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20 Belle Property Lane Cove | Maintaining & preparing your home for profit 4. Present the home to suit the purchaser Once inside the home, minimise the amount of furniture in the rooms and utilise the furniture that’s going to make an impact, that’s going to create the scenario, the kind of emotions that you’re targeting in your buyer. If you are marketing a home to a family, keep the chalkboard and some posters in a child’s bedroom because you want to create that family ambience. In the living room, leave the Xbox controllers next to the TV. 5. Kitchen Declutter! A fridge should not be noticeable – it should be white, silver, or neutral. Remove all personal items – the pen-stands, the sunglasses, the phone chargers. Add a few touches, depending on who you are appealing to. Add a fruit bowl or fresh flowers or a plant. Clean, clean, clean, clean that stainless steel, give it a good scrub-down. All surfaces must gleam. Remove the personal touches, whether it’s kids’ report cards or the magnetic stickers from the fridge. Remove the tea towels, remove the pet bowls, and remove the rubbish bin from the shots and the dirty dishes! 6. Lounge room If you have any kind of view from your lounge room over the backyard, the beaches, or the hills – maximise it. Clean the windows and be careful about window treatments. Remove lace curtains as they date the home and minimise what the photographer can do to show the views. Photographers will lift those blinds up, pull back the verticals, so the backyard, the views, the deck, and the outside entertaining areas can be seen. 7. Bathroom The bathroom is one of the greatest challenges, because the bathroom is always a work in progress, particularly for family homes. This is one room that should be cleaned by professionals. Bathrooms need to feel clean; they need to be almost clinical. You want to be able to see through the shower glass so that it doesn’t impact upon the atmosphere you’re creating for the rest of the bathroom – it has to be absolutely translucent. Polish the mirror. Make sure that any cobwebs or the dust on the exhaust fan for instance has been removed. Any chrome items must be given a nice good polish. Tiles will show off any marks or grease, simply by the characteristic change in whether it’s a shine or a matte reflection. Bathrooms also are challenging because there are so many bright, shiny reflective surfaces. The quality of the photographer is revealed with shots of the bathroom. Any failure to catch every scrap of grime or dirt or streak will show up in a photo. Decluttering is most important in the bathroom. In such a small space, any clutter is going to be far more obvious. Take the toilet roll off the hanger. Take out the toothbrushes and any other personal items that may detract.