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Control Your Clutter for Staging

If there’s one thing that can ruin a room, if not a whole property, it’s clutter. You can have the nicest space in the world in which to work in, but if you try to fit too many things in it then you’re very quickly going to ruin it and you won’t be able to make the most of it. Not to mention, staging a home can be almost impossible if the space is unorganized.

Effect on Staging and Selling

An absolute must for luxury homes, staging or lack thereof can significantly raise or lower the sales price of your home. Some Seattle real estate agents will assist in staging but, for best results, you typically want to rely on an expert. Especially if you’re relocating and you’re moving the furniture with you. It’s very difficult for a potential buyer to picture their life in an empty home.

Effect on State of Mind

And it’s not just the look of your rooms that will be affected by clutter, it can also affect everything else from your health to your productivity. Having a lot of clutter in your room will automatically take up time and will automatically make you less productive. This is because you will find it’s in your way when you are trying to work, and you will have to dig through it to find the things you need. If you need to find a file and you have a cluttered space then you will have to search through your other documents and route through cupboards and drawers in order for it to turn up – and that of course is a waste of time.

At the same time this clutter can simply clutter up your mental space. It makes you feel like you have lots to do, it makes you feel disorganized, and all this can suddenly mean you don’t know what to do with yourself. One of the quickest ways to improve your mental health and to increase your productivity is to just tidy up your clutter so you can get on with your work.

So how do you go about accomplishing this? Here are some suggestions.

Throw Out Old Boxes

Most of us will put our hands up and admit that we have at least one box of stuff that we don’t use. It’s probably tucked away under the bed, or stuffed up on top of your wardrobe and chances are that you probably haven’t looked in it for the last few months. The thing is though, that if you haven’t looked in it since you put it up there… then you probably don’t need it and the best thing you can do is to take out anything sentimental and just throw it out.

Let’s say that there was something you could have used in there – well then is it really the end of the world that you have to buy it again? Again – remove the sentimental stuff, but anything else you can just re-buy. You’ll find that if someone were to take your things and throw them out for you, it would probably be a year or more before you noticed. But it’s actually incredibly liberating and gives you a lot more space to store the things you do wan.

One in One Out

This is a rule that my girlfriend has recently enforced on me – for every new gizmo I buy I have to choose something to dispose of. It’s actually a very good rule and it has helped me greatly to clear the amount of junk in my home and to stop buying things on such impulse – which has of course in turn also boosted my wallet somewhat because I’m not making half as many impulse purchases.

Go Digital

If you have hundreds of DVDs and hundreds of CDs currently stacked up in your room then no doubt these are taking up a huge amount of space. You can cut through these ruthlessly these days though and rely on one simple fact – almost all of them can be watched on Spotify or Netflix or something of the kind.

Stop Collecting

One of the reasons we have so much junk is that we are naturally drawn to collections – presumably this is a hangover from our evolutionary history. The thing we forget here though is that a collection for a collection’s sake is actually no use to anyone. Instead then, perhaps you could benefit from thinking less about quantity and more about quality – choose a few of the best items and then display these proudly – each one will have more impact as a result.

About the Author

Walton Granger likes to keep his home free of unnecessary goods. No wonder he got into snow plow business years ago. Walton likes writing about automobiles, home improvement ideas and owns a couple of powerful pickup trucks.

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May 10, 2012 by Analyst

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