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Boost your profit in style

You could just tidy up and hope for the best but anyone can tell you that a few small updates can make a huge difference when it comes to selling your home.

Darren Palmer, renowned interior designer and judge on The Block TV show, is adamant that when you’re presenting your home for sale you need to make it as “beautiful and amazing as possible”.

You need to paint a picture of how a prospective buyer’s life will fit into your home. That means removing any reference to the specifics of your own life. It needs to look as clean and organised as it can be and it needs to be liveable and approachable with lots of emotional devices to grab buyers by the heart strings.

People do not look at a house or apartment they’re thinking of buying in the same way they look at the place they live in. That perfectly cohesive look teamed with beautifully styled accoutrements is aspirational – it helps a buyer imagine how they’d ideally like to live.

Clear away clutter

Take all the kids’ drawings, old tickets, photographs

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