Designed to Sell Top 35 Selling Secrets

Three teams from the hit show Designed to Sell have put their heads together and come up with their top 35 ideas for bringing in top dollar from a house sale.

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Hide CaptionShow CaptionA clutterless living room tells the potential buyer that there's plenty of storage space in the home.

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People won't buy a house if they can't see the square footage, so clear it out and clean it up. "Clutter gives the perception that there's not enough storage in the house," says real estate expert Shannon Freeman of the L.A. team.

A basic rule of thumb to decide whether or not something is clutter is "if you can't sit on it, it's not decoration, and you can't eat it, it's clutter," says designer Lisa LaPorta, also of the L.A. team.