Is Your Furniture Hindering Your Home Sale?

I know the subject line is a little odd. let me explain. Everyone has different taste in furniture and when someone views a house the chances are they have seen photos of the house already and know what you have for furniture. So how can the furniture be hindering the sale of my Charlotte, NC. home? Well looking at furniture through a picture does not allow you to gauge the size of the furniture. If the furniture is oversized and the room is not that large it may pass the impression on that the specific room is smaller than it really is. pictures are worth a thousand words and I know when i look at a picture, for example, of a living room with a sofa, loveseat and chair and a couple of end tables i envision how my furniture would fit in there like that as well. But what if the furniture is oversized for the room? I viewed a house this weekend with a buyer that had that oversized furniture. In fact it was so large in the living room it actually blocked the fireplace and it was blocked in the pictures as well. The same was for the bedrooms where the spare bedrooms (standard sized bedrooms) had queen sized beds in them that made the rooms look smaller than they actually were. By leaving that type of furniture in your house you are giving the buyers impressions of the house that you may not want to be portraying. Each house is different and even though the buyers may be looking at comparable square footage houses the layout and size of the rooms can vary from house to house... We all use varying degrees our different senses when we look to purchase something. Visual is one of the most important in looking at a home. A buyer wants to be able to view a house and envision how they would decorate it or lay it out. They are also looking to make sure there is enough space in the house for them to put their furniture. If a house is cluttered with oversized furniture too big for the rooms you are detracting from the visual sense a buyer has with the house and thus potentially losing that buyer. Dave diCecco Realtor/Broker Coldwell Banker United www.davedicecco.com