Mar 29th, 2025

Author: donich_admin

House Doctoring

Getting the house ready for its Rightmove photos was quite a task. I generally keep the place reasonably clean and tidy – but for the photos this was not enough – the house had to be “staged”. The estate agent sent me 15 rules to be implemented, some of which were obvious (things like making everything sparkling clean), and others less so. Rule 9 (I think it was 9) was that all countertop appliances had to be removed from the kitchen. I have quite a lot of these, as I do a lot of cooking, and living where we do we are reliant on things like a breadmaker. But I dutifully carried everything out to the garage.

Then, the bedrooms had to be dressed as bedrooms. And double bedrooms have to have either a double bed or twin beds. So our house is nominally four bedrooms (in fact six with the offices). R had an old very scruffy double, I had a single in my double room, the third bedroom was J’s room and study as he is here a lot, and the fourth bedroom we had as a gym. So we had to buy two new double beds, J’s room (much to his annoyance) lost the computer desk and gained a second bed. And the gym had to get a bed in it with the photos artfully taken from the door to hide the exercise bike.

I was not sure of the point of all this – but as I have seen on the property programs (Location, location, location) and similar, some people really don’t have the imagination to picture rooms as they could be.

Anyway, regardless, it looked pretty amazing in the photos so it was worth the effort. When we saw them, R and I turned to each other and said simultaneously “Great house – can we move there?”

The picture below shows you how much effort I put into it the day before the photographer arrived.  The  5.82 miles walked were solely up and down the hall.