Decor and moving....

I feel a blog rolling around in my head at the moment. Ive been wandering online looking at blogs. I love home decor type blogs, that show before and after pictures. I love to see what great ideas people come up with. I love to see what they do with old junk too, some are quite creative.

I tend to like girly type decor or beachy cottage type, so my eyes are drawn to that. But its all so frustrating for me right now. I'm slowly putting away my decor and redoing my house, not how I like it, but how I think might help sell this place once its listed.

I see all these cute ideas and I wonder what kind of house Ill find up in Oregon. I'm cleaning out stuff here and wondering what to toss since I don't know where I'm going. Its hard. So much I may need and yet I don't know. And if I find just the right spot so I can have a business on my property, I might just need my extra stuff for sale there.


So I look at these blogs and link to them, hoping for a future that I don't know if its a reality or not at the moment. I get lost in them wishing I could do some of the things. And yet I know I cant here because these days when you sell a house, your not supposed to have anything personal in your decor. This way anyone can envision living there. When did it get so hard to sell a house? Who created this mess out there where people get to dictate how your home should look? After all isn't the point of buying a new house , to put your own look into it? I can understand painting if it needs it or anything else if the house looks run down. But these days your expected to put in new plumbing and carpet and paint and make the house look like its a model home.

But its not. Its an old home, not a new one. People can no longer see the bones. They must be "sold" by making it look different. And I like to see how people decorate their homes when Ive house hunted in the past. I know it doesn't come with the home. And yes sometimes that red paint on the walls has to go but paint is cheap. People have gotten so spoiled to have what they want right now with no work, its sickening. Unless you have a brand new home.....a house is someone elses. Its up to you to change it, not them.

So lots of extra money has to be spent just to put it on the market or they chew you way down in price. Now like I said, I can understand that if the house is in need of repair. But beyond that is just cosmetic and most likely will be changed anyway when they move in.

So I dream in the blogs I find and hope that wherever I land will be a good place, with good bones. Because I am smart enough to see beyond the decor, the paint, the junk in someones house and see what the real house is. Too bad the rest of the world has gotten lazy. It costs us all then.