5 things I decluttered before selling my house – how I made it look more desirable for viewings and pocketed an extra £500 (and counting) in the process

Exterior of a red brick period house with a grey front door and patterned pathway behind a grey front gate.

Currently, my husband and I are selling our first home and buying our second. And while it was a long and arduous task to get offers accepted due to instability in the housing market, the feedback on our house was always the same: viewers loved it and thought it was in perfect, clutter-free condition.

This wasn’t just a fluke, though. Before putting our house on the market, we spent a great deal of time researching how to declutter before selling a house and decided to go through it from top to bottom. We thought hard about what we wanted our new house to look like and what we wanted to take with us, and we decluttered anything we knew we definitely didn’t want.