Ceiling fans or not?

10 years ago

Posted a couple of months ago and provided photos (http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/58005706/thumbs/nova-period-and-casual). Northern Virginia.

We are still working to prep it for sale ...in a couple of the photos (family room and kitchen) you can see the ceiling fans ...one in family room, one in common area between eat in kitchen and family room, and one in the kitchen.

We have had a lot of input from family ... We all love the fans ...however, I continue to read that fans are out ... we have recessed lighting in the rooms ... should we get rid of them? I can pull the wiring and make it look like they were never there.

Thoughts?

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elpaso1

10 years ago

Out here in the sw, people WANT ceiling fans. I'd leave them alone. If they look dated (ie have brass or the old light attachments,) you could update them with new ones.

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rwiegand
10 years ago
We got great feedback from our real estate agent when selling our house, which worked very well for us-- make it look like Pottery Barn because "no one wants to buy Grandma's house". If they aren't displaying ceiling fans then you shouldn't either, assuming your target demographic is young couples with kids. Fans are a practical way to keep cool efficiently in the summer, but by and large they are not a visual asset.
pl_1121
10 years ago
Your house looks great! I'd keep the fans, a buyer can have them removed easily and I don't think they stand out in the pictures. My family all loves ceiling fans so they would be a plus to us.
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User
10 years ago
We bought a 1965 house 8 years ago---had the original ceiling fans, to include one in the garage. It was worth it to us to simply replace the old fans with newer models(Hunter, because I have had Hunters last 30 years). We did remove the dining/kitchen(one large room) fan for a chandelier since we changed the table location and the original lighting was terrible.
User
10 years ago
N. VA has hot, sticky summers. I'd leave them.
designsaavy
10 years ago
Our ceiling fan we bought for our bedroom at our last house worked so well that we took it out and replaced it with a nice looking inexpensive light before we put the house up for sale. Then we installed it in our current house.
forumuser1
Original Author
10 years ago
Great ideas ...always good to hear various approaches. I was going to paint the current bright brass fans white to make them disappear, but we rethought the work of that versus simply replacing them ...without the lights. Given the dark wood in the room (200 yr old barn planks the original builder pulled from their family barn for bookcases and trim) and the slightly lighter color we just painted to room, we just ordered some dark bronze fans with dark brown blades ...sort of showing the fans, but without the bright brass. Will mount them and see ...