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#53: The Curveball That Blew The Beach House Timeline

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#53: The Curveball That Blew The Beach House Timeline

Sherry has taken on a new side job that I am steering clear of, and – spoiler alert – it has already given her a good excuse to go shopping. Plus, we have missed our goal of being able to spend a night at the beach house by the start of summer, and it is all due to something we never could’ve anticipated (or prevented). We also find out which design trends most people are ready to be done with (shiplap? succulents? decorative poufs? *gasp!*) and you will hear what annoying outdoor to-do list item I checked off my list for Father’s Day. And – oh, look! A deer!

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What is New

  • Above is an after photo of the house Sherry “lightly staged” (no big furniture changes – simply paring down, rearranging, simplifying, and adding some pillows/art/accessories). As you can tell from the before picture below, this room’s transformation was mostly thanks to removing all of the distracting personal stuff so potential buyers could truly see the bones of the house. And you know Sherry loves adding a pitcher and a few vases full of yard clippings for fast & free greenery. Plain changes but such a difference, right?

  • And the good news is that the house got multiple offers within a day of being listed. And as you may have guessed, Sherry ran around the house shouting “sssssssold!” with her hands on her cheeks (much like Kevin McAlister in Home Alone).
  • You can hear more about Sherry’s staging adventures in Episode #41, which involved a few bigger Hands-on projects to prepare our friend’s house to sell.
  • We also popped over to the beach house last week to check on things. There is not much to show for it, but here is what it is looking like these days (at least the outside is a whole lot more wrapped up looking than the inside):

  • And since we did not get a picture of that fawn – here is one from a couple of years ago instead. So cute. So hungry.

What Home Decor Trend Has To Go?

  • If you wanna weigh in on several head-to-head trend battles, you can still cast your vote over on the Buzzfeed poll we referenced.
  • And as promised, here are those “fancy cheese boards” that are stalking Sherry on Facebook (you click something ONE TIME and Facebook #cantstopwontstop). 1 /2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8

Can We Simply Talk About…

  • Here is an example of the alarmist stories about Fixer Upper being partially “faked” that we have been seeing in our feeds. Please note that the detail that the whistleblower was a model was so essential that it made it into the headline.
  • We had trouble being shocked, especially since revelations like this about House Hunters go waaaay back to 2012
  • Even back then Julia, the blogger behind that post, was stunned by everyone’s surprise – and how the news went viral (so much so that HGTV responded in this follow-up post)
  • Last year HGTV even got in on the joke with this spoof video that takes you inside the House Hunter’s Writers Room: “Do you ‘oooh’ at a foyer? I feel like that is more of a kitchen sound.”
  • And to Sherry’s point about the furniture not consistently staying with the Fixer Upper homeowners, Katie Bower has done a couple of posts comparing the show’s “after” photos to what the homes later look like on rental listings.
  • Oh, and as for Cash Cab, here is a swift recap (apparently some people are truly surprised!) but here is a more in-depth story of it being more set-up than we’d like to believe.

We are Digging

  • Above are some of the Ikea products that we are glad to see on Amazon (heads up: prices are sometimes higher than what you’d find in Ikea stores, so this is truly best used when it is not straightforward to get to an Ikea in person): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13* / 14 / 15
    • *Meatball sauce not to scale (ok, neither is anything else) UPDATE: We learned after this podcast went live that Ikea released a statement saying these are 3rd party sellers, and not Ikea (despite being listed as “sold by: Ikea” on Amazon). Bummerssss. They did say they are exploring the idea of selling on Amazon in the future though, so here is hoping!
  • Since I cannot link to mulch, I will link to the old post about the first time we mulched this yard. Exciting!
  • And I can show you how the delivery guy somehow misinterpreted my instruction to dump the mulch “where you consistently do, in the big mulch bed where the orange flags are” this year. So instead it got dumped about 15 feet in front of the flags, right onto the grass. Excellent.

If you are looking for something we have dug in a past episode, but do not remember which show notes to click into, here is a master list of everything we have been digging from all of our past episodes.

And lastly, a big thank you to Delta for sponsoring this episode. You can check out the all of Delta Faucet’s products and innovations (including the inspiration and sketches behind their Cassidy line) at DeltaFaucet.com/YHL.

Thanks for listening, folks!

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