Check Out our Full House Declutter Reveal

If you are not new here, you know 2022 has been all about getting my house decluttered for the upcoming move.

With six people in the house, we obviously can fill up any space with all kinds of clutter.

Well, now it’s time to sell the house, and no one wants to buy a house that looks all cramped.

After months and months of work, we managed to get two of the three floors looking spacious, clean, and fabulous. Then we took all the extra stuff and shoved it in the basement storage rooms.

Sigh. Yeah, those storage rooms I spent so much time cleaning out are now full. The basement took one for the team. Also, we ran out of time to squirrel all those things away more properly.

We even stripped photos off of walls and cleaned off every surface in the house, so this is not decorated for normal life. This is solely for selling the house. It is a staged house for the housing market. Bring on the buyers!

Are you ready to see the final results? Ta-da!!! I give you one full house declutter reveal:

I think I re- de-cluttered this room for staging a dozen times, over and over again. This is the room where our family truly lives. Even looking at the first living room picture I see at least one item that ended up at Goodwill before we finally showed the house to buyers.

The Dining Room:

This dining room is normally a fancy playroom. Kids played xbox in there. The table was where we colored, drew, played video games, and built Lego sets. Back in 2020 and 2021 it was also a virtual school room. This was our lockdown house, so all the rooms had so many purposes.

We are going to miss this house!

I did manage to add a pretty tablecloth before showing day too. We removed a desk and a small cabinet from this room for showing.

The Kitchen We Worked So Hard On:

The Home Office:

Our home office is on an open floor plan, so that is how Alan ended up doing his work-from-home time in our bedroom. This room was more like Joshua and Daniel’s office. That roll-top desk is hiding a t.v. and xbox. Ha!! When you have four kids, every room in your house is a playroom.

The Front Hallway

There was usually a skinny set of cube shelves in the hall where we kept our gloves, hats, masks, etc. My friend Emily is a professional, certified home stager. She came through and let me know what I should get rid of. This hall table was on her list, so down to the laundry room it went. That made the hallway feel roomier.

Powder Room:

This is a room that we re-made during the lockdown. When we bought the house, the walls were peach, the toilet and cabinet were oak wood-grain colored. The mirror was plain, and the hardware and lighting were original gold. Alan painted the walls gray, the cabinet white, and we changed out the lighting, hardware, and mirror for an easy upgrade.

The Upstairs Bedrooms:

My only regret is not getting a good closet photo. These closets turned out to be pretty nice.

The key to making a bathroom look fabulous is to make it look like you own nothing at all. At least, that was my understanding. Of course, cleanliness is equally important.

I did a quick shower curtain switch. We traded the Alabama Roll Tide shower curtain for this prettier floral one I had in my spare curtains box. Every military spouse has a Rubbermaid bin of curtains. Each house has different curtain needs or different style moods that you happen to feel…

My #1 Cleaning Tip for Home Staging:

Get a box of Magic Erasers. Run your Magic Eraser under the water to get it good and WET. Ring it out only a little so it’s not pouring but still solidly wet.

Wear cleaning gloves. Take your eraser and scrub each scuff/ pencil mark/ mystery marks/ boogers/ whatever damage your wall has taken off with your eraser. If you’ve never done this, you will be amazed at how much the eraser can do. When you are done, many surfaces will look like you freshly painted them with all those scuffs gone.

Okay, back to business: The Basement

Honestly, we never finished the basement. We ran out of time. I had it fully cleaned out back in early March. But as we staged other rooms, we sent so much stuff down to the basement. It filled right back up. This was the best we could do.

I did manage to organize those unruly bookshelves in the photo before showing. I took the little shelves and moved them to the far wall beside the stairs, so when visitors came they did not see so many things along that wall when they first entered.

Then I stood all the books up and made it more tidy.

The Screened in Porch

This porch is amazing. I was so excited to find that our next house will also have a screened in porch because we have gotten spoiled to this.

The backyard just keeps giving. After the screened-in porch, there is a deck and a patio. Alan fully re-built that deck last year and re-painted it this year.

We did take down the old rickety trampoline. That trampoline had been with us for three different houses, and it was worn out.

So was all the decluttering work worth it?

It was extremely worth it. We put our house on the market, and we had it under contract in twenty-four hours. Within the first three hours, we had our first offer. This is still a fantastic time to sell your house. It is an extremely stressful time to find a new house though, but that is another story for another day.

The full house declutter and staging project was worth every second spent. I am so thankful that we did it and that we had the help of our realtor and staging consultant. Even after as many moves as we had, I would not have known to clear the house out this much.

It feels luxurious to have the house so clean and tidy!