{"id":6027,"date":"2012-06-24T05:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2012-06-23T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T01:14:42","slug":"hobby-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/hobby-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had free cable television in the home we rented 7 years ago. I spent a lot of time watching home improvement and cooking shows. Some of my favorite shows were about how to stage a house to sell it.<\/p>\n

I scoffed at some of the inexpensive things that people were told to do, such as throw a white sheet over the kitchen table so it looked extra clean, or change the light bulbs to be clear or simply hide all counter top appliances from view.<\/p>\n

But then I remembered why I fell in love with our house plan. In the model there was was the hobby room with a wall of shelves and a table in the center. And that room chanted in my head, “Buy me!” There were other good features in the house, but the dream of a hobby room was a big factor in my “yes” vote on the house.<\/p>\n

This week I have been staging photos of our house for the time when we decide to sell. Even after we move, I want people to be able to visualize themselves in a hobby room like mine. Of course, my hobbies are not crafty. They’re educational. I took down most evidence of that so it looks more universal.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, hobby room. Don’t worry, I won’t do a post about every room in the house, although it might be funny to see what poetic things I could say about that marvelous coat closet in our entry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I just need one person to think it’s great and they can buy our house and pursue their dreams. It’s been a great room for us, although it NEVER looked this good when in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had free cable television in the home we rented 7 years ago. I spent a lot of time watching home improvement and cooking shows. Some of my favorite shows were about how to stage a house to sell it. I scoffed at some of the inexpensive things that people were told to do, such … Continue reading Hobby Room<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}