Selling up! Feedback on my house please! (PICS)

roger196

You need info on parking, garden size, room sizes, floor plan, proximity to shops, schools, doctors, bus and train services.
Go round outside of property and attend to minor repairs ie clean gutters, repaint where necessary, slipping tiles, damaged waste pipes.

Debt_Free_Chick

Once you put a house on the market, it's no longer "your home". Instead, it needs to look like the place that someone else wants to buy.

Remove all the "stuff" that you have around - effectively, strip the rooms and then "dress" them with things that are put there only because they look good, IYSWIM. e.g. only three decorative items on top of the fire; remove all the mags & papers from the rack, apart from 3 or 4 and have a "good" mag showing at the front (Vogue, Country Life, Interiors etc).

The towel in the bathroom needs to be clean and folded straight, like a hotel! Please don't take photos of a toilet (!) step inside a little and take a photo of the bath - but it must be sparkling clean with no personal items - perhaps a nice candle and a posh bottle of body cleanser/lotion.

Aim to have all your surfaces clean and clear, apart from "beautiful objects".

PITA selling a house!

cattie

I have to agree with the general declutter suggestions.

I've just had my house on the market and have viewed 3 or 4 properties as a buyer and have to say unnecessary clutter is the one thing that seems to leap out at me as soon as I look at a place that isn't presented as well as it could be. It can make a viewer feel very claustrophobic.

Pack away absolutely everything unnecessary and hide other stuff that needn't be on show into cupboards or a shed or garage. Your home needs to be seen as a clean, calm and spacious place where viewers can imagine themselves living. Your house is definitely not achieving that at the moment.

Also have to agree with cutting back all that greenery at the front.

When all this is done, get ea to take some decent pictures. If they do any you're not keen on, either get them to replace with your own or get them back to redo.

Chimpofdoom

As everyone else says... declutter!

Maybe a lick of paint too, neutral colours are best, white is good as it makes it feel bigger.

Also don't feel the need to have something on every wall. In your living room you have 4 items on 2 walls, personally keep the mirror, ditch the rest! Same in what I think is the landing, also ditch that table!

googler

A HiFi enthusiast lives here....

Declutter it.

Front pic needs to be taken from farther back to show the house in context

Study - clear away soldering iron, bits & bobs from that table, ID badge, phone, etc from the desk. Consider clearing the Quad stack from the desk.

Bathroom - show us the bath, not the bog. Tidy the towels. Clear away the Domestos, bog brush, etc. Nobody wants to look at other people's cleaning products.

Bedroom - clear away the laundry basket

etc etc for the other rooms.

Honestly, there's little point in commenting when you've clearly not made any/much effort to tidy it in advance of these pictures. Come back when you're ready for the photographer.....

vivatifosi

The thing that made me take a sharp intake of breath was the newspaper rack in front of the fire, which struck me as being a fire hazard. As soon as I saw that it said to me "no room to put it anywhere else, therefore room too small".

carefullycautious

If you have no idea how to stage a house for selling then you really need to get someone in to explain how to do it.

Have you friends who could help.

To me on first looking all I could see was clutter = no adequate storage

You have bothered to put a table cloth on the table with a runner and then either not bothered to iron it and put some sort of stainless steel mixing? bowl on top as well as the fruit bowl.

A sharp intake of breath was needed for the bathroom as it looks like you have just had a bath and couldnt be bothered to fold towels plus loads of clutter.

The shrubs obscuring the outside windows were enough to put me off also the yellowing net curtains.

I could go on but others have said it all really.

Clean, tidy and find storage for stuff you dont need day to day

Good luck.

meer53

To be honest, it wouldn't inspire me to come and look at it ! Sorry !

Too much clutter, very untidy, garden not loved.

I know you should be able to see past these things but with all the things you have around, you can't see exactly whats there. And whats the table on the landing for ?

A bit of colour here and there would help too, it all seems a bit bland really. Maybe coloured towels and cushions in the lounge, or even bunches of fresh flowers here and there.

robatwork

Do you have a garage? Or a friend with one?
Put absolutely everything you can in there and then take some more pictures. Chairs, desks, everything on top of your kitchen cupboards, towels, cleaning stuff. If it's your garage put them neatly into boxes at the back of the garage.

People won't see beyond the clutter - your house looks sound from outside but you need to let it breathe.

rolymo_2

ok - what i would do is --
1. -tidy up front garden, trim shrubs, especially the one by the window.

2.- de clutter all surfaces, only have on display a couple of nice items, close the desk, remove the tools,clear top of gas fire and remove magazine rack, remove swivel chair,take down the 2 floral pictures and the spotlights. Is that a double glass door ? - move the desk and the speaker so that both doors can be opened up (makes more open plan)

3.- clear top of fridge, remove or hide the extension lead -as it tells me there arent enough sockets, tidy the dining table a little (maybe no cloth at all, just an ironed runner and a vase of fresh flowers, maybe even a nice place setting)

4. - clear all surfaces in kitchen and on top of cupboards

5. -remove laundry basket and large floor lamp (maybe replace with bedside lamp) is their also a chair in the room ? i'd remove that too, i'd also take down the pictures as they are competing with the wallpaper

6.- tidy bathroom -does the cabinet have a door ? clean fresh folded towel on rail, put away cleaning products,clear windowsill -does the sink have a splashback or is it missing tiles (hard to tell in photo)

7-. declutter study, clear all surfaces, remove the shelves -as my eyes are drawn to how many cd's you have !!

i think the theme is to clear all surfaces, remove some items of furniture to create more space, de clutter.

hope that helps a little, please dont think im being critical -you do seem to have a nice home.