Spring Cleaning Made Easy: How Virtual Decluttering Transforms Your Listings

It’s spring cleaning time! If spring cleaning feels like one too many things on your to-do list before selling a home, you might want to try virtual decluttering. Our virtual item and furniture removal add-on services are the perfect solutions to save time and money before listing a home. They can easily be added to any virtual staging order, meaning your photos are first optimized and cleaned up before our designers start staging.</p>

Let’s take a closer look at what virtual decluttering includes, and then view some before-and-after examples.

What Is Virtual Decluttering?

Virtual decluttering is a method of digitally removing clutter and excess items from a property listing. This can drastically improve a home’s appearance and increase its appeal to potential buyers. By removing distractions, it’s much easier for a buyer to see the property’s features and imagine themselves living there. It also makes it possible for our team to virtually stage the images in a more fitting style or layout.

Our expert editors can neatly remove all kinds of items from listing photos, including countertop clutter, trash cans, pet items, children’s toys, and more. Even if a room isn’t overly cluttered, it may have mismatching or ill-fitting furniture. Virtual decluttering can take care of that, too. Just add our item or furniture removal services to any virtual staging order.

From Uninspired Office to Welcoming Guest Bedroom

This room could be an office or guest bedroom, but the existing furniture looks clunky and poorly placed. It’s hard to tell if a bed would even fit, and it’s uninspiring as a home office setup. Our team first digitally removes all the furniture items to create a vacant room.

Once the room in the image is vacant, we can virtually stage it in the style of your preference. Here, we’ve designed a simple yet elegant guest bedroom. It’s much more appealing than the original setup and shows buyers a better use of the space.

From Underutilized to Maximum Potential

The furniture in this living room is a bit dated, and the layout doesn’t utilize much of the available space. The dark furniture colors also make the ceiling appear shorter by giving a high contrast to the light walls and flooring. Overall, this isn’t a bad space, but the current staging doesn’t give it much life.

Again, now that the room has been virtually decluttered, it’s ready for virtual staging in a style and layout that better suits the space. We added a large sectional couch with an area rug to define the living area, and included bar stools to highlight the overhanging breakfast bar.

From Cluttered to Polished

Homes are meant to be lived in, and sometimes it’s very obvious that someone else still lives there. (Or, is in the process of moving out). While buyers are understanding of this, it does make it harder for them to envision it as their own space. Some sellers may also prefer not to have their personal items on display in an online listing.

Our editors can take care of that with some virtual decluttering before virtually staging the rest of the space. In cases like this, minimal staging with dining chairs and potted plants is all that’s needed to take this space from cluttered to polished.

From Messy Storage to Functional & Multi-Purpose

This garage has great potential, but it’s hard to imagine while cluttered with the items currently being stored. Once digitally removed, it’s much easier to see the shelving unit and how much space is available to store vehicles or other items. We purposefully left the trailer to help buyers fully understand the garage’s size and depth.

Now we can take it a step further with virtual staging by adding a vehicle, bicycle racks, and filling some of the shelves. This really highlights how much space is still left for storage, and it’s easy for buyers to assess with a quick glance.

Are you ready to clean up your listings and get them market-ready with virtual decluttering and staging? Book our item or furniture removal add-on services with your virtual staging order now.

*When booking our add-on services for item or furniture removal, your final images are delivered once virtual staging is complete. The vacant images are shown here to illustrate the in-between stages of editing and are not included in your final order.