The Good Home Company: How To Make Your Home Smell Like a Million Bucks
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There is one very important aspect of marketing a home that many of us forget to cover: the way a home smells. It’s like Feng Sui for the nose. The sense of smell plays a key role in the decision to purchase a home. A home that has a pleasant scent is not only much more attractive to buyers, but the olfactory nerve also has the uncanny ability to trigger memories and emotions as well as enhance mood. When I bought my first home in Dallas, I will never forget the agent who had bread baking in every home she listed. God that smelled divine! So I was happy to discover The Good Home Co., Inc.® a line of award-winning home fragrance and cleaning products. All the products, from laundry detergent and softener to cleaning products and hand lotion, ere created in the kitchen of the founder, Christine, a New York City-based fragrance designer who went to Parsons School of Design. Unlike any other scented products, The Good Home Company fragrances are based on memories (kind of like vacation homes) and designed to transport you to a place: a beach house smelling like fresh sea air & suntan oil, a summer home on a fresh sunny day, or simply snuggly family surrounded by the coziness of lavender. The Good Home Co. line of home cleaning products is the first of its kind to combine natural ingredients with fine fragrances, making cleaning both a luxurious and environmentally friendly experience.
Of course, you never want to mask odors. There was a multi-million dollar home not too far from me that had a candle burning in every room for every showing. Shortly after the buyers purchased the home, they found a major water problem beneath the foundation and the plant retaining wall — big drainage problems. Those candle were masking the smell of water. A lawsuit followed, big expensive icky mess.
So I want to be sure to make a distinction between masking a noxious home odor and making a home smell fresh and fragrant. Darling Homes, for example, pumps “new home smell” into every brand-spanking new home they sell. You, too can achieve this freshness with products from The Good Home Company. Thus far, I have tried the laundry detergent, clothes softener and the reed diffuser. I also sprayed Beach House Sheet and Clothing Spray in our bedroom two weeks before we left for the beach, just to get my husband dreaming of Maine. Not only do the products make my home smell divine, the bottles are pretty enough to leave out on display. Also, The Good Home Company delivers everything, including refills, right to your doorstep. Got to tell you, I’m hooked, and know exactly what to give hard-to-buy friends for the holidays this year!
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Fantastic! They need to market this directly to stagers and Realtors. This is one of those areas we always have to approach with delicacy. I've used lava rock under sofas, counters etc to absorb smell but it's something you definitely have to conceal. This product is gorgeous! I cannot wait to try it.
Fantastic! They need to market this directly to stagers and Realtors. This is one of those areas we always have to approach with delicacy. I've used lava rock under sofas, counters etc to absorb smell but it's something you definitely have to conceal. This product is gorgeous! I cannot wait to try it.
We are very eager to market directly to stagers & realtors and are open to your ideas! By the way, we are offering 20% off sitewide today with code GOOD20.
We are very eager to market directly to stagers & realtors and are open to your ideas! By the way, we are offering 20% off sitewide today with code GOOD20.
I can't wait to try this!
I can't wait to try this!
I have tried 2 different fragrances of their fabric softener dryer sheets, but haven't seen the other products. The dryer sheets were very fresh smelling. Love their packaging too. The Good Home Company stagers could use something to diffuse odors in both occupied and vacant homes. It's usually pet odor, smoke, or strong food odors. Most of the time it's in the carpet, or soft goods, but I've smelled it in the walls of vacant homes as well ( even the ones w/o carpet).
I have tried 2 different fragrances of their fabric softener dryer sheets, but haven't seen the other products. The dryer sheets were very fresh smelling. Love their packaging too. The Good Home Company stagers could use something to diffuse odors in both occupied and vacant homes. It's usually pet odor, smoke, or strong food odors. Most of the time it's in the carpet, or soft goods, but I've smelled it in the walls of vacant homes as well ( even the ones w/o carpet).
Hi everyone – thank you so much for the comments. We are thrilled that Candy covered us in this blog post. Don't forget you can receive 20% OFF our entire site through August 10th using coupon CANDY20 at check-out. Also, if any of you are realtors and stagers and would like to pin with us on our new Pinterest board, please comment on one of our pins here: http://pinterest.com/thegoodhomeco/realty-staging-tips-for-good-homes/.
Cindy Bryant – you should try our vacuum beads for carpets. They are amazing. By the way, our fabric sheets are the most subtly scented of all our products. We suggest you try our laundry fragrance to truly experience our memory-inducing scents to the fullest degree.
Hi everyone – thank you so much for the comments. We are thrilled that Candy covered us in this blog post. Don't forget you can receive 20% OFF our entire site through August 10th using coupon CANDY20 at check-out. Also, if any of you are realtors and stagers and would like to pin with us on our new Pinterest board, please comment on one of our pins here: http://pinterest.com/thegoodhomeco/realty-staging-tips-for-good-homes/.
Cindy Bryant – you should try our vacuum beads for carpets. They are amazing. By the way, our fabric sheets are the most subtly scented of all our products. We suggest you try our laundry fragrance to truly experience our memory-inducing scents to the fullest degree.
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Whats the best smell to purchase that smells like that new home smell?
Whats the best smell to purchase that smells like that new home smell?