skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Pre-Staging Clean Up
So we haven't gotten the official "ok" from the building department about whether or not we can build on "the farm" but we are fixed on the idea that we are doing so: we have picked out a floor plan, set a price for our home, talked to and about a realtor (and decided against it), surfed about info for selling a home, etc. I have come across many an article that talks about the staging of the home for prospective buyers but before you get to that point you must first get rid of "personal" touches and clean out cupboards and make them resemble the grocery store because if it is tidy in the cupboard the buyer will believe you take great care with your "things", including the house they may buy. I fancy myself a neat freak, I love to clean and my house is COMPLETELY organized--or so I thought. Last summer my husband remodeled our kitchen (complete gut and rebuild) and I now have many cupboards which I wasn't blessed with before. Before, I had a food cupboard, a dish cupboard, a tupperware cupboard, a glasses cupboard, and a "machine" cupboard (slow cookers, bread maker, rice cooker, blender, etc.) Once I moved into my new kitchen I willy nilly put things away and I now regret it. I just finished re-organizing my kitchen cabinets. I had canned goods in all cabinets except those that held plates WTF! I put them all in the "canned good" cabinet that is on the bottom and organized it like freakin Albertson's. I had NO idea how many cans of whole kernel corn I had (we must like it and I continue buying it before checking on what I already own). My kitchen now makes sense but we have to reprogram ourselves when getting the salt and pepper and the like--nothing is where it once was, oh except the cereal. When I finish here I am tackling my bathroom. I would like to know how does one not become a pack rat in the bathroom? How can I get beyond the "I may want/need this one day"? Come on, how many bath cubes does a woman really need--I don't even take baths, I shower!!!
1 comment:
For the past 3 months I've been telling myself that "This summer I'll REALLY clean the cupboards" or "This summer the base boards are going to be sparkling!"
I hope I'll really do it.
For us it's not corn, BTW, but tomato soup. We have like 10 cans.
Post a Comment