Stage the closet?

July 3, 10:24 PMDallas Home Design and Staging ExaminerKaren Eubank

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Staged closet courtesy of The Container Store

Everyone wants closet space. A house can be absolutely beautiful but lack of closet space can stop a sale in its tracks. The first thing a buyer will do is poke their nose inside your closets, all of them. What do you want them to see? If you are like most of us, a buyer is going to be hard pressed to see anything at all. In fact something will most likely fall on them!  It’s time to take action. If you’re a do it yourself type, take pictures, measure and head to the mother ship of organization, The Container Store. Load up with shelves, bins and hangers and get started.

“Walk right in,” Olescia Hanson, Public Relations Coordinator for The Container Store, said. “You don’t need an appointment but you can make one if you want to schedule it into your day. You don’t even have to have exact measurements. We can work with anything.”

If, you feel faint at the thought of delving into the back of your closet, call for help. There are terrific people out there who actually organize for a living and can give you closets that would make Martha Stewart proud.

“People don’t realize how important storage is to a buyer,” Karen Kavanagh of 2B Organized said. An organized closet gives the impression there is a lot more storage space than actually exists.”

Space is something every buyer wants. In fact, according to “Home Staging for Dummies” authors Christine Rae and Jan Saunders Maresh, “The second most desirable selling feature in a house is adequate storage space, so know that buyers are going to be looking in your closets.”

Five Great Closet Staging Tips

1. Remove and donate or store half of the items in your closet.
2. Use the same color and type of hanger and face them all the same way.
3. Organize by color and length.
4. Get rid of excess hangers.
5. Get everything off the floor.