To ask you what you think of this house?

[Chamonix1]

Corfe Mullen
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47067588.html

Would you say it's worth the extra money compared to these two (same road)

Coventry Close, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64302911.html

Coventry Close, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65784953.html

Which ones your preference/ why?

Could you quickly gravel the front lawn and make it a parking space? It would be a useful thing to have and it might hide next door's crap a little?

No really a quick sale, if we don't sell then we don't sell.
Can't gravel it unfortunately, we live off the road and have no pavement outside our house just green sort of tucked away!

Don't like number 1, cant see where the table is or storage. could imagine 2 furnished, and would cope. Would choose number 3 if I had to have one of them.

I like 1 the best most of the rooms are really well presented and there are plenty of people that won't want to do work themselves.
That's said could easily improve by getting the settee out from under the stairs that suggests bit enough room. Bin the trampoline and clean the conservatory roof. Good tidy if the garden plus paint the fences. Kitchen room is fab if a tad dark but the space wins you over. Bathroom is lovely and bedrooms well presented. It has a look overall that's very now just those bits above that I think would make it better.

is very similar layout to ours so checked out its previous photos with stuff in (mainly for lounge ideas) and I have no idea where they put their tv with the sofa where it is.

No idea what to do about the sofa. Scratches head.

#2*

They look pretty much the same to me. The kitchen in the first one looks newer but still needs updating. Back garden looks souless .

Yours was my least favourite tbh but all three houses have appealing points to me!

Can you remove some furniture and de clutter, maybe some neutral decor too? It looks a little cramped in some photos. Still better than the empty house though.

Estate agents do overprice though - ours is the prime example. One house on our road went up for £50k more initially and they accepted £100k less than the initial asking price!

Selling houses is hellish!

As someone who is viewing at the moment....
Dustbins and front garden. Dustbins are a real eyesore, got anyplace to hide them? Front garden needs a tidy.
Trampoline proximity to the house.....
Take away at least two stools from kitchen
Clean conservatory roof. May help light issue in kitchen
Child's bedroom. Neutralise and use accessories to brighten up. Consider centralising bed to show room could take a double.
Consider your market may be people without kids...you need to appeal to both.
If pans are out on display, does that mean there is no room to store them in the kitchen?

I would choose P no 2 because of the conservatory

You could Fill the blue pots with hebes and put on left boundary at the front. Big bushy shrubs will help hide next door's crap. You could put a single big pot to the right of the door instead of the bits that are there now. If you look at the picture of the bottom of the garden, it looks a wee bit tatty. A quick coat of preservative, take away the random trellisy bits and move the table centrally and it demonstrates a lifestyle!

**Yesterday 21:15 Willyoujustbequiet

**You would get a large new 4/5 bedroom detached up here for the same money

You could get a 1 bed, 3rd floor flat here for the same 😳

I think your house is lovely OP, but do agree you need better photos. Good news is a couple of really minor things will make them look much better.

I get what you are saying about realistic photos, but buying a house is an emotional process as much as logical, and if you can get people to fall in love with your house and envisage themselves living there before they even walk through the door, that's half the battle. And then they're much more likely to overlook any faults. Besides everyone expects RE photos to be an idealised version!

So my advice FWIW (and some of these are really minor, picky things):

Front: move bins for photo, take from angle that doesn't show neighbour's "stuff", put some plants in pots out if you want to spend the money (can take with you)

Kitchen: fix exhaust fan wire and remove bin, pans on wall, towels from oven and a couple of stools for photo.

Living Room: move stuff from under stairs, rehang mirror lower (I don't mind sofa under stairs personally)

Conservatory: clean roof. If you're up for it you could set it up as dining room or sunroom for photos (some people have no imagination)

Bedroom: for photo move stuff off windowsill and cloth from top of drawers

Child's bedroom: for photo move toys off bed, move at least one basket of toys

Back garden: remove trampoline, put slide on lawn, centralise table in paved area, move junk away, do some plants in pots if you want to spend, if possible retake at time of day when garden is in sun.

No.2 for me. But I like a project and don't like a plastic roof on a conservatory - it's basically a lean to unless it has a glass roof.

Just looked again and I would probably swap sofa and chest (put chest under stairs) - doesn't really matter about TV viewing angle.

Also I think photo 9 is a nicer front shot than photo 1.

Good luck!

1. Has the nicer house
2. Has the better yard
3. Has the nicer exterior (front)

You could improve the interiors of the second two, but you would need to consider what it might cost to do that.

I'd likely choose the first one and just put effort into doing up the exterior of the front (gardening etc) and making the backyard a bit nicer. I'd prefer to do landscaping than redesigning the interior, put it that way.

I like the first one best. But I would make the following changes (and then get the photos redone).

Kitchen: Take away two of the stools, take down the TV/DVD off wall, put radio away, hide the big bin, put microwave away.

Conservatory: Take out all the toys and stage it as a sun room/sitting room with a sofa and a chair.

Master bedroom: take down family photos/pictures, remove dresser under window, add some simple bedside lamps, remove clutter off window-sill.

Kids bedroom: declutter shelves and teddies, take down posters.

Garden: tidy up end of garden, remove slide and trampoline.

Yes doing all this is a pain in the bum, but it is the best way to get the best selling price.

Thing is we can move bins, crop out neighbours crap and make it all "look better" we would get More viewings and they'd all be unpleasantly surprised.
Rather people saw what it's like and bought it because they liked it or saw potential.

Sorry but that is just not how the mind set of buying a home works. Did you know that staged/furnished homes nearly always sell quicker than vacant homes - which is funny if you think about it as the furniture is the one thing viewers are not buying! But remember you are selling the idea/the lifestyle etc. So yes all the sprucing up for photos does matter!!
Good luck!

I'd buy 2. For the spare money you could put in kitchen you like. The Conservatory is nicer, looks like there is room to extend to side

the garbage bins and the junk in the neighbors front yard are a total turn off for me. for those two reasons alone i'd choose 2 or 3. personally I liked 2 the best overall due to curb appeal and back yard.

Chamonix1 I'm looking to buy atm and can tell you that making these little changes to help your photos will have a big impact.

You want to do whatever it takes to get people to love the look of your house so they will view it in person.

You can be making declutter changes to each room then re-taking those photos as you go - eg pick up the kitchen bin, put it into the next room, then take new kitchen photos, and put the bin back. Move the big tubs of toys from the child's bedroom into the hall til you've taken new photos of that room. And so on.

Reducing clutter and making the house look like absolute perfection is what you want. Make sure lights are on, doors are open, rooms look spacious and sunny for your photos. When people then visit in person, move the clutter to your car and get it out of the house if you need to!

FWIW, my husband and I would buy your house over your neighbours'. We don't want a house that requires work, and want to see the house looking as lovely as we'd want to be living in - you want to get viewers like this. (Sorry we live in another country to you so can't buy your house!)

Good luck! Post the link to your new photos when you get them taken so we can 'ooh' and 'aah' over them!

I'd buy the empty house. It basically needs decorating and a kitchen upgrade. I'm very specific in what I like & dislike so don't want to pay for someone else's decor which might not be to my taste. It's also the only one where you can add some value - decor, garden- at fairly low expense doing what you're likely to do anyway.

Mind you I'd never buy a "perfect" house because I know I'd be redecorating.

Thanks pasta.
I'm slowly emptying my home. I have to say I feel our bedroom looks bare and soulless with everything removed.
Like a shell of a room rather than a home.
But from this thread that's the idea. Mass clear out in progress

I thought the main bedroom looked fine. It was the conservatory, kids bedroom and stuff by the sofa that cluttered it. It's far from a shit hole though and is by far the nicest house inside. It's a balancing act between tidy and clutter free in the middle, too empty at one end and so much clutter it screams no storage at the other at the other end, you want to aim for the middle. Tidy and clutter free but enough personal stuff out it's not a shell.

When we viewed houses we saw some right shit holes, you'd be surprised how some people live and think it's perfectly acceptable. There really is some filthy messy folks out there.