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            <title>Makeover Magic- 9409 Worth Avenue</title>
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UNDER CONTRACT IN 10 DAYS, FULL PRICE WITH MULTIPLE OFFERS!! There is a good reason 9409 Worth Avenue caught the attention of multiple prospective buyers, who after viewing the house, quickly make an offer.


By choosing Pure Energy as their realtor, the homeowners had the immediate benefit of a professional design team (a complimentary service offered to all of our clients), to make recommendations and guide them through the process of preparing their home for sale. Investing in updating light fixtures, fresh paint, landscaping and new patio and deck additions made the difference between the house sitting on the market and a speedy sale. In addition to these improvements, complimentary home staging by the design team ensured that the vacant house was showcased at its best.


During the first open house last Sunday, we had hugely positive feedback about this property, in particular, the paint colors. We have taken the courtesy of putting together a mini-paint palette for the interior paint colors chosen by the Pure Energy design team, as well as everybody's favourite feature, the before and after photo gallery.


So enjoy, and don't hesitate to contact the design team for tips and advice when choosing paint colors in your own home!


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            <title>The Charlie Bowman Garden @ 9117 Flower Ave </title>
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Have you ever driven by that ONE house on Flower Ave between Schuyler and Melbourne Ave in the Highland View neighborhood? You know, the one you can't help but notice with all the tall mature tropical plants, beautiful flowers and amazing cacti in every square inch of the yard?  YES that one!


Well, Pure Energy Real Estate has the unique opportunity to represent this special property for a one-of-a-kind garden project in preparation for the real estate market. It comes with sadness, however, because the home belonged to the late Charlie Bowman,  a long-time member of the Sligo Branview community and a passionate gardener. Charlie was a plant collector and zonebuster, well known for his exotic and rare plant collection of cacti and succulents as well as many usual and unusual perennials  including lilies of all sorts, heucheras of many varieties, wild ginger, paw paw, columbine, cacti, ferns of probably a dozen types, boxwoods, golden loniceras, yuccas, dasolirions, Thalictrums, crinums, palms, dicentra, epimedium, fatsia to name but a tiny portion of the fully planted quarter acre lot. 


The only problem with all these amazing plants is that it is very overwhelming to home buyers. There is a large backyard but NO GRASS! So in order to make the home appealing to the most amount of home buyers, we decided it would be a good idea to remove the inner garden and lay sod. It seems sad to remove such a beautiful garden that has been living so happily for 30+ years, but we knew just the right group of plant lovers to make the transition a happy one.  We  teamed up with the Four Seasons Garden Club to thin out the abundance of rare and exotic plant life, create a grassy entertainment area, send a portion of this amazing collection to new homes and pass on Charlie’s love of these unique plants. We left the outer rings of the garden, which is going to be just as incredible for any new home buyer. It really is a gardener's delight. The front yard is being thinned this weekend by the Four Seasons Garden Club. When all is said and done, the yards will still be magnificent and we believe Charlie would be happy to know we sent a portion of his garden to fellow plant lovers so they can live on in his memory.


The overall project was photographed, filmed and time lapsed. We are still in the process of finishing the transformation but for now, enjoy a wonderful photo gallery of this amazing garden and a fun time lapse of the garden removal from last weekend.  


 Charlie Bowman Garden PHOTO GALLERY


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Charlie Bowman Garden Time Lapse VIDEO


Using a Go Pro Hero 2, we time lapsed the removal of the center back garden over the course of 10 hours. 


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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:09:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>JUST LISTED!  9117 FLOWER ave, silver spring 20901</title>
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The CHARLIE BOWMAN house and garden!Open Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3 from 2 - 4pm.


 



Attention all garden lovers!  This is the house and garden for you!   


Pure Energy is proud to represent the estate of the late Charlie Bowman, a long-time member of the Sligo Branview community and a passionate gardener.  Charlie was a plant collector and zonebuster, well known for his exotic and rare plant collection of cactus and succulents as well as many usual and unusual perennials  including lilies of all sorts, heucheras of many varieties, wild ginger, paw paw, columbine, cacti, ferns of probably a dozen types, boxwoods, golden loniceras, yuccas, dasolirions, Thalictrums, crinums, palms, dicentra, epimedium, fatsia to name but a tiny portion of the fully planted quarter acre lot.     Pure Energy is teaming up with the Four Seasons Garden Club to thin out the abundance of rare and exotic plant life, create a grassy entertainment area, send a portion of this amazing collection to new homes and pass on Charlie’s love of these unique plants. The estate would also love to create a CHARLIE BOWMAN MEMORIAL GARDEN in some local space.  If you have an idea, please call Donna at 301.608.1454 or stop by the open house!


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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:39:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>donna@pureenergyteam.com (Donna Kerr)</author>
            <title>Silver Spring OPEN HOUSES, Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20</title>
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Looking for something to do this week?  Be sure to click on the READ FULL POST BELOW to see what open houses are in the area this weekend!


 


SILVER SPRING OPEN HOUSES this weekend 1 to 3 pm


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SILVER SPRING OPEN HOUSES this weekend 1 to 4 pm


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SILVER SPRING OPEN HOUSES this weekend 2 to 4 pm


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