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Park City Views and 2019 Trending Paint Colors

Hey everyone, I’m in Park City enjoying these views today! If you a take a look at the video, you’ll see how beautiful it is, and what a wonderful place Park City is to live!

I got to spend some time today in a home in the April Mountain subdivision in Park City. Just below this area is old town Park City. There are gorgeous views of the ski resort here, making this such a beautiful location. 


I want to talk to you about home color trends for 2019. 
Just a few months ago I met with a number of realtors and paint company representatives.

They talked about what home colors will be trending in 2019. It was interesting, because many of the colors they mentioned included the schematics of different gray shades. 

In a recent article written by Decor Aid, two of their top ten 2019 paint colors were different tones of gray. 
Lilac Gray: For those looking for a warm and minimalist feel in their home, they suggest using this color. I personally love the pairing of light blues and yellows along with this light gray tone as shown in the picture below. 
Photo from Decor Aid, see link for original


Pewter: This paint shade is extremely versatile. Decor Aid suggests to “take pewter paint color ideas throughout your home rather than just one room as it’s one shade that works with everything, everywhere.” This dark shade gives great contrast in rooms and can be used on the walls along with furniture, throw pillows and art. Paired with white it adds dimension and warmth. 

Photo from Decor Aid, see link for original
Black cabinets, black counter tops with a white backsplash and white walls are also predicted to be popular. 

The home I saw in Park City today was gorgeous! There are many similar homes in the area that are currently listed if you’d like to walk through them with me.
Give me a call if you have any decor trend questions and I’ll get you in touch with the right people!

We can also check out the beautiful Park City area and some of the homes! Whether you want a second home with plenty of bedrooms and bathrooms for family gatherings or if you’re looking for a primary residence this area is ideal. 

Give me a call! I’d love to help you out in Park City, Wasatch Back or the Wasatch Front. Take care!
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Midway Dutch Canyon & Dutch Fields

Have you ever been to Midway, UT? I just want to share a little bit of information with you about an area of Midway well known as Dutch Fields.

 Last fall they started building out at Dutch Canyons. (it’s just west of Dutch Fields) It’s a little bit higher elevation and is absolutely beautiful. There aren’t many parcels left in this area. 

 Dutch Canyon is an HOA, Dutch Fields is an HOA, and a lot of people tell me that they don’t want to be in an HOA. However, what are some benefits of it?

 Some HOA fees are higher than others. However, sometimes the lower priced HOA fees don’t give you as many benefits like this one does. This HOA here in Dutch Canyon includes a pond and a swimming pool, etc. 

 HOAs often have conditions, covenants, and restrictions to keep the homes nice and that’s one of the biggest benefits of an HOA. People don’t want their home or their property to lose value due to someone not taking care of their yard. 

 So a couple of things: some HOAs have a higher fee, but they take care of everything. They take care of your front lawn, back lawn, the trees, the shrubs…everything. Others will charge a little bit less and allow you to take care of a portion of your yard or all of your yard. However, if you start letting your lawn get too dry or you have a car on cinder blocks on your front lawn it may not be tolerated; there are some certain restrictions to keep the community looking nice. So HOAs in that aspect are a benefit to maintaining the value of your property and the overall feel of the neighborhood. 

Anyway, check it out! There are a variety of price ranges in this area. I have another client that’s looking at a property and it’s not on the higher end like the Dutch Fields and Dutch Canyon. 

 Keep in mind that HOAs do have an impact on your loan-to-value ratio. So depending on what you’re looking to do there, that’ll have an impact.

 Check out this clip and take in this beautiful area, it’s just incredible. What a great view of Heber Valley, it’s a great location!

 If you are interested in Dutch Canyon or Dutch Fields please get in contact with me and we can find you a wonderful place to live in Midway, UT.
Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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Awesome Mountain Views & Landscaping

5200 SF Home on 2.7-Acres in the Wasatch Back

How about a couple of ponds and stream in your backyard with plenty of grass and full grown trees? Add to that a beautiful gas fire pit, a few lights shining into the trees, a few lamp posts around the perimeter and bridges over the stream.

This 5,200 sf home includes a large deck overlooking the backyard and get the wonderful feeling of being far from any city, then remember you are only three minutes to downtown Midway, Utah and 25 minutes to downtown Park City, Utah.

This is an amazing location and home which you can be seen even better in this video.

Contact me for more information and for all your Real Estate needs.

Brian Olsen – Coldwell Banker
801-318-3108
bolsenrealestate@gmail.com
www.bolsenre.com

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Start With Your Designer

Hey everyone, I’m in Red Ledges today and I have Sean Dixon with Ascend Design and Development. Anyway, I just wanted to take a second to introduce you to him because I often talk to clients about getting in the design phase with their architect and just from the beginning, do your design and get your all your finishes.

Anyway just a couple comments if you would, I mean we can’t go through everything you’ve been showing me for about the last twenty minutes. If anybody’s gonna be OCD this is the guy you want to be OCD. Just sell yourself for a minute if you would, so that my clients and people I contact can have an idea of what you can do for them. You’re located down in the valley, but you’re working a lot up here? Correct. And you said also in California?

Yeah, well clients in California, but the main thing that I kind of offer to a lot of people is a high attention to detail with the knowledge of construction. So that I can dictate to the subcontractors how to bring things together in a very precise manner. And then by being involved throughout the process, I can ensure that the house has a very congruent and consistent kind of theme and feel. Precision is my big thing, I mean a lot of people talk about details, but I do details with absolute precision. So I obsess over all kinds of things, not just what light fixture, but the direction the light fixture is installed or you know the little bolts up on the ceiling, are they lining up correctly, and all kinds of little details for example.

Well, the triple membrane on the deck and the elevation of the spigots. Let me just show for example, okay, we’ve got these light fixtures on the floor right here. Those were the light fixtures that were above this bar right here. And Shawn was looking at how the light was reflecting up and he didn’t like how that light was reflecting up and so he got new light fixtures.

So not everybody’s going to be into detail this much, but whether you want your home to be detailed, I mean from beginning to end, from top to bottom, somebody like Shawn is who you need to get a hold of. Even if it’s just to design a part of the home and say, “Hey we want our kitchen and dining area to be at this level.” I mean really, they need to get with you from the beginning and say okay this is what we want, and then get with the architect and go from there.

Right, yeah and if you have an architect great and if not I’ve got some really good ones that I work really well with, so we can work together. And a lot of Architects will charge additional fees to do on-site visits to make sure things are going together, but some of them I partner with don’t do that because they trust that I’ll be there making sure things go together the way that they should go together.

Excellent. Okay you guys, any questions get with me. I’m gonna definitely have his contact information for you if you need it. Take care, thank you.

Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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FaceTime Home Buying

Hey everyone, as you can see from my title on this Facebook Live video, I am with a client of mine who purchased a home just recently and she never actually came to the home.

This is my good friend, Sandy Foster and she saw the home just through FaceTime. So I just want to ask her a couple questions and for anybody that might be outside of my work area, that is interested in buying a home, Sandy can tell you her experience.

So we were looking at homes and because you had come out the one time and we looked at a few, but then we just kept doing everything over the internet and we started doing FaceTime on the homes. How comfortable were you with just doing FaceTime to see the home and walk through the home?

It was a different experience, but it was something that was really comfortable because I was able to get my questions answered by you and doing it with FaceTime was almost like I was walking through the house. So I don’t know it didn’t seem odd at all, it was an easy thing to do, it was easier than flying over here and going through every house individually and I got an idea really quickly if it was something I wanted to continue to, you know, find out more information on or not.

And when I went through this one with you, I knew that this house was the one that I wanted. I just, you know, had a couple more questions about it. Anything I asked you, you answered and it was an easy experience, a very smooth experience.

It was pretty cool and I mean Sandy has been awesome to work with. You were concerned, in fact, you can see kind of the blue, there’s a blue paint to the walls and you were a little concerned. It turned out great, her furniture has turned out so, so good. Let me just show this furniture and anyway it’s turned out really good.

So anyway if you have any questions and like I say you’re outside of the Wasatch Front, the Wasatch back and you’re interested in real estate give me a call. Technology is awesome.

Yes, it was a great experience and I was not disappointed at all.

There’s a few other rollercoasters we went through, but in fact, really that was the easiest part. That was the smooth part; The smoothest part was seeing the home. So anyway have a great weekend everybody.

Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108

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NeighborWorks Provo Project

Hey you guys just want to take a minute, I’m in Provo with a couple other great Realtors that we had opportunity to come down and work on a home through NeighborWorks and some people to to keep their home looking good. 
Anyway I have Miley here and Kristie and they are just awesome. They got here early, anyway you know Neighbor Works is a great program and Coldwell Banker has some just some super good philanthropic things that they do; they actually donated $5,000 to NeighborWorks for helping on this home to do some finishes. They also have the Bankers Association that works with the NeighborWorks. 
Anyway if you have opportunities to associate with NeighborWorks, you know somebody once famous said the poor will always be with us, and we always will have opportunities; often many of us have been in that position. 
So any comments about what we’re doing? What do you think of the red? So we got the primer on. 
Anyways, great program and if you ever need any help, NeighborWorks is good to help you keep your home and keep it up to date. 
Real Estate; Coldwell Banker is the best so give one of us a call. If you want to go with the female persuasion you’ve got Kristie or Miley here, or myself. Anyway hey have a good weekend guys.
Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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Deck Use, Value and View

Hey, everybody, I am excited to talk to you for a minute, it’s been a while, about decks. I have lots of people that talk about decks on their homes and decks on homes that they’re looking to purchase, what’s the value of the deck, if they’re gonna build a deck on their home, how should they do the deck. 
Let me just give you a couple of thoughts about decks and happy to answer some questions, if you have any questions get back to me. 
A couple of things with decks that you want to look at is how much it’s going to be used. Is it in a good location on the home, to where it’s going to be used quite a bit. If it’s in an odd place on the home and nobody’s going to be using it or it’s very small, then I would say don’t spend the money and the effort to build the deck. And then if you’re looking at selling or buying, it probably doesn’t have very much value. 
If it’s in a great location, if there’s the ability to use it quite a bit, seasonal, that’s another thing; if you have a short season. I’m in Wallsburg right now I don’t know if you notice because of the view here of the Wallsburg ridge behind me. I love Wallsburg Valley. Anyway, if there’s a short season and you don’t have the means to have a gas propane fireplace type thing, to where you can use it during the winter and not freeze, then that’s not going to be as valuable. 
Also the durability of the deck: I’m on the deck right now and they actually put concrete on the deck and they have a metal railing, they have some posts here, but overall this deck is very durable. They’re not gonna have to do very much with it other than staining the post everything else is going to last for a long time. 
And the view, if you have a deck with a view that may circumvent a lot of the other issues, even if it’s a small deck, but if it has a view then there is some value to it. So you can see this deck right here has an awesome view. I just love this view looking down into the Wallsburg Valley, the mouth of the canyon here. 
So anyway, if you have any questions about decks; the value that is on your home, something that you’re looking to add to your home and the resale value of it, give me a call, shoot me a text, or an email, private message. I would love to talk to you about it and anything else with real estate, I’m open to talk about that as well. Take care and we will see you later, bye.
Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108
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Incandescent vs Flourescent vs LED

Good morning everyone, I’m at a good friend’s home and they have over 150 LED lights so I wanted to share a little information about lighting.

As you can see these are LED lights and one of the things that people used to worry about is that they are so directional that they wouldn’t provide the flood of light like fluorescents do.

Incandescent lights last about a thousand hours per lightbulb. Fluorescent lighting, which has a little mercury in it, increases about ten times and last about 10,000 hours per light bulb and use 70% less energy.

LED lights, which have been very expensive until the last couple years, range from 20-50,000 hours per bulb and reduce energy consumption another 30-50% from fluorescents.

So think of this when you are looking to build a home, buy a home, or even just change out your lights!

This is a beautiful home here and you can see how good these LED lights look!

Take care!

Take care,              
Brian

Wallsburg World Realtor

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Incandescent vs Flourescent vs LED

Good morning everyone, I’m at a good friend’s home and they have over 150 LED lights so I wanted to share a little information about lighting.

As you can see these are LED lights and one of the things that people used to worry about is that they are so directional that they wouldn’t provide the flood of light like fluorescents do.

Incandescent lights last about a thousand hours per lightbulb. Fluorescent lighting, which has a little mercury in it, increases about ten times and last about 10,000 hours per light bulb and use 70% less energy.

LED lights, which have been very expensive until the last couple years, range from 20-50,000 hours per bulb and reduce energy consumption another 30-50% from fluorescents.

So think of this when you are looking to build a home, buy a home, or even just change out your lights!

This is a beautiful home here and you can see how good these LED lights look!

Take care!

Take care,              
Brian

Wallsburg World Realtor

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748 W. 1160 N., Pleasant Grove Home For Sale

Hey everyone, I am in Pleasant Grove with some new clients and friends of mine that have been friends for a little while and I’m at their home it’s located in 748 West 1160 north and I just want
them to share. 
I was going to talk about their garage and their solar panels and a number of things, but I’ve got them right here so I’m going to ask them to share what they love most about having lived in this home for quite a few years. I don’t remember exactly how many years 12 years, okay so we’ve got Trevor and Sheri and just in 10-15 seconds Trevor first, what do you like most about having lived here? 
Well I’ve loved the location for sure it’s been been tons of fun to live here in Pleasant Grove, I teach just down the road and I’ve loved we love the yard, we’ve loved putting a bonus room on our home so that we could have a nice view and be able to hang out as a family and do activities and things together. The location’s been fantastic. We love to camp and do other kinds of things and it’s a great, great place to be. 
Okay, that was more than one but it’s a lot of reasons. Sheri, do you have, you can give more than one as well, but what have you loved about being here? 
One thing I like about our house is the road’s very calm, it’s not on a busy road, but storage we’ve added on and we have a lot of storage now. 
Excellent, ok so those are just a couple of things I’ll have some more information or get a hold of me and we’ll get the listing information to you, but this Pleasant Grove is a hot market and you’ve got to check out this home. 
So give me a call, shoot me a text, private message, anything like that and we’ll get some more information on this home. Take care.

                                                                   
Contact me for more information on this home,
Brian Olsen

Wallsburg World Realtor

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