Fly Away Home KC with Ingerlene Frick

Just finished painting my living room trim white from the dark brown that once was there and am loving it. How do you guys feel about whites and beiges as a backdrop for living? Comfy or cold? Artsy or clinical? Do tell...

Furniture can make a home, but location can make all the difference. Does the home you’re considering align with the life you live? How far away is it from your job, your family and friends, the places you like to be? #thehelpfulagent #home #houseexpert #house #listreports #homeowners #realestate #realestateagent #realtor #homeowner #dreamhome #househunting

DIYers Beware: A perfect storm of high demand and low infrastructural capacity = High lumber costs presently. Some ideas on crafty ways to tackle your jobs with less waste are in this here article. xo

"Green Features" have recently been added to our local realtor MLS search. In honor of Earth Day, I thought I'd share what ones this professional service felt worth highlighting. (Also - do you know what all of these are? Start quiz show music now...): BROWNFIELDS ECOBROKER CERTIFIED ENERGY EFFICIENT MORTGAGE... ENERGY GENERATION ENERGY STAR MORTGAGE FIBER CEMENT GEOTHERMAL INDOOR AIR QUALITY INFILL LOT INSULATED CONCRETE FORMS LOW VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND MODULAR/PREFABRICATION And of course, we can always search for "earth contact" homes which are very planet friendly in their low use of energy for heating and cooling. Fun fact: As of right now, there are ten earth-contact homes for sale in the greater KC metro, fyi. #loveourplanet #HappyEarthDay #earthcontact #themoreyouknow

Lowe’s is giving away gardening kits every Thursday in April, starting on the 8th. Yay!

March sure is galloping in this year with all its green and golden glory! The cheerful proliferation of green shamrocks printed all over the place are a constant reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is the event of the month, but did you know the real St. Patrick originally had light blue attire? It wasn’t until he started using shamrocks as a teaching tool that green came to be associated with this icon of Ireland. Although that might be useful knowledge to have on hand for your ...next trivia night with friends, I’m also sharing that fact with you because I think it is important to remember we have the power to craft our own history. I love the thought that we craft our own history, regardless of what others try to say our story should be. Each of us tells the world what we stand for, if not with a particular shade of blue or green, then with a particular response to the people around us. We can change our own standard and improve what we are best known for. This month marks only one-quarter of the year already written for the history books, which leaves us with nine months remaining in this year’s journal. Starting now, you can decide what details to include and what is not worth bothering with. You can add in new plot twists, welcome new characters, and decisively edit out anything or anyone that doesn’t belong in your story. Try this: picture what you want people to say about you in December, then write down nine things that would need to happen for that statement to be true. Just like that, you wrote your own history and now have a goal for each month ahead of you. Since you already wrote the story as you want it to end, all that is left is for you to enjoy living out the details and enjoying the smaller developments along the way. Here’s hoping it is full of good luck and good times!

So happy to share that my client Katie, sister of one of my client family membersCameron, just officially purchased her first home this week! Her determination, commitment to the process and unwavering optimism both helped see her through and allowed me to guide her home. Grateful to her and for the pleasure of getting to know more of her big-hearted family over the past year. #firsthome #newhome #Congratulations #kcmetro #ClientFamily #newbeginnings RE/MAX Revolution