Does your home repel the opposite sex?

Selling or renovating your house? Have you thought about hiring an interiors therapist?

Suzanne Roynon, an expert in decluttering homes and lives, recently made headlines around the world when she offered tips to single women on how to style their homes.

Published in the Daily Mail under the provocative headline "How to avoid turning your home into a manrepeller", the forthright advice from Roynon to single woman and writer Liz Hoggard included:

- Don't stack your shelves with books with depressing titles - "The imagery you have around you needs to be supportive. And strengthening."

- Cut back on female portraits - "Multiple pictures of single women suggest you're happier alone."

- A cactus isn't a good plant to own - it's "spiky and uninviting".

- Clutter can "damage your relationships by increasing irritability".

Roynon also has advice for single men too.

In another article, published a few days ago by the Daily Mail, Roynon offered advice to a twice-divorced writer, who worryingly asked her if his home was a "woman repeller"?

Her advice to 64-year-old Cosmo Landesman included binning his record player and record collection, cutting back on the number of books in the bedroom and investing in a new coat stand.

The last one comes with the explanation that coat stand is poor and overburdened. "If I was a date you’d brought home and I wanted to hang up my coat, there’s nowhere for it. I would have had to leave it on the bannister, which, by the way, is very dusty. You need to have room for that new energy to come in when you bring someone back," she told Landesman.

She also highlighted issues with the bathroom. "You need to keep the good energy here. If you leave the lid open, then good energy can escape down the toilet," she advised.

Landesman also had too many toiletries on display and too many books in the bathroom. He thought they showed what an intelligent and cultured man he was. No, said Roynon: "It shows that you spend a lot of time in the loo and have problems with your digestion."

On her website, clutterfree.coach, Roynon describes herself as someone who is able to transform clients' lives - helping them make more money and meet new people - by clearing their clutter.

One satisfied, customer, Olivia Lee, writes on the site: "As we cleared my clutter my anxiety started to lift and I felt happier. My business improved, I took on many new clients and cleared my debts. I started attracting new within romantic interest and am now dating again after seven years alone."

Roynon also offers tips on how to prepare your home for sale. "I sold my own house recently in six days at £35k above the asking price, with 12 buyers bidding to buy," she says.

M Higgs, a customer from Hertfordshire, in England, thinks Roynon has the goods, too. "After my 'Ready to Sell' Interiors Therapy, I realised I had effectively been a lodger in my own home for years. There were cupboards I never opened and rooms which felt unloved. Now I love my home all over again and it sold three days after the consultation."

So maybe she is someone sellers should take notice of.