Are you planning to sell your home this year? Selective de-cluttering is required if you want to receive a fair price and sell it quickly. Use this decluttering your home checklist before selling it.
Do you know when buyers visit your property, they visualize what it will look like when they move in?
This imagination might get hampered if your home is chaotic. As a result, you have to go the extra mile to convince the buyer that this property has everything they are looking for.
The first step to this is, decluttering your home. It is estimated that decluttering the home may improve its asking price by 3-5%.
While decluttering our home might be intimidating, getting everything in its proper place can be done swiftly with a list-based plan.
Here is the decluttering plan you require.
We have divided the house into several zones to make it easier for you to declutter it.
- Checklist for Bathroom
- Checklist for Bedroom
- Checklist for Closet
- Checklist for Kitchen
- Checklist for kid’s room, office space, and living room
- Checklist for the yard, the doorway, and the hallway
- Checklist for garage
Begin with bathroom
Bathrooms are the easiest to clean in the house because they are the smallest. Here is a brief checklist to help you make your bathroom clutter free:
- Fill the laundry basket with unwanted clothes.
- Toss out any old or unused toiletries, cosmetics, toothbrushes, hair products, and so on.
- Organize everything from your counter tops to your linen closet and medication cabinets so that buyers can envision what they will do with the area.
- Declutter the shower/bathtub area. Fold the towels and hang them on hooks or towel bars.
- Finally, clean it out. Spray the cleaning products in the bathroom. Clean the mirror, vanity, floor, and toilet.
Declutter the Bedroom
To attract buyers, you need to make space in your bedroom. In this manner, buyers may see how they will place different things like bed, rocking chair, closet etc in that bedroom. Let us make a simple plan to clear the bedroom:
- Begin with random items, such as books on your nightstand, stray Kleenex, photo frames, showpieces, clothing that should be in your wardrobe, and so on.
- De-clutter your closet.
- Clear out the drawers and toss aside everything that is no longer needed.
- Finally, dust surfaces and blinds, clean windows, vacuum, and wash laundry.
Clean up the Closet
Most of us have more clothes than we can handle, making it the most common source of clutter. The main concern here is getting rid of old, out-of-date items. Here is all you can do:
- Donate/trash/recycle all clothing and freebies. Place the off-season clothing in a separate box.
- Gather all the old bills, periodicals, and other odd documents. Throw away all the junk.
- Use different “Use Me” bins to gather different types of trash, such as paper, clothing, delicate goods, and so on.
- Organize the important stuff. There are many items in the closet that have considerable meaning and sentimental value. Pack them carefully in a safe place. It can minimize the threat of breakage or theft when the buyers arrive.
- Organize the bookcases and other miscellaneous items.
Curate What’s in the Kitchen
The kitchen has a strong influence on prospective buyers, so working hard to organize yours makes sense. Here is what you need to do:
- Remove extra plants and other random items from the kitchen windowsills to declutter them.
- Remove fridge magnets, artwork, and gift certificates.
- Organize culinary equipment in drawers, cupboards, and cabinets.
- Clean up your refrigerator, freezer, under-sink area, and any oil spills.
Tidy up the kid’s room, office space, and living room
The kid’s room is one of the most untidy rooms in the house. On top of that, cleaning this room can be a challenging aspect of decluttering your home. Also, it might sometimes be difficult to persuade children to toss things away. What you can do is as follows:
- Toy decluttering may help keep things under control and free up a lot of room.
- Keep stuff in a box in case you have another child in the future.
- Clean, clean, clean. Kids’ rooms are full of crayon markings, leftover food stains, and so on, so take up that scrub and clean it.
Clear out your desk to organize your home office area. Check out these ideas for creating a study place that people will want to work in:
- Organize your documents. Clear the workplace of paper stacks and dispersed stationery objects.
- Put stuff in labelled files. It is even better if you can put them out of sight in a cupboard with doors.
You are likely to have a lot of stuff in your living room. Here is a checklist to help you simplify your living room:
- Remove extra and unnecessary furniture, as well as big items such as a large coffee table, bean bag, and so on.
- Depersonalize by removing photographs from the walls, drawings of your children, and so forth. Wherever possible, keep things basic and symmetrical.
De-clutter the yard, the doorway, and the hallway.
For curb appeal, you must spruce up the front yard. Here’s where you should focus your efforts:
- Remove any excess grass from your yard. To make a good first impression, keep your landscape neat.
- Clean up any garden debris, such as dead leaves and branches.
- Hide the dumpsters from the front yard.
Get welcoming with the Entryway. An entrance, like the front yard, creates the initial impression of your home. You can consider:
- Setting up a stylish coat rack or accent table to keep yours tidy, as well as a spot for visitors to hang their jackets during open houses,
- Create an entryway that lures potential buyers in.
- You may even add a creative ‘for sale’ board to it.
Also, do not forget to make room in the hallways. A small hallway can make even the most spacious home seem claustrophobic. So, if your hall is particularly narrow, be sure to remove as much visual clutter as possible, such as hanging hooks, portraits, and other artwork.
Lastly, glance up the garage.
Do you believe no one will peak in there? Yes, they will, and a cluttered garage filled with your undesirable items might make it appear smaller than it is. You can begin with:
- Organize the garage using storage items, such as bins or plastic boxes. Throw away old toys and other objects that have been stuffed in there for years.
- Using a vacuum cleaner, remove the dirt. You might also consider hanging some creative boards to make it sound more interesting.
Finally, you have accomplished your goal.
Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.
All you have to do now is throw an open house party. Make the most of your efforts and try to get the fastest sale at the best price feasible.
Also, there is a shortcut for you.
You may avoid all this trouble by selling your property for cash to cash buyers who are eager to buy your home as-is, with no requests for changes.
You can thank us later!
