3 Tips to Make Your Pineville La Home Show Ready
Having your house on the market is no fun for anyone. At any minute, you
can get that text notification that there’s a showing in an hour —
which means you’ve got about 40 minutes to make your home “show
ready” while simultaneously ushering everyone out the front door.
Determined to make those 40 minutes a
little easier on myself, I aimed to keep our house 90%
show-ready at all times. That way, when the text message came
through, I just had to run through a short check-list of touch-ups to make
sure our house shined.
The experience of selling our house actually
taught me a lot about what it takes to keep my home “show-ready clean” under
normal circumstances, too.
Granted, some of the efforts won’t be replicated in
“real life” because, let’s face it, we’re human. But there are at
least 3 clean-home hacks that we should be maintaining.
3 Tips to Make Your Home Show
Ready-Clean — & Keep It That Way
#1. Make the bed everyday.
It seems like most people can be divided into one of
two categories: Those who make their beds. And those who don’t.
Until a month ago, we were firmly in the “don’t” category.
Oh, I wanted to be a bed maker; but I couldn’t seem to pull it off
consistently. And my kids’ beds? Forget about it.
But with showings-at-any-minute as a motivator, I
tasked each member of our family with making their bed when
they got out of it — first thing in the morning. And you know what?
It has made a huge difference!
I discovered that my room looks so much neater
just with the simple change of making the bed. Plus, I’ve come to see
that a made bed is one of those gateways to a clean bedroom.
#2. Get rid of one-third of
your stuff.
This is probably the real key to keeping a home show-ready
clean, since even the smallest of spaces looks bigger and
brighter when it’s clutter-free.
I’m a fan of DE- Cluttering anyway — I get visually overwhelmed when there’s too
much going on in my house.
Go thru every cabinet and closet. clear
every storage space and flat surface — and then boxed up.
If you haven’t used it recently, or if it wasn’t worth it to
pay to move it, I put it into the garage sale pile.
A totally decluttered home doesn’t
just look more spacious, it is also far easier to keep
clean.
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#3. Don’t wear shoes in the
house.
The main level of my house is wood floors; only the upstairs
bedrooms have carpets. Before I banned shoes in the house, my constant
refrain was: “I sweep every day. How is there always so much dirt on the
floor?!”
Over the past shoe-free month, You'll noticed a huge decrease
in the size of dirt piles. You may be able to even get away with skipping a day or two of
sweeping.
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