Corey is right. Half of prime time television in the UK is now taken up
with long boring programmes about how to tart up your house before selling
it. They'd have a field day with this one!
People like to think they are buying from anally-retentive tax collectors
who wouldn't tolerate a single germ, or a tap leaking for longer than half
a minute before they call the Polish plumber. (All good plumbers in
Europe are Polish now, apparently.)
John
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:07:17 +0100, cbwaters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Lucas is spot-on (see, I'm picking up that English lingo from watching
BBC America).
Having recently sold our home and consequently looked at a lot of
prospective new places I will tell you that the tidy homes always looked
better. If a person won't clean-up when strangers are coming over, will
they fix that leaky roof or just paint the ceiling and hope it's not
raining when you come?
We actually rented a storage unit and took 30-40% of our junk off-site.
We had to clean-up every day before we left for work because you never
know when those freaky agents will come romping through. Man...I can't
live like that.
I never got any photos of the inside that I'd show the list and it
didn't matter since the agent's assistant took her own (with a P&S digi)
that they published in favor of mine...Apparently mine had a weird
natural look with no blown-out windows or odd angles and they didn't
think that would look right among all the other house photos. Go figure.
CW
typing from his new living room.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucas Rijnders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: interior photography
Hi Vic, Markus,
I do not think that the house is shown in a good way overall.
I agree...
Inside it is much too crowded with some things laying around and the
photos
have a yellow cast.
I don't mind the yellow cast (in fact I found the kitchen too blue). My
main problem with the photo's is that the house is a bloody mess! Put
away the dishes, make the bed, put all books upright and get rid of
that chair in the bathroom! Take a look at a website of a hotel (any
with more than three stars): that's how to present a room: neat and
clean. No sombrero's on the lamps.
The outside shoots are not a lot better.
Well, it is a pretty bland garden. It screams "throw out the grass and
make something nice here"! That might actually be alluring to some
buyers.
sorry for my harsh critic.
The brochure for the house I bought was a lot like this. That cost the
buyers dearly: my wife and I were the only ones interested, and we knew
it. So, redoing this might be well worth the extra time...
--
Hope this helps,
Regards, Lucas
Anyway, the results are here:
http://users.pandora.be/vicmortelmans/fts/caroline/index.html
The vertical lines are not what they should have been (even though I
used a tripod). Certainly in the garden, the direct sunlight causes
too
much contrast. I think the available light on the interior is very
satisfying, even the shot with the two windows that looks 'burned',
because it's a good thing for a house to stress available light.
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