I agree with all of the littlebug's suggestions.

I'd also look into inexpensive closet doors.

And make sure that there's no sign of a dog -- either hairs on the furniture, or aroma, etc.

Agree with above suggestions, with one exception; why is there a dish rack on the dryer?

Agree, and I would remove most of the plants too. They appear to be struggling--which does not give of a positive vibe. One per room would be more than enough if they are healthy and vibrant looking.

Definitely install closet doors. Are you trying to sell the house now or at a later date? The house looks good but for listing photos there is too much clutter. Pack away things now or at least move stuff out of the way while the pictures are being taken, For instance, the drying rack and laundry basket shouldn't be in your listing photo. I can't really see your kitchen but the rest of the house seems to be in good shape.

I have no doors on the closets because I found 5 doors to be a lot in that small area. I was thinking of putting curtains.

theres a dish rack on the laundry machine because it doesnt fit in any cupboard and the laundry is next to the kitchen. Aka only spot I can put instead of leaving on kitchen counter.

I cant remove the plants... I dont have any other place to put. And I am certainly not giving them away or throwing away. I will fix them to make some look less struggling. Most are very healthy.

These are temporarily photos. I will take some better once the house is listed. I will leave the laundry basket or there will be a random hook in the laundry room.

thanks everyone one for their help. I was looking more into reno stuff than decluttering.

Bifold closet doors won't take up valuable floor space . You can leave the built in shelves open. We tried the closet curtains in my house. They looked better than a crowded closet but the curtains still made the room look cheap and unfinished. Adding doors made a huge difference.

An empty hook in a laundry room will look better in a photo than a bulky scratched plastic thing hanging on the wall Take another photo without the drying rack and the laundry basket and I think you'll see the difference. Same thing with the plants.

Will you post a better picture of your kitchen? Kitchen improvements can be a good way to add value.

You asked for advice, it was given and you have argued with every bit of advice. You need to think this through....

I'm not sure I completely understand your question objective. You said these are the "done" rooms, and asked what else you should do. Like d_gw said, show us the rooms that are not "done" if you want advice on them rather than ones you consider ready.

What do you mean by "reno stuff"? We can't tell enough about your house to know whether it needs to be renovated.

One general concern I have is the lack of lamps in your photos. Disregarding ceiling fixtures, you have one undersized lamp in the living room, none in the bedroom with the fireplace, and one in the blue bedroom. Your real estate agent is going to tell you to turn on the lamps for showings to maximize the light in the rooms.

You have been given good advice here. Put the closet doors back on, for sure. It looks like you have a dishwasher in the kitchen, so you do not need a dish rack in the house at all. But the fact that you can't store it in the kitchen implies that either you have very limited kitchen storage space or that you have too much stored in your cabinets. Neither is a positive when it comes to selling.

We all do strange things in our own houses that are convenient for us. But when you put your house up for sale, you are best served by normalizing the house as much as possible.

The issue with the drying rack is that you never want a potential buyer to realize your house does not have enough storage and your busting closets without doors and misplaced kitchen item in the laundry room scream this house lacks proper storage and the pictures will deter physical showings of your house.

Staging and living practically are two separate beasts and your house works for your needs and is fine as a real life house but when selling you want to create an illusion of a perfect live in a perfect house and that means everything in its proper place.

Decluttering is essential. Start your packing now, it will need doing when you sell anyway. Pack all non season clothes, pack every pot and pan but maybe five, clear out food pantries. Also keep an empty laundry basket on the ready and fill it with extra items like dog bowls, bath products, shoes, etcetera to throw in your car before showing.

Your house is lovely, I like the colors it is just showing normal signs of life which since hgtv is no longer allowed when selling. It is all psychological and not personal. Good luck.

I know advice is sometimes harsh but you don't seem to want it, even some posters I consider VERY blunt (still love their opinions). If you don't want us to tell you to get closet doors and put away the laundry basket why ask?

First bath photo- I would add a larger colorful rug.

Second photo- will your chair not fit into the room? I might need a better angle of the room. I would remove the standing tray.

Third room bath- I would remove some of the various wall hangings and clear the counter of non essentials.

For the closets - either add doors or some curtains as you mentioned.

The blue bedroom- I would edit some items that are not necessary. Maybe pull back the duvet and add some colorful pillows.

Dining- remove some of the wall hangings that stick out into the room. Also, edit so it looks less cluttered.

You have a lovely home. I think with a few tweaks you will have it ready in no time!

And to add....plants that don't look awesome are a HUGE flag to me. I know my limits and can grow a beautiful garden outside but I limit my inside to those that flourish despite my indoor plant skill (lack of)

I'd paint some of the darker rooms a lighter, neutral color.

Thank you all for your help.

I noticed my mistake, I put help decorate to sell in my title. I meant reno. But I still appreciate what was told.

I will declutter for my staging. But it won't be for the next couple of months. At this point we are still updating the house (paint/tile/light fixtures/trim).. this is what I mean by reno and not decoration.

The not done rooms are still being painted.

When you say that the room color is too dark, which are you refering to?

I will add a big colorful carpet in the second bathroom.

The green and blue rooms.

I think bath rug referred to the first bathroom. If you look at your first pic, because the floor is off white, a white rug will make it look dingy, so the advice was to get a rug in a color, for example, a blue or green.

Regarding the plants, if you can't put them outside, I would put them all together in one spot.

I think the remark about too dark room color is the dark blue room. I for one love navy rooms, but to brighten it, I would add lots of crisp white and lamps. Actually, looking at it, are you in the process of painting it? It looks like there's white where all the angles meet and at the shoe mold.

As far as renovating to get top bucks, the most important rooms are the kitchen and the bathrooms. Your bathrooms look nice, so the main question would be what your kitchen looks like.

I don't know if your wall colors are dark or whether you just need to have curtains open, lights on and then the exposure corrected to take the photo of the room and not the light sources. You do have a color scheme going that is going to appeal to a person who loves green or loves to paint their own colors. It sounds like these are the rooms that have been painted since you mention the others still being painted. I think you chose colors for what you like and not for sale. I think the bath, laundry and FR are probably ok (though I would paint the FR before moving in -- I am not a green person), but I would paint the MBR a more neutral color -- maybe a taupe into a cocoa or a grey. That's the one the buyer has to see themselves wanting. I would consider repainting the very dark BR or at least get some lights on in there. Some colorful toss pillows might help for staging. And do arrange the LR/FR furniture so it looks like people actually talk to each other - facing each other.

I agree with the declutter and toilet lid comments. The laundry basket and dish drainer should be removed for photos. Anything that doesn't look like it is ready for a magazine photo should be removed. For showings, the laundry basket would look better on top of the dryer -- and you can hide the dish rack inside it. If the side looks too raw or you see the dish rack, use some clean, fluffy towels -- folded or fluffed, to stage it.

And you need to have closet doors. No doors reads unfinished and cluttered -- even though you have neatened everrything up. Curtains will not improve the look and they probably won't save you much money to install -- will cost you a lot on sale. Neither is the master retreat people want to see. If you never got doors, if they aren't hiding in the attic or garage, you need to make a trip to Home Depot or Lowe's and get them. Bifold are probably your easiest, least expensive option.

Re: area rugs. Professional stagers tell you to remove area rugs, especially in bathrooms. It enables buyers to see the flooring, and rugs tend to cut up visual space, making the room look smaller.

Front yard landscaping and curb appeal updates will also help you get top dollar for the house. If you post a photo of the front of the house, we can make suggestions about that as well.

The magic and beauty of decluttering is that it's much easier, cheaper, and often more effective than remodeling/renovating : ) .

If the dish drainer is that much of a problem in terms of storage, I'd either get in the new habit of drying dishes right after washing them, or replacing the drainer with a drying mat -- like these at Bed Bath Beyond (Canada) -- which you can roll/fold up after use and tuck in a drawer when not in use.

If you're concerned about a "random" hook in the laundry room, I would hang a new, clean tea towel in some co-ordinating/complementary color.

If you can find someone to temporarily "babysit" your houseplants when the time comes to show the house, that would be helpful. Alternately, if you have a yard, you can put them aside once the weather is warm enough.

As another plant and antique person, I have to admit that there are a lot of people, especially house hunters, who don't share our passions. In fact, they can be huge turn-offs for many people. The reality of selling a house in smaller markets in Canada (outside of Toronto and Vancouver) means removing the evidence of current owner's passions so that the buyer can envision his/her passions and taste there.

I like the hook by the dryer, but an oval wicker/rattan basket would look more decorative and still be utilitarian.

I love navy and darker colors in homes and for every buyer who wants neutral I believe there is one who is turned of by bland and dull color too. So I do not think walls need to be changed but agree maybe pull it together and brighten it with white. I have a navy guest room and just got a duvet cover in white with a navy strip at homegoods for thirty dollars maybe try a cover.

Others have pretty much said it all. I will just add my perspective as someone who sold and bought two homes recently. Lack of closet doors including curtains is a big turnoff for me. It says incomplete and cheap in my opinion. Stuff like the laundry basket and dish rack do indeed say this place doesn't have enough room to store my basic necessities properly. And photos with too much stuff everywhere have caused me to scroll on by listings and look elsewhere. Aside from the distraction as to what the place actually looks like, it sends a message to me that the person is focused on a lot of stuff and not meticulously caring for the home itself. That could be completely wrong in an individual case but it's my perception as a buyer.

If I were you I'd focus on the above recommendations and get the place looking as good as possible without further reno whatever that may be. If you aren't willing to do these things you may be wasting money on additional renovations.

For people who love navy rooms and have furniture and accessories that are complemented by navy paint, it's great. But for those who have, say, black leather furniture might not care for the dark navy walls. You don't want people viewing your home thinking that the first thing they have to do is get rid of the wall color. There's no emergency to get rid of neutral walls whether you like them or not. There may be other things about the house that need more immediate 'work' and if the dark walls don't work with their furnishings, it'd be hard to live with while other things take priority. It could be a turn off.

When I listed my house, I removed a shelving unit in a hallway next to the kitchen that we used all the time, but drew attention to the lack of storage space in the kitchen, and also made the hallway look narrower. When listing a house it is all about appearances and "feel" not practicality. You want as spacious a look as possible and very little personality. You want the prospective buyers to project their own onto the house. Highlight your home's best features by not having anything blocking them, like windows, counterspace, closets, etc. A closet full of clothes, no matter how neat, if it is the first thing you see in a room, says, "Not a lot of closet space" whether that is true or not. In practical terms, the new owners may clutter up the place and turn it into a pit for all you know, but until then, store as much of your stuff as you can. I put all my stuff down in the basement actually. I was worried that a cluttered basement would be a no go, but apparently my buyers were able to look past that. By the time they got to the basement they were sold on the house.

Edited to ad: I rented a U-Haul box to store my extra stuff. It was 90 bucks a month and my house sold in one month. On the plus side, when I moved half my stuff was packed already and I just moved the box.

Please remove the giant hook from the laundry room and find a spot for the basket. I see it and an adjacent door. I just imagine some buyer unknowingly walking around that corner directly into that hook.

K9, contrary to public opinion neutrals do clash all the time! Put two different whites together and the results are horrible more often than not. I turned houses down because of their builder beige interior tiles and paint just as often as you would walk from the more bold colors. There is not a color that works with everything or everyone. It is a no win, you lose one potential buyer for every one you might attract, so not worth the time, effort or money to repainted but making it work in dark blue will change opinion of the overall effect and image of the home. This year Washington post published a buyers survey saying to stay away from white walls... It is to individual to guess what color will work when selling.

I wasn't thinking white...there are neutrals other than white. There's a reason builders use neutral colors in their new homes, not navy or dark green. I have nothing against bold colors, they just don't work with my furnishings.

From Bhg survey of 400 buyers in March,

Feeling blue is actually a good thing

When it comes to decor, that is.

The calming shade won the most affection from homeowners, with 62% favoring a palette rich in blues. The fervor for earthy hues continues with green as the second favorite; neutrals follow as the most common choice on interior walls.

Oh my, you shouldn't have wasted your time researching To prove your point because I completely disagree that you should paint your house green and blue to make a quick sale. I won't waste my time, but I'm sure I could find many, many sites that recommend neutral colors when preparing your house for sale.

62% love blue? Really? I hate blue. Well, strongly dislike blue. Blue and orange - I really don't like either.

I can't imagine turning a house down because of the paint color, even if I found it hideous. In fact, we bought our house even though it was painted head to toe in a horrible band aid hue. Sheesh, paint is so easy to change.

Some people don't have the vision to imagine the rooms in a different color. And to me, dark paint is like wallpaper. It can be changed but it can be a giant PITA. All things being equal, I would much rather purchase a house with medium toned neutral colors than a house with dark strong colors that don't match my things.

What everyone said above. Especially the closet doors. After de cluttering (love your collections by the way and your color choices) Make sure everything is Clean clean clean! No stained rugs, no grimey door handles and switchplates, sparkling windows and spotless toilets and sinks. That's not to say that any of your pictures looked dirty; just that sometimes even outdated sells if its pristine.