#91: When Is A House Change You Made Bad For Resale?

Young House Love Has A Podcast

John Petersik

Homeimprovement, Decorating, Arts, Blog, Diy, Younghouselove, Petersik, Interiordesign, Doityourself, Home, House, Decor, Design

4.9 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking about when you should undo a personal or customized change that you made to your house that might turn off potential buyers (and when we'd recommend leaving it the heck alone). We're also getting into store returns and how they're changing, because the ability to return decor items that don’t turn out the way you hoped is a great safeguard... but did you know that some stores may be cracking down on that practice? Here's what we learned about the policing of returns that's going on behind the scenes, and what a DIYer can do to avoid getting their account flagged. We're also recapping our trip to a blogging conference in Austin, John has an a-ha moment regarding something you sleep on, and Sherry gets a personal call from a celebrity that kinda makes her year.

Be sure to check out younghouselove.com/podcast-91/ for notes, links, and photos from this episode.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this week's episode is brought to you by West Elm Local Experiences.
0:05.8	What the heck is that you ask?
0:06.8	Well, I'll tell you later in the episode along with how you can win a $600 West Elm gift
0:10.5	card and an awesome vacation to Charleston, South Carolina.
0:14.0	Flight's hotels the works.
0:15.6	You can find out more and enter to win at westelm.com slash YHL.
0:24.0	I'm John and I'm Sherry.
0:25.7	We like home stuff.
0:26.7	We like talking.
0:27.9	We like the occasional game show sound effect.
0:32.6	So welcome to Younghouse Love has a podcast where we have deep and not so deep conversations
0:37.4	about DIY, design and life at home.
0:40.2	We all make changes to our homes that might not appeal to the masses, but today we're
0:43.5	talking about when you should change things back for potential buyers.
0:46.5	Plus, why stores might stop accepting your returns and how I got a birthday call from
0:50.1	a real housewife.
0:52.8	I felt like I needed a little like jolt of sugar before we started recording, so I
0:56.3	had a lafie taffy.
0:58.1	It was a bad idea.
0:59.1	Why are those in our house?
1:00.1	They're left over from Halloween is why they're in our house.
1:02.2	I feel like in all my minimizing and simplifying, they should not still be left over in our
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