Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Staging your Home = Selling your Home

Lifestyles of Long Beac and Real Estate Present: Staging your Home Tips
 

Lights, Cameras, SOLD!

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Staging your Home by Ricardo the Realtor and Team

We think of our homes based on how they fit our lives and needs. Our lifestyles set the parameters of how we choose to create our living spaces. Often when we determine the functionality of a room we keep it that way. It’s very common to keep furniture, and decorations in the same spots for ages. When we choose to sell our home, it is important to take a step back and see how dynamic our space can be. It’s up to us to transform this property that we have thought of as a home into an attractive abode for others. Staging a home is an art but Lifestyles of Long Beach  have put our heads together and come up with a couple tips that can start you off on the right track.


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Less Furniture Makes a Room Look Larger

The Stage: Making your Space have more Space

Sometimes less is more and when it comes to furniture this is great rule to follow. A space will feel larger and less cluttered by removing excess furnishings from the area. Try moving around some of your furniture to different rooms and see if that can help you get more space without actually having to get rid of anything. In addition, by placing the furniture to the center of the room you can create a comfortable grouping.  This can help traffic flow and make the space more user-friendly.  Get rid of any clutter around the home, this is an inexpensive way to increase the feel of sophistication. Transform any rooms that usually serve to gather junk into cozy yoga nooks or relaxing reading rooms by removing the hodgepodge and adding a comfortable seat and a kooshie rug. Long Beach Homes for sale suggests cleaning up your closets. This will make them appear to have more space which is a feature high on many buyers lists.


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A New Coat of Paint Freshens up a Room

Make-up: Pamper the Property with Paint!

Adding a “fresh coat of paint” can make a big difference to how old a house feels. Look around your home and see what surfaces might look a little faded or scuffed up. Inside and out all of your walls should look fresh, clean, and vibrant. An addition of a pleasant neutral color on an accent wall can draw attention to a dramatic fireplace or a lovely set of windows.  If you have a small kitchen and dining room, painting both rooms the same color will make them feel like one big space. Adding a coat of paint to the kitchen cabinets can make the room look fresh and clean. Purchasing new cabinet doors, drawer fronts, and dishwasher panels can revitalize your kitchen. If not, laminate paper, which goes on like contact paper, can be used to re-cover the existing panel. Consider painting over old bathroom tiles, stairs, or decks if they look worn or weathered. Make sure that any repairs that you started are completed. Unfinished projects can scare off potential buyers.  Besides they cost you less to fix than buyers might deduct from the asking price. Ricardo the Realtor and his team give the  example of repairing or having a floor professionally waxed will cost a little but will increase the value of your home. Send us your contact information and we can send you and exclusive 10% off Coupon for Lowe's!


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Inexpensive Accessories can be found in your backyard!
 

Props: Accessorize, Accessorize, Accessorize!

Adding little touches here and there can make a home more welcoming and entice timid buyers to be more interactive and therefore more interested.  Take a look around your garden and see if there are any clippings that can become a beautiful spring bouquet or a blazing fall wreath. Accessories can help in reinventing spaces that will inspire buyers.  Place a table in a pretty window area and top it with buffet lamps and elegant stationary to transform it into a beautiful writing desk. In the main bathroom, accessorizing can make buyers feel like they're in a spa. Put out items like rolled-up towels, decorative baskets and candles. Adding little touches to your home is a great way to create a polished look, and it doesn't cost much to do.


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Each room is important to consider when staging your home.

 

Now it's Your Turn!

It is important when you decide to sell your home that you take the time to make the property presentable. First impressions are very important and might be the only chance you get!  Make efforts to freshen up old paint jobs and complete home repairs. Work on adding personal touches of elegance to what might normally be ordinary spaces. Everything you do to make your home be effective for staging will make you that much closer to selling! Contact Ricardo the Realtor and his team when you are ready to sell your home. We can assist you in the staging of your property and are connected with some of the best staging companies in Long Beach.  


Interested in moving to Long Beach? Have a home in the Long Beach area that you want to sell to a nice family? When you list with our team it is our goal to have your property sold. So get ready for a professional sales push that will produce the best results. If you have any reservations then talk to us and lets make sure that you are making the right decision together.  Ricardo the Realtor and his team are available to assist you in all of your home buying/selling needs.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Belmont Heights Executive Condo Lifestyle and Ocean View - Long Beach Real Estate

Belmont Heights Executive Condo Lifestyle and Ocean View -  Long Beach Real Estate






Belmont Heights Condo For Sale 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath

Sitting on top of a hill, the Pride of Belmont Heights Condo Complex. Here you will find a huge 1 bedroom  1 bath condo with an Pacific Ocean view. This Executive unit has a remodeled and upgraded kitchen and bathroom with new wood floors. The bedroom is very spacious with a large walk in closet. The kitchen has new stainless steel appliances, new cabinets and counter tops. The bathroom has been upgraded with new vanity,counter top, sink, swivel full length mirror with hidden storage areas and it has also been equipped with inside washer/dryer hookups. You must see this unit to truly appreciate it with its patio and ocean view.

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Real Estate Agent
Coldwell Banker Beachside
562-533-4003
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Museum of Latin American Art and other Museums in Long Beach, CA

Museum of Latin American Art
and other Museums in Long Beach







CSU Long Beach, Univ Art Museum

The UAM collections have brought the University and Long Beach area recognition from both the professional art community and international public. The museum collections of site-specific outdoor sculpture, works of art on paper, and the Gordon Hampton Collection of American painting and prints, feature examples of the work of the most important contemporary masters. Presented as major exhibitions, offered for examination by students and scholars, and circulated to national institutions, the UAM collections are a permanent, regional visual resource and archive of contemporary culture.

Address: 1250 N Bellflower Blvd Long Beach, CA 90840

Phone: (562) 985-5761

Category: Art Museums





Long Beach Museum Art

The Long Beach Museum of Art is located on a magnificent bluff-top site overlooking Long Beach Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. The campus includes the historic Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house, now called the Miller Education Center (built in 1912), oceanfront gardens, and a new pavilion with two floors of expansive gallery space for changing exhibitions with the Museum Store in the Masterson Atrium. The historic buildings are home to administrative offices, the Boeing Classroom and Café. In addition to changing exhibitions, the Museum offers extensive educational programs for children and adults, musical programs, festivals, and other special events. Become a Museum Member today!

Address: 2300 E Ocean Blvd Long Beach, CA 90803

Phone: (562) 439-2119

Category: Art Museums






Museum of Latin American Art

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) was founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California and serves the greater Los Angeles area. MOLAA is the only museum in the United States exclusively dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art. Since its inception, MOLAA has doubled its size, added a 15,000 sq. ft. sculpture garden and expanded its permanent collection, ranging from works by Tamayo and Matta to Cruz-Diez, Los Carpinteros and Tunga.
The museum is located in the city’s rapidly developing East Village Arts District. Between 1913 and 1918 the site that the museum now occupies was the home of the Balboa Amusement Producing Company, then the World’s most productive and innovative silent film studio. Before there was a Hollywood, Balboa was the king of the silver screen, producing as much as 20,000 feet of negative film a week.

The building that was renovated as MOLAA’s Entertainment / Education / Special Event venue may have been part of the old Balboa film studio. MOLAA’s exhibition galleries, administrative offices and store are housed in what was once a roller skating rink known as the Hippodrome. Built in the late 1920s, after the film studios were gone, the Hippodrome was a haven for skaters for four decades. The building then served as a senior health center for fifteen years. The high vaulted ceilings and beautiful wooden floors were perfectly suited for the Hippodrome's final metamorphosis into the Museum of Latin American Art.

Address: 628 Alamitos Ave Long Beach, CA 90802

Phone: (562) 437-1689

Category: Art Museums






Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site


4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach, California 90807

Phone: (562) 570-1755
Fax: (562) 570-1893

What is Rancho Los Cerritos?

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site is a public museum open for tours, programs and events. Built in 1844, the adobe home and grounds echo with the rich history of Spanish, Mexican and American California and with the families who helped transform Southern California from its ranching beginnings to a modern, urban society. The two-story Monterey-style adobe is primarily furnished to reflect occupants and lifestyles from the 1860s-1880s. The site, a National, State and Long Beach Historic Landmark, also includes historic gardens and a research library and archives. It is owned by the City of Long Beach and operated through the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine.



 


The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum
 
The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) is located at 7th Street and Alamitos Avenue in the East Village Arts District of Long Beach, California. The district lies in the eastern half of downtown Long Beach, within the borders of Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach Boulevard, 10th Street and Alamitos Avenue. The East Village offers an eclectic mix of artist lofts, high-rise condos, and a wide array of cultures, coffee shops, boutiques, restaurants and galleries. A central feature of the Arts District is the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), which focuses on post-World War II contemporary artists from Latin America.
PIEAM is situated on a triangular piece of land bordered by 7th Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, and Alamitos Avenue; it is, appropriately, an island. The mural design on the exterior of the PIEAM building, created by Long Beach native and famed muralist Art Mortimer, recreates a traditional Men’s House from the Island of Yap, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia. Mortimer’s impressive resume and long history in painting murals throughout Southern California made him the obvious choice for this project.

The museum also showcases the diverse cultures from the Pacific who call this area home, including the Marshallese, Samoans, Chamorro, Fijian, Carolinian, Tongan, Micronesian, Hawaiian, the Ni-Vanuatu, Niuean, Tuvauluan, Maori, Polynesian, Papuan, Austronesian, Nauruan, Melanesian, Palauan, the I-Kiribati and many more distinct nationalities.

PIEAM’s mission is to generate interest in these diverse cultures and educate its varied audiences by bringing the beauty and culture of Pacific Island ethnic art to Southern California. PIEAM stays true to the heritage of the Pacific Islands, highlighting all forms of Pacific Island ethnic art.
PIEAM’s exhibits include sculptures, textiles, paintings, wooden tools, jewelry, and carvings from across the Pacific. Works are constantly being commissioned and acquired from all the islands for display at the museum. Aspects of the living arts showcase traditional island dance, interactive cultural demonstrations, and hands-on learning opportunities. The sculpture garden includes a Stone Money Bank (“Rai”) and a dance platform (“Mahlal”).
The late Dr. Robert Gumbiner created PIEAM in an effort to preserve and revive the island arts and crafts of the Pacific Island people. With his passing in January 2009, his personal collection of Pacific Island ethnic art was generously donated to PIEAM.



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Museum of Latin American Art and other Museums in Long Beach