When selling your home it is important to maintain the intended purpose of each living space. You may have customized your areas to fit your lifestyle, i.e. turned a bedroom into a home office or sewing|hobby room. This is great as these are YOUR needs. New home buyers may have a completely different lifestyle and never plan to sew! Many are not able to see past the piles of yarn, hot glue guns, etc. to visualize the room as a needed bedroom for their growing family. While you are in the process of showing your home to pr
ospective buyers you will need realize that is not all about your needs anymore, but about sell
ing your home. Pack up and store the scrapbook project, your stacks of files, the puzzle that you will never finish and the pants you meant to hem last summer. If, in fact, you do have a dedicated room that is meant as a home office please put all paperwork away and show that room as an organized an
d uncluttered space that others can visualize themselves working in. Keep in mind that your home is probably listed, as an example, as having 3 bedrooms|2 baths. The buyers are probably there because your home meets their needs and you want
to show it off! Don't rely on planning to explain that 'although we use this room this way, it is really meant as...' You may not be there and the realtor may not know. You will be in your new home soon enough and can make any room you like your personal playground again! Good luck and more to come.
I think my office looks too much like your pic. Come help!
ReplyDeletePost a picture if you would like suggestions. Maybe I can help.
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