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- Thoughts for a Freshome Virtual World? – We Value Your Opinion
- 10 Home Staging Tricks to Help Your Home Sell Quicker
- Impressive Apartment in Stockholm Bringing Together Old and New
- IdeaPaint, Turning Regular Walls Into Brainstorming Messengers
- House That Mixes the Limits Between Art and Architecture
- Australian House Inspired by a Hollow Burnt Log
- Duo Bookshelf : Minimalist, Stylish and Functional
- Beautiful Loop Coffee Table for a Stylish Living Room
| Thoughts for a Freshome Virtual World? – We Value Your Opinion Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:00 AM PDT Freshome reader’s: We are in the process of expanding the Freshome experience for you, our valued audience. Freshome would like to take you from not only looking at magnificent architecture and interiors, to virtually ‘living and playing’ in the space. We’d like to create a Freshome social interacting arena that you and your friends, coworkers, and clients could meet, compete, and have fun in a Freshome society.  You could live in a Freshome 'virtual' home!
What are we looking for? Ideas from you! What great ideas do you have for a home design themed social gaming experience? Tell us on our Facebook Page ( a few people already did it – take a look here ) and leave comments below.  Live, play, and interact with others in the Freshome community
Freshome community you have made Freshome.com one of the largest online magazines for modern architecture, and interior design! We want to take the experience to a whole new level with your input – hey, it’s for you! We will be polling and taking comments for one week, starting Sep. xx – Sep. xx. Make sure and get in on the creation of something big! Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| 10 Home Staging Tricks to Help Your Home Sell Quicker Posted: 28 Sep 2010 05:29 AM PDT Home staging combines the ability to "stage" your home so that it is visually and aesthetically appealing to a home buyer. If you're in the process, or thinking of selling your home, there are several staging tricks that professionals use. It is a proven fact that homes that are staged will sell quicker than those that are not. Follow these 10 home staging tricks and get confident that your home will sell in no time at all!
2.) Purge: If you don't immediately need it then throw it away, donate, sell or pack it up. Your home needs to have the minimum amount of furnishings and belongings as possible, but still look livable. Since you are moving in the near future, how about starting to pack up boxes and place them in the garage or storage unit? 3.) Clean: When you have out-of-town guests come to stay with you, do you clean beyond the 'normal' clean? I hope so! This is the amount of clean needed in your home on a regular basis. If you know you will have a showing of your home, clean the day before. The cleaning odors will be gone by the following day. Don't give a buyer a reason to think your home is dirty. 4.) Bring in light: Open all windows treatments and makes sure windows are clean. Swap out heavier drapery for lighter weight fabrics. For rooms that are too bright, use sheers that will diffuse light and cast a glow into your space.
6) Appeal to their senses: Home buying is an emotional process, so appeal to their senses when staging your home. Soft music playing when perspective buyers enter your home is inviting and welcomed. The smell of fresh baked cookies (make the night before and pop in microwave quickly before guests arrive) always warms up a buyer. Soft throw blankets across a reading chair and soft hand towels in the bathrooms will appeal to their sense of touch and will add coziness to your home. 7.) Leave the house ready for an offer: This simply means every time you walk out the door your home should look like a buyer would want to make an offer on it, that day. Once your home is on the market, live as if a Realtor could call you any minute to show your home. This idea isn't far from reality! Teach older kids about picking up after themselves during your home being on the market. Each member of the family will have to do less each day, if everyone helps keep it tidy and clean.
9.) Be ready for evening showings of your home: With busy schedules, often times Realtors will show your home in the evening. This means lighting needs to be inviting in each area of your home. Walk through your home in the evening and see if there are dark, unlit spaces and address them with a table lamp, sconce, or overhead light source. 10.) Be positive: This is a 'trick' because with all the doom and gloom news about the housing market there is still a bright side. The bright side is the housing market is showing improvement and you are going to shine above the competition with your staging tricks. Your confidence will show in your home and an offer will come sooner than you expect.
Freshome reader's have you used a home stager to sell your home? Have any tricks to add to the list? Let us know! Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| Impressive Apartment in Stockholm Bringing Together Old and New Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:11 AM PDT Here is an interesting apartment in Stockholm which features contemporary items as well as elements reminding of the beginning of the 19′th century. This crib has a living area of about 185 square meters and no less than 6 rooms. The white living room is the focal point of the loft, with its modern chairs and coffee table contrasting with the classical chandelier and the wooden painted door and window frames. You have to admit the design of this room is quite unique and of great effect. The blue dining table is also an eye-catcher. High ceilings, beautiful paneling and traditional parquet are details which stand out. Light is an important characteristic of this apartment, as large windows are present in almost every room. Outside the kitchen there is a large balcony overlooking the courtyard. The bathroom is fully tiled and includes both shower and bathtub.-via DigsDigs Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| IdeaPaint, Turning Regular Walls Into Brainstorming Messengers Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:06 AM PDT Turning a wall into a writing space where people can manifest their creativity has never been easier. IdeaPaint is an innovative and highly creative product which can be used in a variety of ways. This unusual paint has the ability of transforming a common wall into a conventional dry-erase panel. You know, the type of college board that students write on with the help of a dry-erase marker, which is exactly the case for this product. Once the brainstorming generated the required results and the scribblings are no longer needed, they can easily be erased. The miraculous invention comes with an IdeaPaint kit which includes a foam roller, a can opener, a stir stick and enough paint to cover an area of 25 square feet. That’s a lot of ideas to post on walls! This product can be used at home, in the kids’ rooms, in public schools, in meeting chambers, you name it. Check out the photos below for more out-of-the-box ideas. The kit is available here, for $99. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| House That Mixes the Limits Between Art and Architecture Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:45 AM PDT If you read Freshome for some time you might also saw some interesting projects from A-cero, if not do a search on Freshome for A-cero to see more. Today the guys from A-cero just sent us a new project. A-cero new house it's a built set of volumes and sheets combined as a perfect play that mixes the limits between art and architecture. According to A-cero aesthetics, modern projecting, blocks and plates define the design of this residential project with sculptural references. The house is located in Las Rozas, one of the wealthiest towns of Madrid. The dwelling's plot has a surface of 1.368m2 with a light slope that A-cero has used in order to adapt the building's three floors: basement, ground floor and first floor. The building's surface is 762,47m2. The pedestrian access takes place by the ground floor where are located the most social rooms (living room, lounge and dining room) in the right side of the house. In the left side are the following rooms: a bathroom, cleaning room, a courtyard, kitchen – office, a larder and a cleaning room. In this level is also a porch that communicates with the dining room. An interior stair and an elevator communicate this level with the basement and the first floor. The first floor has 273,46m2 and includes the following rooms: two children bedrooms with dressing-rooms, bathrooms and a living room; a guests’ bedroom with bathroom; the main bedroom with two dressing-rooms and bathroom; a study that he communicates with a footbridge – library (to which also one gains access from the main bedroom) and two small courtyards. The basement includes facility quarters, storage room, quarter of implements for the garden and bicycles, interior swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna, massages room, cinema room and cellar. The housing is provided with two swimming pools and two jacuzzi (for exterior and interior). Interiors stand out for their diaphanous distribution. It is a comfortable and habitable dwelling with ample areas. The beige marble with the wait walls and roofs produce a lot of clarity and luminosity in interiors. Furthermore, these colours create a spaciousness sensation in the house. Design, functionality and quality are the main concepts that have established this house´s design where elegance, modernity and simplicity stand out according to A-cero´s architecture. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| Australian House Inspired by a Hollow Burnt Log Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:43 AM PDT This Australian contemporary beauty sits tall ever since Jackson Clements Burrows Pty Ltd Architects saw it finished. It all began with the first visit to the future house location. The architects found a hollowed out burnt log which became the focal point in designing this house. The log suggested the form of the house, while the surrounding dunes moulded the shape of the construction. The winding driveway makes its way to the house by climbing the steep dune and remains hidden from view with the help of a screen fence. Belonging to a retired couple that is often visited by their family, the lower level consists of guest accommodations as well as the mechanical systems and pool equipment spaces. The first floor is elevated so that the residents can enjoy the impressive views across the Mornington Peninsula from Bass Strait to Port Philip Bay. The orientation to the northwest made it difficult to control the heating during summer so, in order to protect the comfort, blinds automatically close once the sun passes through the north axis. The first floor shelters the kitchen, dining, living, garage and laundry, while on the second floor we can find the study, master bedroom and en suite. The hollowed out burnt log served as inspiration not only to the form, but to the colours chosen for the exterior and interior. The natural finish cladding on the outside, as well as the cedar windows combined with the spotted gum hardwood cladding on the inside are a constant reminder of the log. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| Duo Bookshelf : Minimalist, Stylish and Functional Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:42 AM PDT Duo Bookshelf is a minimalist, but very elegant method of displaying books. You can think of it as a miniature smart bookcase that occupies little space while in the same time improving the overall look of a room. Made from powdercoated steel, the Duo Bookshelf has a very original design and can hold up to 10 kilos of books. This is truly impressive, considering how small and fragile it looks. This product is both aesthetic and functional. Moreover, it proves that practical solutions can be achieved by using small amounts of materials. The unusual bookshelf comes in black, silver and bright blue, but when the support is packed full with books, it is hardly noticeable. We imagine it would come in very handy in a teen’s room or a college dorm. You can purchase it online here, for the sum of $160.
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| Beautiful Loop Coffee Table for a Stylish Living Room Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:33 AM PDT This amazing looking coffee table inspires so much elegance, that it is almost impossible not to get closer and admire it in detail. Loop Coffe Table comes from Brasil company BaitaDesign and was achieved in a very simple manner. It is the sort of design that anyone could think of… after it has been realized. With its elegant curves and finished in an impeccable classy white, this unusual table is a definite eye-catcher. And unless one can come up with a really good design to complement it, “Loop” will certainly become the focal point of a room. The miniature spiral creates two separate “tabletops” on which the user can place relatively small objects, such as magazines, pencils and naturally, two or more cups of coffee. All in all, this is a truly charming design of great aesthetic effect.-via The Design Blog
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