Hi Fi Hijinx wrote:
Don's never watched HGTV.
HAHAHA!!!! I'm guessing you have, so you understand how we created the drinking game for how many times we heard "travertine tile"!
SpaceBoy64 wrote:
Hi Fi Hijinx wrote:
Don's never watched HGTV.
Well, that's true, but I'm just trying to prevent unnecessary sacrilege.
If Ahu can find a tikiphile to buy his tikified house, I'm sure VooDoo Baby can find a buyer who likes Goth, VooDoo and crosses.
A friend of mine ripped out a perfectly good 60's vintage aqua blue bathtub because he thought it lowered the value of his house he was fixing up to sell. Obviously, he doesn't read the same magazines we do. It was such a shame, I wanted smack him upside the head. That to me was a horror story.
I must admit hun, Ahu's house, even though unique, wasn't so unusual that he couldn't find a good buyer. He had so many rich touches and did such incredible work to that home, there wasn't too many tiki things that weren't easily removed - at least that I recall. But Ahu's house was in the right neighbourhood with the right buyers, people shopping for those houses are looking for a certain vibe and expect more unique touches as it were.
Our neighbourhood, although built in the 50's, is a very basic suburban place. Kitsch isn't the selling term used around here. Our home is a 1961 bilevel and it suits us well, although we've seem to outgrown it already.! But I have to agree with HI fi Hijinx here - we know this market and this neighbourhood, trust me when I say this. We sold our condo only a mile away from here and I thought surely our nice cherry yellow kitchen walls, black cabinets and checkered floor would appeal to some hip and trendy retro lover - WRONG. We sat on that place for a YEAR, sold less than what we wanted too, and in the end, it cost us severly because we were juggling two mortgages. I learned a lot then.
Besides, we aren't staying - those crosses and Virgin Marys come with me! So what do I really care? I get to go crazy on a new place! The only thing being ripped out are crappy kitchen cabinets and flooring because this house was built cheaply. We're doing an entire kitche remodel because there is no counter or cabinet space now, new windows, repaint - yeah, it's a lot of work, but it will be worth it. Luckily I currently work construction and so does my dad, so we can do this stuff and I know what sells. Sadly it's just not the stuff we dig, heh.
Don't worry, there are no cool aqua tubs here being ripped out! Again, they were cheap when they built this place. If I was ripping something good out, I'd take it with me!!!!