13. staging

I mentioned in a previous post that we did a TON of work to get our house ready for the market. Some of it was little things that we'd been meaning to do for years, a lot of it was simply decluttering, and some of it was deliberate touches to "stage" it better.

I didn't take any "before" pictures, but here is a "midway through" picture, as we had started to pack up some boxes:

And here it is after all of our hard work:

Our house looks pretty amazing now, if I do say so myself.   Of course, half our stuff is in storage (books, equipment for our hobbies, winter clothing, seasonal decorations, etc.), but we don't have to mention that to anyone!


Overall I'm really happy with how our house turned out. I'm just praying the right buyer will fall in love with it quickly!  The main barrier to our hard work, however, is that our road is currently under construction:

The timing basically couldn't get any worse!!!  I'm hoping someone will fall in love with house, can look past the mess and inconvenience, and will buy it up anyway. I'm working on visualizing our house selling quickly and for a good price...