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Here’s an interesting snippet from a book I came across today – the writer seems to think that installing Corian into your home increases the resale value.

We’d have to agree!

Listed below are ten terms commonly used in real-estate ads. Five of them have a strong positive correlation to the ultimate sales price, and five have a strong negative correlation. Guess which are which.

Ten Common Real-Estate Ad Terms

* Fantastic
* Granite
* Spacious
* State-of-the-Art
* !
* Corian
* Charming
* Maple
* Great Neighborhood
* Gourmet

A “fantastic” house is surely fantastic enough to warrant a high price, isn’t? What about a “charming” and “spacious” house in a “great neighborhood!”? No, no, no, and no. Here’s the breakdown:

Five Terms Correlated to a Higher Sales Price

* Granite
* State-of-the-Art
* Corian
* Maple
* Gourmet

Five Terms Correlated to a Lower Sales Price

* Fantastic
* Spacious
* !
* Charming
* Great Neighborhood

Three of the five terms correlated with a higher sales price are physical descriptions of the house itself: granite, Corian, and maple. As information goes, such terms are specific and straightforward—and therefore pretty useful. If you like granite, you might like the house; but even if you don’t, “granite” certainly doesn’t connote a fixer-upper. Nor does “gourmet” or “state-of-the-art,” both of which seem to tell a buyer that a house is, on some level, truly fantastic.

The book excerpt can be found here.

For one day only, the London Design Festival’s V&A Museum will feature an installation made up of 300 limited edition Corian pieces, each handmade and engraved by the artist, Paul Cocksedge. The Corian pieces were crafted to resemble paper, and will be scattered haphazardly, like paper blowing in the wind

If you’re lucky enough to be there and grab yourself one of the pieces, you can keep it as a souvenir of the event too.

The London Design Festival will feature this on the 24th September.