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Question by carrie p: Buying a second home before sale of first…? I have found a perfect home within ten minutes of where my husband and I work. Our current home is an old Victorian fixer upper about 45 minutes away. I know that within six months time we would be finished fixing it up to where we can recoup our mortgage amount. But our market is very slow, close to six months for homes to sell. Unfortunately, the property we want is going to move quickly. The home we want needs cosmetic touches only and is priced about ,000 below market. Our incomes are above average for this area in the midwest and the monthly mortgage of the homes together are well below 30% of our income. Should we purchase the second home? Can we work with the seller on setting a longer time frame on the purchase... 

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Question by Daddy: I am interested in buying a home thats is an estate sale, The home is listed 170,000.00 in a rural town.? The home is really old victorian style and needs work. What is a reosonable offer for this home. All other homes in the area have sold way cheaper and its a town of under 1000 people in a very rural area. About an hour from all shopping and 30 min from my work. Would 120,000.00 be to low. It has been on the market for a long time. Best answer: Answer by Ryan MThere is no way to know without knowing the EXACT market conditions of that area or even WHERE this area is. You can offer ANYTHING you like, just don’t expect them to counter-offer you after a low-ball offer. Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments! Baldwin Park is a subdivision within... 

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Question by :): HELP! I’m making a doll house sized Victorian home for school? I am making a doll house sized Victorian home for Interior Design class. This is what it looks like right now: http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6929/87224562uh9.jpg It’s made out of cardboard. It obviously looks terrible and I can’t come up with any ways to fix it up to look more Victorian. :( I have until Wednesday to finish it and I’m calling out for help. The piece of cardboard furthest to the left is a turret. I have measured and cut out windows made of plexiglass to fit, yet I need some ideas on what I should use to make inside and outside window treatments. Any ideas? Also, does anyone know where I can find Victorian furniture pieces? You know, a Victorian style bed, couch, chair,... 

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The Carpentry Way: House and Home in ‘Modern’ UK If you are looking to insert some style and affection to your home, woodwork and carpentry can help you to achieve your desires. Solid wood not only adds style, character and value to your home, but it is also a long-lasting, easy to work with, natural, low carbon and environmentally-friendly artifact. Classic interiors and furniture are tailored efficiently by the carpenters in the UK to meet each client’s individual and specific requirements. Wood is a material that adds warmth and cosiness to a place and is simple to maintain and repair. It is the only naturally renewable mainstream building material. A good quality wood product with a little care and maintenance would last a lifetime. Many Victorian houses still have their... 

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All About House And Home Internet Shopping For A Fireplace A trouble free experience whilst buying certain products like reproduction victorian fireplaces or stone electric fireplaces is an area that no consumer should ever take for granted, you should value the sites that offer suitable fireplace buying knowledge and record their info for the future. You should also be aware that fireplace specialists and other people who may perhaps deal with fireplaces can easily be found via the regional phone listings, you should find plenty of individuals who are connected in some way with the subject of fireplaces and these people might save you a vast amount of your valuable time by assisting you with your fireplace focused inquiries. Before you contemplate any fireplace purchase you should make sure... 

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Tips on Choosing a Building Designer or Architect to Design Your Custom Home Plans Today, most people in the market to build a new home find a suitable solution in stock house plans. However, there still remains a significant amount of folks who desire custom home plans and need the services of a Building designer. This option requires that you do some prep work to determine who you will trust with such a personal and important duty for you and your family. So then the questions becomes, How do I choose a design professional? The first thing you should do is to seek referrals from friends, co-workers, family members, or other professionals in related fields that you feel comfortable with. This is always a great place to start! To compliment referrals, you should also look through the yellow... 

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Sophisticated Home Decoration With Stained Glass Lamps Stained glass lamps give an old world charm, warm and calm feeling. They can be used to replace candles to eliminate the problem of lighting many candles and replacing them regularly. At the same time, it lends a warm and radiant feel to the room. When you install stained glass lamps, you will feel like you are living in another world. Air of your house will be kaleidoscopically colorful, when sun will glance at your place. There will be no grey sky and sad mood in your house! Any room requires its own color filling. We are used that as a rule carpets, wall-papers, pictures, posters fulfill this function. But even our ancestors knew that stained glass could make the most modest interior fascinating. It turns out, that these “colorful... 

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A Holiday Home In Cornwall Makes A House A Home You cannot wait to check into your room. Someone in town recommended the place, so you figured it was worth checking out by checking in. The first thing you notice is that the clerk at the front desk has a striking resemblance to Mr. Bean. That seems to be no problem until it is obvious that the tavern has lost the key to your room–room number 13. After several minutes, they are able to borrow a set of spare keys from the chambermaid. When you eventually step into your room, it is like stepping into a closet that has bee unopened for years. You turn on the ceiling fan switch, but the fan just creaks a little, and then refuses to budge. As you walk through the room, you hear rodents running behind the walls. You notice that termites have... 

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Staying On Top Of Home Interior Design Trends A description for the term house interior decoration might say that it is a process by which the household owner decorates their household in such a fashion as to make it blend in perfectly with the interior, look great, and become more user friendly for the occupant. Home interior decoration provides a certain “feel” to the home; it includes applying wallpaper, painting the walls, choosing of furniture and fittings such as light fixtures, and adding decorations such as paintings. House interior decoration is professionally done by interior designers/ decorators and also by a few architects. There is a distinctive difference between home interior decoration and interior design. The decoration aspect involves things adore the paint, the... 

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Victorian Values In Your Home When someone turns around to you and says that you are old fashioned, the chances are pretty smashing that you are liable to hold offensive. No one wants to be told that they are not safekeeping up with the nowadays or that they are perhaps a fuddy duddy as the speech goes. But perhaps you should bonk a distinct appear at this opening and airway it with a good appearance. The introductory outlet is that you impoverishment to ascertain why someone has titled you old fashioned. If they are conversation active what you dress then you should vindicatory bout around to them and say that oldness is in. If you cerebrate around the fact that we are motion in 2009 but for whatsoever reason we are deadly recycling clothes that were old in the decade, it is unambiguous that... 

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