Preparing Your Miami Home for Sale: a Room-by-Room Guide
When preparing your home for sale, it’s highly recommended to tackle the cleaning and decluttering process one room at a time.
Though the entire home needs to be cleaned from top to bottom (a.k.a. a deep clean), there are certain aspects of different spaces that deserve special attention. It’s also important to specify exactly what needs to be cleaned and decluttered in each space. This will ensure that every minor detail of each space is prepared for potential buyers when they tour your home.
Here’s our room-by-room guide for preparing your home for sale:
Bedroom
What needs to be cleaned: carpets/flooring, furniture, TV, floor, walls, windows, mirrors, fixtures.
We recommend starting with the bedroom because it’s one of the easier spaces to declutter. The idea is to make this room feel like a blank canvas, so potential buyers can envision themselves living in it and decorating it.
Potential homebuyer also place a lot of value in closet space, but they can’t see how spacious your closet is if it’s packed with clothes. So, go through your clothing and decide which items you want to donate or get rid of.
Living Room
What needs to be cleaned: leather, upholstery, wood, glass, carpet/floors, walls, windows.
Living rooms tend to accrue lots of clutter, so your first task in this room should be getting rid of magazines, video game consoles, and collectables.
Like the bedroom, the idea is to make your living room feel open and welcoming. Make sure the furniture matches the room’s functionality or aesthetic – and while you want the room to look uncluttered, most people see a room as smaller than it is without an appropriate amount of furniture. Make sure there is balance and a natural flow to the room.
Kitchen
What needs to be cleaned: countertops, appliances, cabinets, hardware, tile, fixtures, floors, walls, windows, doors.
In the kitchen, you’ll want to remove all items from countertops and the top of the refrigerator, along with any magnets on the front. The only things that should be left out are essential items and some appliances like a coffee maker and a stand mixer. However, you can make your kitchen look extra bare by going through your cook tools (pots, pans, dishes) and tossing what you don’t use anymore. This freed up space can now be used for appliances like the toaster.
Bathroom
What needs to be cleaned: toilet, countertops, walls, floors, tile, bathtub, glass, fixtures, windows, doors, vanity, hardware, mirrors.
Aside from the kitchen, this is the room potential homebuyers tend to pay the most attention to. Your bathrooms shouldn’t just be clean. These rooms needs to sparkle. So, take a good hard look around your bathroom for even the slightest blemish. In a pristine home, these little things can stand out in a potential buyer’s memory.
Does your bathtub, shower, or sink need to be re-caulked? Are your towels and area rugs freshly washed? You may consider adding air fresheners to evoke a stronger sense of cleanliness.
With so much cleaning involved in preparing your home for sale, it may be worth it to hire a professional cleaning crew. This way, you’ll know that every inch of your home will look impeccable for showings, and it will only take your crew a few hours to clean your entire home.
Ready to put your home on the market? If so, the Kern Team is happy to help you tackle each step of this process, including cleaning and decluttering. These tasks are important, which is why we have a step-by-step approach that minimizes stress and maximizes the likelihood of a quick and lucrative sale. Give us a call and let’s get started on this next chapter of your life.
