making it to the new home or are a past that is time to leave.
Your home's décor may display the vital importance of your heritage. The truth is also that you may end up selling to someone whose heritage is equally important, but is vastly different than yours. You do not want to give the impression that you are you trying to sell to a specific demographic. Remove religious images. Temper ethnic images and avoid overwhelming ethnic styling. This is a little trickier for some people to understand because their décor might be born out of taste for certain cultural furnishings in lieu of it being their heritage. But you have to avoid the pitfall of looking like you are trying to sell to a certain culture. Don't discard the furniture, just temper the overall feeling of the space to have as much mass appeal as possible. Most images of Architecture can be simply fine. They evoke feelings of travel and worldliness and are pretty neutral. These images are a great way to fill frames on bookshelves. Starting with removing personal images is the best way to to shift your mindset from selling your home to selling real property, which is what you are doing. Tucking away your memories makes the rest easier. It commences you becoming personally separated from the past and shifts your focus to your future.
3. UNFURNISH FOR SCALE
Regardless of you much time, money and effort you have spent furnishing your home, it is now time to UNFurnish. So, what does that really mean? It does not mean get rid of all the furniture! It means simplify the furnishings. Furniture is for scale not style. Trust me. As an Architect I know that generally people struggle to mentally furnish a room 45
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