Real Estate Virtual Staging

An empty room is hard to read

A vacant condo living room photographs as a bare box: grey floor, white walls, one big window. Buyers cannot tell whether a three-seat sofa fits, where a table would go, or how the room is meant to be used, so it looks smaller and colder than it is.

Who uses this

• Agents and photographers listing a vacant unit that has not been staged
• Developers and landlords who want a room to read as a home in a brochure or on a listing page
• Sellers who would rather not rent furniture for a shoot

How the edit is handled

A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, places a furniture set that you choose into the room: here a light grey three-seat sofa, a round oak coffee table, an ivory wool rug of about 5 by 8 feet, a slim floor lamp and a green plant. Each piece follows the perspective of the floor and the light from the window, and sits on the floor with a soft contact shadow and a faint reflection.

The room itself is not changed. The walls, the window, the floor, the sockets and the door keep their place, and nothing is put in front of the window. Because the picture is rebuilt, fine texture and overall brightness can shift slightly.

What to upload

Send the photo of the empty room at full resolution, taken so the floor, the walls and the window are clearly visible. Tell us the style, the pieces and the sizes you want, such as a three-seat sofa, a rug of a given size and a plant, and anything that must stay clear.

Before you use it

Furnished images of an empty room are staged, not real, so mark the photo as virtual furniture wherever it is shown. Some listing services and regions have their own rules on virtual staging, so please check the rules that apply to your listing. Tell us the style, the pieces and the sizes you want and send the original at full resolution. For other fixes to property photos, see real estate photo editing.

Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos

The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.