Stage Your Home This Spring With Custom Closets

Declutter and Store Winter Clothes

No one who’s considering buying your house is going to be inspired by a messy closet. The first thing you should do is declutter the space and make sure that you don’t have piles of dirty laundry on the floor or heaps of unnecessary items on the surfaces. Do the laundry, put the accessories in baskets or boxes, and get rid of anything you don’t need – this will make packing for a move easier when the time comes anyway.

Another thing to do is store winter clothes away. It’s springtime and the weather is warming up, so you don’t need cold-weather clothes right now. Bulky winter clothes can easily make your closet look overstuffed, so it’s in your best interest to get them out of the way.

Apartment Therapy explains that it’s best not to put your winter clothes in the attic or garage, because even when they’re stored safely in vacuum-sealed bags or plastic bins, they need to be in a temperature-controlled environment like in the closet.

Clear the Floor Space

Nothing makes a closet look cramped more than a jumble of shoes on the floor. Even if you have the shoes arranged in neat rows on the floor, this has a tendency to make the closet look messy or just too full. You want to find a different way to store them.

You can use shoe organizers or line the shoes up on shelves to get them off the floor. If that’s not an option, a fast and inexpensive solution is to invest in an over-the-door organizer for footwear. The organizer hangs over the door and has a variety of pockets you can insert the shoes into. Not only does it get items off the floor, but it also encourages your buyers to see the back of the door as viable storage space, which makes your closet seem more spacious.

Color Coordinate Your Clothes

Even if you don’t normally sort your clothing by color, this might be the time to do so. It may sound like a hassle, but moving your hanging clothes around until they’re grouped by color can be done pretty quickly, and it could make a big difference.

This is a useful idea because creating a rainbow effect in your closet is a more visually striking image than just sorting the clothes by type. You aren’t really changing anything major – these are still the same clothes, and there is still the same number of them – but the look you’re creating will make a positive impression and stick in the buyer’s mind longer.

Add a Fresh Scent

Of course, nobody is going to be impressed with your closet if you open the door and a less-than-fresh smell wafts out. If the closet smells bad, you’re going to want to deodorize. Remove the source of any bad smells, clean the walls and floors with vinegar or a commercial cleaner that deodorizes, and consider using a bowl of charcoal or baking soda to remove bad odors.

Even if your closet doesn’t have an odor, you should consider going a step further and adding a pleasant fragrance to the closet. Scent can be an important part of staging – your real estate agent might advise you to bake cookies for a viewing or open house to get buyers hungry (for a cookie and a new house!) and this is more of the same.

There are a few ways you can create a scented closet. Buy or make sachets, moisten cotton balls with essential oil and tuck them into out-of-the-way corners of the closet, or just spray some air freshener. You can also place a scented candle (unlit) or unwrapped bar of soap on a shelf and the smell will permeate the closet space. If you use soap, make sure to set it on wax paper so it doesn’t harm the surface.

Conclusion

Your closets are an important aspect of staging your home for sale. Dress them up for springtime by decluttering and getting extra items out of the way, clearing the floor, color-coordinating your clothes, and adding a pleasant scent to the closet space.