While working from home, thousands of Santa Barbarans experienced their house in a different way. When you spent time on the couch or at the kitchen table working, separating the end of work life from the beginning of home life was a challenge.
Is the couch where you relax or where you send emails? Is the kitchen table where you eat, or where your computer lives? When you create a home office, there is suddenly a dividing line between work life and personal life. Acquiring that home office became critical during COVID.
We mentally assign our habits to the places where they occur and think of our homes as containing objects. When you can instead think about your home and possessions as items you have a relationship with, you can more easily modify your habits and increase creativity. Going to a place that you seldom use and creating a new routine there makes it easier to associate the new location with a new behavior. New habits developed in a new location are much more likely to flourish and grow.
A room with a view, a roof top deck, or a secluded spot in your yard are locations that make it easier to escape from the competing cues and subtle patterns that confine you. It is possible that you have exhausted your creative juices at your house. To see this, or even consider that your relationship with your current home is exhausting you, may be hard to grasp. Our relationships with our homes are generally invisible to us, but the habits we have developed are strong.
Are you stymied by your relationship with your current space? Are you thinking of a fresh start in a new home? Would you like a new eye on preparing your home for sale?
Part of my specialization has been helping homeowners increase the impact on Buyers when they see a house for the first time.I help people get their relationship with a home off to a good start.
Allow me to help you exercise your creativity. Please call for a consultation.
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Market Update
Prices are in a plateau and locally sales have slowed by half. Inventory is increasing but prices on the South Coast have not declined. Nationally the predictions are for prices to drop slightly in the next year. Many people are secure in their homes with low interest rates, so there is little incentive to move. A flood of inventory is unlikely. If you are a buyer needing a mortgage, asking the seller to pay some of your loan costs is becoming a popular way to move forward with a purchase.
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