are even on each side, then fasten on vertically with hot glue covering the edge of the fabric. Weave the satin gold piping in and out of the eyelet loops making a crisscross design. Add a gold tassel to each piping end simply by tying the tassel loop and piping into a knot.
4. Trim a plain paper towel roll with impressive beaded cuffs: Paper towel rolls are excellent for presents such as, socks, undergarments, pens to unique little treasures. Cut a piece of textured fabric 7-inches longer than the length of the roll. Fold fabric in half, lie flat and cut each end with pinking shears on a diagonal angle. Place and glue the beaded trim onto the now V-shaped border on the wrong side of the fabric. Insert gift inside the roll. Centre the roll on the fabric, roll up, tape or glue to secure closure and tie at each end with a small braided cord inserting a gold tassel in the knot, and knot at each end. Adorn with gold ribbon, glued around the tube in a criss-cross fashion.
5. Rice paper roll covered with embroidered ribbon trimmings: just the right thing for gift certificates, checks and other precious gifts from the heart. Cut a rice paper strip about 4 inches longer than the length of the roll. Insert gift inside the roll, centre on the paper, roll up, and tape at the back. Glue on assorted ribbon strips horizontally all around the roll with hot glue, leaving the ends loose 1-inch past the end of the roll. Tie each end of the roll with a red satin ribbon by making a simple bow. Garnish the centre with a gold mesh beaded ribbon.
6. Personalized frosted gab-bag with a picture of the recipient: Wrap gift in red tissue paper leaving the top end open and insert into gab-bag. Tie a gold cord around the tissue paper, exposing the knot and bow through the handle. Make a monotone colour photo printout of the recipient, cut out with scalloped shears and fasten to the bag with double-faced tape.
7. Black velour hat transformed into a gift pouch topped with boa feathers: great idea for a hat and glove set for a teenage girl. Insert the gift inside the hat, tie with red cord by making a bow, and knot each end. Clip the end off a feathered boa and insert in the hat, glue a feather on the knot of the bow.
8. Circular box covered with antiqued textured wallpaper: Measure and cut wallpaper to fit around the exterior and top part of a cardboard box. Apply adhesive spray to the back of the paper and apply to box and let dry. Then wipe on antiquing medium and rub off with a damp cloth. Let dry. The bow is made with a gold ascot (scarf type) wrapped around the box. Adorn the bow with red, gold and clear beaded garland ornament.
9. Jewel-tone plaid silk covering for large gift: when regular gift paper just doesn’t fit larger gifts, go for fabric wraps. Wrap the gift like you would with paper wrapping, fold corners secure with tape or hot glue. Instead of ribbon try using belts or scarves as part of the packaging.
10. Gift in a jar embellished with beaded wire trim: Fantastic idea for baked goodies, or bath and beauty products. Simply wrap the gift in tissue paper, loosely wrap raffia around the gift and insert into a glass candy jar. Add beaded string ornament around the collar of the jar.
11. Curtain call: wrap a gift in gold tissue paper. Wrap a piece of white lace curtain with fringe around the top part of the gift and secure at the back with hot glue. Glue a tassel to an earring part to create the center ornament.
Variations:
•Other ideas to make the wrapping part of the gifts are items such as dish towels, scarves, hats, pillow cases, even pillows.
•For outdoors, I like to make square shapes out of snow and water, colour them with food colouring and decorate them with weather-proof ribbon and bows. I stack them in my son’s wooden sleigh – makes great front-porch décor.
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