viewings doors open or shut

bride_on_a_budget

Hi,

we have got a couple of viewings at our house next week and i dont know whether to have the bedroom doors open or shut during the viewings.
our 1st floor landing is windowless so its a bit dark so maybe having the doors open would make it look brighter, i really dont know...
any advice would be grateful.

bride on a budget

Running_Horse

That "selling Houses" bloke on telly says keep most doors closed to avoid distractions, but to be honest, it probably makes very little difference to most buyers who have made up their minds in the first few minutes. If you do have dark areas then it would make sense to keep them open.

chickmug

bride_on_a_budget wrote: »

Hi,

we have got a couple of viewings at our house next week and i dont know whether to have the bedroom doors open or shut during the viewings.
our 1st floor landing is windowless so its a bit dark so maybe having the doors open would make it look brighter, i really dont know...
any advice would be grateful.

bride on a budget

My first thoughts were get them in the front door, then shut it, then lock it, then tell em they will not get away unless they agree to buy!!!

Make everywhere as light as possible and keep that doors open to get light on the landing. Then get them into the rooms and not hovering on the landing. Some will not notice, the lack of window, even after they have moved in.

good luck

pawpurrs

I would keep them open in that case, Lucky you some viewings, none yet here, heres hoping for some soon.
Good luck with yours.

LillyJ

I don't think it makes a difference. I think I had decided whether I was interested or not before I got to the top of the landing.

baileysbattlebus

I agree make it look as light and airy as possible - I also think people make their minds up very quickly, we always have done.

When we bought the house we live in now, we looked at a lot of houses and knew straight away we didn't want them, sometimes before we were even inside.

We walked into the hall of this one and I knew then, we said very little during the veiwing, but as soon as we were outside, I remember saying to OH, this is just what we need isn't it? And he agreed.

This one needed more work doing to it than any of the others we had looked at too.

But after 15 years we are still here.

bride_on_a_budget

pawpurrs wrote: »

I would keep them open in that case, Lucky you some viewings, none yet here, heres hoping for some soon.
Good luck with yours.

thanks for you advice,
i think we have only got viewings as houses dont come up for sale very often where we live and it is a large 4 bed semi..

thanks again everyone for advice

bride on a budget

PasturesNew

I had a hallway like that. The answer is to have the doors open by just 3" or so. Enough to let the light in so they don't spot there are no windows, but not enough so that you can see into any of the rooms.

If the doors are closed you can control the viewing a bit better. Some viewers split up and are dashing off everywhere. The worst are those with feral kids. The kids run amok and one of the parents chases off after them so you're left talking to just one. I banned kids from viewing my house as I couldn't have concentrated on the viewing if there'd been undue noise and confusion.

Having doors closed won't let any feral kids see it as a playground.

Also, let them go in the rooms first, it makes the rooms look bigger (not that my fat estate agent ever did that, she'd go in first then stand right in the middle of the room so they couldn't see much and couldn't get in far).

bride_on_a_budget

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a hallway like that. The answer is to have the doors open by just 3" or so. Enough to let the light in so they don't spot there are no windows, but not enough so that you can see into any of the rooms.

If the doors are closed you can control the viewing a bit better. Some viewers split up and are dashing off everywhere. The worst are those with feral kids. The kids run amok and one of the parents chases off after them so you're left talking to just one. I banned kids from viewing my house as I couldn't have concentrated on the viewing if there'd been undue noise and confusion.

Having doors closed won't let any feral kids see it as a playground.

Also, let them go in the rooms first, it makes the rooms look bigger (not that my fat estate agent ever did that, she'd go in first then stand right in the middle of the room so they couldn't see much and couldn't get in far).

i did think about having the doors open a little, but all our doors are fire doors due to our loft conversion, so they can only be shut or open not ajar.
so i would have to wedge them all open

PasturesNew

In that case I'd have one door open, the first one they will see/come to. That gives the light needed and they won't be distracted as that's the room they're going into first.