Our Massive Unfurnished House Won't Sell | Unsellables S1 E7 | House Makeover | Abode
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- A pair update their home's dated decor in order to sell it on a deadline of three weeks.
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An clean empty house would not deter me from purchasing it. With it empty, you can see the actual size and can easily determine how YOUR furniture would fit. Trying to "see" beyond someone else's decor can distract you.
Good to know people have brains and opinions. Else i get to see people blindly just complimenting..
Right? 200,000 under the price of similar houses in the neighborhood, and people can’t see past some wallpaper? You can hire a lot of painters for 200,000. And I’d prefer to see the house empty. Much better idea where my stuff could go. I can’t imagine why this house wasn’t snapped up. Especially when the “comparable house” was completely 80s as well, and the furniture was ugly and dated. The couple’s house was mostly done with fresh paint, hardwood, and decent carpets. It literally just needed a little painting and carpet removal in some rooms. And it was really big. It’s just the luck of the draw what sells sometimes. Just gets seen by the right person
@@self-publishinghelp8596 you may assume people are not visionary.
I believe people dont have common sense.
Too, millennials and others don't want to do updating themselves. They want a perfect house (for them) without any work, and all for a cheap price. I like the "unfurnished" look much better than the "crammed with untidy stuff" look.
All 3 homes that I've bought & sold have been empty and it's not hindered the sale timeline (vs others in the area.) The one thing that has hurt sales was in house #4 - my parent's home, which sat unsold for 4 months until we took down about 2000 square feet of wallpaper and borders... boom, the house sold 2 weeks later.
Fast forward to 2020, these shows are so interesting to watch. Different market conditions now for sure and nothing is "unsellable"!
for sure, the house prices are shocking!!!!! People who murder each other for prices like this in Toronto.
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Sophie: “Your house is so stuck in the 80s, and it needs furniture. Let me show you what buyers want.”
(Takes them to an 80s flashback house with very 80s furniture.)
Actually I bought an empty 1980's house. I got about 11% off her asking price purely because of the fact the house was dirty with a huge overgrown yard and still hints of ugly decor (plastic kitchen handles, 1980s blind, toilet lenoleum, extremely old light fittings. She hadn't been able to sell it for 6 months.
It wouldn't put me off a purchase if there were no furniture in a house.
Me either. I think I'd prefer it, in fact. Some people must really lack imagination if they're incapable of seeing the potential.
Totally understand that.it needs staging.
Most people prefer it, that’s why staging is a job in real estate, leads to more sales
@@anthonyd9844 I've always staged the homes we've owned and sold. I think it really does makes a house more appealing. The house we bought a couple of months ago was staged, and I'm sure it influenced us positively when it came to buying the house. If it hadn't been staged, though, we probably still would have bought it.
I think it helps convince people who are unsure (which was most owners problems on this show). I would personally find the rooms too many and too big for me when they were empty. I would think I didn't have enough furniture to fill them. It does look more run down without the furniture.
My stress reliever....anything about houses, and gardens, furnitures and appliances....
This is a great house. A lot of homes are sold with no furniture in them - people buy homes that are not even built. All this needs is the bathrooms updated.
And the kitchen
Houses sell when empty but I do agree with her that a furnished house will sell quicker. So many buyers just don’t have the ability to envision furniture placement and size.
@@amyweaver7413 Absolutely. They were enormous rooms though. You could fit an elephant in there.
I only saw a model home...but our actual home was built once we 'bought' our lot. Empty doesn't bother me! I know it's an entertainment show but they act like potential buyers are stupid and need to be tricked...
Hmmmmm
I love watching these old HGTV shows in 2020, and I'm watching them relatively in order of show date, and I don't like how they no longer reveal whether the house sold. That always leads me to believe it didn't.
It would be so interesting to see all the houses after the new owners moved in
She keeps saying at 70s wallpaper/bathrooms but that is 1980s to the early 99s through and through. Hunter green, mauve, slate blue. 70s would’ve been avocado green harvest gold and similar shades.
They're all too young to have seen true seventies stuff. Avocado green and harvest gold all The way, and the more prosperous houses had all that pine paneling.
You can tell she wasn’t alive in the seventies. 😂
Yeah, in the seventies bathrooms and kitchens were avocado and tangerine, with flowered wallpaper. I am old enough to remember.
That artwork! I can’t believe it survived the makeover.
The huge paintings are overwhelming and definitely not to many people's taste. I would never hang those huge bold (and to my taste, gaudy and ugly looking) paintings in a house I'm trying to stage to appeal a broad range of potential buyers. I suspect a friend or family member painted them and the owners are trying to advertise the art. Those huge bold pieces do NOT complement any of the rooms. They're cringe worthy and detract enormously from the staging of the rooms.
They're atrocious !!
I wonder who's the one with such ghastly taste.
@@loriwhiston1587 Didn't the wife say she was the painter?
I know! I thought for they'd get rid of those atrocious paintings! Yuck!
She called the bathroom plaid 70’s lol 😂 she must be young it more likely early 90s wallpaper possibly 80s but I remember plaid being so popular in 90s
I am really enjoying this show, i understand it is from years back but very interesting to watch
They did such a great job on everything else that I can't believe they didn't change out that yellow toilet seat in the formerly plaid bathroom. It looks very old and isn't in keeping with the rest of the room.
Daughter sold her house, we took photographs of what rooms were before move, as they were already in their new home, it sold in 2 weeks at top price !
I love this lady. She's not rude or whatsoever. Her attitude is gold.
The house I fell in love with was largely empty with some of the most unfathomably hideous decor/fixtures/wallpaper/carpet imaginable. Other houses with nearly-identical layouts in the neighborhood were going for $50-75K more, and three years later I can tell you that the amount of time and money I've spent updating it has cost me far, far less than that. I would definitely encourage anyone who is looking to buy a home to see past the cosmetics, especially if the asking price leaves you with the ability to make the changes yourself. Because as much as I hate my outdated brass bathroom fixtures, I'd rather look at them for another year than be paying an extra $12K per year on my mortgage.
What a difference - most houses are super cluttered, at least this one is easier to stage.
Absence of furniture doesn't prevent getting an offer. Nice furniture however, seems to excite viewers, encouraging them to imagine living in the space.
You could tell it was really hurting him to leave his childhood home. I totally understand. I just moved out of the home I was in for 25 years. You just have to take the memories with you.
The most realistic home makeover show I have ever seen ❤🇨🇦❤
For 2009, yes.
#AnthonySayers! I love you!
I've always hated removing wallpaper, but I just saw a steamer and I wouldn't have ever thought of that, so that I want to thank you for showing how to do this so much quicker! Totally awesome!
I took down wallpaper in my kids room and saw on the internet to use a spray bottle of water. It worked like a charm. Paper came right off!
Really dumb to sell the house because it's "too big" when they're essentially just starting out. Unless they have both agreed that there will be ZERO KIDS, hold on to the house and hire a cleaner to come in once a month to vacuum and dust any empty rooms. Truly, they are not that expensive.
You're forgetting utility bills. They're in Canada. Heating a house that big is expensive.
@@Kevin-sm8pn Hire an electrician and H/A professional to put in thermostats that you can use to keep heating and air costs down in EACH room. Close a door AND turn down the heat in that room, and vice-versa
I got the feeling it was more to do with the fact that they don't have any kids. He said initially they moved there and wanted to raise a family there. It could be part of a sadder story where they wanted but were unable, and having a huge empty house is another painful reminder.
No I disagree with you. I found my first house way to big. Bigger house means more cleaning, more light blubs to change, more rooms to repaint, larger garden to care for, more electric work, more plumbing work, probably extra rooms and features that a smaller house won't even have.
@@theresekatie4841 And cost to heat!, windows to wash, lawn and landscaping to maintain....the list goes on, lol
LMAO "almost makes it look more outdated" she is so diplomatic with this couple. the updates REALLLLLY do make the other rooms look substantially older.
I think this channel is from the 80s that's why they're using the colors are using.
@@julialimbrick333 I think the videos are from the late "Noughties". In the next video (on my CZcams list), she said she had to drag another house "from the early 1990s into 2008".
@@julialimbrick333 It's from 2008-09.
That dark furniture and dark brown curtains in the dining room...ugghhh
Why didn't they take the wallpaper off the wall before they put in the new carpet that way the new carpet will not be full of paste and waste. Seems like they did a backwards
Lazy?
My exact thought as well.
At 17:11, you can see that the shower curtain isn’t hung using all the grommets. What’s with that?!
The real estate agent should’ve insisted on these very improvements at the time they met to list the property!
All sellers think their property is great, but when the market says no way then sellers are ready to listen
Hah! Probably did but I got the impression it hadn't been on the market very long, the couple are in a hurry but they didn't want to do all that work themselves! Wouldn't it be nice to call a TV show and get a lot of labor free :)
The fact that 'there's no furniture in here' is putting people off is madness to me. In the UK, we almost always view a property when it's completely empty.
1 - it allows you to imagine your own furniture in the place and 'see' yourself living in the space.
2 - you can get a good look at the walls, layout etc and not worry that cracks and damp have been hidden by a bookcase
3 - it tells you the house is ready to move in straight away and you're not waiting for the current owners to close their next sale and get moved out.
I'd be overjoyed to view an empty house!
We bought our US house as empty (and funny enough the sellers had finally listened to the estate agent/real estate agent and repainted and repaired the whole place and oh look it finally sold after 18 months of super low ball offers).
In the UK the house I got was NOT empty - and some of the wallpaper in the upstairs landing was.. interesting. Great location and size though so it didn't matter to me (yes, we got rid of that wallpaper lol)
I liked the family bath upstairs. Also like the electric blue one. I’d buy this house as is. ☮️✌️🖖
I’d totally buy this house. So spacious, right proportions
That painting looks like Sophie
LOL. In 2021 it lists for 800k, is run down and not upgraded, and sells for 850k in 3 days with 19 offers.
it's fun to see the crew in action. all that wallpaper removal, yikes!
I wonder when was this filmed? That rented furniture looks really dated and awful, really 80's looking, and the art work may of looked OK in the right setting, but not with the neutral tones and awful 80's furniture.
This showed up in my feed last week. I've been binge watching. One episode referenced 2007/2008 which goes with the beige/neutral paint.
Toronto
Seeing that their idea of modern is brown/beige, it's probably 2005-2010
the show began in 2009 / Filmed in Canada
No headboards on the beds. Much more polished with. In 2020, the blue room bathroom tile floor looks really up to date. We painted out all the specialty wall finishes and replaced all the wall lighting to our 1100 square foot townhouse with small back patio and new kitchen and updated 1 and half bathroom.. It was staged in coastal and boho. Sold in a weekend for $1, 070,00 ($20.000 over asking. Mountain View CA around the block from Goggle. It was SO cute but can you imagine? World’s gone mad.
Are people really so unimaginative, that they can't envisage their furnishings in a bare house? Wild.
Yep unfortunately.
Sadly, yes
There is a condition called Aphantasia, where the individual is unable to imagine mental images like memories and such, but yeah
Yes, some people can't picture anything in their heads. There is a viral post that illustrated how little some people can see in their mind. Some people can't even picture an apple. twitter.com/i/events/1226183524773875712 It's not even a lack of trying or a value of their character or their intelligence. People's brains simply do not work the same way.
Yes. They are.
Better but so much beige/brown/taupe. 🥱
Neutral for staging to appeal the majority of potential buyers.
Leather jacket couple towards the end just cracked me up!
Is the house too big or is the monthly payment to big? The artwork has to go, and I hate the kitchen which is a very awkward space
Seems like the wife didn't like the house. This episode was 'cringy'. Felt bad for him selling his childhood home. Wonder if he's still with the wife?
@@amymenjivar3489 I wondered if they had planned a family to fill this house and that sadly didn’t happen.
Just needed to update kitchen and bathrooms. I would have cleared out all the furniture instead of filling up the rooms with those ugly, disproportionate pieces.
I really want those lamps they placed in the living room (same ones they use in nearly every show). They are really nice.
This show is 14 yrs old. I wonder if this couple bought a new, smaller house then started having a bunch of kids? By now, they probably wished that they didn't sell it. How can a house be too big? If you are worried about energy costs, there are things that you can do to reduce that. Even closing off parts of it. I think there are a lot of people that don't think things through carefully before selling.
Instead of being an unmemorable house it is now remembered as the house with all the fabulous artwork.
I've owned two houses that I sold "as is". Told the agent that I would not. Made sure that everything was very neat and clean. Both sold within a week of listing and I got close to top dollar. One house was built in 1951 and the other in 1964.
How times have changed, TODAY people prefer to view home empty
My parents house is currently on the market, and the realtor did all the furniture staging online. I think the only things they left were old photos of the house on the picture rail, and antique tools as decoration above the kitchen cabinets. Other than the kitchen they made it rather generic for an old house.
are you kidding? In Seattle you cannot sell a house unless it is professionally staged.
I would not leave this house. 😁🤩🌺🌺🌺
What a beautiful large home. I think they should have kept it. It's 2022 people are looking for homes like this.
Love Anthony and so cool
I wish he'd come do my house for me to live in it :) not sell it.
I love the clips in the end
Hi! Mark and Dana need to have other homes that need help, as they were so fun and upbeat! Take care and be well! Kelly
Monica Lewinsky with the beret .
What’s old about a glass shower door? Who wants a dang shower curtain blowing in on you while your showering??
I agree with the 70’s wallpaper and decorations!
This house at be worth $495,000 but the 2 bed condo styles in the 2 videos I saw for the same price??? Oh hell nah!
Is that the going rate for Toronto homes???
Not dated, just dangerous. I prefer a convex shower rod; so much more room!
@@joantrotter3005 yes! I agree a convex shower curtain is a must of your going to use a curtain! Thank you for reminding me! ❤️
I agree. Love my glass sliding bathroom shower doors
That price was in the 2008-09 season of the show, when this was filmed.
Exactly my thought. In the UK glass showers make it look more modernised. Shower curtains are grim.
I like retro so I actually liked the plaid wallpaper and vintage light in the kitchen. I just would have changed the flooring and counter tops in both bathroom and kitchen. I'm pretty sure this is 80s not 70s design. My place was build in 1995 and I had the same time in my kitchen that I hated and replaced. The decor options that were popular when this aired in 2009 are outdated in 2021!
Good job: take out that ugly paperwall but hang those auwful paintings!! Omg 😱🤦🤪
There is no such thing as too much house-- the artwork is a turn off-. An unfurnished room is not necessarily unsellable. The lack of a unified concept for the flooring and the different types of wallpaper are unfortunate. Removing the gym equipment is essential. If you rent the furniture, the cost will continue during the entire time the house is on the market. It might have been more cost-effective to leave the house totally unfurnished and reduce the cost by a proportionate amount. If would be nice to know if the house received multiple offers.
Should have painted the kitchen cabinets also... but overall really good!
why does this show blurr the art on the walls is it a Canadian thing art is protected like using to much of a song ?
I'm speaking as an artist myself; no artist wants their work to be seen without a proper gallery showing, and certainly not on a show like this---it's a fine venue for commercially made posters, but not for artwork that's had a lot of time put into it, even if just prints of originals, and doesn't let anyone see what we do in a setting that's compatible with our work. The homeowner was willing to put her stuff up on the walls (but as hideous as it was, that would tend to dissuade a lot of potential buyers now), but that was her decision within her own home.
That's not an official statement, but both my late mother and I were/are artists, so I've always lived among them, and that's how the majority of the people we were around felt.
I definitely prefer to rent or buy unfurnished place and decorate it in the way I like.
Amazing that people buy a huge house then run out of steam when revamping it. We have a big old three story house just lived with outdated kitchen and bath for a few years and did it up piece by piece started at the top and worked down and it is not easy but it can be done
wow wish they would put this show on again----i miss SOFFIE AND ANTHONY SAYERS.!!!!!!!!
Your ideas are just common sense
In England they paint over the wallpaper. Apparently, this woman brought that with here. Those kitchen cabinets are mid1970s, and should have been refinished.
The steamer is a great idea. Some people used a hair blower.
Why did they hire furniture when they said they’d stored it in the basement?
It’s probably too old for the average person to see beyond? I have no problem with viewing an empty house. One is usually given a sheet with the dimensions of the rooms listed.
@@sharong8511 I meant if they already have the stuff in the basement, why not bring some up to refurbish it?Plus don't people look in the basement?
That picture in the living room reminds me of the show's presenter (Sophie?)
Walls first, floors last. Always
Thankfully no green...the color scheme is beautiful
Personally I hate wallpaper. His parents must have tried to give @ room it's own personality. Yuck! As a child of the 1950s I can tell you no bathroom EVER seen had ceramic tile, porcelain vacilities, paneling, wallpaper & paint. OMGOODNESS gross.
Love the ladies artwork.
GOD BLESS!
My mom did the same thing to her house. Every. Single. Room. Took me ages to tear it down to sell their home.
why does every single home in North America I see online have a colonial kitchen? such kitchens were globally trendy in the 1960s-- but that was sixty years ago. Around the world those cabinets have long since been replaced with more modern designs, and new homes stopped having them put in many decades ago. In Australia, a colonial kitchen would turn off just about every buyer under the age of seventy -- only in a retirement home would a colonial kitchen carry some appeal. Don't the vast majority of North Americans prefer modern interior design for their kitchen, as seen in the latest homes and apartments? why are American kitchens in a time warp? can anyone explain it?
No, because we don’t know what you mean by a colonial kitchen? Do you just mean 60s cupboards? Most people do update their kitchens. Maybe you think all NA homes have dated kitchens because you’re basing it on shows like this where the house needs some updating.
replace glass shower doors by curtains is an upgrade ? wow.
Furnished homes look more lived in. Not sure about the colors etc but it looked pretty nice. Strange layout. Did it sell?
Old shows,look at the TV's.
Consider staging it very simply.
Crazy! People are buying a house, not furniture. Better to see it empty.
Why did you paint over the wallpaper that was in the den/sitting room? Did they meet their deadline and sell their house in less then a month? Where there able to move into their new and smaller home? 🤷🏻♀️
Well, did they sell it or not? I hate being left hanging...
Me too - I'm guessing that this one wasn't so quick to go - if it had they'd have said so!
Funny dressed people)
When it was filmed?
2008
So did they get an offer???
Doesn't matter--the episode is from 2009.
@@jb6712 HAHA you're right. I had no idea it was that long ago.
Please suggest guys...
When you show property does it include furniture and fixtures with the house by default or the sellers get their furniture..
Love this show. Learned so much. I have a question...we turned our formal living room into our family room much larger. We moved our dining room into old family room
What do you think? We never buses our formal living room and the family room was too small. Did we do this correctly. The old dining room was near formal living room now open space. Thanks for your opinion.
You very likely won't get an answer. This show is from the 2008-10 seasons, and hasn't been in production since 2010.
Formal dining room is for formal private dinner parties, which used to be the trend for middle class back in the day. Nowadays the trend is to have open space connecting dining rooms to kitchen so people can display their cool updated kitchens, and host casual parties where they try to display their cooking skills to guests.
I prefer viewing an empty house. All the staging is distracting.
Was the house sold???
Doesn't really matter--the episode is from the 2008-09 season, and the show hasn't been in production since 2010.
Why do Americans need walmart sized bedrooms ? They go there to sleep not party !
I agree but there is a strong chance that they're Canadians.
@@kellyjeffries8953 yes they are Canadians
It’s like the buying abroad holiday shows , they always say the bedroom is too small , you only go there to sleep
@@margaretlittle6800 Yup and they say the kitchen is too small then either buy takeaways or go spend evenings in tapas bars !
Canadian. You can tell by the weird drive thru-looking windows. We don’t have those in the US.
What's with the big fireplace in such a shallow room? Too many different floor treatments. I don't think the lack of furniture is the problem, too many different wood types and tones. Too much to undo.
Hello from Washington State 😁💐🌷🌹
They never say sold. Or price ?
Who can afford that much for a renovation when money is needed for new house......
LOVE the art over the sofa in LR. I didn’t really get the cat painting but the placement was neat!
Waterproof floors in Bathrooms? Never ever get an insurance in Sweden.
why would an unfurnished house not sell? hmmm
Yeah, well - those two don't look as though they would even know how to take down wallpaper or which end of a screwdriver to use.
The way she placed the two sofas in the sitting room was awkward. There was a sliding glass door behind the one sofa so it blocked off the entrance and exit. The two sofas were facing one another but if the one sofa was placed on the wall so it faced the fireplace it would have become the focal point of the room. Very awkward placement of furniture throughout the house and what furniture they rented was dated. A great improvement over the gaudy colored walls. The kitchen cabinets should have been painted white to get rid of that dated look and freshen it up. Kitchens are the biggest reason for buying a house so I can't understand why the bathrooms were the only place they really did some renovations. I rate this a five out of ten as far as sellability and appeal to buy a house.
It was just for staging, the new owners would bring their own furniture in
Don't people have an imagination?? U don't need to be an artist or an interior designer to have an imagination!! Funny stuff.
No, they don’t. Even $10 million homes have to be staged correctly to get the proper interest and $$$. I don’t like how they staged it but I’m a snob.
@@deettekearns9092 I had to look at it again..i like the first sitting room but yes..the rest could have been staged with a bit more imagination!
@@godhams - Brown furniture? No.
Is there a reason why the sellers artwork is always blurred out? (Not personal photos but their ordinary pictures).
Copyright isn't just for audio and visuals.
From where are they purchasing the inexpensive curtains and paint?
Nice update but I actually really dislike this house. It’s boring for starters and despite the updates it still looks dated with all the pine walls. The bathrooms, although a huge improvement, are still dated and extremely boring. The kitchen is just horrible. That’s just my opinion though.
The makeover still had dark curtains, ugly artwork, still had some wood on the walls etc.........it was still old fashioned.
Why didn’t they cut that overgrown tree in yard?
OMG! Horrible before, and afterwards :(
15:00 🤣🤣🤣
Because everyone needs 5 bathrooms.