Zhoosh

After all our work the house is now up for sale. Dh and I worked our little freckles off on the long weekend, cleaning, painting, primping and preening to get our house ready.

The real estate agents came through on Tuesday and were really impressed, I had the plate of freshly baked cookies waiting for them to take which they are still talking about lol!

Theres nothing like a little manipulation in selling a house!

On Saturday we had our first  open house, I tend to go overboard a bit with presentation but you can’t say I don’t ‘wow’ the buyers!

I had bought brand new fluffy towels in a nice turquoise colour for the bathrooms and matching candle votives which I placed on the baths and the basins and in the double shower, lit of course with the lights slightly dim.

I also had red tealight candles in the front entry on the table which I borrowed from my sister and in the kitchen on the bench.

The table outside was set up as if we were inviting friends over for lunch with wine etc.

All lights were turned on as they add a nice ambience and windows were cleaned to allow the sun to sparkle through. Which adds to the feel of the house and gives it that fresh spring day feel.

I had a small vase of singapore orchids next to my budda and everything was polished every silver handle in the kitchen to the kitchen sink and taps.

I put some lavender in a burner up in the toy room as it is down the other end of the house and some lavender oil in door jams. I also baked 4 trays fo cookies and allowed them to cool down near the front door so all you could smell when you walked in was freshly baked chocolate cookies which I served on a large tray with servettes and a sign telling people to feel free to take one as they leave (on my letter head of course

All the gardens were freshly mulched and we even quickly ran down to bunnings to by some winter veges to put in our vege garden as we had ripped everything out lol!

We had our first offer on the house yesterday which was too low and we won’t even look at offers unless they are closer to want we want for the house. We are fairly commited to going to auction, but its a great start. We also had 43 groups of people through the house so i think we can afford to sit back and wait to see what happens.

Tomorrow we are allowing a few groups to come back to look through so I best get back to cleaning!