realty round up: house #2

Continuing the summary series from last week with the houses from the second price category, $250,000 - $500,000, the findings are as follows.

- Maximum number of bedrooms: 7 - Belfast
- Minimum number of bedrooms: 2 - Central West End, Jacksonville, Lake Tahoe, Nashville and Park City
- Maximum nmber of bathrooms: 5 - Orchard Lake and Spokane
- Minimum number of bathrooms: 1 - Lake Tahoe
- Largest square footage: 4,482 square feet - East Lansing
- Smallest square footage: 890 square feet - Park City
- Highest list price: $499,000 - Lincoln Park and Orchard Lake
- Lowest list price: $265,000 - Central West End
- Highest price per square foot: $449 - Park City
- Lowest price per square foot: $61 - East Lansing

information and images via Zillow

To date four of the twenty listings sold, five removed their listing, four reduced their price and seven are still for sale at their original list price. 

Happy Friday!

resource review: THE DESIGN FILES

THE DESIGN FILES

THE DESIGN FILES, founded in 2008 by Lucy Feagins, is one of my most recent blog finds. The site presents fresh and interesting content related to all things that fall under the category of Australian design - architecture, art, interiors, graphic design etc. The team of three (Feagins, her editorial assistant and photographer) post daily with every Wednesday being a featured Australian home and every Friday an interview with a local creative talent. The organization of the site is clean, simple and intuitive - a challenge considering the amount of content they put out each week. 

I became a bigger fan of the site when I read this "Biz Ladies"   interview with Feagins on Design Sponge (another great design blog). Feagins explains how she started the blog and how she allowed it to grow organically over the years. Calling her approach as just sort of 'leaning in to it', a phrase and strategy she learned from How To Go From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be by Jack Canfield Feagins explains that instead of getting stuck on figuring out the big picture she just moved in the general direction of where she wanted to go. 

Most recently, Feagins has started The Design Files' Open House in which Feagins and her team take over a real house and create a show home featuring local artists and designers. This year, two homes will be featured on in Sidney and one in Melbourne. 

less stuff, more happiness

Graham Hill is a designer, environmentalist, entrepreneur and founder of the popular website TreeHugger.com. More recently, Hill launched Life Edited - a website with the motto "design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy". His TED talk, "less stuff, more happiness" discusses this recent venture and the ideas behind it.

Beginning with some powerful statistics, Hill's short 6 minute talk goes on to make the case that less is indeed more. Advocating quality over quantity, Hill explains how less stuff leads to a smaller carbon footprint, more financial freedom and ultimately less stress and more happiness. The talk is super short so I highly recommend that everyone take the 6 minutes to listen. Enjoy!