Family home or show home? - how to style for photos?

[TeddyBeans]

We've got an appointment on Thursday to have the photos taken to put our flat on the market and I'm having a last minute panic about how it should look. We have 2 kids, nearly 3 and nearly 8 - they have a lot of toys and tech.

Would you prefer to view a flat that looked lived in? Family photos on the walls, knick knacks on shelves, some toys that are too big for storage boxes out and about? Or completely empty of anything personal so you could imagine yourself in there with your own belongings?

One of the agents said that people like to see how you live in the space but everything I'm reading online suggests it should be like a show home. I'm just trying to gauge how much stuff we should be putting in storage now ready for the photographer to come and ultimately viewings to happen. Please help!

Thank you. Glad it went well. I couldn't sleep last night. As it happens I went out in the morning with the toddler and my husband showed the photographer around. He said it went well. We should be on Rightmove by Friday I reckon.

Good luck, too late now but I've sold 3 houses on my own and would always go for the show home look. same goes for buying, Id never go for a cluttered house.
Also got a thing about beds, the ones that look like someone's just pulled a rumpled bedcover over them to hide the fact that its a messily made bed was a no-no for me.

Whelp I'm gutted. Another flat in our complex has gone up for sale today so that's now 4 we have to compete with in the immediate vicinity, let alone the host of other flats for sale nearby. Safe to say we probably won't be moving on any time soon 😭

We got the email to review our photos and particulars today so still going ahead but it just seems a bit pointless now

Some of the photos from the agent. I think they came out well. Will add the others when MN allows. We're asking them to blur the photos, surprised they didn't do that already tbh