Our episode of Sell This House airs on July 10th at 9:30 AM eastern standard time. Set your DVRs! I am scared to watch. We go no preview of what the final show will be. They taped over 12 hours of film for the 26 minute episode. Who knows what it will be like. I hate seeing and hearing myself on film. It could be traumatizing.
Here is the link to our show's listing:
http://www.aetv.com/sell-this-house/sell_episode_guide.jsp?episode=574120
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
A&E - Sell This House! - After
WOW! It feels very drastic to us. I asked if they did more or spent more than normal at our house, they said no, it just feels that way because it is your house. But it really does feel like a bigger before/after than I have seen on the show. I think pictures don't do it justice. It will be interesting to see how it looks on the show. We don't see the show at all until it is on TV on June 26th. So I have no idea how many of the scenes we did will make it or what it will look like. They take an average of 12 hours of film to make a 26 minute episode. It was a wild experience, we loved it!
They did 4 rooms in our house and a bonus room sort of by painting our kitchen, so it is like we got 5 rooms.
Dining Room - 1st Floor
New paint, new window treatments, recovered the chairs and new light fixture. They moved my dresser out of our room into the dining room! At first I was sort of freaked out by that, imagining getting dressed each morning in the dining room, but I found ways to keep my clothes on the 2nd floor. They scattered apples in an artistic way for the showing. It looks cool! Glued my chairs back together and recovered them, yea! We love how this room came out.
Kitchen - 1st floor
Our real estate agent has better pictures of the kitchen. All they did was paint it, but wow it makes such a difference. We added the granite right before the show, it looks so good with the slate gray walls. Who would have thought to paint the kitchen such a dark color!?! I was pretty nervous as they rolled it, but it looks amazing! Peeking through the window from the living room the colors go so well together. The green and gray are beautiful compliments.
Living Room - 1st Floor
Gray accent wall, new window treatments, new light fixture, new book shelf, rugs and throw pillows. The dark gray wall with the TV on it creates a home theater feel. It is very nice. I love our leather sofas. When we bought them I was drawn to them because they have great clean lines and looked very sophisticated. We put them in our living room and they looked like dumpy brown sofas. Crazy how the new colors and new arrangement has made the sofas look rich and impressive again. They saved the toy box, it is full but closes. The boys don't seem to miss much, they actually run around the house and play together more now that there are not as many toys.
Master Bedroom - 2nd Floor
Didn't paint. New light fixture, curtains, blinds, bedding and hangars. It looks like a hotel room! So inviting. I do miss my dresser, but the room feel so much larger without it. They put a curtain across the whole wall covering the window to create a flat wall for the bed. The closet is sort of a trick, good for selling the house, but not a real solution for everyday. We took out more than half our clothes then they put a few pieces on wooden hangars. With so few hangars the doors move them sideways and will now shut. It looks cool, but I have more than 20 shirts. Good tip for selling, but not for living. I learned how to make the bed like that too.
3rd Floor Bedroom
Paint, new shelves, boxes, desk, light fixture, throw pillows, futon cover and blinds. It is now an office! They made a good point, with so many rooms we did not show an office option. We had an office, but it turned into a little boy room and we just did without. This looks so big now! I love how they used a deep blue on the walls and included the slant in the ceiling. We were always confused on how to best paint these rooms. We painted it all one color, ceiling too. Kept the futon too, so we can still have guests.
Storage and the aftermath
We have a very full storage unit now. It has our piano, full size bed, end table, and lots of boxes of random stuff. The second day Chad, the assistant designer, told me we would hate them all by the end of the day. He said it is so crazy hectic and twice as stressful as moving day because it all happens so fast. We did not hate them, but the house was a disaster after the 2nd day. We planned on staying here but we could not get to the kids beds. Went to a hotel. The rooms that were not in the show, kitchen, the boys rooms and our upstairs bathroom, got filled with stuff that need sorted and became work rooms. Chad set up shop with the ironing board and curtains in the nursery. Also all the clothes from my dresser ended up in the bathtub till I could figure out a way to keep them on the 2nd floor, not in the dining room. Here are some pictures of the chaos.
I should have taken more pictures to remember the experience, but there was just too much going on to keep up. We didn't even get a picture with Roger and Tanya. I suppose we get a whole episode, that should be enough. Our episode is June 26th.
Our real estate agent's site has some good before/after pics, take a look: http://www.nancymsullivan.com/index.html
They did 4 rooms in our house and a bonus room sort of by painting our kitchen, so it is like we got 5 rooms.
Dining Room - 1st Floor
New paint, new window treatments, recovered the chairs and new light fixture. They moved my dresser out of our room into the dining room! At first I was sort of freaked out by that, imagining getting dressed each morning in the dining room, but I found ways to keep my clothes on the 2nd floor. They scattered apples in an artistic way for the showing. It looks cool! Glued my chairs back together and recovered them, yea! We love how this room came out.
Kitchen - 1st floor
Our real estate agent has better pictures of the kitchen. All they did was paint it, but wow it makes such a difference. We added the granite right before the show, it looks so good with the slate gray walls. Who would have thought to paint the kitchen such a dark color!?! I was pretty nervous as they rolled it, but it looks amazing! Peeking through the window from the living room the colors go so well together. The green and gray are beautiful compliments.
Living Room - 1st Floor
Gray accent wall, new window treatments, new light fixture, new book shelf, rugs and throw pillows. The dark gray wall with the TV on it creates a home theater feel. It is very nice. I love our leather sofas. When we bought them I was drawn to them because they have great clean lines and looked very sophisticated. We put them in our living room and they looked like dumpy brown sofas. Crazy how the new colors and new arrangement has made the sofas look rich and impressive again. They saved the toy box, it is full but closes. The boys don't seem to miss much, they actually run around the house and play together more now that there are not as many toys.
Master Bedroom - 2nd Floor
Didn't paint. New light fixture, curtains, blinds, bedding and hangars. It looks like a hotel room! So inviting. I do miss my dresser, but the room feel so much larger without it. They put a curtain across the whole wall covering the window to create a flat wall for the bed. The closet is sort of a trick, good for selling the house, but not a real solution for everyday. We took out more than half our clothes then they put a few pieces on wooden hangars. With so few hangars the doors move them sideways and will now shut. It looks cool, but I have more than 20 shirts. Good tip for selling, but not for living. I learned how to make the bed like that too.
3rd Floor Bedroom
Paint, new shelves, boxes, desk, light fixture, throw pillows, futon cover and blinds. It is now an office! They made a good point, with so many rooms we did not show an office option. We had an office, but it turned into a little boy room and we just did without. This looks so big now! I love how they used a deep blue on the walls and included the slant in the ceiling. We were always confused on how to best paint these rooms. We painted it all one color, ceiling too. Kept the futon too, so we can still have guests.Storage and the aftermath
We have a very full storage unit now. It has our piano, full size bed, end table, and lots of boxes of random stuff. The second day Chad, the assistant designer, told me we would hate them all by the end of the day. He said it is so crazy hectic and twice as stressful as moving day because it all happens so fast. We did not hate them, but the house was a disaster after the 2nd day. We planned on staying here but we could not get to the kids beds. Went to a hotel. The rooms that were not in the show, kitchen, the boys rooms and our upstairs bathroom, got filled with stuff that need sorted and became work rooms. Chad set up shop with the ironing board and curtains in the nursery. Also all the clothes from my dresser ended up in the bathtub till I could figure out a way to keep them on the 2nd floor, not in the dining room. Here are some pictures of the chaos.
I should have taken more pictures to remember the experience, but there was just too much going on to keep up. We didn't even get a picture with Roger and Tanya. I suppose we get a whole episode, that should be enough. Our episode is June 26th.Our real estate agent's site has some good before/after pics, take a look: http://www.nancymsullivan.com/index.html
A&E - Sell This House! - Before
I started this post the weekend before the Sell This House crew arrived to film our episode. Just getting around to posting it now. Funny how crazy my mind was racing before they got here. Everyone was speculating what they were going to do. Working on the after post, it is coming very soon.
BEFORE
Sell This House from A&E start filming tomorrow. Yikes! Just to make our lives that much more difficult, we decided to have granite installed in the kitchen the day before the show shoots. This is our project, not the show. So with less than 24 hours from camera time, the kitchen whole 1st floor is a disaster.
I have been cleaning like a freak since we found out we are on the show. They don't want us to change the rooms or our clutter, but I can make it clean. My husband is getting a bit carried away and I am afraid he is going to hide all our clutter before they get here. He is going to get us in trouble!
The House
It is actually a condo. We own the right side. We bought it as a two family with some friends then had it split into two equal condos. The plan was to flip them and use this purchase as a starter home that might bounce us into a higher priced single family with a yard. The housing market has not cooperated with our plans. The house was built somewhere between 1880 and 1890.
Entry and Dining Room - 1st Floor
I love the color of this room and my curtains. They will likely change all that. We never bought a real dining room set for this house because we have been planning on moving since we bought the place. I bought some really old dining room chairs from a yard sale. Worst yard sale buy ever! They all immediately broke, but I still keep them and make people sit lightly on them for dinner. Also got the piano for free on craigslist.org. Love the piano but it really doesn't have a great home in this house.
Kitchen - 1st Floor
Brand new counters coming soon! We gutted and redid this kitchen but it was really hard to lay out. Being as old as the house is, there are no square corners. There is an old chimney that runs up through the house that really threw off our room shapes. The chimney is behind our fridge, that is why it is in the middle of the kitchen. We stumped the team at Home Depot that lays out kitchens. Let's see if the Sell This House team can make it better. I also like the color I picked here too, Corn Husk Green. There is also a half bath off the kitchen, no pictures.
Living Room - 1st Floor
The children have taken over this room. It is crazy! The carpet is a huge area rug we put over the hardwood when the boys were babies. Easier for a baby to crawl around on carpet then cold hardwood. Figure the show will surely roll up the rug.
Master Bedroom - 2nd Floor
It is so small! Our furniture looks huge, but it is the "city scale" furniture, that means apartment size. The closets are too small for a standard hanger so we can't close the door. They show's producers said they found our closet problem fascinating. Fascinating is not what we call it, looking forward to seeing what they do in here.
Nursery - 2nd Floor
This room is smaller than a prison cell. It is 8X9, I am pretty sure prisoners get 10X10. I don't think the show will touch this room, but we will probably pull the ottoman out and the changing table for better showings. This is our 4th bedroom, but we can't list that way, it doesn't have a closet so it isn't a legal bedroom.
There is also a full bath on the 2nd floor, no picture, I don't think the show does bathrooms. It is all new though, very nice.
2nd Bedroom - 3rd Floor
This was our office till we moved a little boy up there about 6 months ago. Just got bunk beds about a month ago, won't bunk them for several years though. The 3rd floor bedrooms are really pretty large. Though they are attic rooms, they have full ceilings and are very functional. We are pretty sure the attic has always been finished as rooms. We found a really old picture in the wall here when we were renovating. A group of people from the turn of the century sitting in front of the house. Very cool.
3rd Bedroom - 3rd Floor
This is our guest room, however it has yet to recover from the arrival of the bunk beds. A lot of furniture has been shoved into this room, it is really the catch all room. We haven't had any house guests since Christmas so it has really had time to get out of hand. What a mess!
So excited and scared to see what they do to the house. Hope it is a fun adventure!
BEFORE
Sell This House from A&E start filming tomorrow. Yikes! Just to make our lives that much more difficult, we decided to have granite installed in the kitchen the day before the show shoots. This is our project, not the show. So with less than 24 hours from camera time, the kitchen whole 1st floor is a disaster.
I have been cleaning like a freak since we found out we are on the show. They don't want us to change the rooms or our clutter, but I can make it clean. My husband is getting a bit carried away and I am afraid he is going to hide all our clutter before they get here. He is going to get us in trouble!
The House
It is actually a condo. We own the right side. We bought it as a two family with some friends then had it split into two equal condos. The plan was to flip them and use this purchase as a starter home that might bounce us into a higher priced single family with a yard. The housing market has not cooperated with our plans. The house was built somewhere between 1880 and 1890.
Entry and Dining Room - 1st Floor
I love the color of this room and my curtains. They will likely change all that. We never bought a real dining room set for this house because we have been planning on moving since we bought the place. I bought some really old dining room chairs from a yard sale. Worst yard sale buy ever! They all immediately broke, but I still keep them and make people sit lightly on them for dinner. Also got the piano for free on craigslist.org. Love the piano but it really doesn't have a great home in this house.Kitchen - 1st Floor
Brand new counters coming soon! We gutted and redid this kitchen but it was really hard to lay out. Being as old as the house is, there are no square corners. There is an old chimney that runs up through the house that really threw off our room shapes. The chimney is behind our fridge, that is why it is in the middle of the kitchen. We stumped the team at Home Depot that lays out kitchens. Let's see if the Sell This House team can make it better. I also like the color I picked here too, Corn Husk Green. There is also a half bath off the kitchen, no pictures.
Living Room - 1st Floor
The children have taken over this room. It is crazy! The carpet is a huge area rug we put over the hardwood when the boys were babies. Easier for a baby to crawl around on carpet then cold hardwood. Figure the show will surely roll up the rug.
Master Bedroom - 2nd Floor
It is so small! Our furniture looks huge, but it is the "city scale" furniture, that means apartment size. The closets are too small for a standard hanger so we can't close the door. They show's producers said they found our closet problem fascinating. Fascinating is not what we call it, looking forward to seeing what they do in here.
Nursery - 2nd Floor
This room is smaller than a prison cell. It is 8X9, I am pretty sure prisoners get 10X10. I don't think the show will touch this room, but we will probably pull the ottoman out and the changing table for better showings. This is our 4th bedroom, but we can't list that way, it doesn't have a closet so it isn't a legal bedroom.
There is also a full bath on the 2nd floor, no picture, I don't think the show does bathrooms. It is all new though, very nice.
2nd Bedroom - 3rd Floor
This was our office till we moved a little boy up there about 6 months ago. Just got bunk beds about a month ago, won't bunk them for several years though. The 3rd floor bedrooms are really pretty large. Though they are attic rooms, they have full ceilings and are very functional. We are pretty sure the attic has always been finished as rooms. We found a really old picture in the wall here when we were renovating. A group of people from the turn of the century sitting in front of the house. Very cool.
3rd Bedroom - 3rd Floor
This is our guest room, however it has yet to recover from the arrival of the bunk beds. A lot of furniture has been shoved into this room, it is really the catch all room. We haven't had any house guests since Christmas so it has really had time to get out of hand. What a mess!
So excited and scared to see what they do to the house. Hope it is a fun adventure!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
A&E show Sell This House!
We won something! Our family and our house is being featured on A&E's show Sell This House! They are filming this coming Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Crazy!!! I didn't even enter this contest, our real estate agent entered us, the producer came and met us and we got picked! It all happened very fast. I have been cleaning the house for their visits and getting ready for the filming next week, so I have slowed down on my posting and cooking adventures. I do hope to make some goodies for the crew and our friends that participate in the show. I'll share.
Not sure if I should feel honored that they picked us, they usually pick houses that are tacky or decorated in poor taste. I like to think that isn't why they picked our house, I think it is stylish. Our house is over crowded with furniture, furniture that is too big for our tiny little rooms. That what I am telling myself is the reason they are coming here. I can't clean up my clutter, they want that for the before pictures, but I can clean my house. This place will be cluttered but spic-spank'n clean! I will die if someone says on national television that my house smells bad or is dirty, they can call everything ugly, but not dirty and smelly. I'll blog my experience with the show. It should be interesting and fun. Our show airs on June 26th.
Not sure if I should feel honored that they picked us, they usually pick houses that are tacky or decorated in poor taste. I like to think that isn't why they picked our house, I think it is stylish. Our house is over crowded with furniture, furniture that is too big for our tiny little rooms. That what I am telling myself is the reason they are coming here. I can't clean up my clutter, they want that for the before pictures, but I can clean my house. This place will be cluttered but spic-spank'n clean! I will die if someone says on national television that my house smells bad or is dirty, they can call everything ugly, but not dirty and smelly. I'll blog my experience with the show. It should be interesting and fun. Our show airs on June 26th.
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