A Sprawling Suburban Home That Is Alienating Potential Buyers | The Unsellables

A Sprawling Suburban Home That Is Alienating Potential Buyers | The Unsellables | House to Home

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FULL EPISODE | Sofie is impressed by this home’s spacious interiors and fabulous kitchen but says its empty rooms, indoor patio furniture, and over-the-top paint colors are devaluing the house and alienating potential buyers.
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The Unsellables - From Season 1 Episode 14 "Jack and Amy": Despite its many high-end upgrades, Jack and Amy’s sprawling suburban home has been on the market for over a month without an offer.
In order to give it wider appeal and the luxury feel it lacks, Sofie comes up with a $4,500 plan.
With more houses than they need and concerned prices are about to drop, the couple agrees to do whatever it takes to sell the property. And as Anthony and the team improve the home’s curb appeal, neutralize the wall colors, and update the fixtures and furniture, Sofie teaches Jack and Amy the importance of giving every room a clear function.
The Unsellables - After tracking down the most unsightly and ‘unsellable’ listings on the market, The Unsellables team attempts to transform real estate lemons into lemonade. Can the fearless crew get these desperate homeowners to get smart, let go of the past, and prepare for a sale?
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@PropertyandRenoOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

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@Clutching.My.Pearls 4 ай бұрын

IMO, the living/dining was awkward with the cut-out wall. I'm not sure if that could be removed, but it certainly made a possibly spacious area feel tight.

@letscleanhouse 7 ай бұрын

Remember that this was a long time ago 😂 Decor styles have definitely changed ❤

@FTG2Eli 7 ай бұрын

I was hoping that they would have removed that dividing wall from the entry to the sitting room. Am I the only one?

@jarrodbarkley9061 2 ай бұрын

Oh I hated it, I thought for sure she'd say to remove it.

@nicolemitchell446 2 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought the colours were the problem.

@conniemarschand8636 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, a buyer would say, too much painting to do

@alecto7926 2 жыл бұрын

Its not the colours. Its the owners who used them.

@Silverhaired59 2 жыл бұрын

They should title this series, “Paint Everything Green.”

@anniehovsepian6173 2 жыл бұрын

The Green lady

@beegood1215 2 жыл бұрын

But they paint everything brown.

@cherylvergin1757 2 жыл бұрын

She's a one pony show that way.

@saibliss7976 2 жыл бұрын

And...the knight in shining armor... Anthony, just love his character 👌✨❣️🙏 Thank you for sharing.

@Rudelherz 2 жыл бұрын

"It's not really our Style..."....this house sold in 6 days" ...."6 days!?!?"....when ppl think low of other taste...and then it is their own that is bad🤣🙈😂 Love the transformation here. So much better than all the red👍🏻♥️

@Slytherin14567 14 күн бұрын

I liked the colors in the living room. That aubergine and the lime green are a great combination!

@faithm9284 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many people decide the transformation is so great they don't sell? 🥳

@evelina2363 6 ай бұрын

I really liked the green/purple combo as well as the niche over the fireplace 🤷‍♀️

@dixiechicken2643 2 жыл бұрын

How could you not realize the colors might be a bit of a problem

@janetpattison8474 2 жыл бұрын

With one quick look you can see that the paint inside is enough to put off all buyers. Gorgeous house but they need an interior designer for the next one.

@irenesmolonogov3034 2 жыл бұрын

No taste and no money, that's the vibe I got and she was very polite

@lorirogers9304 6 ай бұрын

Way in over their heads.

@margaretalbert69 2 жыл бұрын

Those colors,. 😱

@sandragregg9079 2 жыл бұрын

See what the proper paint colors can do. Love the transformation

@Cali_Girl1 2 жыл бұрын

I'm only 1:13 through this video, and I already have one idea why this house isn't selling. 😆

@drewconway7135 2 жыл бұрын

The before house looks like it was painted by the Joker. And if they spent all that money on kitchen “upgrades,” how come the refrigerator opens the wrong way?

@janetpattison8474 2 жыл бұрын

That’s hillarious & so true!

@Cali_Girl1 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, those houses are CLOSE together!

@YoYo_Ma 2 жыл бұрын

Toronto's outer suburbs are absolutely covered in these ugly garages with houses attached. They are everywhere. What a shame.

@thehungrygoldfish 7 ай бұрын

Most homes are close together unless you’re out in the sticks.

@sellm_bc_arwhite4249 2 жыл бұрын

All of those colors makes it look like Sherwin Williams threw up.

@kristic4472 2 жыл бұрын

I love the colors, but neutral sells.

@ellenl.5581 2 жыл бұрын

40 years ago I bought a house that was lovely until you got to the added porch off the bathroom. A small bedroom had been added and painted neon orange. I had a teenager that fell in love. Must have happened to them too.

@anniehovsepian6173 2 жыл бұрын

First upgrade I actually like that Sophie did. Anthony love the doors on the cabinet.

@virginiasoskin9082 2 жыл бұрын

After watching just 15 seconds I thought, it's the paint. Neutralize the colors. Red makes people energized, that is why fast food place interiors are often red. It makes ppl eat more quickly to vacate tables for more people. To paint a room red means people will not be able to relax and spend time there. This is basic color theory and it is amazing how few people understand it. Pistachio and grape and red? No wonder ppl turn away and run. NEUTRALIZE your wall colors prior to putting a house up for sale, or do it when you move in to avoid having to repaint prior to selling. Otherwise a lovely home but few ppl want to put out $3000 to have a house interior painted before they even move in, so do it prior to putting up your home for sale and that way you sell more quickly and minimize your angst when it takes months to sell. Otherwise, put a clause in the sales agreement that the sellers provide a painting allowance and take that off the purchase price. This is often done for carpeting too. You can either spend the money and paint or have the cost deducted from your asking price.

@nylanelson8660 2 жыл бұрын

Now the house has too much tan & brown. I would have painted it all cream with white trim to appeal to the most buyers

@thebastardgift 2 жыл бұрын

Love the changes and visually they add value to the house.

@maryhanger4519 2 жыл бұрын

I think the couple is going to paint their new house the same outrageous colors, If they do they need to complement those colors with modern functional furniture. The weight room needs to go in the basement.

@thekirksiffs5285 4 ай бұрын

I kinda hate the after colors too.

@ankiking 2 жыл бұрын

I have never understood the need for more than one dining area and one living room area… just seems like a lot of extra areas to clean to me.

@HistorianMom 2 жыл бұрын

We have three living areas and a dining room plus eat-in kitchen, and we love it. Maybe it’s not a “need,” but we love the house.

@faithm9284 2 жыл бұрын

Living areas are different than the limited 'formal' living room space of the past. 💌

@bc8351 2 жыл бұрын

I think it all depends on your family and your lifestyle. We have six kids, and we love having people over. We have a living room, a family room, a bonus room, a dining room, and an eat in kitchen. We very specifically looked for a house with all that, and we use all those spaces. My sister in law has two kids and had her house built to be open concept with over large space to serve all those functions, and she regrets it.

@user-cy4vw1qj9m 2 жыл бұрын

If you could afford a very big house you would afford a cleaner.

@jarrodbarkley9061 2 ай бұрын

Omg those colors...

@missinformed9550 4 ай бұрын

I once rented an apartment and had to paint, as the colors made we want to slash my wrists. I painted all the rooms cream with white trim. Previously, two rooms were painted orange and two were turquoise with all the trim painted a band aid pink. I usually avoid painting but this hideous color scheme was too much to bear. My house is painted soft colors, not screaming loud ones that would make the eyeballs bleed. It was news to this couple that their colors are unbearable and they were so surprised. 😅

@ninirossau2304 2 жыл бұрын

I like colours, but there were just too many. and rooms need to have a function.

@johnqpublic407 4 ай бұрын

Honestly, if they had removed 80% of their life clutter, it probably would have sold,regardless of the colours. Watching them walk around to avoid it was telling.

@nylanelson8660 2 жыл бұрын

Spanish people love color & tend to paint their houses inside & out a mismatch of bright colors that are overwhelming to others. Then this couple doesn’t understand why their house didn’t sell. Potential buyers want a move in ready house Not a house that the walls have to be primed to tone down the color to be able to paint

@jayshreepatel7704 2 жыл бұрын

You do not tell us the details that after how many days the house got sold and weather the got the price they wanted ???????????

@laurareutter6928 2 жыл бұрын

New paint colors seem muddy and drab.

@Bobrogers99 2 жыл бұрын

More neutral colors, please! But there needs to be some variation. It can't all be beige.

@margaretalbert69 2 жыл бұрын

Use color in your decor pieces

@agnes15101968 2 жыл бұрын

It used to be all beige. Now it is all athrazit. I do not like any of them

@widowswatch6610 6 ай бұрын

The colors at first look.

@margaretalbert69 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a home stager for selling houses. Loved it. But a lot of people were not on board. Whatever, u want to sell right?????

@craftyhobbit7623 6 ай бұрын

I hate the holes in the wall in the sitting room. Sitting rooms are supposed to be relaxing, but you can't have that with the holes there and why the garden furniture inside the house? Strange.

@paulalim1476 2 жыл бұрын

Few things worse than looking at a home and seeing nothing but garage. Why is this a thing? Huge turnoff.

@ccmarcum 6 ай бұрын

I agree. All the Canadian subdivisions seem to have the garage sticking out. Really ugly.

@dpej5167 3 ай бұрын

@@ccmarcum Canadian winters. Shorter driveway, less to shovel.

@maureencabrera7029 2 жыл бұрын

omg. so much better. the colours catered only to very few coz it looks tacky. didn't like their taste.

@freckles3705 2 жыл бұрын

Their colors were too diverse. Her colors are too brown.

@faithm9284 2 жыл бұрын

It's livable now! Kudos! I did feel the very bright pocket doors over the fireplace in white competed with the fireplace. Just sayin'. 🤔 Why don't you show it being sold?

@susanleverette8641 7 ай бұрын

A few seconds in & I can see all the different colors on every wall as something that would turn off potential buyers. Let's see how this turns out...

@AT-qy6mq 2 жыл бұрын

extreme makeover

@ccmarcum 6 ай бұрын

No, noooooo, leave the wall mirror. It makes the room look bigger.

@TLeiph 2 жыл бұрын

This had to have been filmed in the 90s, right? The oak colored stair banister, the black leather couches, the box tvs…not to mention the COLORS. Lmao

@ituesday24 2 жыл бұрын

Looks early 2000s to me, pre- 2010. The hair and clothing styles are big clues too 😆

@erikau.4835 2 жыл бұрын

So 2000!

@delphidae6610 2 жыл бұрын

3 words - too much red

@whobeyou5342 4 ай бұрын

Pops of color are great- but Every wall is painted like an accent wall. The accent effect gets lost when Every wall in the house competes with the next.

@jarrodbarkley9061 2 ай бұрын

Why do they always blur out the artwork?

@marywiggins7411 2 жыл бұрын

Non congruent color scheme, looks dated actually rather than new.

@jaceware8808 2 жыл бұрын

Not a bad house. I would like shelves in the open squares are the living room.

@Mmolesy 7 ай бұрын

Don't like the colours after in the downstairs area, the kitchen is too narrow, the new sitting room feels out of place, the big holes in the wall in the new dining room are horrid. The outlay of the down stairs is wrong. 😝

@frankfroggatt8593 2 жыл бұрын

I think it'd be even better if they'd have made the stair bannister and kitchen cabinetry white. But it's very nice, nevertheless.

@marshahearne5280 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I agree. Honey oak is right up there with vomit.

@becbrown212 2 жыл бұрын

Two living dining areas next to each other and a kitchen from the 80s? Terrible layout.

@mohdalisyed 2 жыл бұрын

Judging by the tv, looks like this episode was filmed 20 years ago, Or people in Canada just like old TVs

@cindytaylor698 7 ай бұрын

The “army green” paint needed to go as well.

@user-cy4vw1qj9m 2 жыл бұрын

First thing I saw was the loud colours, next thing who has a big house with a old garden set for a dinning room.

@user-di9yn2fi9j 23 күн бұрын

Why don't they show the bathrooms

@rzu7120 2 жыл бұрын

After watching the video for the first minute, my initial thought was that there were too many different and obnoxious colors. The whole house needs to be painted, and that takes a lot of time, or if you hire someone, a lot of money. Also the kitchen is tiny, and the home's layout is poor. And, where is the landscaping? If their real estate agent wasn't so clueless, she should have pointed these things out to the homeowners. These people have very bad taste.

@issievdhorst Жыл бұрын

seen

@sherlhoeppner2392 3 ай бұрын

Purple and red-- ugh!!

@patriciavelazquez1010 7 ай бұрын

To personalized. Whoever buys that house will have to paint everything. So people get turned of

@Erintii 2 жыл бұрын

I personally like their choices of colors but most people prefer neutral tones. White is boring but very safe choice

@BIRGITTAQF 2 жыл бұрын

What about the basement

@luciking1745 8 ай бұрын

Did it sell finally

@kmo3811 2 жыл бұрын

As far as I see it, if I liked the house's bones...all I'd need to do is paint every room. I'd want a reduced price. That's a lot of paint and quality paint ain't cheap.

@sandraobrien8705 2 жыл бұрын

Ok paint it but why did they paint the house such ugly colours? It looks dirty now. Why not cream?

@ultimatevixn 2 жыл бұрын

Aren't you going to come in and change everything anyway. These are the colors they choose. They are taking everything but walls anyway. I would say drop the price a little I have to get a painter..

@janefryer6750 7 ай бұрын

I do tend to agree-not the greatest makeover 😳

@user-ed7si9no7i 2 жыл бұрын

Way to much color. Energetic in a bedroom is not okay.

@delondaroberts2753 2 жыл бұрын

I see belly buttons, through those light cream colored dresses.

@lisamills3228 7 ай бұрын

The paint probably had a. Hand in it

@lindatexas5906 2 жыл бұрын

Colors are the problem!! Yuk!

@tytemind7850 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like decor u would have done after HS.

@yesiownfrodo 2 жыл бұрын

The after is almost as horrible as the before. They should have removed that weird living room wall and painted everything except the kitchen white. It STILL looks weirdly painted, very dark, and the rooms look unwelcoming. The master bedroom has no headboard. Just the worst episode from this great show.

@yvonneschermerhorn866 7 ай бұрын

Repainted was a must, but I do not like the 3 openings in the living/ dining room wall. White trim then looking out to wood stained stairs and railings is off- putting for me, as is the dark furniture.

@thehungrygoldfish 7 ай бұрын

Chances are that it’s structural and there are outlets and light switches on that wall so there’s electricity which means wiring that’s needs to be removed and it needs to be moved elsewhere, so it’s minimum 5k to 10k to remove and reinforce it and that’s not including the electrical costs! That’s a lot of money to pay when you’re selling that you will not get back. And it’s not the type of work they usually do with the makeovers. And it’s higher than their typical budget of 3 to 4k.

@dorterosenkjr726 2 жыл бұрын

The houses look very old fashioned seen from Denmark. The walls have such dull Color’s before and after renovating. Don’t you have an IKEA over there for inspiration. And fill the houses with a mixture of IKEA, Scandinavian, Italian and may be Japanese design.

@marzymarrz5172 3 ай бұрын

I see 3 coats of primer, stem to stern. Yikes.

@havinfunnow1108 2 жыл бұрын

Funny how she points out what is wrong with homes, but not what she is wearing. Dress is a bit too tight around the mid region there dear. No one cares to see belly buttons

@thehungrygoldfish 7 ай бұрын

Because it’s a show about selling houses, not fashion lol.

@markroberts8335 2 жыл бұрын

colors are gross..id never buy it.

@agnes15101968 2 жыл бұрын

Yes - after the redo! :-D

@ramonawhisenant2045 3 ай бұрын

Belly button SHOWING!!

@dianealden9293 2 жыл бұрын

After reading comments am glad I am not only one who thought after colors almost as bad as before. Too dark. A light gray, sage green or variations of off white and beige would be better. Still HATE the layout. People need to remember if they are putting a lot of personal preferences into building they better be prepared to remodel. No children?? Why such a big space which they proceeded to chunk up into small spaces?? BIGGER fewer bedrooms would have helped. The gym room better as an office. They seem they would be better in an industrial type loft in a Soho type area or an artsy area where everyone goes wild with colors etc. T h at retaining wall? Wow. Some DIY is better left to experienced handyman.