Seek Less In The Marketing Of Your Home
Cut back on fancy decorating when it comes time to market your home.
The television shows focusing on hoarding have shown us the extremes to which people can clutter up their lives, but even a normal home tends to accumulate a lot of clutter from day to day living.
Since we live with our clutter, we often overlook it. It may be a pile of newspapers on the bench, children’s artwork stuck to the fridge or the mail piling up on the coffee table. Cleaning house and de-cluttering are not the same thing and may both solve these problems. Even your family photographs adorning a wall, or a collection of figurines can seem like clutter to someone outside the family.
Buyers want to picture their personal belongings on the shelves, walls and benches of your house, so de-cluttering will help them to imagine this. We tend to drag along our own clutter to the new house, but we do not picture replacing their untidy mail with our untidy mail etc, but we do see us replacing their couches with ours.
If you’ve ever toured a model home or looked at many decorating or interior design magazines, you should have an idea of what an uncluttered space looks like. Furniture stores have mock rooms set up that can also give you a good idea. The whole are feels new with no personal items left laying around, art on the walls is impersonal and there are no family photos around.
Transforming your living space into a potential home for someone else is a hard task.
From the foyer to the bath you will have to carefully evaluate your house.
Pack a room at a time to make it easier. Box up anything you don’t need now as you will be selling your home anyway. Putting away portraits, ornaments and figurines is a start to the de-cluttering that must be done. This will have the dual benefit of not only making your space less cluttered and easier to clean when you need to prepare for a prospective buyer.
Start to box up your collections once you have already packed away what you do not need. Lumping books and movies on shelves puts them out of the way but clutters up the shelves. Why not box up those unused clothes from the closet, it will make your closet look more spacious to the buyer.
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