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.
The clutter we live in each day is overlooked. It does not matter if it is a stack of mail on the coffee table, some newspapers in the bathroom or children’s artwork stuck to the fridge. These problems can be solved by cleaning house and de-cluttering which are not the same thing. Even your family photographs adorning a wall, or a collection of figurines can seem like clutter to someone outside the family.
By de-cluttering potential buyers can visualize their belongings on the wall and their ornaments on the shelves instead of yours. 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.
Looking at interior design magazines and home improvement magazine you can get a good idea of what un-cluttered space looks like. Even touring a furniture store where room groupings are displayed can give you an idea. Everything is impersonal with no pictures of family members and everything is in it’s place to make the area feel new.
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. You are going to sell your home so why not start boxing up things that you will not be needing right now. Putting away portraits, ornaments and figurines is a start to the de-cluttering that must be done. It is now easier to clean up this space because you have de-cluttered it so well.
Once you’ve put away the things you know you won’t need, take it a step further by boxing up some of your collections as well. Cluttering up the shelves by overfilling them with books and movies is not a good idea. Make your closet space bigger by putting away clothes that you never wear and boxing them up.
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