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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Jenny McFarlane

I rented a van to hide everyday clutter when selling our house – it's a simple staging trick that really paid off at viewings, saving us so much time and effort

Bedroom with white chest of drawers.

When we were putting our lovely little terraced home up for sale, I always thought it looked pretty put-together. We were in the midst of the parenting trenches with our first daughter, so it was a busy family home, and it felt warm and welcoming, but like everyone, we had accumulated a fair share of clutter in our 10 years in foggy London town.

When it came to getting it ready for photos (you can see a few of these below) and the open-house viewings that our genius estate agent recommended, we had a bit of a reality check. Once I started properly looking into how to declutter to sell your home fast and the key areas you need to declutter before putting your house on the market, it quickly became clear that my usual quick tidy might not cut it. After all, we needed to get the painful process over as quickly as we could, and it felt like a minimal investment that would more than likely pay off.

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