Not every room is empty when you photograph it — tenants are still living there, the owner hasn't moved out, a rental is mid-turnover. Declutter lets you shoot the room exactly as it is and produce a clean version: stripped back to bare walls, or simply depersonalised with the furniture left in place. Nothing moves in real life — the AI removes the movable items and rebuilds the wall and floor behind them.
What declutter does
Declutter removes the stuff and keeps the room. Anything that could be picked up and carried out — furniture, rugs, decor, plants, textiles, personal items — is removed; everything bolted, mounted, plumbed, or built-in stays exactly where it is. Where an item is removed, the wall and floor behind it are reconstructed to match the surrounding paint, flooring, and texture, and the shadows it cast are cleaned up — so the result reads as if the space was always that way. In the mode picker it's described as "Strip the room back to bare walls and floor."
Declutter is a Pro feature.
When to use it
Reach for Declutter when:
- The property is occupied — tenants, owners still living in, a rental between guests — and you can't physically clear it.
- A room is nicely furnished but busy or personal — you want to keep the furniture but lose the family photos, fridge magnets, and counter clutter.
- You want a clean empty base to virtually stage from scratch, but the room came to you furnished.
Choose what to remove
Declutter has three levels, picked from the Remove control in the command bar. Start with the lightest one that gets the room listing-ready:
- Everything (default) — strips everything portable, including all furniture, and leaves bare walls and floor. Use this when you want an empty room to stage from scratch.
- Decor & rugs — keeps the major furniture but removes decor, clutter, plants, art, rugs, and window treatments. Beds and sofas stay, but bedding, throw pillows, and surface clutter go (a bed is left as a bare mattress on its frame).
- Decor only — the gentlest pass: keeps furniture, rugs, and window treatments, and removes only the decor, clutter, plants, art, and lamps. Ideal for depersonalising a well-furnished home you want to keep furnished.
Here's the same occupied room run through each level, so you can see what each one keeps:
How to use it
Switch to Declutter mode
In the staging command bar, open the mode picker and choose Declutter (the eraser icon). It sits alongside Stage, Twilight, Sky, and Perspective. Declutter requires a Pro plan.
The staging mode picker with Declutter selected Choose what to remove
Open the Remove pill and pick Everything, Decor & rugs, or Decor only depending on how much of the room you want to keep (see the section above).
The Remove picker showing the three declutter levels Generate
Click Declutter room. The cleaned image saves to the room's timeline, labelled "Decluttered." The walls, windows, doors, lighting, and any built-ins stay pixel-identical to your original — only the movable items are gone.
Declutter, then stage
The most common workflow is to empty a room and then furnish it your way. After a declutter result lands, switch to Stage, pick a style and density, and generate — the staging builds on the cleaned image instead of the original, so it furnishes the emptied room rather than working around the old furniture.
Because the cleaned result is the same photo that's already in your project, staging it costs no extra credit — the whole declutter-then-stage flow on a fresh upload is one credit total.
Revisions are free
If the first pass leaves something behind — a ceiling fan, a stubborn wall mirror, a shadow — run a declutter revision with a short note describing what to fix. Revisions don't use credits, so you can iterate until the room is clean.
Limits
Next steps
- How to virtually stage a property — furnish the room once it's clean.
- How to use perspective correction — straighten tilted walls before you declutter or stage.
- Browse the rest of the guides for more staging workflows.