Staging Harrisville

staging Harrisville

As part of the interview process for finding a real estate agent to (potentially) list the Harrisville house, I asked each of them to walk through the house with me and give me their advice on the best way to 'stage' the house for sale. According to Nina, this can make a big difference in attracting buyers. What follows is a description mostly of what needs to be removed to best present the house. A few things may need to be added: bedspreads, pillows.

Since this weekend will bring many of us here the items that will need to be removed should be claimed this weekend and taken away. At the end of this document is a list of storage places should you like to take something but are unable to take it with you.

photos and knicknacks and things

All the photos, knicknacks and things need to be gone in order to show the house.

clutter to be removed

The link is to an album of images of all the clutter that needs to be removed to sell the house

living room

Here the big things to get rid of are the bookshelf (and most all its books) and the desk at the foot of the stairs. On the other side of the room is the built in bookshelf that needs to be pared down to just a few books + the books saved from removed shelf unit. There is a stereo there to be removed.

back bedroom

The three items to go are circled in yellow

family room

The consensus was to get rid of the marked stuff and a bunch of stuff in the clutter album and to move mom's desk in front of the that funky built-in to and the heavy piece to where the desk was. The drawing table will stay as part of the staging, perhaps a little to the right side of the sliding glass door with maybe some of those trace drawings displayed as an inspiration for what a good place this would be for creativity and hobbies.

laundry room

All those cabinets.

bunk bed room

Pretty much all the furniture random boxes and cloths hanger cases need to go Images are in the clutter album

master bedroom

chair and stool

pottery

Pottery could stay for the showings. Most of it appears to be Libow. I would think that the Libow Potter's among us, Kelly and Brian, would have the first claim on them.

dad's paintings and sketches and water colors

I realize these items are the most valued by the family. A few of them, I would like to borrow for showing the house, like the Harrisville mill buildings, the western landscape over the fire place, a couple of the water colors and some of the trace sketches.

It would seem reasonable that if the artwork has you as a subject, you get to keep that piece

I propose listing the rest of dad's work on a spreadsheet where we can all list our 1st choice 2nd choice etc, for the pieces we would like to have. I further propose that we have some kind of a rank choice selection process where If nobody has also selected your top choice you get to keep it. If others have then there is some kind of a coin toss like random process in which the winner gets the piece and the losers reorder their rankings with their 2nd coice now becoming a first choice, their third choice becomes second etc. At the point where everybody has one piece we would repeat the process untill all the artwork is distributed.

For now I will work on getting the pieces listed in a spreadsheet. I invite participation and ideas for the actual process. The first question will be whether or not we extend the process to include all the cousins.

Most of dad's artwork will need to be down for showing the house. I prefer not putting them in a closet and hope that we can arrive at a process before July 4th.

storage

If, of the clutter and photos and knicknacks and things that you want, you prefer to put them in storage here is a link to the self-storage facilities close to Harrisville. https://www.google.com/maps/search/storage+units/@42.9431539,-72.1600956,12z

unclaimed items

For the clutter and photos and knicknacks and things that are not claimed and taken away by the family, I will plan on arranging for their disposal after the holiday weekend.

dad's artwork + 2 Copiague pieces & proposed game rules

There will be a game played sometime during July 4th after 2pm. The result of the game will be possession and ownership of dad's artwork

I have catalogued dad's artwork in a this spreadsheet. Not included are pieces in which alive family members are the subject. My assumption is those pieces will go to their subjects. Currently there are twenty six pieces in the catalogue. Megan will forward me photos of dad's work at the Copiague house and I will add them. So the catalogue will be of dad's artwork that could potentially be selected and given to family members. Then you will get a new version of this email with an updated link and siblings will get new invitations to edit.

If you know of any other of dad's artwork that should be in this catalogue please let me know and if possible send me a photo of it. Maybe there we be yet another version of the catalogue.

the game play

Ideally each sibling would get their first choice of artwork. Probably for that to happen we need to communicate with each other and try to have first picks that are not already coveted by another sibling. But that may not be the case. If, in a given round of choices, there are multiple people who want the same piece then some kind of coin toss will occur. The losers would somehow have their choices re-ordered (2nd becomes 1st, etc) until they get to an available piece. Once everybody has a piece from round 1 we go to round 2. Then we repeat until all the artwork has been distributed.

Jim's grandchildren

The spreadsheet has just the siblings names and is only editable by them but I hope that grandpa Jim's artwork will be available to his grandchildren. Grandchildren have viewing access to the catalogue. Grandchildren should let their parents know which pieces they would like. I would suggest that the siblings keep their first won choice and then rank their remaining choices to reflect the pieces your kids love. And then win them and give those pieces to them.

help

I NEED HELP IN FIGURING THIS OUT. Like how to do the math and how to do the coin toss. if you understand the game help your parent.

game rules

1. Bring your laptops or something that allows you to edit the shared google spread sheet
2. On July 4 at 2pm (or a time later selected by me) all choices are final. You will no longer be able to reorder. If you made a mistake and have two number 1 choices, the second one will be made a 0 (not played). If you don't have a choice for a round and that number comes up you will sit out that round.
3. There will be a number of rounds. A round is complete when each sibling bidding has a peice.

   a sibling can sit out a round and not bid

   If a sibling has no additional choices then that sibling is no longer bidding

4. Round start with everyone's 1st choice. The next round uses the next choice. The next choice is determined by the rules below.

a typical round

For all the pieces with only one bidder

you keep that piece

tie breaking, random number generator

1. We will agree on one person to deal with the deck of cards. Shuffles then deals one card to each of the tied. Then the dealer turns them over one by one and the winner is the one with the highest value card AKQJ1098765432 with ties broken by SpadesHeartsDiamondsClubs.
2. The process will be repeated for all the other pieces of artwork with multiple bidders.
3. At that point all the losers have a sub-round. one is subtracted from each of their remaining choices creating a new 1st choice for round1, or new 2nd choice for round 2 if second round etc. if that piece is already gone they reduce by 1 again until they are bidding on an available piece. Now calculate the winners from the subgroup and go back to step 1 if there are losers.
4. Everyone should now have won a piece for the round. The round is over.

subsequent rounds

If one of the round's players had skipped the previous round then cross out what would have been the previous round's choice and subtract one from the remaining choices.

Then

1. Each player's next round choice is examined. If that painting is already gone, cross it out and subtract 1 from each of the remaining choices. Repeat if necessary. If a player has no choices left they are done and out of the game.
2. Play the round as above.

game over

Game is over when either no artwork is left or there are no more bidders.

dad's artwork

I have catalogued dad's artwork in a this spreadsheet. Not included are pieces in which alive family members are the subject. My assumption is those pieces will go to their subjects. Currently there are twenty six pieces in the catalogue. Megan will forward me photos of dad's work at the Copiague house and I will add them. So the catalogue will be of dad's artwork that could potentially be selected and given to family members.

If you know of any other of dad's artwork that should be in this catalogue please let me know and if possible send me a photo of it.

Ideally each sibling would get their first choice of artwork. Probably for that to happen we need to communicate with each other and try to have first picks that are not already coveted by another sibling. But that may not be the case. If, in a given round of choices, there are multiple people who want the same piece then some kind of coin toss will occur. The losers would somehow have their choices re-ordered (2nd becomes 1st, etc) and until they get to an available piece. Once everybody has a piece from round 1 we go to round 2. Then we repeat until all the artwork has been distributed.

The spreadsheet has just the siblings names and is only editable by them but I hope that grandpa Jim's artwork will be available to his grandchildren. Grandchildren have viewing access to the catalogue. Grandchildren should let their parents know which pieces they would like. I would suggest that the siblings keep their first won choice and then rank their remaining choices to reflect the pieces your kids love. And then win them and give those pieces to them.