Muirfield A neighborhood guide by Stephanie Gulau

A pre-listing walk-through

What’s actually worth fixing in Muirfield before you list.

A complimentary walk-through of your Muirfield home with Stephanie Gulau and a stager whose work has been featured in Architectural Digest. We tell you what to change, what to leave alone, and what your home is likely worth once it is done.

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No cost. No obligation. No pressure to list with me.

A renovated kitchen in a Dublin, Ohio home

Why Muirfield is its own market

These houses are old enough to have opinions baked into them.

Muirfield Village began selling homes in 1974. Fifty years later there are roughly 2,400 of them, and nearly every one has been updated at least once by somebody with a point of view. Some of those decisions aged beautifully. Some of them are quietly costing the owner money.

That is what makes selling here different from selling in a subdivision built in 2019. Buyers touring Muirfield are comparing a 1980 home that was renovated in 2004 against a 1994 home renovated last year, and they are doing it in a weekend, across six houses, on their phones.

Most sellers guess at what to fix. New carpet nobody asked for. A repaint in a color that dates the house. Meanwhile the one change that would have moved the number never gets made.

1974
First homes sold in Muirfield Village, developed by Jack Nicklaus
2,400
Homes inside the Muirfield Association
Dublin
Dublin City Schools, 29 miles of paths, two pools, the Memorial Tournament

Free, and nobody else has it

Before you build it, check it.

Forty-nine things Muirfield has an opinion about, what the rules actually say, and what the application costs. Fences, roofs, paint colors, sheds, basketball hoops, solar. Straight out of the Association handbook.

Open the project checker

For the families

Schools, daycare, and which lines are moving.

Dublin assigns schools by street address, not by neighborhood, and the boundaries change for the 2027-28 year. Plus the daycares close enough to matter, starting with the two inside Muirfield.

Open the family guide
Play me

Spin and win a discount at a local favorite.

One spin, one real offer at a restaurant or shop a few minutes from your driveway. Everybody wins something. The only question is which one, and whether Buckley turns up first and makes you go again.

Spin the wheel

If selling is ever on your mind

The pre-listing walk-through.

Everything on this page is here because somebody in Muirfield wanted it and could not find it anywhere. This is no different. If selling is somewhere on your horizon, an hour with us is the most useful thing we can hand you, and you keep all of it whatever you decide to do.

Step One

We walk it together

Stephanie and the designer come to you. Room by room, in the house as it sits today. Nothing to prepare, nothing to clean up first.

Step Two

You get a straight list

What is worth doing, what is a waste of money, and roughly what each item runs. Including the things most sellers spend on that buyers never notice.

Step Three

You get two numbers

What the home is likely to sell for as it sits, and what it could sell for after. Then you decide whether the difference is worth the work.

If you decide to sell with someone else, or not to sell at all, the list is still yours. That is the whole arrangement.

Stephanie Gulau

Who you are meeting

Stephanie Gulau

Stephanie is a REALTOR and an investor in Dublin, Ohio. She buys property herself, which is why a walk-through with her is a conversation about return rather than taste. The question is never whether something would look nicer. It is whether it comes back at the closing table.

Muirfield’s own game show

Big Bucks, No Deer.

Stop the board and see what Muirfield owes you. None of it is redeemable and all of it is true. Land on Buckley and he takes the whole pile, because that is exactly what he would do. Four Buckleys and you are out.

Your pile
0 hostas
Spins left
5
Buckley sightings
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Press your luck
Five spins. Stop the board whenever you like.

None of that was real, by the way.

Hostas are not a currency and Buckley has eaten most of them. If you want something you can actually use on a Friday night, the wheel hands out real discounts at places a few minutes from here, and everybody wins on that one. Go spin it.

No prizes, no claims, no entry, nothing to win. Just a board full of things this neighborhood has an opinion about. Hostas have no cash value and cannot be redeemed, at Gene’s or anywhere else. Buckley is not affiliated with the Muirfield Association, the deer population, or anyone’s hostas, and has already eaten most of them.

Buckley has turned up 0 times while you have been here. He does that.

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