Any good real estate agent will tell you that your home needs to be decluttered in order to appeal to
potential buyers when they come to an open house. A home filled with clutter seems a lot more
cramped and smaller than it actually it is, which is going to put off buyers. Presenting your home as a neutral canvas allows people to imagine themselves living there, and shows off your home’s best
features without distraction. It also helps make moving a lot easier.
Here are our top five tips for decluttering your home for sale – because we know that it can be
overwhelming!
Using your time wisely is one of the most important parts of effective decluttering. How much time
you’ve got until your home is open for inspection, and how much help you’ll have in sorting through
all your belongings will affect how quickly you need to work.
So much decluttering time is wasted by simply wandering around and not making a decision on
where to begin, or going from room to room without finishing one.
Pick one room, plan out how you’re going to sort your items (such as keep, throw away, store and
donate) and then get to work. You’ll be a lot more effective and won’t get so overwhelmed as if you
were trying to declutter all over the house at once.
If you want to be ruthless with your decluttering, this is a great rule. Whenever you pick up an item,
think if you’ve used it in the past year – and if you haven’t, then put it aside for donation, selling or
throwing out.
You don’t have to be as strict with family heirlooms, photos or things of that nature, of course!
Buyers will look through everything. So even if your living room appears decluttered, they’ll soon
discover that you’ve simply thrown everything in a cupboard or in drawers. These places need to be
decluttered too!
‘ If there’s a lot you want to keep that doesn’t fit with staging your home, get a storage unit ’
This is why we suggest a ‘storage’ category for sorting your items. Sometimes you don’t need to do a
lot of decluttering, and you want to keep a lot of your items to take to your next home.
A storage unit keeps all of this category of belongings safe during the selling process, giving you
another option instead of throwing away or donating. If you want to make sure your items are safely
packed for being stored, get in touch with professional movers like us who have experience in
moving belongings in and out of storage.
Let your home truly shine in front of prospective buyers by decluttering. Not only will it mean less
for you to pack and move later, but you’ll be allowing buyers to picture their lives there, making a
sale much more likely to happen faster. These five tips will help make the decluttering process a
breeze!
Removalist on the run is a local removals company in Melbourne to provide moving and removalists services. We have 10 years of experience, a dedicated and professional team, last but not the least is, HAPPY CLIENTS!
