Home organizing and decluttering your home can do wonders for preparing to put your house on the market for sale. In this article we’ll cover ten professional home organizer tips for decluttering to help you sell your house quicker!

1. Home Organizing with a touch of “Depersonalizing”.

When a potential buyer enters your home, it’s important for them to feel as if they can imagine their own belongings in it. Home stagers know all too well that creating the “home and decor” style magazine feel without personalizations is what sells. In order to give them this feel, pack all the family heirlooms and personal photos up and put them in a safe place.  Remove all of your fridge magnets and hide the tooth brushes.  Free up wall space to brighten up the room and let buyers imagine their own photos or paintings on your walls.

2. Declutter Your Closets and Storage.

De-clutter your closets and storage areas so potential buyers see room for their belongings. Renting a storage space could be helpful. This will also make your move easier, sorting out any closet items you don’t want to take with you.

3. Arrange the Kitchen like a Top Chef.

Any realtor or home organizer will tell you that the number one selling point in a home is the kitchen. Minimize, organize, and prioritize. Shining all of the appliances, organize the pantry, and sort the silverware like a showroom. Think home organizing magazine worthy!

4. Stage Your Furniture

Keeping to the plan to declutter and organize your house, move some of the miscellaneous furniture to your storage space to make your home feel more spacious.  This could include fetching staging furniture like the pros depending on your needs.

5. “Safe Keeping’ Your Favorite Items

To save ourselves from being at risk of our favorite pieces of furniture or anything that is precious to us getting manipulated in any way while home organizing or staging, remove them and store them in a safe place.

6. Make Small Repairs

Do a thorough walk through the house looking for any minor repairs that may stick out to buyers and repair them. This could mean fixing leaky faucets, patching small holes in walls, or touch up paint. Take a look at the light fixtures to see if any bulbs need to be replaced as well to brighten up your home

7. Neutralize the Colors

Keeping with the theme of making potential buyers feel at home, if you have any colorful rooms, consider making them neutral. Whether you need to remove decor or do some painting, attention to detail sells.

8. Make the House Feel Welcoming

One of the best home organizing tips to sell your home or apartment is to lighten up the house and make it feel welcoming and cozy. Thia can be achieved by adding a few selectively placed plants and candles. Remember to “wow” buyers when they first enter your home.

9. Clean and Decorate the Outside

First impressions are everything when selling a home. It starts with the outside before walking in the front door. One of the easiest ways to spiff up the outside is to take extra time in landscaping the property, if it applies, and add some colorful flowers. but not too many!  We don’t want them to think they can’t keep up with the property depending on the sale price.

10. Make Your House Sparkling Clean!

Last but certainly not least, make your house as clean as can be! One of the best ways to present a house is after it’s had a deep cleaning. As a professional house cleaning service and home organizer, our move out cleaning’s are meant to sell!