Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is your Dusty sourdough worth a 1.3 million Knuckle?
All your bread in one basket … 🧺
This house hasn’t sold for well over 6 months
Not a mention in the area blurb of The Salisbury or Brouhaha. But they do manage to slip in a mention of Highgate 😃
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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I hadn't realised what an 'industry' property-staging has become. One staging company claims among other things that,
Most buyers won’t be able to visualise how an empty property can become their home. Empty rooms appear smaller and don’t show potential buyers how the space can be used.
This doesn't make sense to me but OTOH, developers must be paying rent for all that kit. The signs in photos of staging are the absence of personal items, every item is shiny and new, in a mishmash style that could be described as Dog's Breakfast.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Nairn
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The garden has been deliberately left bare, so the new owner can change it to their own design.
"Flee before it's too late" Too late for what?
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Always interesting how a wide-angle lens gives the impression of a much more substantial mansion rather than a standard north London terrace 16 feet wide at best and with a tiny back bedroom on the first floor.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler
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Of course, if you have an eye for depth of field and the difference between how the human eye sees things (roughly the same as a 50mm lens on an SLR) and a wide-angle lens (anything below 50mm), you can always tell the "trickery" of estate agent photos taken with a short-focus lens, in an attempt to make things look bigger. And, of course, always watch out for the estate agent trick of putting furniture in that is three-quarters normal size to make rooms look bigger ...
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Christopher, IRIX make some extraordinary wide angle lenses for Canon, Nikon and Pentax SLR and DSLR bodies. Focal lengths of 15 mm and even 11 mm! These are not fish-eye lenses and render straight lines pretty straight. Best held level with attention to the corners!
I hadn't known of the ruse of using three quarter sized furniture in property-staging.
Reminds me of how the director of Titanic is said to have saved a lot money in building the ship replica by creating a 3/4 sized version. On film, it appeared to be full-sized, but all three linear dimensions (x, y and z) were 90% of the original. Thus 0.9 cubed is 0.73, thus saving about a quarter on building material.
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Clive — I believe scaled-down exterior sets are not uncommon in film, as they make actors in the foreground look more prominent (I came across this in an article about Spielberg’s Band of Brothers, which recreated French villages on a back-lot in Hertfordshire) but have no insider knowledge! As a photographer, Hugh might be able to add to this.
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I don't know much about this, and have not had time to look at all the pics of this mansion. However, just looking at the main pic, view of the bay at the front: it's screwed up. It is not symmetrical. Not sure how they've managed this, but it looks all wrong. So much for spending Big Bucks on renovation!
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