What is photo decluttering for real estate?

Removing mess and personal items from a listing photo while keeping the furniture. Pixly does it in seconds for 1 credit. The room is still an occupied home — just listing-ready.

How is this different from Remove Furniture?

Declutter keeps the sofa, the bed, the table. Remove Furniture takes every movable piece out and rebuilds the empty room — the blank canvas you Stage from. Use Declutter when the furniture is worth showing.

Do I need to disclose a decluttered photo on the MLS?

Treat it like any digitally edited listing photo. Most boards allow it when you label the image (for example “digitally enhanced” or “items removed”). The architecture is unchanged; only clutter is gone.

Will it take out a sofa I wanted to keep?

It is trained to keep furniture and remove clutter. Large pieces stay. If a bulky item is read as clutter, use Remove Furniture only when you truly want the room empty, or Stage over an empty shot.

Can I declutter and then stage?

Yes. Declutter an occupied room, or Remove Furniture down to empty and then Stage in a new style. Enhance the result if the light still needs a grade. Separate modes, separate credits, honest photos.

How much does declutter cost on Pixly?

1 credit per still — the same as staging, enhance or day to dusk. Credits start on Starter at $5.99/wk.

Declutter

Declutter listing photos without emptying the room

Clear mess, moving boxes and personal items from a listing photo. The sofa, the bed, the kitchen island stay. Buyers see the space, not the stuff. This is not Remove Furniture — that tool leaves an empty room.

Declutter a listing photo See pricing

From $19.99/mo · cancel anytime · or start with Starter from $5.99/wk

Cluttered living room sliding to the same room tidy, furniture still in place — before

Cluttered living room sliding to the same room tidy, furniture still in place — after

Lived-inListing-ready

What this edit includes

A tidy occupied home — not a vacant box

Personal items gone

Family photos, cables, laundry, toys, mail, fridge magnets. The room stops looking like someone still lives in the shot.

Surfaces cleared

Worktops, nightstands, coffee tables. A vase or a book can stay; the clutter does not.

Furniture stays put

Sofas, beds, tables, cabinets remain. We rebuild the floor and walls only where an object left a hole — not the whole room.

Not an empty-room tool

If every movable piece should go, that is Remove Furniture. Declutter is the occupied listing that still needs to look lived-in, just not messy.

How it works

Four taps. One credit.

01
Upload an occupied photo
Furnished rooms work best. The more the clutter reads as “stuff on surfaces,” the cleaner the after.
02
Pick Declutter
Same photo tool as Stage and Enhance. No prompt to write — the mode is the instruction.
03
Generate
One credit, a few seconds. Check that the furniture you wanted kept is still there.
04
Then enhance or restage
Grade the clean shot with Enhance, or run Remove Furniture first if you actually need a blank canvas to Stage.

Read the step-by-step guide

Before you upload

Which photos work best

Works best

Occupied rooms where the mess sits on surfaces: worktops, tables, shelves, the floor.
Rooms whose furniture you want to keep in the listing: the sofa, the bed, the dining table.
Kitchens, home offices and children's rooms, where personal items pile up.

Avoid

Rooms you want completely empty. That is Remove Furniture.
Photos where clutter hides most of the floor or walls, leaving little to rebuild from.

Stays the same

Sofas, beds, tables and cabinets stay, and so do the walls, windows and camera angle.

More rooms

Decluttered, still furnished

Drag each slider. The architecture and the furniture stay — only the mess leaves.

Bedroom · laundry and personal items gone, bed made — before — Bedroom · laundry and personal items gone, bed made

Bedroom · laundry and personal items gone, bed made — after — Bedroom · laundry and personal items gone, bed made

Kitchen · clear worktops, clean fridge door, same cabinets — before — Kitchen · clear worktops, clean fridge door, same cabinets

Kitchen · clear worktops, clean fridge door, same cabinets — after — Kitchen · clear worktops, clean fridge door, same cabinets

FAQ

Declutter FAQ

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Declutter is the tidy occupied shot. Empty the room, grade the light, or furnish a blank canvas next.

StageFurnish an empty room in 60+ styles. Start from Remove Furniture if this photo is still occupied.EnhanceFix exposure and colour on the clean shot. Declutter does not grade the light.Remove FurnitureTake every movable piece out and rebuild the empty room. Use this when the furniture should go.

Show the space, not the stuff

Upload an occupied listing photo. Get a tidy still in seconds — furniture still there, mess gone.