Preparing your home to list

Preparing your home is a very important step when it comes to selling your home and receiving top dollar. Dani’s background in set design, staging and photography, provides you with the guidance needed to have your home looking its best! Dani also provides some light staging (bathrooms, bedding, kitchens, decor, small furniture). For larger furniture needs, a professional staging company can be offered.

Here is a sample of important items to prepare your home for beautiful real estate photography and video. Contact Dani with Living in Bend Oregon for a complete list.

• De-clutter as much as possible, especially excessively furnished rooms. Photos look better with cleaner, simpler

• Replace all light bulbs with matching bulbs (Daylight creates a modern, higher end feel)

• Remove all personal items (photos, etc.)

• Move all garbage cans out of site, this includes bathroom, kitchens and dens

• Clean all windows inside and out and surfaces and floors

• Remove all mail, clutter, cables

• Clean ceiling fans and tops of cabinets to remove cobwebs etc…

• Arrange, dust and declutter bookshelves

• Clear off kitchen countertops as much as possible, clean and simple is always best

• Give your kitchen a deep cleaning; backsplash, range hoods, refrigerator, pantry, sinks

• Remove all pet bowls etc…

• All appliances, if stainless steel, use stainless steel cleaner

• Bedrooms - Make all beds, solid bedding photographs better than patterns

• Pick up all clutter in bedrooms, remove posters and stickers off walls

• Painting walls or giving them a good scrubbing is a good idea

• Bathrooms - Remove all soap scum and give the bathroom a deep cleaning

• Remove all toiletries out of site

• Replace towels with new matching towels that aren’t too bulky

  Exterior Ideas

• Mow and edge and rake lawn

• Sweep and hose down patios

• Clean all furniture

• Remove all gardening equipment and garbage cans

• Add flowers to beds and pots as needed

• Dani will provide a list of what to do 1 hour before the photographer shows up

*The photo shoot will take on average 1-3 hours depending on the size of home and if video will be added to the marketing package.