Thanks hun. I suggested removing the fence for the dogs to DH, but he doesn't want to. I think it would make the backyard feel bigger. (For anyone else reading, it's not a traditional dog run - we divided our pergola area with a timber and bamboo half height fence, so DD would have somewhere to play without our dogs bothering her all the time).

We've spoken to a couple of local agents, but they don't seem interested in coming out until we're serious about selling. They've given us a ballpark figure of what things are selling for around here, but they haven't been to the house. Might ask my stepmother about the dog fence, see what she suggests (she's an agent but in the top end of Melbourne).

I think then we'll take out the hooks because the photos we have up will be removed. I read once that people don't really associate a house with themselves, if they see other people's lives in them. Don't know how much truth to that there is, but the other thing is given there are particular people we know who will attempt to come to an open for inspection, we don't want pics floating around anyway :/

Snap - Miss E - thanks. We're thinking about agents at the moment, but haven't got much to go off. Nobody we know has bought/sold recently. Most people here have built and moved in and if they're selling, we don't know them to ask about the agents. DH knows a good property manager so might ask him to get her to recommend a good agent. I can pick the brains of my stepmum as far as furniture removal, etc to make it look bigger, but what she sells compared to what we have, well they're worlds apart!