CHAPTER 5
DECLUTTERING THE ENTIRE HOUSE
When people put their home on the market to attract potential buyers, they have only two objectives: to get the house sold quickly and earn the price we have in mind. A great start to decluttering to achieve a neat and clean appearance is to hold a yard sale to earn extra cash and to get rid of the things you don’t need at the same time. You can use this cash for buying storage products and solutions, to be used when you start the actual process of clearing away the area. One of the most important steps in staging your home for sale is to clear up the mess and get rid of extra furniture, old decorative items, unused kitchen appliances, and piles of books and newspapers. Some people only do this step, along with repainting their house, and manage to get a good price. Decluttering can greatly improve the appearance of your home, but people fear how to go about doing it. Clearing everything out is easy when all you need to do is throw out the useless items. But it’s not easy when you must put away certain things for future use and store the essentials, to clear away some space. Let’s look to how you can declutter the entire house effortlessly and quickly, to take staging your home to the next level, and be successful in selling it at the price you have in mind. CLEARING EVERYTHING OUT The best strategy is go room-by-room, including bedrooms, bathrooms, living room, dining room, and the kitchen, to keep it simple and to not miss anything. Decluttering the kitchen is a major activity, though,
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