What the market tells you to remove

What the market tells you to remove

When we were touring our home in Saratoga, the realtor walked us through and pointed out the things that would need updating. The hand-painted ceramic backsplash in the kitchen, with its fruit baskets and trailing ivy, was dated, she said. The oak parquet floors in the entryway were beautiful, but an example of the kind of detail buyers don’t always look for anymore. She wasn’t wrong. By the standards she was applying, she was right. These were …