THE WASHINGTON POST
When Racheal Jackson bought her 1978 fixer-upper in Vancouver, Wash., she considered the wood-accented house a blank canvas waiting to be made over with color. The designer and artist took it one room at a time: painting a mural here, creating a piece of art there. Before she knew it, her house was an amalgamation of smaller projects, most of them accomplished with paint.
Her motto, “It’s just paint,” also has colored the work she’s done on clients’ homes. “Does your room feel uninspired? Paint it,” advises the founder of Banyan Bridges, a mural and interior-design service. (Jackson also co-hosts the series “Artfully Designed” on Discovery+.) “We live bolder lives when we surround ourselves with bold design, so . . . just try it on. Paint your wall fuchsia!”
Maggie McGaugh, a homerenovation Instagrammer and self-proclaimed “dumpster diver,” agrees with Jackson’s “go bold” approach. For the past few years, the Texas creative has shared her adventures rehabbing discarded furniture with more than 500,000 followers. Sometimes the slightest changes can make the largest impact, McGaugh says.
Want to give your own DIY project a go? Jackson, McGaugh and other design experts share some of their favorite homerefresh ideas, all requiring nothing more than a single gallon of paint.
Jackson’s signature are her
whimsical, color-blocked murals, which also happen to be an ideal paint project for newbies.
Using a variety of different size brushes and painter’s tape, Jackson has created these vivid murals in homes across the country. For simple designs, she says DIYers can use their phones to take a photo of the wall and use the editing function to sketch the design, to determine placement and scale.
For a more complicated mural, you could use an app such as Pro-
create to sketch out your idea first, then project it onto the wall and trace over it with pencil or chalk. Often, you’ll need a few coats of paint on each block to achieve full coverage. If you’re using several colors, buy sample sizes or quarts for each section, rather than a whole gallon. Jackson recommends paint with a matte finish.
To prevent the sections from bleeding into each other, tape off the design (pressing along the tape with a credit card or something similar to make sure
it’s tight against the wall), then paint your base color over the whole area, including over the tape. Once the base color dries, apply your next color over the top. When you remove the tape, your design should be crisp.
Colson Horton, an interior and prop stylist, says that if you aren’t ready to paint an entire wall, tackling a more manageable project such as a grouping of picture frames can give a space personality with minimal effort.
“If you want to spruce up a room, why not paint your wooden frames a half shade darker or lighter than your wall color to create a clean, monochromatic look?” she says.
To achieve such a look, sand each frame, then prime before painting. Using a sprayer will give the cleanest finish, Horton says. “Make sure not to be too close to the frame to avoid drips, and allow the paint to dry fully between layers. I have rushed this process before and I always regret it, so take your time!”
For added dimension, she suggests using a different sheen of paint on your frames than what is on your wall, or adding contrasting mats “for a little extra punch of playfulness.”
The application and semi-permanence of wallpaper is daunting to many homeowners. If that includes you, interior designer Isabel Ladd suggests emulating the look and feel of patterned paper with paint instead.
“What looks like wallpa-
per [can] actually be done with a gallon of paint and stencils,” says the founder of Isabel Ladd Interiors in Lexington, Ky. In rooms with odd dimensions, the method can work much better than traditional paper. “This was especially necessary in a bathroom [I designed] with quirky sized walls where everything was crooked,” Ladd says. “We had better command of the design using paint and a stencil than we would have papering the walls.”
You can find handmade stencils on Etsy or buy a set at your local craft store. Or, find a pattern that you love, print it out and cut your own stencil from blank stencil sheets. Use blue painter’s tape to hold the stencil in place, Ladd says, and start in the middle of the wall, then work your way out on either side to ensure symmetry and even spacing. Ladd also recommends investing in a stencil brush, “as they are flat and great for this application.”
To prevent the paint from bleeding beyond the stencil borders, don’t oversaturate your paint brush. “If you need more coverage, wait until the first layer of paint is dry, then use the guidelines on the stencil to line up the design again, and proceed with your next layer,” she advises. “Use a fine painter’s brush to clean up any spots or errors.”
Keeping an old piece of furniture out of a landfill can be as easy as slicking on a fresh coat of paint, McGaugh says. The results are almost always rewarding and, if you find discarded items
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Q: I’m a local Realtor and I read your column all the time and find it very informative, even for those of us in the business. I have a problem that I think your readers would find informa tive and I am interested in your response. A former client whom I represented is suing me. This guy came to me about a year ago with credit problems, up to his ears in debt, and with no money in his pockets. After working with him for over six months, my lender and I were able to get him in a position where he could get a mortgage. We found a house, had our offer accepted and opened escrow. Two days before the escrow was to close, the whole deal fell apart. It appears that my client stopped paying his bills as soon as we opened the escrow because he thought the lender had already pulled his credit report so he didn’t care. When the lender ran a lastminute credit check prior to funding and found out, they refused to write the loan. He has sued the lender and me because we didn’t tell him he had to keep paying his bills. I guess I’m writing because I’m tired of people thinking that the Realtor is responsible every time a sale falls through. I was hoping you could outline for your readers what a Realtor is responsible for and what they aren’t responsible for. Thanks.
A: Obviously you won’t be held liable under such a stupid cause of action. Unfortunately, you will have to pay your deductible to your insurance carrier and possibly go through a year or more of court proceedings.
The problem with the real estate profession as a whole is a lack of a good job description. Nowhere does the law succinctly define what a Realtor is responsible for and where that responsibility ends.
When you take your car to the mechanic, you don’t expect him to be responsible for fixing your home plumbing. Yet I have seen more than one case of a Realtor being sued because their client bought a home with faulty plumbing.
I give seminars to Realtors on risk
management. I can tell you from experience that it is impossible to advise them concerning how to eliminate the risk of being sued. Why? Because every judge and jury has a different idea of what a Realtor should be doing.
In fact, as an attorney, I am always afraid of putting a Realtor in front of a jury. The plaintiff’s attorney will hammer home the idea that, ultimately, the Realtor knew they weren’t getting paid unless the transaction closed with the inference that the agent would do anything possible to make it happen.
On top of that, Realtors bear this extremely high degree of legal responsibility, known as a fiduciary duty, to
This fiduciary duty has been misinterpreted to mean that everything that goes wrong can be laid at the feet of
While this is legally untrue, it hasn’t stopped unhappy clients from filing a lawsuit regardless of its merit. And all too often their efforts are rewarded because the insurance company may well settle the claim in the early stages rather than pay the substantial cost of taking the case to trial.
Frankly, if insurance companies would stop paying settlement money on worthless lawsuits, this practice would stop in short order.
I’m certainly not suggesting there aren’t Realtors out there who don’t do a good job for their clients and deserve to get sued over mistakes they’ve made. However, in my experience, there are a lot more of the silly suits against Realtors than ones with merit.
For many years now I have been an advocate in seeking clear legislation outlining the obligations of a real estate agent. That way both the agents and their clients know what to expect. The California Association of Realtors which, as you know, provides the standard contract forms and disclosures for Realtors throughout the state, tries its best to keep adding language
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The headline is a quote from a book called “The Wealthy Barber” by David Chilton, written in 1989. However, I am 100% sure I heard this quote at a multilevel marketing seminar in 1987.
At this seminar, the speaker talked about how historically, life insurance companies pay out dividends on cash-value life insurance policies at a rate of 3% to 4% and then invest the policyholders’ cash value in real estate for a rate of return of around 8% to 12%. The seminar theme was about the magic of compound interest and how the differ-
ence between 4% and 8% over 36 years is a lot of money, and we should buy real estate and safe stock market investments rather than lend money to a bank or buy cash-value life insurance. This margin is exactly how life insurance companies and banks make a profit. We lend
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mingbirds and butterflies as they walked into a store.
Pollinators were something most of us could have only imagined. Oh, we expected the occasional visitor, but never did we dream of it being a butterfly champ where swallowtails come in four at a time, zebra longwings three at a time and the bright orange Gulf fritillaries challenging each other for a spot
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TOTAL SALES: 5
LOWEST AMOUNT: $340,000
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $825,000
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $707,000
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $645,800
1371 Bonita Bahia - $825,000
02-17-23 [4 Bdrms - 2959 SqFt - 1973 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 09-10-13, $240,000
1892 Lindo Street - $707,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 1113 SqFt - 1971 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 03-30-20, $580,000
900 Southampton Road #48 - $340,000
02-16-23 [2 Bdrms - 853 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 10-25-17, $257,500
1772 Stuart Court - $632,000
02-15-23 [3 Bdrms - 1601 SqFt - 1984 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 04-20-18, $473,000
412 Turner Drive - $725,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 1959 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt]
TOTAL SALES: 2
LOWEST AMOUNT: $505,000
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $608,000
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $556,500
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $556,500
570 East Creekside Circle - $505,000
02-16-23 [3 Bdrms - 1488 SqFt - 1980 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 07-18-14, $285,000
690 Woodard Way - $608,000
02-17-23 [4 Bdrms - 1898 SqFt - 1997 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 06-24-20, $500,000
TOTAL SALES: 14
LOWEST AMOUNT: $233,000
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,000,000
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $550,000
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $553,786
2737 Almondwood Way - $550,000
02-14-23 [4 Bdrms - 1512 SqFt - 1982 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 04-22-99, $137,000
2753 Ambrosia Way - $630,000
02-14-23 [4 Bdrms - 2253 SqFt - 2021 YrBlt]
3416 Astoria Circle - $620,000
02-16-23 [5 Bdrms - 2392 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt]
4592 Avondale Circle - $650,000
02-16-23 [3 Bdrms - 2489 SqFt - 2000
YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-14-03, $545,000
3404 Black Mountain Court - $1,000,000
02-15-23 [5 Bdrms - 4003 SqFt - 2008
YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-02-19, $885,000
1850 Blossom Avenue #120 - $305,000
02-17-23 [2 Bdrms - 890 SqFt - 1991 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 06-20-18, $240,000
2310 Burgundy Way - $550,000
02-16-23 [4 Bdrms - 2169 SqFt - 1993 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 09-24-03, $350,000
1519 Hideaway Lane - $630,000
02-16-23 [4 Bdrms - 2602 SqFt - 2020 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 02-13-20, $513,500
225 Pennsylvania Avenue #A2 -
$350,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 1084 SqFt - 1986 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 05-05-04, $189,000
1707 San Diego Street - $405,000
02-15-23 [3 Bdrms - 1686 SqFt - 1959 YrBlt]
2852 Shasta Drive - $470,000
02-15-23 [3 Bdrms - 1236 SqFt - 1987 YrBlt]
313 Vel Place - $410,000
02-16-23 [2 Bdrms - 800 SqFt - 1948 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 09-19-22, $280,000
5247 Venetian Drive - $950,000
02-16-23 [6 Bdrms - 3151 SqFt - 2000 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 10-26-05, $800,000
34 Villa Court - $233,000
02-16-23 [2 Bdrms - 968 SqFt - 1971 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 10-16-15, $72,000
TOTAL SALES: 2
LOWEST AMOUNT: $430,000
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $432,000
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $431,000
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $431,000 340 Cedar Ridge Drive - $432,000
02-14-23 [2 Bdrms - 1451 SqFt - 1999 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 01-03-14, $230,000 825 Flores Way - $430,000 02-14-23
02-15-23 [2 Bdrms - 924 SqFt - 1981 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 04-16-08, $105,000
121 Heritage Lane - $515,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 1445 SqFt - 1987 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 07-21-22, $537,500
113 Mckinley Circle - $405,000
02-14-23 [2 Bdrms - 1253 SqFt - 1964 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 05-31-17, $330,000
1207 Needham Drive - $483,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 1000 SqFt - 1976 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 08-13-10, $117,000
848 Scottsdale Drive - $480,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 1337 SqFt - 1985 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 01-17-20, $380,000
TOTAL SALES: 19
LOWEST AMOUNT: $217,500
HIGHEST AMOUNT: $790,000
MEDIAN AMOUNT: $542,000
AVERAGE AMOUNT: $546,053
1228 Arkansas Street - $615,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 1791 SqFt - 1942 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 01-11-12, $235,000
50 Bidwell Way - $542,000
02-17-23 [2 Bdrms - 1692 SqFt - 1972 YrBlt]
140 Calhoun Street - $270,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 988 SqFt - 1978 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 02-18-21, $238,000
146 Calhoun Street - $283,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 988 SqFt - 1978 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 10-27-22, $260,000
1457 North Camino Alto #110 - $217,500
02-14-23 [1 Bdrms - 706 SqFt - 1973 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 04-20-06, $178,000
305 Campbell Avenue - $475,000
02-17-23 [4 Bdrms - 1686 SqFt - 1950 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 11-17-05, $440,000
2934 Carlingford Lane - $790,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 2114 SqFt - 2000 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 11-17-17, $558,000
8088 Carlisle Way - $642,000
02-14-23 [4 Bdrms - 2051 SqFt - 2004 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 05-13-13, $325,000
383 Catalina Way - $499,000
02-17-23 [4 Bdrms - 1393 SqFt - 1984 YrBlt]
3021 Clear Coast Court - $760,000
02-14-23 [5 Bdrms - 2395 SqFt - 1998 YrBlt],
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Previous Sale: 10-28-15, $457,000
348 Cottonwood Drive - $500,000
02-15-23 [3 Bdrms - 1008 SqFt - 1954 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 09-26-22, $280,000
344 Foulkstone Way - $710,000
02-14-23 [3 Bdrms - 1721 SqFt - 1988 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 09-29-20, $570,000
268 Hawkins Street - $750,000
02-14-23 [4 Bdrms - 2301 SqFt - 1987 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 08-08-22, $728,000
331 Howard Avenue - $610,000
02-14-23 [4 Bdrms - 2124 SqFt - 1966 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 08-03-12, $206,000
1117 Indiana Street - $510,000
02-14-23 [2 Bdrms - 1696 SqFt - 1981 YrBlt]
529 Maine Street - $649,000
02-16-23 [4 Bdrms - 2719 SqFt - 1920 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 03-29-22, $433,000
114 Roywood Court - $425,000
02-17-23 [3 Bdrms - 1411 SqFt - 1954 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 08-29-12, $135,000
370 Southport Way - $635,000
02-17-23 [4 Bdrms - 1738 SqFt - 1985 YrBlt]
6 View Street - $492,500
02-14-23 [2 Bdrms - 1144 SqFt - 1941 YrBlt],
Previous Sale: 11-07-11, $109,000
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to disclosures in an attempt to make parties understand where the Realtor’s job ends. The problem with this approach is that it continually adds paper full of fine print to the already massive amount of paper that’s involved in a real estate sale. The result is that everybody knows that no one reads everything and the law, more or less, gives consumers (buyers and sellers) a pass for not reading “the fine print.”
So until there is a more comprehensive legal scheme that limits a Realtor’s job to specific responsibilities, occasionally defending yourself in court will continue to be an unfortunate cost of doing business.
Tim Jones is a real estate attorney in Fairfield. If you have any real estate questions you would like to have answered in this column, you can send an email to AllThingsRealEstate@TJones-Law.com.
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them our money at a safe low rate and then they invest this dough in incomeproducing hard assets like real estate, mortgages, stocks and bonds and get a higher rate of return than they pay us.
If you were to invest $1,000 per month today at 4% compounded monthly, you would have $967,000 in 36 years; at 8% you would have $2.5 million and at 12%, $7.3 million.
Net interest margin is the talk of the town on Wall Street lately with a couple of regional banks in a ton of hot water because of what they call a “run on the
bank” and poor net interest margins.
Silicon Valley Bank bought a bunch of bonds and mortgage-backed securities from 2019 to 2022 with yields below 4%, and with competitors now offering 4% CDs and the U.S. government selling six-month T-bills at 4% to 5%, SVB couldn’t afford to offer competitive rates to their depositors and so folks ran to their SVB bank teller and said, “Sorry, I want the money I loaned you back right now because I can lend this money out to others and get a better rate.”
SVB has also suffered because the IPO market has dried up this past 15 months, so loan fee volume is down and, like the residential mortgage business, refinancing is dead across the country because most people and busi-
nesses refinanced their loans at low rates in 2020 and 2021 and have no need to refinance today.
The key point of this week’s column is for my adult kids, clients, readers and young people I work with in real estate to invest in income-producing assets and be an owner and not a loaner for your long-term investments.
Jim Porter, NMLS No. 276412, is the branch manager and senior loan adviser of Solano Mortgage, NMLS No. 1515497, a division of American Pacific Mortgage Corporation, NMLS No. 1850, licensed in California by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation under the CRMLA / Equal Housing Opportunity. Jim can be reached at 707-449-4777.
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and dried in perpetuity. You must watch Laura LeBoutillier, the internet star of “Garden Answer,” to not only see her stands of Truffula Pink gomphrena in the garden, but to watch her talents as she creates an incredible wreath with the flowers.
Truffula Pink needs full sun and fertile, well-drained soil to really perform to its capability. Letting these great plants sit in wet, soggy soil will be a crime. You will want to space your plants 12 to 18 inches apart and apply a good layer of mulch after planting. It is a great plant for mass planting. Expect your Truffula Pink to get about 2 feet tall and bloom until frost.
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on sidewalks and in dumpsters as she does, the project is practically free.
“Last year, I found a dresser on the side of the road that was missing three drawers,” she recalls, “so I cut off [the parts for] the missing drawers, painted it black and turned it into a mid-century modern entryway bench.”
If it’s your first time working with furniture, McGaugh recommends starting small – and with something you already own. “Don’t overwhelm yourself,” she says. A beginner project could be as simple as spray painting a set of patio furniture, she adds, but always prep your piece first. “Sanding is the best way to ensure the paint will stick, regardless of the type. . . . Sealing also helps protect it.”
Original artwork can immediately transform a space. Even if you don’t fancy yourself an
The Garden Guy has had them in containers as the thriller plant partnered with Whirlwind Blue scaevola, Superbells Double Blue calibrachoa and Goldilocks creeping Jenny. In the landscape I have had it in several combinations, some with Illusion Emerald Lace ornamental sweet potatoes, others with Luscious Royale Cosmo lantana and some with Sunstar pentas. It is one of the toughest, most carefree plants you will ever grow. This last season I used it with the new Meant to Bee Queen Nectarine and Royal Raspberry agastaches, or hummingbird mints, that are making their debut this year. In Mrs. Sylvette’s cottage garden in Old Town she grew dozens of Truffula Pink gomphrenas with Luscious Royale Cosmo lantanas and yellow Coreopsis verticillatas. The entire front yard was
artist, creating your own unique piece is well within reach, says Jackson. All you need is a canvas, a brush and some acrylic paint from your local art supply store, or try sourcing materials from a thrift store, she says.
“Buy art at thrift stores and paint over it,” she explains. “It’s often the cheapest way to get a canvas, and if it comes in a funky frame, paint that, too. The more, the better.”
lined with the flowers, to the delight of the throngs of us that line her street to see the flowers throughout the growing season. At The Garden Guy’s house, I am happy to report mine are returning this spring, even after the shocking December arctic blast. This has happened a couple of other years even though I am in zone 8a (9-11 are their recommended perennial zones). Truffula Pink has won 50 awards and most likely in your state if they have a plant trial program. But don’t forget that this annual, as National Plant of the Year, is worth every penny spent.
Norman Winter is a horticulturist, garden speaker and author of “Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South” and “Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden.”
When reusing a thrift-sourced canvas, Jackson recommends priming, then applying a base coat in your preferred color before adding your design. Don’t know what to paint? Browse Instagram or Pinterest for inspiration and practice emulating the styles you like. Or go the geometric route and use Jackson’s mural techniques for color-blocking sections of a canvas with a ruler and painter’s tape.
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