Decluttering, without scrubbing the room.

You have an occupied listing — the seller still lives there, the agent visit was Friday, and the photos arrived with their cables, their dish drainer, their tax envelope on the counter. Decluttering is the move that lets the room photograph as the room without asking the seller to clear two days of life.

Unlike a generic eraser, the studio’s decluttering pass leaves the floor as the floor, the wall as the wall. Cables disappear; the wall behind them remains the same paint and the same lighting it had before.

1. No object is removed without its surface being reconstructed in the same material.
2. Lighting on the surface remains the same direction and intensity as before.
3. The studio refuses to remove furniture that is structural to the room (large built-ins, fireplaces).

Output paired with the original frame so the listing brochure can show before / after if you want. Hi-res JPG, branded for export, sized to portal and print.

Decluttering is step 03 of the New Listing Kickoff run — applied to every occupied interior right after virtual staging covers the empties.

Read the studio note on decluttering that respects the surface — when removing the cable changes the photograph, and when it does not.