Why would anyone want to invest a day or two deep cleaning their home if they are only planning on selling?

Why go through the time and attention address the smaller details of what makes a home livable and attractive if they will only be moving out? Actually, this is the best time to begin addressing those small details you may not have paid much attention before you thought of selling. With the real estate market in the conditions it is, it is important to make a good impression with possible buyers to ensure closing some good deals. It all begins by looking at your home from the perspective of the potential buyer as well as applying some simple common sense to the staging process.

Clear Stuff Out

If you really want to make a good impression you need to make the property look less like “your” home and more like an open home. This begins with cleaning everything up, but can’t stop there. You want to provide your prospective buyer with room for their own imagination. Consider taking about 50% of your belongings out of the home and placing them in storage until the sale is complete.

This will make your entire home look more roomy and spacious and will provide the interested buyer with room for their own imagination. If you give the half-full impression, your buyer will be able to picture themselves living here.

It's Not Your Home Anymore

This may have been the home in which you were raised, but when you put up the “For Sale” sign it is now a home on the market and needs to be attractive to all. This may mean removing your colorful collection of Kanye West posters or hiding the commemorative plate collection. Clean walls with lots of room will again allow others to imagine their own expressions.

Cleaning is Essential

Although you may not know it, your home collects small specimens of the residents and sequesters these in plain sight. This could be the grimy feeling surface of the bannister, the gunk in the cracks beneath the drains and all that black stuff you seen in grout under the kitchen stove. All this has to go.

Begin in the bathrooms and kitchen where the work is the most important. If you are a capable DIY enthusiast, rent a steam cleaning machine and go to work all around the toilets, tubs sinks tile and even inside the drains.

If you would rather delegate, hire house cleaning professionals to do the work. It is important that the porcelain accommodations and tile surroundings must scream health and hygiene.

Home sellers sometimes underestimate the importance of this task, but the kitchens and bathrooms are the deciding factors for many home buyers.

Walls, Windows and Mirrors

A fresh coat of paint will pay for itself, but your shou8ld at least do your best to clean the walls, windows and mirrors of all scuff marks, fingerprints and dust. Clean walls and bright windows add to the spacious feeling of your home and makes the area more inviting. Mirrors are called Feng Shui Pills and can be placed at strategic locations to make the room look larger than it really is. Buy a few more if you need to.

Lawns and Fixtures

Make sure that all the light fixtures are in proper function and that functioning lightbulb are in every socket. If one thing doesn't work, there is a good chance other things aren’t working either, so look around.

The lawn could be in the front or back, but your will need to make sure they are well, manicured and free of toys debris and weeds. Curb appeal is that essential first impression that will make all difference.

In Conclusion -- After your homes has been cleaned, consider other small things that can make your home staging more successful. This could be opened windows, or closed if there is noise outside, an incense wand or strategically placed plant can also make a soothing and calming atmosphere.