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2020 Outdoor Furniture Design Trends For Your Lake Home

Color Trend – Say Goodbye to Saturation While bright, bold colors were in style a few years ago, the theme that’s been emerging over the past few years is color-infused neutrals. Rather than aiming to wow your guests with bright neon pillows, you’ll instead find that fabric trends are headed in a more muted direction.  These faded shades create a softer look that complements the outdoor furniture’s material, rather than overshadowing it. To highlight this trend, Brown Jordan named Peche (French for “Peach”)– a dusty pink color, similar to rose gold– the color of the year in 2019. This color…

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Trust Your Appraisers, Not an AVM

Automated valuation models provide buyers and sellers with base price points for listed properties. However, data scientists with the National Association of Realtors caution consumers that AVMs are “not a substitute for formal appraisals, comparative market analysis, or the in-depth expertise of real estate professionals.” When it comes to buying and selling unique lake properties, ones that don’t fit into the generic AVM mold, only a highly trained, objective and knowledgeable appraiser can accurately determine your home’s value.  The Appraiser/AVM Difference AVMs determine estimated home values by analyzing quantifiable structural and public property data like a home’s number of bedrooms…