Getting Bedrooms Ready for Buyers
Quick — company’s coming over and you have to stash the extra laundry and family mail somewhere. The bedrooms are safe, right? Because bedrooms are the most private spaces in the house, they’re a popular catchall, but that changes completely when your house goes on the market.
Prepping from the laundry pile up
- Bedrooms need to be clean, uncluttered, charming, and as gender neutral as possible. Start your bedroom sale preparation by removing or storing
- Anything that doesn’t relate to the function of the room. If you’re using an extra bedroom as a hobby or music room, convert it back to a bedroom. Buyers often lack imagination, and you don’t want them leaving your house saying, “Boy, that was a great house but there weren’t enough bedrooms.”
- Collections, collectables, personal photographs, certificates, degrees — anything personalized with a name.
- Valuables — jewellery, coin collections, guns, and so on. Store all your valuables in a safe place offsite or in a safety deposit box.
- Extra books and magazines. If you like to read in bed, store your reading material in a basket that you slide under the bed.
- Anything left on the floor that shouldn’t be there — dirty clothes, extra shoes, sports equipment, toys, a ham sandwich.
