Nothing Personal - Staging your house to sell

When it comes to the quick, profitable sale of a house, every celebrity interior decorator and home stylist sings the same cruel song, and here it comes again. It is an unpalatable notion to swallow, but the very things, which reflect your family’s presence and character will have to be diluted and even temporarily ditched.

Make no mistake about it, unless you are Terence Conran himself, your highly individual imprint can distract and potentially even repel a potential buyer. Take a deep breath, arm yourself with plenty of boxes, dump that domestic debris and de-personalise!

Even quite innocent additions from acres of family photographs to swathes of dubious bric-a-brac, place a psychological barrier between the buyer and your property, obscuring their view with the intimate detail of your tastes and pastimes. I am not talking about selling or binning your prized “dolls of the world” collection, just boxing it up and putting it in the attic in preparation for your move. A judicious paring down and re-arrangement of furniture and ornaments can transform the homely into the sellable in a matter of hours. Take a look at what’s left after the great purge and have some fun placing your classic survivors in strategic locations.