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New Year’s Resolution: Clear Clutter to Invite Prosperity

January 23, 2013 (posted by Jennifer Campbell, Home Staging Calgary)
Does this room look familiar?

Before: Office before staging.

We’re fresh into a new year and that means New Year’s Resolutions. If you’re selling your home this year, it makes sense to add ‘clear clutter’ to your list. It will help when you start staging, and, according to Feng Shui, it will also create space for prosperity to enter.
 
I’m not a Feng Shui practitioner, but I think the concept of energy flow is interesting. The process is about clearing a path for energy to flow into key areas of your life, including money/abundance.
 
Too much clutter in your space is said to block the flow of energy – therefore money. Too few items is said to let the energy flow right out because it has nothing to hold it there. When you’re selling your house, why would you want to block prosperity or let it flow right out your door? It’s about balance.
 
Now, think of it from a potential buyer’s perspective. You can see in the before and after photos of a property I staged in Calgary that clutter – or it’s extreme opposite – has an impact.
 
How do you feel when you see the clutter (or emptiness) in the pictures? Cramped? Anxious? Unsettled?
 
See the difference staging makes.

After: By removing some of the furniture in this office,
you can now see the beautiful flooring.

How do you feel when you see the uncluttered yet furnished spaces? Light? Like there’s room to breathe?
 
Which one do you think a buyer would choose? So go ahead and do a thorough de-clutter of every room, but don’t go to the extreme. Use this as an opportunity to decide what’s important to you as you move forward this year. Do you use it? Do you love it? If not, consider letting it go now.
 
Clear clutter to create a path for money to enter – and stay in – your life. Contact me for a stager’s perspective of how far to go.


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