How "house viewing ready" is your house?

[Millana]

At this precise moment, if you were/are going to have people coming to look at your house, how "ready" is your house?

I'm not planning on selling but mine is a disgrace. 😔

It's been slowly dawning on me that if we were to sell, we'd have to put a lot of work into it so why are we living with the mess and clutter and half decorated rooms etc? Why would we put all that effort in for other people but not us?

Now I need to put that into action and change it.

I could get it tidy enough if I could chuck things in the car. There's no disguising the outdated bathroom knackered carpets though and the garden is a disgrace.

Ours is about as close to someone wanting to buy it as the inner circles of hell .. thankfully no desire to sale at all at the moment

I live in dread of people popping by unexpectedly never mind a viewing!!

2 hours to tidy away drying clothes and have a general tidy and clean.

This is because
A) we're renting a house that was renovated last summer
B) we've just moved overseas so had a massive declutter before moving

I love living with less stuff.

Downstairs is playdate ready. I tidied because ds had a playdate after school. Boys only played with lego so that was easy to clear up.

Middle floor. Bathroom is clean. Ds room would need a quick 10 minute tudy including hoover to get show home ready. My teenage dd bedroom is a bombsite of makeup and clothes and various piles of clean and dirty laundry.

Our bedroom would probably take anywhere between 5 minutes (hide everything in wardrobe) to endless hours (get dh to actually sort through his piles of stuff).

Garden has been left to fester all winter. But I'd get gardener in for an hour or two and he can magic it all better

Yes. A list. I'll start with the "easy" stuff eg the garden stuff to give away.
Then I'll prioritise based on the stuff we already have eg we already have all the bathroom tiles and realistically could get it almost done in a weekend of hard work.

Same. A quick tidy should do it.

Ooh about six to 8 months should do it.

Not too bad: new kitchens bathrooms, floors, doors... but still not quite perfect, and usually a little untidy. But I don't care, I'm doing it for me. I'm going nowhere and will have to be carried out in a box. I love my house.

@listsandbudgets I dread people dropping in too. I know that's daft - it's mostly fine - but a lot of the kids' friends live in amazing huge houses & mine ... isn't - I feel inadequate tho that's stupid. I've been in plenty of messy & chaotic houses, way more so than mine, and I've never felt judgmental.

I had major plumbing works recently. They were in every room. I was mortified at my DC rooms (even tho the plumbers created mayhem anyway).

Work. In. Progress. (I do feel I clean a lot more than seems evident in my house! I work f/t, single parent & constantly out with DC at activities so that doesn't help either).

It’s a home, but when we are selling I make sure the property is immaculate before every viewing, EA gives notice before hand, so it’s easy to get prepared.

But based on when we were viewing other vendors were much more relaxed, and no effort was made at all. One viewing that stuck in my mind, had a notice on the front door to say please remove your shoes, it was the filthiest place I had ever seen, I could only assume the vendors had a good sense of humour 😆

@MrZogsSexWax We have one of those too !

Always.

But my life is shit with some awful, awful things going on and things that have happened and I suffer from anxiety so bad that I feel like the walls are constantly closing in.

How my home looks is the only thing I have control over in my life.

You’d never know how I struggle by looking at me - you’d just see the perfect house.

So it’s not always a mark of anything amazing. Don’t beat yourself up.

My garden was beautiful the other week. Unfortunately the snow then melted.

Months and months.
I live with the messiest people on earth and it's rubbed off onto me over the years.
Plus I can't be arsed with having a show-home and all the effort that needs (although I'd like that).
We have two reception rooms and a kitchen downstairs and one room is presentable if you don't look too closely!

🤣🤣🤣

I'd need a day, and a guy to hang 3 internal doors 🙈

Depends how much of a do-er upper the buyer wants! We still need to plaster the hallway, toilet & all 3 bedrooms. Kitchen, bathroom are ok-ish. Lounge has just been done so is lovely. (IMO!) garden is a total shit show and frankly I’d be embarrassed.

I once had 20 mins notice my MIL was arriving (they live 4 hours away so not given to dropping in) 😱but not remotely viewing ready!

Probably a few hours. DS has toys all over downstairs which wouldn't take too long to tidy away but have a newborn too so lots of general 'baby stuff' and mess about but again nothing huge. Main pain would be my bedroom, all a bit cluttered but just mainly bags of clothes that are slowly being sorted through for charity etc - I would shove them in the loft 😅 garden looks a bit sad but not terrible. Kitchen, bathroom and kids rooms would just need a quick whiz round

It's not. I'm an ex-shopaholic and I have far too much stuff. I really desperately need to Marie Kondo my life. While it is clean, I'm always having to move stuff.

The view would be a selling point. The interior not so much.

It's a wee bit messy so that could be sorted in about 30 min but we're also renovating and there's carpet glue stuck to laminate that is taking an age to come off... so not really

Decluttering is therapeutic. We moved a couple of years ago and we had so much clutter I vowed to not do it again in our new house.

It's not bad at the moment, mainly because we moved 2 weeks ago so it's not got its usual level of mess, as junk is still boxed up...

Definitely ! We had a huge declutter before we moved, it was so therapeutic and now lovely to not have loads of stuff