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12
May

The trendy decoration of the homes –  ´old home décor´

 

Nowadays decorating your home to the ´old home décor´ style is super trendy and is an advantage for selling your home, home shoppers are in love with it. This style is from the older homes that display decades-old decor and have not been refurbished or updated. Instead, they’ve been maintained in their original style.

This retro style is actually been study and specialized by real estate professionals. Over the past couple of years more young home shoppers seeking this kind of homes and they’re willing to pay a premium to get them.

So basically the characteristics of this type of homes are popcorn ceilings, shag carpeting, peach bathroom tiles, and baby-blue cabinets. People are encouraged purchasing the home and plans to leave the retro design intact.

Many time-capsule homes are from the post–World War II housing boom.  “Once you remodel a house out of its time period, you have to perpetually remodeled every 10 years to keep up with what’s fashionable,” says Alyssa Starelli an expert in Portland, Ore. “But if you maintain it in the period it was, it always suits the house.”

For all the home shoppers of the time capsule homes, they should also be vigilant about the condition of the home since it is older, like the building code violations and safety hazards, such as lead paint, asbestos, and untempered glass in windows or showers, experts suggest.