5 weeks and no interest

pimento

A couple of pictures on the walls would cheer it up. No need to spend £££, somewhere like Matalan or TK maxx will have a selection of canvases cheap.

dopester

You could use something like Photoshop to enhance the poorly taken dark photos but I'm not sure if that would be like misrepresenting or something - eg: if those rooms never get good light during the day.

Blackpool_Saver

I don't mean to upset you honestly I don't, and I am not nit picking, just being honest, a previous poster suggested lightening dark furniture with light throws, I myself have put white sheets over dark cabinets to sell houses, trust me buyers are dumb they want to see it in an instant and they make their minds up very quickly.
Do all you can to create kerb appeal too.

jonewer

The living room look long and narrow, take a photo of the front without the car there. No photos of the garden? The description says it has a brick outhouse. No pics of that?

Buyers arent "dumb" but the first stage in their journey to buying a house is looking at hundreds of ads on the internet and making a shortlist. If your ad isnt very good then they wont want to buy it.

gauly

Personally, I'm always put off when the first picture isn't of the front of the house (sometimes enough not to click on the Rightmove ad) - I expect it to look awful, be decorated in purple pebble dash, be on a main road, have tiny windows... You get the idea. Your house looks perfectly normal from outside (though you could lose the car), so why not lead off with that photo. Or is it just me who thinks this?

Blackpool_Saver

gauly wrote: »

Personally, I'm always put off when the first picture isn't of the front of the house (sometimes enough not to click on the Rightmove ad) - I expect it to look awful, be decorated in purple pebble dash, be on a main road, have tiny windows... You get the idea. Your house looks perfectly normal from outside (though you could lose the car), so why not lead off with that photo. Or is it just me who thinks this?

No, I thought that too, maybe it's because people are put off by dark windows.....

GDB2222

Well, I like the dark window frames, so no accounting for taste. If these are hardwood, there's much less maintenance than paintwork.

Blackpool_Saver

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, I like the dark window frames, so no accounting for taste. If these are hardwood, there's much less maintenance than paintwork.

White upvc all the way for me, dark windows usually means dark rooms....

Odd_Job

It's photo related again, but slightly different.

I tried to rent my house out some time ago and it hardly got any viewings. Another agent said it was because of the pictures, which I didn't believe, but he got me to remove all my own bits and bobs, he re-took the pictures and he had two viewings every day. It rented out very quickly after that.

Also, when I bought that house previously, I remember the photographs had the house very clear, no personal stuff, just furniture and flowers.

I would remove all the clutter in the photographs. It isn't junk to you, but to somebody who maybe wants to buy themselves a new home it might be putting them off.

Some suggestions you could alter, which I'm sure will seem insulting, but might help:

1) Shirts hanging out the wardrobe
2) Shower gel bottle and fluffy sponge thing in bathroom
3) Pole in living room and stuff on top of cabinet
4) Fruit and loaves of bread (or whatever) piled up on kitchen units
5) Towel slung over oven handle
6) Pile of mail in kitchen
7) Kiwi
8) Magnets and pictures scattered over boiler
9) Would look neater without the plastic rack on the draining board
10) Maybe get the net curtains down?

Good luck with it - hope you get some viewings soon.

hairdye

Odd_Job wrote: »

7) Kiwi

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where is the kiwi?:rotfl: