Buffalo, New York. Where’s it’s cold near year ’round. You’d think the fireplace would be the prominent feature of the home. Not so for these three homes.
Let’s push a big sofa in front of the fireplace. Let’s cover up the rest of the fireplace with personal items. Buyers won’t care, right? [It looks like a person’s face in the bottom left of the photo]
Great idea blocking the fireplace. I did the same thing in my house. And I added a lot of family photos too and kept the curtains closed. We don’t want buyers to think Buffalo has sunlight.
Well, we don’t have a huge couch to block our fireplace so we’ll use kid’s toys and other clutter to hide it.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Murphy // Nov 6, 2010 at 10:50 am
Buffalo has too much cold weather and snow, just the opposite of too much heat in Phoenix.
I’m convinced that weather extremes do damage people’s brains!
2 miss m // Nov 7, 2010 at 2:57 am
I can’t even grasp the idea of blocking the fireplace.
In that last picture they need to take the scary lady portrat off the wall - among other things.
3 Addie // Nov 7, 2010 at 10:03 am
A lot of the houses are almost a hundred years old or more and the owners haven’t kept up the chimney maintenance. Plus if it’s a rental the landlord usually doesn’t want them using it anyway.
4 Joeygoat // Nov 8, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Check out the bee hive hairdo in that last picture!
5 Lori // Mar 23, 2013 at 5:51 pm
It is a shame to hide a fireplace. Such a nice focal point !
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