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| This is the kind of freeting every home needs. What's a freeting? Read on! |
When you're a home seller, you soon learn that the English language fails you.
You meet people, run into situations, and even DO things that demand a new word. Like these I have coined:
You meet people, run into situations, and even DO things that demand a new word. Like these I have coined:
Blowbed – Inflatible mattress dressed to look like a regular
bed.
Bubble Bath – A grandiose master bath built at the height of
the housing market.
Cougar – Older home that looks good.
Dishcount – A price reduction because the home was cluttered
with too many cute plates on the walls.
Drive-by Shooting – When a home buyer drives neighborhoods
snapping photos on a cell phone to send a significant other for immediate
feedback.
Flip Flop – Home renovated to sell, but done poorly.
Freeting – First impression the foyer of your home gives to
those arriving.
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Galcave – Craft room
Half Baked – Kitchen not staged.
Hext – A text message that the people coming to view your
home (that you spent all weekend cleaning) bought another home.
Magish – When you SO desperately want a room in your house
to look like a photo in a magazine, it actually happens!
Sho-wells –Towels exclusively reserved for when people are
coming to view your home.
Targetize – When a home seller buys all the staging
accessories in one trip to Target.
NFH – Neighbor from hell.
Pillowize – Efforts made to cover couch stains with large,
decorator pillows.
Scotchem – Shortening draperies and curtains by using masking tape or duct
tape
WTF – White thrifted finds. All the furniture you bought
second hand, and then painted white to stage your home.
Zirconia – Artificial wow factor, such as an avocado
refrigerator painted with stainless steel paint.
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Top photo: Meg Broff Interiors
If you want some serious help staging your home, download my eBook, DIY Home Staging Tips to Sell Your Home Fast and for Top Dollar. You can begin now to DIY your way to a sold home!
Top photo: Meg Broff Interiors
10 comments:
Very funny! I'm going to be making a blowbed when we're ready to sell.
So fun! People Targetize..., not Ikeaize??
Those are hilarious!
Funny post! I love "zirconia." I also love finding these little things when we're house hunting. lol
Thanks for sharing, some of them are really funny! ;)
I love these kinds of word games. I wish I was clever enough to create some of my own. How about this: I have a LBD (Large Black Dog) so I really need to pillowize my couch where he likes to sleep.
Wise and witty word magic. Really funny!
You nailed it, the flip-flop is so true. Thanks for the chuckle.
WTF! Haha. That one is great. White thrifted finds. Guilty as charged.
These are some great ideas! I have been looking for ideas to help me sell my house. I recently got into an accident, which left me with some debt, but also a cash out annuity which has helped, but I really want to sell my house. Hopefully these ideas will help, and not for a huge price!
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