I like this show, not for buying, but for all the inexpensive tips for how I could keep my home up-to-date, uncluttered and comfortable at low cost. Really just painting can do such an amazing job.
You'd be surprised by the comments we got about the furniture and the damn drapes in the living room. I changed the drapes and the house sold the next week.
@@anastasia10017 exactly. People can be so petty. Curtains are easy to take down, and probably aren't staying with the house anyway. Common sense isn't so common these days.
When my husband and I were looking for a house he had a really hard time imagining what we could do with spaces. He had no ability to imagine new decoration, a different kitchen, knocking down a wall. I think a lot of people are like him. Changing the furniture to make the best of the room just makes it easier for people to see the potential.
I never looked at the houses I was going to buy with such a discerning. Decor, paint colors, furniture, out of date trends, meant nothing to my decisions to dislick a house. I was concerned with type if heating system, structure of outside, foundation, low taxes, amount of space, I knew I would put in my own decor, furniture, colors etc. Puzzled by buyers who judge the owners tadte.
and the neighborhood, employment, etc. But, as one poster already said..this show was during the Big Global Crisis of 2007-2008. And maybe that was the real reason it wasn't getting offers and not the petty stuff that the new owners will all change anyway.
That what i thought when i bought my home . It was dated , wallpaper in every room and dog smilled green carpet.. but it got great location and potential to extended. Since we live we made it beautifully modern home . Yet i listed my home in January last year (before covid ) and i had more than 30 fewers yet no sale and we accepted the only offer we've got but they turn us drown . .. the point is when the market is critical buyer will be more critical and since there is more available in the market its all a bout you luck .
Same thinking , when I bought a house never thought of paint colour or the furniture , was keen on location , layout ,foundation , furnace like that , this looks weird!
Yes, but some houses need so much work they make you feel tired as you walk through, thinking how much more you’ll have to do after going through the exhausting effort of moving. At least with a clean house den up in neutral decor you feel as if you won’t have to make changes right away. If I have a choice between a nice looking home I can move into right away and one that’s going to require months of work or, worse, lots of repairs, I’ll take the nice place I can relax in right away. I daresay the sellers of these featured homes feel the same when they are out house hunting themselves.
Ooh finally a British estate agent who was open and not evasive about the issues! Loved her bedroom makeover too. Bedroom of a 14 year old to grown up lawyer 😍
I'm used to the Canadian version where they don't have him at all - it's all Sofie. Wondering why when they reproduced the format in the UK they decided Sofie needed a sidekick...
selling your assets for a man is always a bad idea. a lovely redo, though! 1. add flowers outside - potted flowers, perhaps flower boxes, a house number would be nice, paint the front door, there was nothing to pull you in. 2. curtains need to be replaced (and of course, that carpet). Add some flowers inside. Note that a lot of what they said was a 70's time warp, like that paper lantern, they added that same thing to that lovely old home they redid. Make up your mind. 3. fresh paint also covers up smell, and replacing a carpet also helps. 4. That kitchen was LOVELY. One of the best I've seen on this show, and very clean.
I do home staging but most people want to make sure of updated mechanics, water pressure, etc..the basics...and what the heck, when I bought my house I almost gagged at the rugs, found gorgeous hardwood underneath, I tore down all the curtains new paint etc. And loved to put in a few small gardens. And the heating and mechanics were in great condition...
I wish Sophie would stop saying that houses are stuck in the 70s. Nobody decorated their homes like that in the '70s.( I think she means 90s) It makes me stamp my feet every time she says it.
That dining room set looks proper 90s horrible dark wood look. But not how young people decorated, more how elderly people decorated in the 90s. Anyone under 50 who decorated like that in the 90s had terrible taste 😂
Since the owner is planning on moving out of the country, she needed to access what she was actually going to take with her and get rid of the rest. It is expensive to ship belongings especially if you are just going to toss items when you get there.
We live in a whole new world. This is an old show, but it was cutting edge. In today's market, (plus a little thanks to programs like this,) you MUST stage your place to sell at value. My daughter did that with a bit of paint and some borrowed pieces. She got $7,000.00 over asking price.
Depends on the country think. . I viewed lots of places. Most were completely empty, seldom people lived in the place. It was never staged. The most important things are rhe overall state of the building, with multiple owners if they get along, how the place is heated, doea it have gas etc. And of course I always study the drawing of the apartment or house with the exact measurements. I live in Germany.
Absolutely agree! This house that I bought was not staged, and I got it for a STEAL. Not kidding. I paid 20K less than the staged one that I saw with a similar layout, etc. Staging brings people in and increases the price. If this one had had paint and a new kitchen floor it would have cost $20K more.
a shadow box over the radiators @ the dining room would look great & give a little buffet counter top, for serving guest, in the kitchen some cool industrial lighten would look brilliant. some evergreens & flowers outside in the front, would give some great curb appeal.
I just started watching these episodes yesterday because RUclips recommended them to me and I noticed they do shoddy work like that on every episode! Paint over hinges, don't remove outlet covers, don't sand things, etc
That is typical for this show. In addition, Sophie makes a show of painting but uses a brush instead of a roller and wears her finest clothes while doing it. Please.
@@getlauriekor exactly they just wanna trick someone into think9ng it is move in ready, but actually they will still have to redo everything once they buy
...So people were put off by her furniture?! Furniture that, yeah, was boring, but was clean and wouldnteven be there once the new people moved in! You could still envision your stuff there! Yikes, people are way too finicky. Also, the back yard not having anything of note leaves it open for whatever the new buyer wants. A regular backyard for the kids or a dog, or to dress it up as an actual garden. People in this show are often told to stop injecting their personality into the decor when time to sell, and yet now she's catching shit for having done exactly that. You can't frickin' win.
It really does look like a retirement home before. I wouldn't say it looks "lived in" with that new living room but it's definitely better than the Shady Pines or Flushing Rivers old folks home.
I understand the carpet change and the paintjob, but the furniture isn't staying. Envision your own stuff there instead of focusing on their stuff. It wasn't a lot of her things either, unlike 95% of the homes shown here, so seeing around the furnitire was easy.
I really like the improvements they made to brighten the house & make it pop. I think that it would have been better to make the outdoor sitting area closer to the house, like an patio just outside the back door, instead of way in the back corner by the shed.
Who wants to trudge through the grass, to sit on the patio, or do a BBQ? They should have built the patio outside the glass doors, enough for chair and tables and a BBQ unit.
2008, ideas were different than now. Yet, I agree that taxes, working Furnace, closets, storage (rooms) places, wall condition, no popcorn ceilings, are more important than furniture placement. Decluttering and cleaning come next. I want my own messes.
The exterior lacked curb appeal. The prospective buyers never take a look at age of furnace, hot water heater, air conditioning, condition of roof and age. Plumbing condition is also important. When house shopping the color of carpet is not relevant as I would have it replaced with hardwood.
@@jarcha4200 That's what they were referring to. The Recession of 2007-2009 would've been felt globally and that could effect the house selling, but the show never says that, as though putting the blame solely on the owner and not admitting that sometimes, it's just not a good time in the world to buy/sell a home.
@Bialistock Hopefully we will fully move into Nesara/Geasa. The global reset where everyone will share some of the trillions and trillions worth of gold that the vatcian and london bankers, royal family and cabal has stolen from us for over a century now. They are a group of satanic, evil, pedophilie, adrenochrome harvesting monsters
I agree, that was a weird- and they made it sound like it was a relatively common thing to do there? I wonder what the benefit of that could possibly be?
I'd fire those realtors. They couldnt give her that advice MONTHS ago, so that she wouldnt have had to drop her property price so much. That's incompetence to me. They should lnow what it takes to sell a home and give some advice to move tbe property. Sorry.
I don't care for the brown carpet in the house, or the color of the walls in the master bedroom, but everything else is just her things that won't be in the house when she moves out. Do people have no imagination? I would have bought the house, as long as it passed inspections for any possible structural damage, etc. I have seen far worse homes.
@@getlauriekor sure... but when you're talking about minor cosmetic fixes like painting walls and removing carpet, people need to be reasonable and use their imagination. When I sell my home, I'm not painting or replacing my furniture. The potential buyers have to understand that I still have to live there, and that my furniture isn't staying. I've never not purchased a house because I didn't like the color the walls were painted, or because I didn't like the owners decorating style. Their decor and furniture are leaving when they move. I have no problem painting walls, and actually prefer to do so, so that they are the color I want. As long as there is nothing major to be done, and there are no structural issues, plumbing issues, etc., and as long as the house has what I'm looking for, and is within my budget, I'm not going to cry over how dated their decor is. That's just me. I bought a house that had pepto-bismol-pink walls once. Guess what? I painted them. I hated their decor, but it wasn't staying. Once gone the house was a blank canvas. No big deal, because outside of that the house was what I needed and wanted.
@@whyme7996 First time buyers want to move into a turn key house. They usually max out their credit to buy a house when they are below 30, and thus do not have the resources to put their touch on a house they will do ten years later... Of course second and third time buyers will quickly put their touch to a house...
I bristle at the word "dated", implying that everything from past decades is bad. Tired and worn is bad, and some things (like the fluorescent lights in the kitchen and maybe that brown carpet) were unattractive a week after they were installed, but some older styles are timeless. A good realtor will try to downplay boring decor and furnishings, since they will all be gone when the owner moves, and will point out the real assets.
At least the brown carpet give it some color. The grey carpet blended into the walls to much and made the rooms even blander than they were before. Personally, I like little imperfections and the crafty look on and in the homes. There's just way too many cookie cutter houses out there now. My husband & I have been looking at different houses and homes for weeks now. We have honestly been more impressed by 10 year old mobile homes than stick built houses. Just about every house we have seen have all had white walls, white cabinets, white everywhere. There's not anything all at that stands out. Even the flooring is so light that they look more white than anything. Simply boring. I don't want to have to paint, strip cabinets and then varnish them, redo flooring and more plus pay top dollar for a boring house.
What always blows my mind is that the buyers can't see past the stuff...they're buying the house, not the decor, etc...a good agent can point that out to them, help them see past the current residents.
Not really a great make-over. Blue in the bedroom is too cold. Rest of the house still looks bland and dated. Sofie is not nearly as savvy or talented as her sister Kirstie.
I agree this was not a great make-over at all. New light in the kitchen was weirdly unimpressive. Zooming in and out of it like it was a show-stopper made me giggle. Too many nick-knacks on the unnecessary double coffee tables (one of which reappears in some of the dining room shots). For some reason they never showed us the whole backyard made over, just the patio corner. I didn't expect lush landscaping, but why just show the corner? I feel like they tried to make a whole show out of a relatively very small amount of change.
@@mapleleaf0 I wasn't terribly impressed either. The back yard "makeover" was absolutely underwhelming. They removed a tiny patch of grass, and threw a table and some chairs in the corner. I was thinking they could have removed more grass in that area, and perhaps even removed more between the garage and the back door, to create a paved path between the two. Some simple potted plants could have spruced the area up. Not their best makeover at all. Underwhelmed. The living room didn't look lived in. It looked like a museum.
Nice reno! I am surprised that Sophie changed the carpet in this episode, when she did not change the smoky carpet in the other episode. The carpet looks like low-end Berber. The new outdoor patio is too far from the house. Who is trudging through grass to sit on the patio, or do a BBQ? They should have built the patio along the width of the house, outside the back door. The living room layout is awkward with the large chairs. You would walk into the chair or coffee table, going to and from the dining room. Too many cushions on the sofa and side chairs and bedroom! When someone wants to sit or lie down, the cushions are thrown on the ground.
23:24 Overgrown garden???? She has no idea what overgrown is!!!! There's absolutely nothing there, it's barren. That's what is wrong with the back yard. Didn't improve the back yard by much.
Come on! The house was clean, neat and the furniture was fine. If you watched earlier versions of this show, you know that some of the houses the Unsellables crew tackled were dirty overcrowded bordering on hoarder house messes. Change the furniture around, add an area rug, change out curtains, voila - new house. Instead, they did a half-assed job replacing the kitchen ceiling light and didn't properly refinish the ceiling, the painting was sloppy, they put new carpeting on top of rotting dusty old padding that was underneath the 20 plus year old carpeting they'd removed - YUCK!
@21:41 (and 23:30, 25:35) The pillow on the right has been put on the sofa backwards, exposing the closure stitching, and it is NOT blind-stitching. This pillow needs to be flipped. I put zippers in the pillow covers that I make and always make sure that the zippers are on the bottom when placing the pillows. Based on the prices of other houses in her neighborhood, her price was still probably too high, even though it seems very low to me.
Although of course I want the house to have good bones and all the major systems to be in good condition there is more to it. I like being able to look at a well styles home and think how pretty it can be. I don't want look around and see dollar sings. New carpet? Ca-ching. Also it should be super clean so I don't have to clean someone else's dirt. I made that mistake with the house I have now. I didn't look well enough and because I have problems walking i had to hire a crew to clean it. It seems like a lot of you don't like these videos yet you keep watching them.
Agreed. In fact I don't understand the two coffee tables in the sitting room (one against the wall), and then one of them reappearing in the dining room for some of the shots. All the little nick-knacks didn't add to the look. Fewer, larger objects would have photographed much better.
@@kathykov1 Yes! I think the budget was too low. I don't blame the woman whose house it is, but if the producers are creating a show, have enough budget to upgrade from accessorizing the living room from the grocery store.
Why would people judge whether the house is saleable or not good by its furniture and setting ? Staging is a disguise, furniture on display are not included.
Too much shit and furniture in the front room right by the entry way door. Get rid of 2 of those tables and one of the chairs. Why isn't this lady selling stuff if she is ready to move?
Is this the show’s new format? Shaking my head. Its awful. Why not tell her to paint the walls, because other than the carpet replacement and placing her things in the garage, it still looks the same with no personality. She could have saved more money.
The outside of the house looks Tired cleaning the brick and a little paint would go a long way. She sure tried to make something wrong with the inside when there wasn't, a little paint and new carpet is all it needed.
The front exterior needed shrubs and landscaping to go with the few puny rose bushes. The table and chairs in the back yard looked pathetic. I keep hoping that the roll of wallpaper that keeps getting framed will eventually get used up.
What is it with floral prints in every room and every house? You can't seriously expect anyone to think florals 1) aren't dated and 2) are attractive to most buyers.
I am hoping the attorney is savvy enough not to upheave and move to Australia over an internet boyfriend. Meanwhile, Sophie drags out those tatty wallpaper "prints" and turquoise pillows that are a bit too familiar. For god's sake, the antique botanical print trend started in the UK, make use of it to add some class! Those bedrooms look like Hobby Lobby makeovers.
According to pictures they had met more than once. People do meet online nowadays. Nothing wrong with that. You just have to check if you are not being catfished.
They have been together for a while as per the photo of them together. Moving to Australia is the best thing that can happen to Maria, boyfriend or not.
It seems like Sofie and John didn’t really interact with each other. I’ve enjoyed Sofie on this show so much that I’ve begun watching her sister’s show. Sofie hates patterns and bright colors, yet her sister seems to like all that. I wonder who writes the scripts for Unsellables.
So surprised they didn't do anything to enliven the kitchen other than that one light. Curb appeal zero for this house, again surprised nothing was done, it looks so dull.
Agents will advise against it. They will tell you that with a vacant property, buyers feel disoriented trying to visualise whether the furniture they have in mind will look right or too cramped, so it creates uncertainty - particularly if the rooms are not big to begin with. An empty space always looks distorted sizewise. It also looks cold and institutional. t Staging halves the sale period compared to vacancy, that is why staging is the norm these days. of course there are always owners who will refuse to stage their home because they think they are saving money.
I’m not a fan of this show for the main reason that they never (that I’ve seen) sell the house! Unsellable to sellable. Seems like a good concept for a tv show
Drab, dirty and deteriorating. The house needs a new roof. The foundation has water issues. The drive is not sealed. The floors and ceilings are 40 years old. The house has personal items in it. AS soon as you put your house on the market, you do not "live" there any more. While you still inhabit the house you need to remover every single personal item. It needs to be freshly painted and it needs to smell nice. This house looks like it is smells stale.
So many sellers don't understand what you do: when a house is on the market it's no longer "my house." It has to be ready to show at all times. I wouldn't describe some of these homes as selling quickly. 7 weeks? We sold one of ours in 2 weeks and the last one in 48 hours. Both houses were spotless and smelled good.
I do agree with Happy Days comment. I can detect odors very quickly. It it has to be done with a light hand. When I was looking to buy, every house I viewed that had bowls of cheap potpourri in every room only served to convince me that they were hiding a bad odor. Spend $50.00 for bouquets of grocery store flowers and distribute vases all over the house. Also, who is going to take care of Mom when she’s gone?
500 pounds for carpet installed in 2 rooms and paint? I'm calling BS on this one. Not unless you have a mate who is a builder and can grab some free carpet from a demolition site and lay the carpet yourself.
I mean, that episode is 15 years old. I have no idea how much laying carpet in the UK costs, but prices have doubled since then. And they paint around sockets instead of removing them first, makes me guess those aren't professional painters.
I like this show, not for buying, but for all the inexpensive tips for how I could keep my home up-to-date, uncluttered and comfortable at low cost. Really just painting can do such an amazing job.
I dont know about you, but I dont buy a house based on the furniture. I'm more worried about the condition, the space, the neighborhood etc...
I completely agree but some people, like an ex of mine, can't see beyond what's there in spite of me saying that the furniture will not be staying!
You'd be surprised by the comments we got about the furniture and the damn drapes in the living room. I changed the drapes and the house sold the next week.
@@holiday-td6hx yeah because the state of the $50 curtains is more important than the state of the plumbing.
@@anastasia10017 exactly. People can be so petty. Curtains are easy to take down, and probably aren't staying with the house anyway. Common sense isn't so common these days.
When my husband and I were looking for a house he had a really hard time imagining what we could do with spaces. He had no ability to imagine new decoration, a different kitchen, knocking down a wall. I think a lot of people are like him. Changing the furniture to make the best of the room just makes it easier for people to see the potential.
I never looked at the houses I was going to buy with such a discerning. Decor, paint colors, furniture, out of date trends, meant nothing to my decisions to dislick a house. I was concerned with type if heating system, structure of outside, foundation, low taxes, amount of space, I knew I would put in my own decor, furniture, colors etc. Puzzled by buyers who judge the owners tadte.
and the neighborhood, employment, etc. But, as one poster already said..this show was during the Big Global Crisis of 2007-2008. And maybe that was the real reason it wasn't getting offers and not the petty stuff that the new owners will all change anyway.
It's bizarre to me as well. They do this on every HGTV show too.
That what i thought when i bought my home . It was dated , wallpaper in every room and dog smilled green carpet.. but it got great location and potential to extended. Since we live we made it beautifully modern home . Yet i listed my home in January last year (before covid ) and i had more than 30 fewers yet no sale and we accepted the only offer we've got but they turn us drown .
.. the point is when the market is critical buyer will be more critical and since there is more available in the market its all a bout you luck .
Same thinking , when I bought a house never thought of paint colour or the furniture , was keen on location , layout ,foundation , furnace like that , this looks weird!
Yes, but some houses need so much work they make you feel tired as you walk through, thinking how much more you’ll have to do after going through the exhausting effort of moving. At least with a clean house den up in neutral decor you feel as if you won’t have to make changes right away. If I have a choice between a nice looking home I can move into right away and one that’s going to require months of work or, worse, lots of repairs, I’ll take the nice place I can relax in right away. I daresay the sellers of these featured homes feel the same when they are out house hunting themselves.
Ooh finally a British estate agent who was open and not evasive about the issues! Loved her bedroom makeover too. Bedroom of a 14 year old to grown up lawyer 😍
So glad this show evolved to not be about the realtors. That was all fast forward worthy.
I was just thinking the same thing. No offence to the guy.
I did
I'm used to the Canadian version where they don't have him at all - it's all Sofie. Wondering why when they reproduced the format in the UK they decided Sofie needed a sidekick...
Yeah not a fan at all. Sofie was awesome on her own.🙄 I love thre Canadian version soo much more.
Agreed.
Lovely updates! But that was 12-13 years ago- I’m dying to know if the seller got a good price. Did she move to Australia? Get married? How’s her mom?
Agreed
Adele killed them all and now the house is a brothel. God.
selling your assets for a man is always a bad idea. a lovely redo, though! 1. add flowers outside - potted flowers, perhaps flower boxes, a house number would be nice, paint the front door, there was nothing to pull you in. 2. curtains need to be replaced (and of course, that carpet). Add some flowers inside. Note that a lot of what they said was a 70's time warp, like that paper lantern, they added that same thing to that lovely old home they redid. Make up your mind. 3. fresh paint also covers up smell, and replacing a carpet also helps. 4. That kitchen was LOVELY. One of the best I've seen on this show, and very clean.
At least her house is very clean ,some of these people try to sell with the house looking like a dirty thrift shop
I do home staging but most people want to make sure of updated mechanics, water pressure, etc..the basics...and what the heck, when I bought my house I almost gagged at the rugs, found gorgeous hardwood underneath, I tore down all the curtains new paint etc. And loved to put in a few small gardens. And the heating and mechanics were in great condition...
at 14:53 ... what professional painter dabs around the outlets instead of removing the covers?
Where do they hire their crews?
The uneven framed prints in the living drove me nuts looking at them!
Me too!
I wish Sophie would stop saying that houses are stuck in the 70s. Nobody decorated their homes like that in the '70s.( I think she means 90s) It makes me stamp my feet every time she says it.
That dining room set looks proper 90s horrible dark wood look. But not how young people decorated, more how elderly people decorated
in the 90s. Anyone under 50 who decorated like that in the 90s had terrible taste 😂
The Sophie lady is too full of herself & superficial.
I've watched a ton of these now, and have not seen one bathroom makeover. I guess that would take too much money and time?
They had done some bathrooms but still in rare occasions.
I have seen some bathrooms being transformed on this show
Exactly
Since the owner is planning on moving out of the country, she needed to access what she was actually going to take with her and get rid of the rest. It is expensive to ship belongings especially if you are just going to toss items when you get there.
We live in a whole new world. This is an old show, but it was cutting edge. In today's market, (plus a little thanks to programs like this,) you MUST stage your place to sell at value. My daughter did that with a bit of paint and some borrowed pieces. She got $7,000.00 over asking price.
Depends on the country think. . I viewed lots of places. Most were completely empty, seldom people lived in the place. It was never staged. The most important things are rhe overall state of the building, with multiple owners if they get along, how the place is heated, doea it have gas etc. And of course I always study the drawing of the apartment or house with the exact measurements. I live in Germany.
Absolutely agree! This house that I bought was not staged, and I got it for a STEAL. Not kidding. I paid 20K less than the staged one that I saw with a similar layout, etc. Staging brings people in and increases the price. If this one had had paint and a new kitchen floor it would have cost $20K more.
a shadow box over the radiators @ the dining room would look great & give a little buffet counter top, for serving guest, in the kitchen some cool industrial lighten would look brilliant. some evergreens & flowers outside in the front, would give some great curb appeal.
Still need to do something about the blah front yard appearance. Plant something!
Did anyone notice the painter in the bedroom was painting around the outlet cover instead of removing it? 🙄
I just started watching these episodes yesterday because RUclips recommended them to me and I noticed they do shoddy work like that on every episode! Paint over hinges, don't remove outlet covers, don't sand things, etc
I saw that too!!
Nice ,you know it's so hard to take those off🤣and make the paint job look decent!
@@living2day617 Or you can mask the outlet covers with masking tape.
That is typical for this show. In addition, Sophie makes a show of painting but uses a brush instead of a roller and wears her finest clothes while doing it. Please.
New carpet over old padding? BIG TURN OFF! If I bought that house and saw that...guess who would be redoing the carpet!
You ? Lol. Not them.
@@getlauriekor exactly they just wanna trick someone into think9ng it is move in ready, but actually they will still have to redo everything once they buy
I saw that on another of these makeovers... must be done in their country.
After watching a few of these I can no longer STAND the bits of wallpaper in frames as "art".
...So people were put off by her furniture?! Furniture that, yeah, was boring, but was clean and wouldnteven be there once the new people moved in! You could still envision your stuff there! Yikes, people are way too finicky. Also, the back yard not having anything of note leaves it open for whatever the new buyer wants. A regular backyard for the kids or a dog, or to dress it up as an actual garden. People in this show are often told to stop injecting their personality into the decor when time to sell, and yet now she's catching shit for having done exactly that. You can't frickin' win.
I.k.r? Truth is the buyers furniture is probably even more boring 😂
How many bowls of fruit will it take?
The most important feature of a house is quiet.
seriously. squeaky floors, loud plumbing, thin walls, traffic and train noise, single pane windows (weather noise.) all terrible mostly unfixable irritants
And nice, quiet neighbours. This is why my next house will be detached.
Amen!
They should paint the closet doors white !
It really does look like a retirement home before. I wouldn't say it looks "lived in" with that new living room but it's definitely better than the Shady Pines or Flushing Rivers old folks home.
I understand the carpet change and the paintjob, but the furniture isn't staying. Envision your own stuff there instead of focusing on their stuff. It wasn't a lot of her things either, unlike 95% of the homes shown here, so seeing around the furnitire was easy.
I really like the improvements they made to brighten the house & make it pop. I think that it would have been better to make the outdoor sitting area closer to the house, like an patio just outside the back door, instead of way in the back corner by the shed.
Who wants to trudge through the grass, to sit on the patio, or do a BBQ? They should have built the patio outside the glass doors, enough for chair and tables and a BBQ unit.
I believe the patio was already there just covered with grass.
70s? How young Sophie is! This house is stuck in the 80s!
2008, ideas were different than now. Yet, I agree that taxes, working Furnace, closets, storage (rooms) places, wall condition, no popcorn ceilings, are more important than furniture placement. Decluttering and cleaning come next. I want my own messes.
This was so much fun to watch! I remember buying our first house in 2008 when this was shot. Trip down the memory lane.
The exterior lacked curb appeal. The prospective buyers never take a look at age of furnace, hot water heater, air conditioning, condition of roof and age. Plumbing condition is also important. When house shopping the color of carpet is not relevant as I would have it replaced with hardwood.
Yeah it's weird. With the huge price drop I'd have just renovated it, floorboards, paint job, new fittings, garden, done.
I don't think the Eglish have air conditioners in their homes. It always seems cold
Guessing it wasn't the furniture that stopped sales, but maybe the global financial crisis. But you know, maybe it was the carpet.
This program is from over 10 years ago. It’s a TV show, relax.
@@jarcha4200 That's what they were referring to. The Recession of 2007-2009 would've been felt globally and that could effect the house selling, but the show never says that, as though putting the blame solely on the owner and not admitting that sometimes, it's just not a good time in the world to buy/sell a home.
Yes. That’s when it was bad in USA too
@Bialistock Hopefully we will fully move into Nesara/Geasa. The global reset where everyone will share some of the trillions and trillions worth of gold that the vatcian and london bankers, royal family and cabal has stolen from us for over a century now.
They are a group of satanic, evil, pedophilie, adrenochrome harvesting monsters
@@america1403
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Bit strange that the owner said "woo hoo" when Sophie said the room looked like it belonged to a 14 year old.
She took it as being told she appears to be even younger as a compliment.
Why didn't they replace that ugly paper lamp in the entry way?😨 And the bedroom closet doors should have been painted white.
Again a house that didn’t sell as far as the viewer knows. Without a sale how do we know the fix up worked?
If there was a time to use sofa slipcovers
I never heard of engaging two agents at the same time. That seems counter productive and, well, awkward.
I agree, that was a weird- and they made it sound like it was a relatively common thing to do there? I wonder what the benefit of that could possibly be?
Really? In Australia we make them all work in competition. It's called an open listing. Works fine for us.
This show is well out of date. Their idea of updating is old fashioned now!
It is so out of date that the "dated" look is almost the new fad!😂
Ok, so here we are in 2021...what would be in fashion now?
Maria is so cute! She and Sophie seemed like they genuinely got along. Hope she's well.
I'd fire those realtors. They couldnt give her that advice MONTHS ago, so that she wouldnt have had to drop her property price so much. That's incompetence to me. They should lnow what it takes to sell a home and give some advice to move tbe property. Sorry.
New carpet but not new padding?? Not good.
Well look how little was spent on it.
exactly they cover up problems to sell, not actually fix thrm correctly. so the buyers are unaware of thr problems they will have with the house.
I thought that too!!
21:29 those pictures on the wall aren't level with each other, that would drive me nuts
I don't see much improvement except in the bedroom. The house did need new carpet and painting but the styling was awful.
Randomly placed objects and half filled, oversized bowls of fruit. Cheap flowers stuffed in too large a vase.
The apples even looked awful lol
I don't care for the brown carpet in the house, or the color of the walls in the master bedroom, but everything else is just her things that won't be in the house when she moves out. Do people have no imagination? I would have bought the house, as long as it passed inspections for any possible structural damage, etc. I have seen far worse homes.
People buy a house because of how it makes them feel.
@@getlauriekor sure... but when you're talking about minor cosmetic fixes like painting walls and removing carpet, people need to be reasonable and use their imagination. When I sell my home, I'm not painting or replacing my furniture. The potential buyers have to understand that I still have to live there, and that my furniture isn't staying. I've never not purchased a house because I didn't like the color the walls were painted, or because I didn't like the owners decorating style. Their decor and furniture are leaving when they move. I have no problem painting walls, and actually prefer to do so, so that they are the color I want. As long as there is nothing major to be done, and there are no structural issues, plumbing issues, etc., and as long as the house has what I'm looking for, and is within my budget, I'm not going to cry over how dated their decor is. That's just me. I bought a house that had pepto-bismol-pink walls once. Guess what? I painted them. I hated their decor, but it wasn't staying. Once gone the house was a blank canvas. No big deal, because outside of that the house was what I needed and wanted.
and new flooring/wall color are usually done with new owners.
@@whyme7996 First time buyers want to move into a turn key house. They usually max out their credit to buy a house when they are below 30, and thus do not have the resources to put their touch on a house they will do ten years later... Of course second and third time buyers will quickly put their touch to a house...
I bristle at the word "dated", implying that everything from past decades is bad. Tired and worn is bad, and some things (like the fluorescent lights in the kitchen and maybe that brown carpet) were unattractive a week after they were installed, but some older styles are timeless. A good realtor will try to downplay boring decor and furnishings, since they will all be gone when the owner moves, and will point out the real assets.
At least the brown carpet give it some color. The grey carpet blended into the walls to much and made the rooms even blander than they were before. Personally, I like little imperfections and the crafty look on and in the homes. There's just way too many cookie cutter houses out there now. My husband & I have been looking at different houses and homes for weeks now. We have honestly been more impressed by 10 year old mobile homes than stick built houses. Just about every house we have seen have all had white walls, white cabinets, white everywhere. There's not anything all at that stands out. Even the flooring is so light that they look more white than anything. Simply boring. I don't want to have to paint, strip cabinets and then varnish them, redo flooring and more plus pay top dollar for a boring house.
I totally agree.
@@tsgrandma9837 So true.
What always blows my mind is that the buyers can't see past the stuff...they're buying the house, not the decor, etc...a good agent can point that out to them, help them see past the current residents.
"And see how you solve a problem like Maria's" I love the abundance of puns in this episode.
What 26 year old has their name on their bedroom door?? I'm not sure she's ready to pack up her whole life and move it to the other side of the world!
This is really one of the prettiest makeovers she's done.
Not really a great make-over. Blue in the bedroom is too cold. Rest of the house still looks bland and dated. Sofie is not nearly as savvy or talented as her sister Kirstie.
I agree this was not a great make-over at all. New light in the kitchen was weirdly unimpressive. Zooming in and out of it like it was a show-stopper made me giggle. Too many nick-knacks on the unnecessary double coffee tables (one of which reappears in some of the dining room shots). For some reason they never showed us the whole backyard made over, just the patio corner. I didn't expect lush landscaping, but why just show the corner? I feel like they tried to make a whole show out of a relatively very small amount of change.
It looks to me like a teenager tried to make what they think a grownup house is....
Bruh they only had a budget of 500 where they meant to get the sofa from your head?!
@@mapleleaf0 I wasn't terribly impressed either. The back yard "makeover" was absolutely underwhelming. They removed a tiny patch of grass, and threw a table and some chairs in the corner. I was thinking they could have removed more grass in that area, and perhaps even removed more between the garage and the back door, to create a paved path between the two. Some simple potted plants could have spruced the area up. Not their best makeover at all. Underwhelmed. The living room didn't look lived in. It looked like a museum.
Of course it looks dated- this was filmed in 2008.
Nice reno! I am surprised that Sophie changed the carpet in this episode, when she did not change the smoky carpet in the other episode. The carpet looks like low-end Berber. The new outdoor patio is too far from the house. Who is trudging through grass to sit on the patio, or do a BBQ? They should have built the patio along the width of the house, outside the back door.
The living room layout is awkward with the large chairs. You would walk into the chair or coffee table, going to and from the dining room. Too many cushions on the sofa and side chairs and bedroom! When someone wants to sit or lie down, the cushions are thrown on the ground.
Is she going together able to take all that stuff with her to Australia? Or is she going to sell it furnished?
It would be nice to know of it sold when and for how mich.
23:24 Overgrown garden???? She has no idea what overgrown is!!!! There's absolutely nothing there, it's barren. That's what is wrong with the back yard. Didn't improve the back yard by much.
Come on! The house was clean, neat and the furniture was fine. If you watched earlier versions of this show, you know that some of the houses the Unsellables crew tackled were dirty overcrowded bordering on hoarder house messes. Change the furniture around, add an area rug, change out curtains, voila - new house. Instead, they did a half-assed job replacing the kitchen ceiling light and didn't properly refinish the ceiling, the painting was sloppy, they put new carpeting on top of rotting dusty old padding that was underneath the 20 plus year old carpeting they'd removed - YUCK!
The carpet looks like the low-end berber.
@21:41 (and 23:30, 25:35) The pillow on the right has been put on the sofa backwards, exposing the closure stitching, and it is NOT blind-stitching. This pillow needs to be flipped. I put zippers in the pillow covers that I make and always make sure that the zippers are on the bottom when placing the pillows.
Based on the prices of other houses in her neighborhood, her price was still probably too high, even though it seems very low to me.
2008 was a time of panic in stock market and turn down in real estate. That's why it wasn't selling. True dat.
Maria's bedroom looks gorgeous.
Although of course I want the house to have good bones and all the major systems to be in good condition there is more to it. I like being able to look at a well styles home and think how pretty it can be. I don't want look around and see dollar sings. New carpet? Ca-ching. Also it should be super clean so I don't have to clean someone else's dirt. I made that mistake with the house I have now. I didn't look well enough and because I have problems walking i had to hire a crew to clean it. It seems like a lot of you don't like these videos yet you keep watching them.
The carpet padding was not replaced. These pads are filthy. Yuck.
Fix it up and raise the price back up.
Sue here: I would never buy a house based on a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, lol!!! Unsellables did a perfect job staging the 🏠.
There are too many objects on all of the tables. They look mismatched and thrown together.
Agreed. In fact I don't understand the two coffee tables in the sitting room (one against the wall), and then one of them reappearing in the dining room for some of the shots. All the little nick-knacks didn't add to the look. Fewer, larger objects would have photographed much better.
Who puts out platters of fruit in the living room (2) and dining room. It belongs in a bowl in the kitchen.
@@kathykov1 Yes! I think the budget was too low. I don't blame the woman whose house it is, but if the producers are creating a show, have enough budget to upgrade from accessorizing the living room from the grocery store.
Why would people judge whether the house is saleable or not good by its furniture and setting ? Staging is a disguise, furniture on display are not included.
Too much shit and furniture in the front room right by the entry way door. Get rid of 2 of those tables and one of the chairs. Why isn't this lady selling stuff if she is ready to move?
Okay, the carpet looks like felt. Why was that EVER a thing?
Is this the show’s new format? Shaking my head. Its awful. Why not tell her to paint the walls, because other than the carpet replacement and placing her things in the garage, it still looks the same with no personality. She could have saved more money.
The outside of the house looks Tired cleaning the brick and a little paint would go a long way. She sure tried to make something wrong with the inside when there wasn't, a little paint and new carpet is all it needed.
What is the point of this if we don't know if the house did sell?
The front exterior needed shrubs and landscaping to go with the few puny rose bushes. The table and chairs in the back yard looked pathetic. I keep hoping that the roll of wallpaper that keeps getting framed will eventually get used up.
What is it with floral prints in every room and every house? You can't seriously expect anyone to think florals 1) aren't dated and 2) are attractive to most buyers.
It def. looks nice, but I don't like those reupholstered couches. Still looks somewhat 70ish to me.
I love it. I'd buy it if I lived over there, does look like it could use a roof. Looks like a great location
I am hoping the attorney is savvy enough not to upheave and move to Australia over an internet boyfriend. Meanwhile, Sophie drags out those tatty wallpaper "prints" and turquoise pillows that are a bit too familiar. For god's sake, the antique botanical print trend started in the UK, make use of it to add some class! Those bedrooms look like Hobby Lobby makeovers.
According to pictures they had met more than once. People do meet online nowadays. Nothing wrong with that. You just have to check if you are not being catfished.
They have been together for a while as per the photo of them together. Moving to Australia is the best thing that can happen to Maria, boyfriend or not.
Amazing transformation- best one yet!
I wish we knew how quickly the house sold!
It seems like Sofie and John didn’t really interact with each other. I’ve enjoyed Sofie on this show so much that I’ve begun watching her sister’s show. Sofie hates patterns and bright colors, yet her sister seems to like all that. I wonder who writes the scripts for Unsellables.
Of course you can expect him to pay for everything you are moving for him
Actually - no!
I think she is moving for herself.
So surprised they didn't do anything to enliven the kitchen other than that one light.
Curb appeal zero for this house, again surprised nothing was done, it looks so dull.
Sorry but this is really done poorly
This was so bad it almost seemed like a spoof of the show.
The bedroom was ok. I don't know what they were thinking downstairs though!!
I think it's best to sell a completely vacant home.
it is best. unless it comes with the furniture
Agents will advise against it. They will tell you that with a vacant property, buyers feel disoriented trying to visualise whether the furniture they have in mind will look right or too cramped, so it creates uncertainty - particularly if the rooms are not big to begin with. An empty space always looks distorted sizewise. It also looks cold and institutional. t Staging halves the sale period compared to vacancy, that is why staging is the norm these days. of course there are always owners who will refuse to stage their home because they think they are saving money.
@@a24-45 Interesting!
SO they said the market was slow back then.
And they wanted to know why it wasn't selling?
How does one re-carpet two rooms for under $500? This is not possible where I live.
Well, they didn't put down new pad and don't count any labor costs.
Just seen this and thought "There's nothing that can be done about that outside feature of - a shared drive".
I’m not a fan of this show for the main reason that they never (that I’ve seen) sell the house! Unsellable to sellable. Seems like a good concept for a tv show
They do sell, they just don't mention it if the house doesn't sell immediately.
Why not put in hardwood floors instead of new carpet? Not sure how to make the boring outside more appealing.
Nice job, cute little house now.
It’s interesting multiple agents causes them to work less instead of being more competitive.
Great job! guys...
Drab, dirty and deteriorating. The house needs a new roof. The foundation has water issues. The drive is not sealed. The floors and ceilings are 40 years old. The house has personal items in it. AS soon as you put your house on the market, you do not "live" there any more. While you still inhabit the house you need to remover every single personal item. It needs to be freshly painted and it needs to smell nice. This house looks like it is smells stale.
So many sellers don't understand what you do: when a house is on the market it's no longer "my house." It has to be ready to show at all times.
I wouldn't describe some of these homes as selling quickly. 7 weeks? We sold one of ours in 2 weeks and the last one in 48 hours. Both houses were spotless and smelled good.
I do agree with Happy Days comment. I can detect odors very quickly. It it has to be done with a light hand. When I was looking to buy, every house I viewed that had bowls of cheap potpourri in every room only served to convince me that they were hiding a bad odor. Spend $50.00 for bouquets of grocery store flowers and distribute vases all over the house. Also, who is going to take care of Mom when she’s gone?
500 pounds for carpet installed in 2 rooms and paint? I'm calling BS on this one. Not unless you have a mate who is a builder and can grab some free carpet from a demolition site and lay the carpet yourself.
I mean, that episode is 15 years old. I have no idea how much laying carpet in the UK costs, but prices have doubled since then. And they paint around sockets instead of removing them first, makes me guess those aren't professional painters.
This is the UK in 2008.
Different from 2020/22.
Very different.
Follow all of the series or just a few of '08. Then find
Sorry
Find the 20teens of this series and you will see better cleaning and repairs and decor.
Still looks a bit drab to me.
There are only two things that stop a house selling: price and cleanliness.
Awful light fixture. But great job carrying through the blue pattern through all the rooms.
Love the bedroom
What about that door that is being blocked in the living room?
Nope, still looks awful
I often wonder what Sophie and the team charge u for their work
That is one, tired looking,dated house. It took so little to breathe fresh air into it. All of this for only 500 pounds wow!
How much is a pound in USD?
@@karmad4491 1£ = $1.37 USD
@@kellyjeffries8953 Remember, this is 12 years ago. Back then it was $1.50 is 1 pound.
So $750.
Even for back then, that was cheap.
Wow-this show existed in the uk? Only saw the Canadian versione