hen potential buyers · ORGANIZE. This is a good time
step into your house, to tackle that filing you’ve been
they want to see a clean, putting off, and organizing your
neat and attractively decorated craft materials and other
house. What they DON’'T want to projects. Once again, get rid of
see is something so overly anything you can live without
decorated they can’t imagine temporarily. Better yet, start
their own furniture and packing! And by the way, it’s
possessions in the house. Plus, easy these days to find
too many shelves and tables with attractive, inexpensive baskets
knickknacks, too many overstuffed in stores from WalMart to
sofas piled with pillows can hide PierOne. Use those baskets to
the architectural and structural help keep you organized. A large
features of a home. basket can be used to stash
magazines and coasters under the
Here are a few tips on keeping a coffee table. Baskets can also be
minimalist approach to your home put to good use in bathrooms –
decorating. put away all your personal items
like make-up, toothpaste, shaving
· MINIMIZE. Put away EVERYTHING cream, etc. People can get
that isn’t absolutely essential. distracted looking at the brand
Even if you have get down on your names of products you use; plus,
knees and beg your neighbor for having all that stuff around
some storage space in their makes the house look used.
garage, (or rent a storage
locker), do it. Remember, it · ARRANGE. The things you DO keep
isn’t forever, and you might find around can be rearranged in
you can live without some of that attractive ways to make your
stuff. house look interesting. In the
kitchen, for example, group
canisters together. Spreading personal nature. That embroidered
them out makes counter space look family tree your aunt made might
smaller. The same goes for well spark a long conversation
ledges, end tables, bookcase, and that does nothing to sell your
fireplace mantels. Group no more house. So temporarily put away
than 3 things together, making those photos and other personal
sure they’re varying heights, and items.
mix graduate sizes. For example,
group 2 candles on one side of The key is to make the house look
the mantel, and something smaller attractive, minimally decorated,
on the other side. and devoid of personal artifacts
which distract the potential
One thing to remember while buyer and possibly prevents her
decorating to sell is that from envisioning her OWN family
potential buyers frequently spend and stuff in the house.
more time looking at family
photograph and items of a
About the Author:
Kathleen Yamauchi is a long-time realtor located in Prescott, Arizona. For more free tips and resources on buying and selling your home and other real estate advice, visit her web site at http://www.kathleeny.com.
