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Fantasy and reality meet head-on in photos of costume fans in their own homes | Waccabuc Homes

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Almost everybody has worn a costume at some point in their lives. For Halloween, a school play or just make-believe around the house. But for others, it’s an every-weekend thing.
For these costume enthusiasts, there are numerous communities. Cosplay followers dress up as characters from comics, anime, video games and film; LARPers (live action role players) get together to perform fantasy scenarios dressed up as cowboys, knights or other characters; furries wear furry animal suits for fun; and so on.
But most costume fans have normal day jobs, families and homes in which they put on regular clothes to cook dinner and watch TV. Looking to capture this strange world and the people behind it, photographer Klaus Pichler took photos of costume wearers in full regalia in their most revealing of spaces: their homes.

Pichler spent three years taking photographs for the series, titled “Just the Two of Us.” He spent most of that time “researching people or communities with interesting costumes,” he says. “Quite hard work.”
This homeowner created a custom Cookie Monster costume for a private Carnival celebration.
Cosplay (“costume” plus “play”) is a Japanese-rooted practice; its followers portray characters from Japanese comics (manga), cartoons (anime) and films. This handmade cosplayer costume depicts Jaken, a character from the InuYasha manga series by Rumiko Takahashi.
Star Wars is perhaps one of the most-loved sources of muses for costume adopters. The 501st Legion is the official worldwide Star Wars fan club, founded in 1997 and based on George Lucas’ film series. Here a young Stormtrooper sits in a living room.
Meanwhile, Boba Fett spins a DJ set at home.
Pichler says he chose not to reveal any personal information about the people other than what’s shown in their homes. “I consciously decided to depict the persons in a way that the civic identities disappear behind the mask,” he says. “I tried to create a special kind of tension that’s linked to the refusal of answering the crucial question, Who is the person behind the mask?”

Fed needs to detect asset bubbles when they’re forming | Waccabuc Real Estate

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Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, appeared every bit the monetary policy dove that investors expected during her first big hearing in front of the Senate Banking Committee as Fed Chair nominee.

Yellen reiterated her approach to Fed policy, showing a commitment to using the low federal funds rate and the ongoing $85 billion in monthly asset purchases to drive an economic recovery. The fed views economic success against the backdrop of two key indicators — unemployment and price stability.

Yellen eschewed suggestions from Senators that a souped up market – driven by recent Fed asset purchases and low interest rates – has caused a new bubble to inflate in areas such as housing.

“The Fed needs to detect asset bubbles when they are forming,” Yellen said. “By and large, I would say I don’t see evidence at this point of asset price misalignments at a level that would threaten financial stability.”

Yellen went on to ensure Senators that the Fed has a variety of tools at its disposal to pull back aggressive monetary policies should price misalignments or other issues surface.

The nominee then pointed to the housing market as a primary beneficiary of Fed policies.

 

 

 

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/27966-yellen-fed-needs-to-detect-asset-bubbles-when-theyre-forming

Experts mull over housing bubble expectations | Waccabuc Real Estate

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Despite rapid increases in home prices over the past year, prices are 4% undervalued in the fourth quarter — meaning the market is nowhere near another housing bubble, Trulia (TRLA) claims in a new report.

To put it into perspective, prices were as much as 39% overvalued in the first quarter of 2008 — at the height of the bubble — then dropped to being 15% undervalued in the fourth quarter of 2011, the real estate firm says.

“If prices nationally are 4% undervalued, why are so many people worried that a new bubble is forming,” questioned Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko.

He added, “Because prices have risen quickly over the past year, and even with the recent slowdown in the past few months, rising prices stoke bubble fear.”

In October, asking prices were up 11.7% year-over-year, which is roughly the same sharp increases seen in 2004 when the housing bubble was inflating.

Consequently, some market analysts believe that housing is in the depths of a bubble.

Given the fact that home prices are rising faster than real median household income as well as mortgage purchase applications, it signals the same factors experienced in the previous housing bubble, explained George Mason University finance professor Anthony Sanders.

“For the average American household, they are in a housing bubble,” he said. “For Chinese and other domestics and foreign investors, house prices are a bargain.”

 

 

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/27950-experts-mull-over-housing-bubble-expectations

Metro Detroit Real Estate Market Stays Red Hot | Waccabuc Real Estate

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When it comes to housing in metro Detroit, it’s once again a seller’s market.

New figures from the Farmington Hills real estate data firm Realcomp II Ltd. show home prices skyrocketed 40 percent in October from a year earlier. Sales were up only slightly, though, at an 0.7 percent increase.

The median sale price in the 10-county area surveyed by Realcomp was $124,800, up from $89,000 a year earlier. A total of 6,345 homes changed hands in the month, up from 6,298 in October 2012.

Big price increases were reported in Macomb County (up 46 percent) and Wayne County (up 44 percent). Prices in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights were up 41 percent. Areas reporting relatively modest price increases were Livingston County (up 14.5 percent) and Lapeer County (up 6.1 percent). Average prices actually fell in only one county, 2.2 percent in St. Clair.

The number of homes sold actually fell in some parts of the region — down 20.1 percent in St. Clair County, down 10.2 percent in Lapeer County, down 9.6 percent in Detroit and the cities of Hamtramck, Highland Park and Harper Woods.

That could actually be because of a lack of inventory — the number of homes on the market fell almost 11 percent from a year ago, to 22,309 homes listed for sale in the region, down from 25,035 a year earlier. Another sign of a hot market: The number of days a home stayed on the market before selling plunged 22 days from a eyar earlier, to 56 days, from 78. (During the depths of the recession it took over 100 days to sell a home.)

 

 

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/metro-detroit-real-estate-market-stays-red-hot/

Westchester pol considers challenging Cuomo | Waccabuc Real Estate

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Newly re-elected Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, paid a surprise visit to the all Democratic Somos El Futuro gathering of state politicians in Puerto Rico last week, delivering an address in fluent Spanish and impressing many who were there.

Gov. Cuomo, by contrast, skipped the event, disappointing many and reinforcing his image as aloof from, and even contemptuous of, his fellow Democrats.

Astorino’s visit wasn’t by accident. The Post has learned that he told several aides and key fund-raisers in recent weeks that if he won last week’s election by a comfortable margin, he would “seriously consider” challenging Cuomo next year.

He won by a landslide in a heavily Democratic county within the critical New York City media market, and challenging Cuomo is exactly what he said he is considering in an expansive telephone interview with The Post from Puerto Rico.

“I am considering it right now. I have to consider it,’’ declared Astorino. “New York is hemorrhaging jobs, I think we just went from 49th to 50th in terms of a bad business climate. We’re going in the wrong direction.

“I feel New York is fundamentally out of balance right now with extraordinarily high taxes, a terrible regulatory climate and an explosion of Medicaid and pension costs that is really killing counties, local governments and school districts. There have to be some fundamental changes going forward,’’ he added.

Astorino has been working on developing a range of policy positions that would be important in a statewide race for governor.

He said, for instance, that if he did become governor, he would move to create thousands of private-sector jobs by approving “with proper restrictions’’ drilling for natural gas — known as “fracking’’ — in the economically hard-pressed Southern Tier, something Cuomo, facing threats from radical environmentalists, has refused to do for three years, despite promises that he would.

Astorino did credit Cuomo with “baby steps’’ to improve the state’s economic picture during his first year in office.

And he conceded that the governor, who is popular with all but upstate voters, would be difficult to beat, saying, “He’s certainly the prohibitive favorite.’’

 

 

 

 

http://nypost.com/2013/11/11/westchester-pol-considers-challenging-cuomo-for-governors-seat/

Is This the Top Content Marketing Company in the World? | Waccabuc Realtor

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The rise of blogging , Facebook and Twitter has made us all publishers.

Add mobile HD cameras mounted to helmets streaming death defying leaps,  extreme bike moves and dives and you have an explosion of multi-media creators  and publishers. Mobile and modern camera technology coupled with global social  networks are providing platforms and networks with the media fodder that are  supercharging content distribution and sharing.

Content and media is no longer gathering dust in the bottom draw or the  filing cabinet but is published online. Often it is streaming and unedited. It’s  real and raw.

Content now comes in a wide variety of formats and media. It can start with a  140 character micro blog (tweet), a video. image or a long form content piece of  2,000 words on your blog. It can even be a 6 second “Vine” video or a filtered  snapshot on Instagram taken on a smartphone.

These fast changing opportunities and mediums are presenting the traditional  marketer with some thought provoking and uncomfortable choices. You can almost  hear the squirming.

Why content marketing upsets traditional marketers

The old school marketing habits and paradigms don’t cut it anymore because  content marketing requires a different way of thinking. It flips the marketing  model in many ways.

  1. Pull rather than push. Its about attracting the customer to  you rather than pushing advertisements. That’s different.
  2. Entertain and educate first and sell second. Traditional  marketing never heard of the term educate.
  3. You don’t talk  about your product. Mentioning your product in content marketing  is inappropriate. The old school thinking struggles with that.
  4. You must think and act like a publisher not an advertiser.  That is not in the comfort zone.
  5. You operate in real time. This means you have to be  thinking about “continuous marketing” as well as being campaign focused. That’s  demanding.
  6. Need different  resources. This includes staff and software. The status quo is  being challenged.
  7. Needs a different culture. Publishing culture is different  to an advertising mindset. Newsrooms, reporting and editing are a world apart  from corporate marketing and advertising.

These mind warps are presenting some challenges and potential disruption to  the marketing department and the CEO. What are the obstacles in moving from  traditional mass media habits to a publisher paradigm?

The challenges to becoming a media company

The challenges come from many angles. Some are larger than others. It means  adopting a flexible mindset that is open to change. That in itself is a  challenge.

Here are a few to keep in mind as you move to a content marketing culture  that  embraces the new.

  • Re-allocation of  resources. It is hard to discard old habits but it requires a hard look  at what isn’t working or appropriate and try something new.
  • Re-educating the  team. It will mean sometimes forgetting what was taught at university  or college because most of the changes in media are mostly less than a decade  old. YouTube is not yet 10 years old (founded in 2005), tablets have only been  around for 4 years and Facebook was launched in February 2004.
  • Changing the culture. Maybe change management is  needed.
  • Adapting to a mobile content world. Smartphones only  exploded into popular culture when the first iPhone was launched in 2007.  Websites need upgrading to be “mobile responsive” and content optimisation now  has to consider viewing on smartphones.
  • Understanding  re-purposing of content. With the broad range of multi-media formats  (30 plus at last count) and social networks, brands need to understand that we  have different  preferences for the media we read and watch and the social  networks we use to consume them on. Same message but different  media.
  • Developing an integrated mindset. This means weaving  content marketing into other marketing channels. This includes embedding content  marketing in and across all media channels including social, search, email and  traditional mass media.
  • Creating “conversations around the brand” not about the  brand. (Thanks Altimeter for that insightful phrase). This means creating content that has heart and  soul of the brand embedded but not mentioned.

So what does this adaptation look like?

The content marketing stages

Content marketing is still embryonic for most companies. Here is how  Altimeter sees the stages of content marketing maturity.

 

 

 

 

Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/11/08/is-this-the-top-content-marketing-company-in-the-world/#5eVc09uyx9ypi8ic.99

Charting the Changes Happening Around The Barclays Center | Waccabuc NY Realtor

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Today the Municipal Art Society named the year-old Barclays Center a 2013 MASterworks Winner for being a “Neighborhood Catalyst.” The distinction may be somewhat vague, but it’s certainly fitting. Even before the arena opened in September 2012, the surrounding neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Fort Greene started to see changes, but now that construction is underway on the first residential tower of Atlantic Yards, new development will no doubt increase. Property values are increasing, new retailers and restaurants are moving in, and old stores are being replaced with new buildings. For this microhood map, we charted the changes happening in the blocks closest to the arena. There’s likely a property or two that we missed, so leave a comment or hit up the tipline if you know something that we don’t.

Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (877) 772-5849, website

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Atlantic Yards Microhood Map
Atlantic Terrace
Plans for the eco-friendly co-op building Atlantic Terrace began around the same time that Bruce Ratner first announced his grand plans for Atlantic Yards way back in 2003. The building is located on the site of a former gas station, so a brownfield remediation took place before construction could begin. The building opened in 2010, with 59 of the 80 units being affordable, and it sold out within a year and a half. Since then, the new building has been a residential anchor on this stretch of Atlantic Avenue, which faces the railyards. Before the Barclays Center opened, the developer had trouble finding a tenant for the street level commercial space, but the chain Tony Roma’s is supposed to open soon, much to the dismay of residents.
212 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6831583-73.97283479999998
Barclays Center
After nine years of lawsuits, fights, and delays, the controversial Barclays Center basketball arena opened in September 2012. The arena was the first piece of the megaproject to be completed, and it’s opening boosted changes in the surrounding neighborhood.
620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(877) 772-5849
40.68312-73.975979
Atlantic Yards Tower B2
Three months after the Barclays Center opened, Forest Cit Ratner broke ground on the first tower of Atlantic Yards, the 32-story B2. It will be tallest modular building in the world when complete. The building will eventually be joined by 14 others, and the project’s new investor expects to complete everything within eight years. That may be overly optimistic, however, given that a platform must be constructed over the rail yards before work can begin on most of those towers.
461 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6817672-73.97543239999999
215 Flatbush Avenue
Directly across the street from B2, PRD Realty is building a new six-story apartment building at 215 Flatbush Avenue. The site was formerly home to the Bergen Tile Company, and now it will have 53 rentals and 9,875-square-feet of ground floor retail.
215 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.681482-73.97519499999998
474 Dean Street
The yellow clapboard house at 474 Dean Street went into contract just 22 days after hitting the market in early 2013, ultimately closing for $1.52M. The asking price was $1.95M. The owners wouldn’t discuss why they wanted to sell, but many believed the opening of the Barclays Center was a major catalyst. The new owners are a Richard and Angela Datlon. No permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings, so for the time being, they clearly aren’t planning any major changes, like demolishing the house and building something bigger.
474 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68139-73.974872
Shake Shack
Food critics have praised the selection of local eateries inside the new arena, and it seems that better dining choices are coming to the outside neighborhood. In February, restauranteur Danny Meyer announced that a Shake Shack would be opening across from Barclays at 170 Flatbush Avenue, formerly home to a furniture store.
170 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.682631-73.976789
182 Flatbush Avenue
Before the Barclays Center even opened, the owners of Triangle Sports at 182 Flatbush Avenue put their building up for sale. The store had occupied the location since 1916, but the owners saw an opportunity to make big bucks thanks to the arena. They didn’t put a price on the property, but rather let the market determine its value. Public records show that it sold to an LLC for $4.1 million, closing just one day before the arena opened.  No new building permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings, but Triangle Sports has long since closed.
182 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68213-73.97631799999999
Church of the Redeemer
A 150-year-old Gothic Revival Church at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street, just one block from Barclays, announced its imminent demolition in the summer of 2012, but neighbors have been fighting to save or repurpose the building. The priest in charge of the site said the church needed at least $8 million to repair the building, and at least $20 million to make is useable. At the time of the announcement came, the dwindling congregation had already relocated to a different church, and the priest admitted that they had made no moves to try to raise money. The church planned to tear down the building, and rebuild a more profitable residential mixed-use building. But as of April 2013, no final decision had been made, and neighbors were still trying to save it.
561 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6838032-73.97884529999999
U.S. Post Office
In August, a tipster told Brownstoner that the post office at 542 Atlantic Avenue would be closed, demolished, and replaced with a 7-story hotel. The closure of another post office would not be surprising given that it’s happening in other parts of the city, and a hotel near the Barclays Center would make sense for a property owner looking to make more money. The owner also owns the warehouse next door at 540 Atlantic Avenue. The post office is widely loathed, but it’s still open, and there are no demolition or new building permits on the DOB website. In September, a rep for the post office told DNAinfo that they were “still in lease negotiations on this location.”
542 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.684583-73.97981199999998
123 Fort Greene Place
In the immediate blocks around the Barclays Center, most new developments have been retail, but one of the first new condo buildings is 123 Fort Greene Place. The development, a conversion of two adjacent townhouses into six condos, hit the market in February, and they were snapped up in a hurry. By June, only one remained, and by the end of August, all six were sold and closed. As the Atlantic Yards towers grow, we expect more condo projects to pop up nearby.
123 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68581574674811-73.97606300000007
Atlantic Terrace
Plans for the eco-friendly co-op building Atlantic Terrace began around the same time that Bruce Ratner first announced his grand plans for Atlantic Yards way back in 2003. The building is located on the site of a former gas station, so a brownfield remediation took place before construction could begin. The building opened in 2010, with 59 of the 80 units being affordable, and it sold out within a year and a half. Since then, the new building has been a residential anchor on this stretch of Atlantic Avenue, which faces the railyards. Before the Barclays Center opened, the developer had trouble finding a tenant for the street level commercial space, but the chain Tony Roma’s is supposed to open soon, much to the dismay of residents.
212 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6831583-73.97283479999998
Barclays Center
After nine years of lawsuits, fights, and delays, the controversial Barclays Center basketball arena opened in September 2012. The arena was the first piece of the megaproject to be completed, and it’s opening boosted changes in the surrounding neighborhood.
620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(877) 772-5849
40.68312-73.975979
Barclays Center
After nine years of lawsuits, fights, and delays, the controversial Barclays Center basketball arena opened in September 2012. The arena was the first piece of the megaproject to be completed, and it’s opening boosted changes in the surrounding neighborhood.
620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(877) 772-5849
40.68312-73.975979
Atlantic Yards Tower B2
Three months after the Barclays Center opened, Forest Cit Ratner broke ground on the first tower of Atlantic Yards, the 32-story B2. It will be tallest modular building in the world when complete. The building will eventually be joined by 14 others, and the project’s new investor expects to complete everything within eight years. That may be overly optimistic, however, given that a platform must be constructed over the rail yards before work can begin on most of those towers.
461 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6817672-73.97543239999999
215 Flatbush Avenue
Directly across the street from B2, PRD Realty is building a new six-story apartment building at 215 Flatbush Avenue. The site was formerly home to the Bergen Tile Company, and now it will have 53 rentals and 9,875-square-feet of ground floor retail.
215 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.681482-73.97519499999998
474 Dean Street
The yellow clapboard house at 474 Dean Street went into contract just 22 days after hitting the market in early 2013, ultimately closing for $1.52M. The asking price was $1.95M. The owners wouldn’t discuss why they wanted to sell, but many believed the opening of the Barclays Center was a major catalyst. The new owners are a Richard and Angela Datlon. No permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings, so for the time being, they clearly aren’t planning any major changes, like demolishing the house and building something bigger.
474 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68139-73.974872
Shake Shack
Food critics have praised the selection of local eateries inside the new arena, and it seems that better dining choices are coming to the outside neighborhood. In February, restauranteur Danny Meyer announced that a Shake Shack would be opening across from Barclays at 170 Flatbush Avenue, formerly home to a furniture store.
170 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.682631-73.976789
182 Flatbush Avenue
Before the Barclays Center even opened, the owners of Triangle Sports at 182 Flatbush Avenue put their building up for sale. The store had occupied the location since 1916, but the owners saw an opportunity to make big bucks thanks to the arena. They didn’t put a price on the property, but rather let the market determine its value. Public records show that it sold to an LLC for $4.1 million, closing just one day before the arena opened.  No new building permits have been filed with the Department of Buildings, but Triangle Sports has long since closed.
182 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68213-73.97631799999999
Church of the Redeemer
A 150-year-old Gothic Revival Church at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street, just one block from Barclays, announced its imminent demolition in the summer of 2012, but neighbors have been fighting to save or repurpose the building. The priest in charge of the site said the church needed at least $8 million to repair the building, and at least $20 million to make is useable. At the time of the announcement came, the dwindling congregation had already relocated to a different church, and the priest admitted that they had made no moves to try to raise money. The church planned to tear down the building, and rebuild a more profitable residential mixed-use building. But as of April 2013, no final decision had been made, and neighbors were still trying to save it.
561 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.6838032-73.97884529999999
U.S. Post Office
In August, a tipster told Brownstoner that the post office at 542 Atlantic Avenue would be closed, demolished, and replaced with a 7-story hotel. The closure of another post office would not be surprising given that it’s happening in other parts of the city, and a hotel near the Barclays Center would make sense for a property owner looking to make more money. The owner also owns the warehouse next door at 540 Atlantic Avenue. The post office is widely loathed, but it’s still open, and there are no demolition or new building permits on the DOB website. In September, a rep for the post office told DNAinfo that they were “still in lease negotiations on this location.”
542 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.684583-73.97981199999998
123 Fort Greene Place
In the immediate blocks around the Barclays Center, most new developments have been retail, but one of the first new condo buildings is 123 Fort Greene Place. The development, a conversion of two adjacent townhouses into six condos, hit the market in February, and they were snapped up in a hurry. By June, only one remained, and by the end of August, all six were sold and closed. As the Atlantic Yards towers grow, we expect more condo projects to pop up nearby.
123 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
40.68581574674811-73.97606300000007
Atlantic Terrace
Plans for the eco-friendly co-op building Atlantic Terrace began around the same time that Bruce Ratner first announced his grand plans for Atlantic Yards way back in 2003. The building is located on the site of a former gas station, so a brownfield remediation took place before construction could,…

Mortgage rates drop for second straight week | Waccabuc Real Estate

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Amid data that has lowered expectations for the performance of the housing market in the fourth quarter of this year, mortgage rates dropped for the second straight week.

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.1 percent with an average point of 0.7 percent for the week ending Oct. 31, down from 4.13 percent last week but up from 3.39 percent a year ago, according to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages and five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) loans also decreased, while rates on one-year Treasury-indexed ARMs increased.

“Fixed mortgage rates eased further leading up to the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) Oct. 30th monetary policy announcement,” said Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac. “The Fed saw improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions since it began its asset purchase program, but noted the recovery in the housing market slowed somewhat in recent months and unemployment remains elevated.”

“As a result, there was no policy change which should help sustain low mortgage rates in the near future.”

Source: Freddie Mac

– See more at: http://www.inman.com/wire/mortgage-rates-drop-for-2nd-straight-week/#sthash.Yi9iOhYW.dpuf

Dreaming in Color: 8 Eye-Opening Yellow Bedrooms | Waccabuc Real Estate

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I tend to associate the color yellow with the sweet corn my hometown, just outside the reach of suburban Chicago, is famous for. It’s also the color of one of the first flowers of spring in that part of the country, daffodils, which my mother planted in beds around the house to herald the end of our long, cold winters. To me yellow represents the color of sunshine, sustenance and rejuvenation. It reminds me of happy, idyllic days and makes me feel optimistic for the future. If you have similar positive associations with yellow, try using it in your bedroom to help you get revved up each morning for the day ahead.
Below you’ll find several sunny yellow bedrooms as well as tips for working the happy hue into your sleeping space.

If you have tall ceilings in your bedroom and lots of natural light, you can go super bold and intense with yellow. This particular shade of yellow packs a wallop, so I’d recommend limiting it to an accent wall. A room that gets this much natural light can handle a bold yellow on an entire wall, but be aware that if your bedroom has low ceilings and little natural light streaming in, then a yellow as bright and bold as this one could leave you feeling anxious.
Get a similar look with Babouche from Farrow & Ball.
Those seeking a mellower yellow should look at softer sandy and golden hues, such as this green-tinged gold. There’s quite a bit of brown and white in it, so it reads as a neutral hue — a pumped-up beige, if you will. This is a good color choice if you plan to paint all or most of your walls yellow, as it offers a nice wash of color without going overboard.
Add oodles of warmth to your bedroom with a generous dose of wood tones and a yellow hue such as this one that veers more toward warmer orange than cooler green. This is an ideal palette for getting a cozy bedroom vibe in even the coldest of climates.
If you’re a fan of wall coverings, choose one that really makes a statement. An interesting print on a bold yellow background is a great choice for an accent wall. Wall coverings can also provide protection from dents and dings, and many are scrubbable and therefore easy to clean, making them a smart choice in a kids’ room.