@Pootles34
Our estate agent had a thing about bath mats and oven gloves - apparently they should never be in a photo.
My DH often teases me about hiding the oven glove when we had viewings and for photos (and everything else) but we sold in 3 days in Nov which is usually slow and had offers from the two that viewed and had another viewing booked in (but our buyers were chain free so went with them). I’d do it again, I just think you don’t want you house to look cluttered and like you’ve outgrown it.
We removed bulky electrical items too, like my DHs hideous sub woofer that he bought before we met, xbox and coffee machine (it’s bean to cup so quite bulky and the kitchen was small). The house definitely looked better in photos/viewings than it did normally which one of our friends said too.
I agree about lights on too, we had left them on and regretted it, I just thought it looked odd to have them on in the middle of the day. When we market the house we are in now I’m going to ask the agent to send the photographer twice, in the morning and afternoon so they take photos of all the rooms when the light is flooding in as we’re east to west.
The pictures of the house we bought were rubbish, you could see sudocream on a shelf in the conservatory, cat bowls, curtains were a mess, it didn’t look homely it was scruffy and tired. But the owner had died, and I think people care less when it isn’t their home. The house looked so dark and dated too, if it was my mother’s house I would’ve definitely freshened it up and painted it and got rid of all the crap before marketing it, but I’m glad the didn’t as we got it for a really good price and it’s actually a lovely light house. Glad no one else could see the potential!