Should this seller listen to me or his mama for staging his S.F. loft?

04/20/2011

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Alvin in San Francisco has a staging dilemma. Mom wants to decorate it for families....but it is a modern sleek loft!? My response may be caustic, but I say it with love. Really I do! 

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And if you don’t mind me saying Alvin, it’s time to stop being a mama’s boy! This is your property. You bought it. You own it. You’re selling it. You are a grown ass man who can stick up for himself.

Say, “Mom, I love you but your staging advice, albeit well intentioned, is without  taste.” Go ahead, stab her in the heart!

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Gina
04/20/2011 16:55

alvin and i have the same mother!

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dave W
05/04/2011 10:31

Good advice…be true to the space you have.

But, I disagree you can’t mix styles. Especially the chandelier and persian rugs…I’ve yet to see a decor that can’t take a good 18th century style chandelier and well worn good quality persians. Any decor.

And, especially the dining room! One thing I can’t stand about too modern interiors is you can’t have a proper dinner on those uncomfortable chairs and cold glass tables. You simply need that huge slab of mahogany to show off the setting (think about why people that buy expensive properties give dinners….)and what better way to create a comfortable dining space than a palace sized rug and a fabulous antique light fixture converted to electricity?…and yes, in a modern, urban loft.

Mom in Ohio was wrong and I’m not disagreeing with your feedback, in general. I just don’t think people should pick one style and stick to it. That’s boring.

(and can we please start calling them persians? Oriental is simply innacurate and to the child laborers that made these works of art, insulting).

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chrisTB
05/04/2011 10:32

A kid oriented loft in SF?!?! That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard! Send your mother a box of wine and tell her that you’ll handle it!

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steve hansen
05/04/2011 10:32

Children/Family in SF, is she nuts? Sure, there are some families, but they aren’t looking for high ceilings and views. They are looking for affordable. The high ceilings and views sell to people who can afford such things. They can afford those things precisely because they don’t have kids.

Beige or grey has been “standard” for long enough that no one with any sense of style will even see it.
Antiques have style, as long as it doesn’t feel like a cluttered antique shop. Just make sure they can see the view, and remove portraits and elaborate decor that might be a problem.

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morgan
05/04/2011 11:42

NOM mentioned in its website that SFO with its large gay population is lacking many children. NOM kind of implying that inability to reproduce children with others of the same sex contributed to that. It has nothing to do with the large gay habitation of the city, IMO. It has more to do with the fact that families (gay or straight) with several children often can’t afford the high cost of living there.

I remember my second to last trip to SFO a few years ago. (I have visited SFO at least 3 times in my life. Someone told me that at that time of my second visit a rent for a one bedroom apt. in SFO might perhaps be $2,000 a month.)I have no idea of what a possible rent of a one-bedroom apartment in SFO (city and airport code for San Francisco)might be at this time.

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