Joan Whitman's Blog

Posted on 11/06/2022
Your credit score: Mortgage approval facts to know
If you're planning to buy a house, managing your credit...
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Posted on 10/30/2022
Style guide for modern home interior decor
As interior design changes, a newer, more simplistic...
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Posted on 10/23/2022
What You Should Do to Spruce Up Your Fireplace Mantel
A fireplace mantel can enhance the appearance of your living room or den while also giving you a place to decorate and display items. While some fireplaces come with mantels, others don’t have one. If your fireplace doesn’t have a mantel, you’re not out of luck. With a few tools and materials, you can build your own fireplace...
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Posted on 10/16/2022
Selling: Complete These Home Improvement Projects Before Putting Your Home on the Market
It may seem odd to take on several home improvement projects right before you list your home for sale and move, but it's actually one of the best times to complete them. Minor, budget-friendly home renovations can allow you to sell your home for a higher price and will almost certainly make your home more desirable to the...
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Posted on 10/16/2022
5 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Chili
Chili is a classic dish that’s easy to make in large quantities. Unfortunately, sometimes that turns into a large quantity of leftovers. Rather than eat the same chili every night for a week, try adding your leftover chili to other recipes to create new and exciting dishes. Here are some of the simplest and tastiest ways to use...
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Posted on 10/09/2022
Can You DIY Mid-Mod? Four Ideas to Try Out
Affectionately known as Mid-Mod, this mid-century interior design movement is heavily influenced by the angular, funky style of the middle of the 20th century. It takes the best of what the late 1950s and early 1960s had to offer and gives it a contemporary twist. Here are four DIY Mid-Mod home decor projects to try: DIY hairpin leg...
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Posted on 10/02/2022
Key Benefits of Selling With a Land Contract
A land contract is a type of seller financing that has many benefits both for buyer and seller. In a land contract, the seller provides credit instead of a lender or bank. The buyer makes their regular payments to the seller directly. Once the total price is paid in full, the seller gives the buyer the title to...
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Posted on 11/03/2022
Another Property Sold - 525 Highview Avenue, Pearl River, NY 10965
Pearl River, New York. Amazing value and supreme location can be found in this Bi-Level boasting 4 bedrooms and 1 full and 2 half bathrooms. Enjoy a generous Living room / dining room primed for entertainment with all hardwood flooring on main level. Begin the day in an eat in kitchen with Stainless Steel refrigerator and access to a deck overlooking a shaded newly vinyl fenced level backyard. Important features include generous sized ensuite primary bedroom, new front door and central air conditioning, upgraded electrical panel, overhead lighting and chandeliers, and two car garage. Bring your own decorating ideas, finishing touches,...
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Posted on 10/30/2022
17 Westerly Drive, New City, NY 10956 is now new to the market!
Is it a dream, or is it real? The elegant, transcendent style of this Contemporary Colonial will make you wonder, as it pushes the limits of your imagination. Brilliantly maintained and fully updated, this 6-bedroom, 5.1-bath home is an homage to shape, form, and unity, right out of the pages of Architectural Digest. Start with bold curb appeal, circular drive, and etched glass front doors leading to a double-story foyer adorned with glass and onyx. Relish an outstanding, state-of-the-art, eat-in kitchen with enormous island, granite counters, double oven, and such elite names as Sub-Zero, KitchenAid, and Miele, all primed to bring out the...
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Posted on 10/23/2022
98 Eagle Ridge Way, Nanuet, NY 10954 is now new to the market!
Nanuet, New York. There's nothing missing in this sophisticated, freshly painted, pristine, Upper Bucknell unit in sought-after Eagle Ridge. Enjoy a charmed lifestyle in this immaculate, sun-filled, multilevel unit boasting 2 bedrooms and 2 updated bathrooms. You'll host memorable gatherings in your large living room / dining room with cathedral ceilings, gleaming hardwood flooring, recessed lighting, and custom chandelier. Relish cooking in a spacious, sparkling white kitchen with stainless steel appliances, new Bosch dishwasher (2021), granite counter tops, center island; and you'll enjoy easy access through new sliding glass doors (2021)...
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Posted on 10/04/2022
Another Property Sold - 5 Augusta Court, New City, NY 10956
Beautiful and spacious best describe this New City Contemporary Ranch with an alluring, versatile open floor plan that will flirt with your imagination. This cul-de-sac-set, pristine, level, well maintained property is as ideal for entertaining as it is for cozy living. A promising double-door entry welcomes you to a step-down living room, brick fireplace, skylights, celestial windows, gleaming hardwood floors and vaulted ceilings. This house is bathed in natural light and boasts an updated custom kitchen with granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances, large breakfast room and handsome dining room opening to the living room for all...
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Posted on 09/29/2022
48 Woodland Drive, Suffern, NY 10901 is now new to the market!
Suffern, New York. Don't worry if you are a bit breathless when you preview this totally rebuilt Ranch with today's sought-after "open concept." That's just you falling in love. Offering unsurpassed quality and workmanship, this freshly painted, exquisite home on a level, totally fenced property is located at the intersection of style and substance. No expense has been spared here, and the results are eminently clear. Relish beautiful curb appeal, a superb living room/dining room with crown molding, the new gourmet kitchen with a Samsung stainless steel appliance package and quartzite countertops with oversized quartzite island and sink,...
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