This secret ‘flower power’ hack helps brokers sell luxury apartments

Sotheby’s International Realty agent Diana Rice is saying it — and trading it — pinch flowers.

For a three-bedroom, prewar co-op successful Carnegie Hill, that meant bringing successful Jill Brooke, laminitis of Flower Power Daily, to “create ocular harmony and vibrancy,” Rice explains.

“Buyers want to consciousness safe and serene, truthful we are bringing nan plot inside,” Brooke adds, noting that orchids are nary longer portion of a modern creation because “they person go cliché and ubiquitous.” 

Instead, Brooke says, jungle themes are in, on pinch draping vines and English plot flowers. For nan listing astatine 4 E. 95th St. — connected nan 2nd level of a nine-story building — Brooke wrapped paintings pinch ivy and took inspiration from nan home’s location adjacent Fifth Avenue and Central Park. She gathered dogwood branches and different outdoor foliage, including delphiniums, statice, Queen Anne’s lace and filled vases pinch blooms to lucifer its bluish interiors, specified arsenic dahlias and thistle. 

“I’m besides a large instrumentality of what I telephone ‘flowers-faux-real,’ wherever I operation existent flowers pinch faux additions,” Brooke says. “I added orangish faux flowers to a large greenish globe for a popular of color. In nan small girl’s room, I added flowers to a woody building to make it travel alive.”

Bud vases besides statement shelves on pinch books: “Flowers heighten immoderate situation and if they are utilized well, they heighten nan characteristic of immoderate room,” Brooke says. 

The two-bedroom abode is asking $2.52 cardinal (a value shave from its original ask). It boasts 10-foot-high beamed ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace, civilization bookshelves and ample windows overlooking treetops arsenic good arsenic nan Carhart and Fabbri mansions. 

A general eating room, on pinch a windowed, eat-in chef’s kitchen, butler’s pantry and bedewed barroom adhd to nan charm, while a room disconnected nan room is presently utilized arsenic a location office/den pinch a built-in desk and half bath. 

A halfway hallway features further closets and separates nan nationalist and backstage wings of nan home. The primary bedroom has an en-suite bath and a sliver of Central Park views.