Remove pictures from the walls
A home staging tip that is worth repeating is this: remove pictures from the walls when you are selling your home. Whether in MLS photography or in person, blank walls always look better than walls with the wrong size pictures, the wrong number of pictures, the wrong type of pictures, or pictures that are hung at the wrong height.
Wrong size
Pictures should be removed from the walls because they are either too big or, (more often), too small. When looking at MLS photos, buyers often see a big wall with an itty bitty picture which looks ridiculous. That's because it isn't easy to get the size right. Don't worry about it--just take the picture off the wall.
Wrong number
Removing pictures from the walls is especially important if there are too few or too many. Cluttered walls are just as bad as cluttered rooms, so take down the pictures. A wall with too few pictures is even worse: it looks like a transient lives there and hasn't had time to decorate.
Wrong type
Family portraits are definitely the wrong type of picture to have on a wall in a home you are selling. For everyone's sake, remove them from the walls. Religious pictures are also better off packed away. In order to attract the most buyers, it's a good idea to remove the wrong type of pictures from your walls before the house is listed.
Wrong height
Judging from the height of most peoples' pictures, most of us either don't own a measuring tape, or don't have a clue about what height a picture should be hung on a wall. This post isn't about how to hang pictures, or how high or low to hang them, (that's an entire topic on its own), so suffice it to say that, if you aren't sure whether your pictures are hung at the optimum height, just take them down and pack them up for your move.
One last thing: ActiveRain member David Bailey wrote a post about MLS photography that gave me the idea for this post. Check out his blog here.
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