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August 2008
SETTING
Home stager Jill Nelson relaxes in her living room. Pops of red enliven the neutral space and plants bring nature inside.
THE SCENE STAGING
YOUR HOME
STORY BY
CAN HELP YOU SELL IT Liz Kellar
f you are a homeowner in the unenviable position of trying to sell your house in the middle of the current housing slump, take heart. Jill Nelson can help. Nelson is a home stager and can help you present your home in the best possible light so you can get it sold quickly and at a higher price. Staging first became trendy in the go-go days of the real estate boom – when every house engendered a bidding war and it seemed as if the sky was the limit. Flush with their potential equity, homesellers took advantage of home staging to make a little
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more from the sale. These days, many homesellers are facing little equity gain or are even upside-down on their equity, needing to sell their home for less than their mortgage. But it is exactly those situation that can benefit from home staging, Nelson said. And she can work with your budget to advise you on some cost-effective changes that can make a huge difference in the curb appeal of your home. Nelson has a degree in interior design and has worked in the field on and off. As she explains with a grimace, she originally chose to specialize in the commercial field. “I hated it,” she laughed.
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reen has taken over the world, it seems. Every big box store, every shelter magazine touts the benefits of living an environmentally friendly life. The green message has become so ubiquitous and so insistent, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. Sure, you can buy long-lasting light bulbs and recycle your plastic. But how do you move beyond those baby steps? Even worse, how do you respond to the flood of green products clogging the shelves of your grocery store and furniture retailer? Do you throw out everything you own and start over? Are all those products really as earth-friendly as their packaging promises? And what about that packaging – isn’t that hurting the environment? It’s enough to make your head spin.
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MINDFUL BUYING: Next time you go shopping, before you decide to buy anything, ask yourself the following: ■ Do I really need this? ■ Will it serve a useful purpose? ■ What is it made of? ■ Who made it? ■ Where is it made? ■ Where did it come from? ■ How far away did it come from where I live? ■ How did it get here? ■ What will happen to it when I am done with it? ■ Can it be recycled? ■ Is it biodegradable? ■ Will it live on in a landfill forever? If you keep these things in mind when you shop for anything, you are more likely to reduce your consumption and save yourself some money. – from Brown’s Web site, www.eco-chicdesign.com
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Not surprisingly, a new the homeowners to redo some niche of interior design has of the interior, changing the sprung up to help homeowncolor palette of the home and ers live a greener life. Lincoln refurnishing some of the residents don’t have far to go rooms. – Marie Brown, who lives in “We might use … Foskett Ranch, is a green reclaimed furniture, or upcydesigner, a member of the cled or recycled products,” Green Building Council and she said. an accredited professional Upcycling, she explained, with Leadership in Energy is when a material normally and bound for the Environmental trash heap is Design. taken and made Brown hopes into something to build a way cooler – say, LEED-certified a coffee table home in the made from an near future and antique door. currently is “What I like working on am to do with furenergy-efficient nishing (a room) retrofit of a new is first, figure home. out functionality “That’s a – how people are huge green conreally going to cept,” she said. use the space,” Marie Brown “To reduce Brown said. “So resource usage – energy, that it does last a long time.” water, materials and waste. Brown said she stresses the Those are some of the guiding concept of sustainability to principles in green design.” her clients – using higherBrown said it is easier to quality furniture that will last build in these features. a lifetime, or reusing a piece “There aren’t many prodthat is well-built and that can ucts to bring into an existing be recovered. home,” she said. “I always suggest clients One product that is availdonate furniture they’re not able is a radiant barrier in the attic to keep heat from comGREEN/page 14 ing into the house – typically either reflective paint or a layer of foil. Adding solar panels is another option, depending on whether there are covenants or restrictions in the neighborhood. “Insulation is another way to maximize energy efficiency,” Brown said. “I usually recommend the homeowner get an energy audit. They’ll come in and tell you where your energy drains are and recommend how to rectify that.” All of these options, of course, have to be balanced by the homeowner’s budget. Brown can work with the homeowner to create a plan that extends out over a period of years. On this particular project, Brown also is working with
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Marie Brown’s booth at Design Expo, above, reflects the principles of eco-friendly design, with sustainable furniture and upcycled goods. Below, cork flooring in the kitchen is an environmentally friendly option.
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Also available is a rain watercapture system, which can save approximately 2,500 gallons of water per year per 600 square feet of house. Randy Eley and his wife, Trish, recently purchased a 1,620-square-foot “green” manufactured house from American Home Sales. “We are vegetarians,” Randy said. “We recycle everything and we are interested in the environment. I think this helped us in purchasing this home. We have been looking for a while and we’ve looked at a bunch of different makes and models.
We drove by American Home Sales there on Highway 49 and saw the one up front, and stopped and looked at it. The eco-style house really appealed to us.” The “green” choices were a big selling point. “You do have a lot more options, I think, with the eco home because of the different things you can put it in and put out, and what they take care of,” he said. Among the eco-friendly features are a tankless water heater and formaldehyde-free insulation. HOUSE/page 14
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t wasn’t the awe of actually climbing the Great Wall of China that had me overjoyed, but the body language a kind Chinese grandfather used after I granted his request to pose for a picture with his family half-way up the centuries-old Wonder of the World. After the big smiles and the click of an analog shutter, the elderly man beamed excitedly alongside a lookout tower in the Juyong Guan section. He then placed his left palm on my admittedly round belly, lifted his right arm and made a muscle. Did he ever brighten my already bright day. The reason is this: In America I’m considered chubby, but in China, I’m strong! Having visited communist Mainland China nine times in the past seven years, with most those itineraries including Beijing, this well-fed American can say with a straight, jet-lagged face that the courteousness extended by the camera-bearing grandfather is typical of the people. With the exception of motorists who show no mercy toward foreigners unaware they don’t have the right of way when crossing the street, the Chinese I’ve encountered have been genuinely warm and friendly. This Eastern hospitality will come in handy
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this month when China expands its welcome mat to fit the some 200 other countries for the XXIX Olympiad Aug. 8-24. Nearly a million overseas visitors are expected for the Summer Games alone and China’s capital is spending billions for what marketing experts are calling a “coming out party” for the most populous country and fastest-growing world economy.
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a tourist destination is welldeserved with more than 200 points of interest open to the public. For travelers short on time, budget and endurance, do not fret — the number of must-dos is quite manageable and affordable. No. 1 is the centrally located Forbidden City, 148 breathtaking acres of vermilion-clad temples and glorious gardens where 24 emperors lived from 1420 through the end of imperial rule in 1911. Self-guided audiotape tours of the sprawling complex are available at the main entrances for a few dollars, but there’s always the option of going with a tour operator, overpriced and restrictive as that choice might be. Neighboring the world’s largest palace complex is Tiananmen Square, the world’s largest central city plaza. Chairman Mao’s mausoleum, the Chinese Revolution History Museum and the Great Hall of the People are among the significant edifices surrounding the site where various historical events have been staged, most www.goldcountrymedia.com
infamously the massacre of hundreds of protesters in 1989. A half-day is enough time for the spry and non-lingering to conquer the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, but to do justice to the Beijing area’s other indisputable, irrefutable must-do, a full day should be devoted to the Great Wall. Winding across 4,163 miles of mountain, desert, highland and grassland, the engineering marvel made mostly of brick and stone is best explored with a tour group, something this freerange-loving traveler rarely recommends. Families with young children or seniors should consider tours going to the Badaling or Mutianyu sections, as they both offer a cable-car ride up and down the mountainside. So what if you didn’t earn the right to wear your “I climbed the Great Wall” T-shirt? Badaling, an easy 50-mile drive northwest of Beijing city, is the most visited and commercialized location, so if you go that route, be prepared for crowds in a circus-like setting. Many guided tours of the Great Wall include a stop at a factory store, but a reward for putting up with that obligatory
detour is a more enchanting stop at the Ming Tombs. The resting place of 13 emperors and their splendid treasures has nearly 600 years of history. Not to be missed is Spirit Way, the sculpture-dotted ceremonial path leading to the tombs. Larger tours usually make time for only one tomb visit, and it will be either Changling, where Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty is buried, or Dingling, which features an underground palace. If you haven’t gotten your fill of temples, palaces and shrines by visiting the Forbidden City and Ming Tombs, there’s a couple more worthy of your precious vacation time. The Temple of Heaven in gorgeous Tiantan Park just a few minutes from central Beijing is home of the iconic three-tiered Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, one of the finest examples of Ming architecture and perhaps the most sublime object of beauty in China. Dating back nine centuries to the Jin Dynasty, the amazingly preserved Summer Palace is graced by one of the VACATION/page 10
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life in the fast lane to care-take a 40-acre resort property outside Oaxaca, Mexico. After visiting Mexico and deciding to find a way to live there, Dave and Sumana answered an ad that read, “seeking responsible, intelligent, thoughtful, multi-talented, semi-bilingual couple to care for a villa that has been in the family for 30 years.” The property is owned by Americans. Dave and Sumana enjoy the guests who come to stay in the guest houses on the property. They participate in the lively, vibrant American and European community in Oaxaca. The vehicle that makes all this possible is The Caretaker Gazette. Thea and Gary Dunn have made it into the premier publication of its kind. Along the way, Thea picked up a PhD in math education. She has conducted research in the developing world and speaks at math education conferences around the world. Their Web site is www.caretaker.org.
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most magnificent gardens in the world. The landmark is located just 10 miles from midtown, but that equates to about an hour’s drive in notorious Beijing traffic; these days, the blaring din of car horns sadly drowns out the charming ding-ding of bicycles in the big city. Plenty of tour operators can take you to the Summer Palace, but with self-guided audio tours available at the entrance and taxis being dirt-cheap compared to ours in America, you might instead try beating to your own Chinese drum. Avoiding tourist traps is easy in Beijing because the vast majority of the city’s points of interests are centuries-old, though that doesn’t stop the ambush of hawkers of postcards, handcrafted cloisonné wares and questionable jade at strategic entrances. Still, some cheesy entertainment can be a lot of fun. Take in an exciting and colorful Chinese acrobatics show in Chaoyang Theater before Cirque du Soleil steals away the last remaining balancing and contortionist acts in the country. And by all means, bypass the countless KFCs, McDonald’s and Pizza Huts and treat yourself once to an authentic Peking duck dinner. Beijing’s famous, albeit touristy, Quanjude or Bianyifang restaurants have served crispy-skinned roast duck with a unique theatrical bent for more than a century. Worry not over the high fat and high cholesterol, for tomorrow a remarkably friendly local might put his hand on your belly and call you strong as well.
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Saturday, Aug. 23 – Sponsored by the Historic Downtown Lincoln Merchants’ Association. A free family event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The parade starts at 9 a.m.; there will be hand pumps, hose carts, motorized pumpers, buckets and more. Firefighter’s competitions, antique and historic fire apparatus, children’s activities and giveaways. The muster will take place on F Street between Fifth and Sixth streets. For more information, call Events Chairman Jeff Greenberg at 408-7503 or email [email protected].
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“It was like pulling teeth ... It was dental offices, cubicles, so dry and sterile. It couldn’t hold my interest, so I got out of design entirely.” But, she said, her passion for design pulled her back. “I am a decorator,” she said. “It’s what I do.” She got into home staging at the recommendation of a friend, approximately four years ago, and took an intensive course. “I absolutely love it,” she said. “It’s so fun – way more fun than I thought.” Nelson came to staging in its heyday, she said. “It was so popular,” she said. “People had the money to throw around – and it was very successful. Now, it’s tough, but now is when (homeowners) need it most.” For a house to sell. Nelson explained, the potential buyer has to make an emotional connection. “Every purchase, even shoes, has an emotional component,” she said. “If you have a home that is too sterile or vacant, it’s hard to make a connection to the home.” If a home is vacant, Nelson said, she can bring furniture ranging from a minimal amount of staging to completely furnishing the house. “I can add some color and interest,” she said. The flip side to the problems of a vacant home is the home with too much stuff,
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Nelson said. Too many personal items or what she delicately terms “unusual décor” or “collectible items running amuck” can make the potential homebuyer feel uncomfortable, as if they are invading someone’s personal space. “For an occupied home, we usually take stuff out,” she said. “Depersonalize, declutter, clean and remove.” Another aspect to Nelson’s business is what she calls “staging to live.” “The homeowner isn’t moving,” she said. “They just need help de-cluttering and figuring out where furniture should go.”
The first step for Nelson is previewing the home. She tours the house and takes photos. For an occupied home, she starts on the outside. “Curb appeal is number one,” she said. “People judge a home before they even go in. You want it to be welcoming.” Her visit will usually last an hour or two; she will make a list of recommendations to the homeowner to make the house more attractive to a buyer. Her evaluation costs approximately $200. “It’s very cost-effective if they do everything I suggest; I
try to tell them what’s positive about the home, I try to be sensitive to their needs,” she explained. “Selling a home is very stressful. If they become
defensive, then they’re not going to do the things that need to be done.” Nelson said there are many options for the homeowner whose house is dated or, well, quirky. “You can neutralize bad taste,” she said. “You can paint over it or store it or throw a cover over it.” One common mistake, she said, is an unfortunate color choice. “Sometimes, people get crazy with paint or wallpaper,” she said. “Wallpaper’s a big no-no – borders, that kind of stuff.” Nelson keeps a page of current trends in color in her interior design binder. Right now, she said, neutrals are popular – creams, off-whites and taupes. She leads her clients through color theory, explaining the differences between warm and cool colors. “I tell people never to mix them, because it’s difficult to do well,” she explained. NELSON/page 14
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huge turnoff. Make it smell nice. ■ Fix up the bathroom. First of all, make sure it’s clean. Then, see how you can spruce it up. At the very least, re-caulk any areas that are falling apart. ■ Examine your front door. That’s the first thing people will see. Does it need a coat of fresh paint? ■ Send your pets to grandma’s house. A barking dog is unwelcoming. Plus, people might be allergic to your pets.
■ Eliminate any and all clutter. Trim back overgrown bushes, and generally do a thorough clean-up. ■ A fresh coat of paint goes a long, long way to making a house look good. Be careful not to pick too strong of a color. ■ Eliminate any negatives like oil stains on the driveway, an old TV antenna on the roof, etc. ■ Putting out some flowers in a pot on the front porch and a new doormat can create an inviting feeling.
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going to use, rather than have it end up in the landfill,” she said. “Building materials or flooring can be taken to ReStore (the salvage store run by Habitat for Humanity). “If you can reuse any of your furniture, that’s a budgetsaver – and it’s more green.” Brown cautions against buying new stuff just because it’s eco-friendly. “Yeah, it’s green, but is it necessary to buy it in the first place?” she said. “Or do you have something you can reuse? Just stop and think before you make a purchase.” That concept of mindful living is something Brown strives to bring to her own life and work. “Part of what is driving me is doing as much as I can locally,” she said. “I don’t want to buy something in New York and have to
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“Right now, warm palettes are very in.” One of the hardest lessons for homesellers to learn, Nelson said, is that you cannot market a home in the same way that you live in it. “Once people start looking at your things, they’ve stopped looking at your house,” she said. “You want to create an environment so that the buyer can envision how their things will look in the house.” Plus, Nelson said, that stuff is taking up valuable real estate. “People are buying as much space as they can get for the dollar,” she explained. “Clutter makes a house feel smaller.” Conversely, she added, a vacant home can also feel small without objects to lend a sense of proportion. Anyone who has gutted a space knows what she is talking about – the empty room magically shrinks. She charges for the actual staging and the monthly rental on the items she might bring
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have it transported across the country.” While she does buy in the Bay Area, she said, she uses a delivery company that uses biofuels. Brown also said that consumers longing to go green can choose how far they want to take it – for instance, they can go “light green,” she said. “Not everybody is going to go to the extreme,” she said. Faced with a choice between doing nothing ands going all out, she recommends steering a middle course. “There are small changes you can make, then think about what are the next steps,” she said. “Some think it’s a matter of giving things up, but being green doesn’t have to be negative.” Contact Marie Brown at 240-3724 or by e-mail at [email protected]. For more information, go online at www.eco-chic design.com.
in – $100 to $200 a month for accessories is her minimum. “If the house is bare, I can bring in plants or art to make it more interesting, from my personal inventory,” she said. “I have about three houses worth of stuff. I keep it at my house … I have stuff everywhere. Coffee tables, lamps, small pieces of furniture – tons of that kind of thing.” Nelson draws the line at what she calls “hard-core” furniture – anything she can’t pick up and move by herself. For larger items, she uses Welcome Home, a furniture rental company based in
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A recycled vintage cabinet can bring rustic style to a green home. COURTESY PHOTO/ INSIDE LINCOLN
Roseville. She said that “vignette staging” is an economical alternative for an empty house. “I bring in small groupings that represent the primary living areas of the house,” she said. “The cost is about a third of a full furnish.” She uses a couple of tricks of the trade to put together her vignettes, almost like stage design. One of these is a blow-up bed on an accordion frame. Another is a plastic patio table. As she pointed out, once the bed or table is covered in linens, it’s indistin-
guishable from a permanent piece of furniture. Jill Nelson can be reached at 212-0574. For more information, go online at www.stagedbydesign.com.
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“Not everyone is going to do the same things, and everyone has different priorities,” said Scott Blunk, president of GreenBuilt Construction. Because the scope of “green” building is so wide, he recommends that consumers prioritize their top three categories. Blunk said that there is a myriad of different ecofriendly insulation materials consumers can use, including recycled products such as cellulose (ground up newspapers that have been treated) and even recycled blue jeans. “Find someone who can help you do the process and feel good about what you’re doing,” he said. “Celebrate what you can do and don’t lament on what you can’t do.” Don’t be discouraged by costs and options. “We all can’t have the perfectly green home because it would be way too expensive,” Blunk said. “There is no pinnacle of ‘green’ — it’s kind of never-ending. Do what you can, be proud of that and congratulate yourself.”
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reen has taken over the world, it seems. Every big box store, every shelter magazine touts the benefits of living an environmentally friendly life. The green message has become so ubiquitous and so insistent, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. Sure, you can buy long-lasting light bulbs and recycle your plastic. But how do you move beyond those baby steps? Even worse, how do you respond to the flood of green products clogging the shelves of your grocery store and furniture retailer? Do you throw out everything you own and start over? Are all those products really as earth-friendly as their packaging promises? And what about that packaging – isn’t that hurting the environment? It’s enough to make your head spin.
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MINDFUL BUYING: Next time you go shopping, before you decide to buy anything, ask yourself the following: ■ Do I really need this? ■ Will it serve a useful purpose? ■ What is it made of? ■ Who made it? ■ Where is it made? ■ Where did it come from? ■ How far away did it come from where I live? ■ How did it get here? ■ What will happen to it when I am done with it? ■ Can it be recycled? ■ Is it biodegradable? ■ Will it live on in a landfill forever? If you keep these things in mind when you shop for anything, you are more likely to reduce your consumption and save yourself some money. – from Brown’s Web site, www.eco-chicdesign.com
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Not surprisingly, a new the homeowners to redo some niche of interior design has of the interior, changing the sprung up to help homeowncolor palette of the home and ers live a greener life. Lincoln refurnishing some of the residents don’t have far to go rooms. – Marie Brown, who lives in “We might use … Foskett Ranch, is a green reclaimed furniture, or upcydesigner, a member of the cled or recycled products,” Green Building Council and she said. an accredited professional Upcycling, she explained, with Leadership in Energy is when a material normally and bound for the Environmental trash heap is Design. taken and made Brown hopes into something to build a way cooler – say, LEED-certified a coffee table home in the made from an near future and antique door. currently is “What I like working on am to do with furenergy-efficient nishing (a room) retrofit of a new is first, figure home. out functionality “That’s a – how people are huge green conreally going to cept,” she said. use the space,” Marie Brown “To reduce Brown said. “So resource usage – energy, that it does last a long time.” water, materials and waste. Brown said she stresses the Those are some of the guiding concept of sustainability to principles in green design.” her clients – using higherBrown said it is easier to quality furniture that will last build in these features. a lifetime, or reusing a piece “There aren’t many prodthat is well-built and that can ucts to bring into an existing be recovered. home,” she said. “I always suggest clients One product that is availdonate furniture they’re not able is a radiant barrier in the attic to keep heat from comGREEN/page 14 ing into the house – typically either reflective paint or a layer of foil. Adding solar panels is another option, depending on whether there are covenants or restrictions in the neighborhood. “Insulation is another way to maximize energy efficiency,” Brown said. “I usually recommend the homeowner get an energy audit. They’ll come in and tell you where your energy drains are and recommend how to rectify that.” All of these options, of course, have to be balanced by the homeowner’s budget. Brown can work with the homeowner to create a plan that extends out over a period of years. On this particular project, Brown also is working with
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t wasn’t the awe of actually climbing the Great Wall of China that had me overjoyed, but the body language a kind Chinese grandfather used after I granted his request to pose for a picture with his family half-way up the centuries-old Wonder of the World. After the big smiles and the click of an analog shutter, the elderly man beamed excitedly alongside a lookout tower in the Juyong Guan section. He then placed his left palm on my admittedly round belly, lifted his right arm and made a muscle. Did he ever brighten my already bright day. The reason is this: In America I’m considered chubby, but in China, I’m strong! Having visited communist Mainland China nine times in the past seven years, with most those itineraries including Beijing, this well-fed American can say with a straight, jet-lagged face that the courteousness extended by the camera-bearing grandfather is typical of the people. With the exception of motorists who show no mercy toward foreigners unaware they don’t have the right of way when crossing the street, the Chinese I’ve encountered have been genuinely warm and friendly. This Eastern hospitality will come in handy
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this month when China expands its welcome mat to fit the some 200 other countries for the XXIX Olympiad Aug. 8-24. Nearly a million overseas visitors are expected for the Summer Games alone and China’s capital is spending billions for what marketing experts are calling a “coming out party” for the most populous country and fastest-growing world economy.
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The Forbidden City features 48 breathtaking acres of vermilion-clad temples and glorious gardens where 24 emperors lived from 1420 through the end of imperial rule in 1911.
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a tourist destination is welldeserved with more than 200 points of interest open to the public. For travelers short on time, budget and endurance, do not fret — the number of must-dos is quite manageable and affordable. No. 1 is the centrally located Forbidden City, 148 breathtaking acres of vermilion-clad temples and glorious gardens where 24 emperors lived from 1420 through the end of imperial rule in 1911. Self-guided audiotape tours of the sprawling complex are available at the main entrances for a few dollars, but there’s always the option of going with a tour operator, overpriced and restrictive as that choice might be. Neighboring the world’s largest palace complex is Tiananmen Square, the world’s largest central city plaza. Chairman Mao’s mausoleum, the Chinese Revolution History Museum and the Great Hall of the People are among the significant edifices surrounding the site where various historical events have been staged, most www.goldcountrymedia.com
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detour is a more enchanting stop at the Ming Tombs. The resting place of 13 emperors and their splendid treasures has nearly 600 years of history. Not to be missed is Spirit Way, the sculpture-dotted ceremonial path leading to the tombs. Larger tours usually make time for only one tomb visit, and it will be either Changling, where Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty is buried, or Dingling, which features an underground palace. If you haven’t gotten your fill of temples, palaces and shrines by visiting the Forbidden City and Ming Tombs, there’s a couple more worthy of your precious vacation time. The Temple of Heaven in gorgeous Tiantan Park just a few minutes from central Beijing is home of the iconic three-tiered Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, one of the finest examples of Ming architecture and perhaps the most sublime object of beauty in China. Dating back nine centuries to the Jin Dynasty, the amazingly preserved Summer Palace is graced by one of the VACATION/page 10
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life in the fast lane to care-take a 40-acre resort property outside Oaxaca, Mexico. After visiting Mexico and deciding to find a way to live there, Dave and Sumana answered an ad that read, “seeking responsible, intelligent, thoughtful, multi-talented, semi-bilingual couple to care for a villa that has been in the family for 30 years.” The property is owned by Americans. Dave and Sumana enjoy the guests who come to stay in the guest houses on the property. They participate in the lively, vibrant American and European community in Oaxaca. The vehicle that makes all this possible is The Caretaker Gazette. Thea and Gary Dunn have made it into the premier publication of its kind. Along the way, Thea picked up a PhD in math education. She has conducted research in the developing world and speaks at math education conferences around the world. Their Web site is www.caretaker.org.
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most magnificent gardens in the world. The landmark is located just 10 miles from midtown, but that equates to about an hour’s drive in notorious Beijing traffic; these days, the blaring din of car horns sadly drowns out the charming ding-ding of bicycles in the big city. Plenty of tour operators can take you to the Summer Palace, but with self-guided audio tours available at the entrance and taxis being dirt-cheap compared to ours in America, you might instead try beating to your own Chinese drum. Avoiding tourist traps is easy in Beijing because the vast majority of the city’s points of interests are centuries-old, though that doesn’t stop the ambush of hawkers of postcards, handcrafted cloisonné wares and questionable jade at strategic entrances. Still, some cheesy entertainment can be a lot of fun. Take in an exciting and colorful Chinese acrobatics show in Chaoyang Theater before Cirque du Soleil steals away the last remaining balancing and contortionist acts in the country. And by all means, bypass the countless KFCs, McDonald’s and Pizza Huts and treat yourself once to an authentic Peking duck dinner. Beijing’s famous, albeit touristy, Quanjude or Bianyifang restaurants have served crispy-skinned roast duck with a unique theatrical bent for more than a century. Worry not over the high fat and high cholesterol, for tomorrow a remarkably friendly local might put his hand on your belly and call you strong as well.
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“It was like pulling teeth ... It was dental offices, cubicles, so dry and sterile. It couldn’t hold my interest, so I got out of design entirely.” But, she said, her passion for design pulled her back. “I am a decorator,” she said. “It’s what I do.” She got into home staging at the recommendation of a friend, approximately four years ago, and took an intensive course. “I absolutely love it,” she said. “It’s so fun – way more fun than I thought.” Nelson came to staging in its heyday, she said. “It was so popular,” she said. “People had the money to throw around – and it was very successful. Now, it’s tough, but now is when (homeowners) need it most.” For a house to sell. Nelson explained, the potential buyer has to make an emotional connection. “Every purchase, even shoes, has an emotional component,” she said. “If you have a home that is too sterile or vacant, it’s hard to make a connection to the home.” If a home is vacant, Nelson said, she can bring furniture ranging from a minimal amount of staging to completely furnishing the house. “I can add some color and interest,” she said. The flip side to the problems of a vacant home is the home with too much stuff,
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Nelson said. Too many personal items or what she delicately terms “unusual décor” or “collectible items running amuck” can make the potential homebuyer feel uncomfortable, as if they are invading someone’s personal space. “For an occupied home, we usually take stuff out,” she said. “Depersonalize, declutter, clean and remove.” Another aspect to Nelson’s business is what she calls “staging to live.” “The homeowner isn’t moving,” she said. “They just need help de-cluttering and figuring out where furniture should go.”
The first step for Nelson is previewing the home. She tours the house and takes photos. For an occupied home, she starts on the outside. “Curb appeal is number one,” she said. “People judge a home before they even go in. You want it to be welcoming.” Her visit will usually last an hour or two; she will make a list of recommendations to the homeowner to make the house more attractive to a buyer. Her evaluation costs approximately $200. “It’s very cost-effective if they do everything I suggest; I
try to tell them what’s positive about the home, I try to be sensitive to their needs,” she explained. “Selling a home is very stressful. If they become
defensive, then they’re not going to do the things that need to be done.” Nelson said there are many options for the homeowner whose house is dated or, well, quirky. “You can neutralize bad taste,” she said. “You can paint over it or store it or throw a cover over it.” One common mistake, she said, is an unfortunate color choice. “Sometimes, people get crazy with paint or wallpaper,” she said. “Wallpaper’s a big no-no – borders, that kind of stuff.” Nelson keeps a page of current trends in color in her interior design binder. Right now, she said, neutrals are popular – creams, off-whites and taupes. She leads her clients through color theory, explaining the differences between warm and cool colors. “I tell people never to mix them, because it’s difficult to do well,” she explained. NELSON/page 14
SOME COMMON-SENSE DIY TIPS FOR STAGING YOUR HOUSE ■ Clean your house. A filthy bathroom is the worst, second only to a dirty kitchen. ■ Let the light in. Wash your windows, because dirty windows keep out light. And open the shades. Basically, people like light, so if your rooms have dark colors, you might want to consider repainting them. ■ De-clutter your house. Clutter makes your house look small and unloved. ■ Take a whiff. If your house has an odor, that’s a
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huge turnoff. Make it smell nice. ■ Fix up the bathroom. First of all, make sure it’s clean. Then, see how you can spruce it up. At the very least, re-caulk any areas that are falling apart. ■ Examine your front door. That’s the first thing people will see. Does it need a coat of fresh paint? ■ Send your pets to grandma’s house. A barking dog is unwelcoming. Plus, people might be allergic to your pets.
■ Eliminate any and all clutter. Trim back overgrown bushes, and generally do a thorough clean-up. ■ A fresh coat of paint goes a long, long way to making a house look good. Be careful not to pick too strong of a color. ■ Eliminate any negatives like oil stains on the driveway, an old TV antenna on the roof, etc. ■ Putting out some flowers in a pot on the front porch and a new doormat can create an inviting feeling.
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going to use, rather than have it end up in the landfill,” she said. “Building materials or flooring can be taken to ReStore (the salvage store run by Habitat for Humanity). “If you can reuse any of your furniture, that’s a budgetsaver – and it’s more green.” Brown cautions against buying new stuff just because it’s eco-friendly. “Yeah, it’s green, but is it necessary to buy it in the first place?” she said. “Or do you have something you can reuse? Just stop and think before you make a purchase.” That concept of mindful living is something Brown strives to bring to her own life and work. “Part of what is driving me is doing as much as I can locally,” she said. “I don’t want to buy something in New York and have to
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“Right now, warm palettes are very in.” One of the hardest lessons for homesellers to learn, Nelson said, is that you cannot market a home in the same way that you live in it. “Once people start looking at your things, they’ve stopped looking at your house,” she said. “You want to create an environment so that the buyer can envision how their things will look in the house.” Plus, Nelson said, that stuff is taking up valuable real estate. “People are buying as much space as they can get for the dollar,” she explained. “Clutter makes a house feel smaller.” Conversely, she added, a vacant home can also feel small without objects to lend a sense of proportion. Anyone who has gutted a space knows what she is talking about – the empty room magically shrinks. She charges for the actual staging and the monthly rental on the items she might bring
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have it transported across the country.” While she does buy in the Bay Area, she said, she uses a delivery company that uses biofuels. Brown also said that consumers longing to go green can choose how far they want to take it – for instance, they can go “light green,” she said. “Not everybody is going to go to the extreme,” she said. Faced with a choice between doing nothing ands going all out, she recommends steering a middle course. “There are small changes you can make, then think about what are the next steps,” she said. “Some think it’s a matter of giving things up, but being green doesn’t have to be negative.” Contact Marie Brown at 240-3724 or by e-mail at [email protected]. For more information, go online at www.eco-chic design.com.
in – $100 to $200 a month for accessories is her minimum. “If the house is bare, I can bring in plants or art to make it more interesting, from my personal inventory,” she said. “I have about three houses worth of stuff. I keep it at my house … I have stuff everywhere. Coffee tables, lamps, small pieces of furniture – tons of that kind of thing.” Nelson draws the line at what she calls “hard-core” furniture – anything she can’t pick up and move by herself. For larger items, she uses Welcome Home, a furniture rental company based in
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Roseville. She said that “vignette staging” is an economical alternative for an empty house. “I bring in small groupings that represent the primary living areas of the house,” she said. “The cost is about a third of a full furnish.” She uses a couple of tricks of the trade to put together her vignettes, almost like stage design. One of these is a blow-up bed on an accordion frame. Another is a plastic patio table. As she pointed out, once the bed or table is covered in linens, it’s indistin-
guishable from a permanent piece of furniture. Jill Nelson can be reached at 212-0574. For more information, go online at www.stagedbydesign.com.
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“Not everyone is going to do the same things, and everyone has different priorities,” said Scott Blunk, president of GreenBuilt Construction. Because the scope of “green” building is so wide, he recommends that consumers prioritize their top three categories. Blunk said that there is a myriad of different ecofriendly insulation materials consumers can use, including recycled products such as cellulose (ground up newspapers that have been treated) and even recycled blue jeans. “Find someone who can help you do the process and feel good about what you’re doing,” he said. “Celebrate what you can do and don’t lament on what you can’t do.” Don’t be discouraged by costs and options. “We all can’t have the perfectly green home because it would be way too expensive,” Blunk said. “There is no pinnacle of ‘green’ — it’s kind of never-ending. Do what you can, be proud of that and congratulate yourself.”
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