If you’re planning to sell your Kellyville home in the near future, it’s never too soon to start decluttering. This will save you time and stress down the track, make your home more appealing to potential buyers, and make your eventual move much easier.
Why is decluttering so important when selling?
Decluttering is a vital step towards putting your home on the market. When selling, you want to showcase your home in the best way possible to potential buyers.
For this reason, it’s essential to view your home as a product that is inviting, appealing and a reasonably blank slate. This will allow potential buyers to see themselves filling your house with their own belongings and personalising it to their own tastes.
While your own mementoes and personal items may mean a lot to you, they won’t mean anything to potential buyers. In fact, they will make it harder for your buyers to imagine it as their future home.
As an example, take a look at homes for sale in your area and peruse the photos. Take note of how homes that are cluttered with the owner’s personal belongings detract from the general appeal of the house.
When a home is uncluttered, it is inviting and allows you to more easily see yourself living in it. You can imagine how your furniture can look in the different rooms, and this also makes it easier to visualise any improvements that you might want to make.
How to make the task of decluttering jobs as easy as possible
While decluttering a home that you’ve lived in for many years may seem like an onerous task, it can be made easier by breaking the task down into smaller steps.
For example, you might want to start with one room at a time. Grab some moving boxes and pack away any of your personal items that you won’t be using for the time being.
This is also a good time to get rid of things that you haven’t used for a long time and that are just taking up space. You can either sell these at a garage sale or on an online marketplace such as Facebook, or donate them to your favourite charity. Anything broken or stained can simply go in the bin – another reason to start decluttering early!
Anything that you do want to keep can be boxed up and stored conveniently in the garage. If you don’t have room in your garage, you might even want to consider renting a small storage unit for a month or two.
Tips for effective decluttering
If you’re not sure how to go about decluttering your home, here are some tips to consider:
- Remove personal items such as photos and mementoes from your travels.
- Remove surplus items of furniture that are not being used. This will open up the space and make the room appear larger.
- Go through your cupboards and drawers and sort through the contents. Any items that you no longer use can be given away or sold.
- Make your kitchen benches as clutter-free as possible by putting appliances into a cupboard while they’re not being used.
- Do the same with the products in your bathroom. You might even want to go one step further and invest in some attractive matching bottles that you can dispense your shampoo, conditioner, and body wash into.
Once you’ve completed all the above tasks, take some photos of each room in your home and then look at them critically. Consider how appealing the rooms look.
Above all, avoid just putting your belongings into your cupboards. Remember that potential buyers will open cupboard doors and drawers when they view your home and if they’re crammed full of your belongings, it will appear that your home lacks storage space.
If you start your decluttering well before listing your Kellyville home for sale, you’ll be less stressed and your eventual move will be that much easier.
And if you need some help, there’s even a decluttering service based in the Hills district that you might want to use.
Thinking of selling your home? Talk to us!
If you’re looking to sell your Kellyville home, feel free to give us a call anytime. We can come and view your home and give you some tips on how you can best present it for a successful sale.
