Many people are aware of the benefits of staging a vacant home, apartment, or condo to help get the sale closed.  Unfortunately traditional home staging can be cost prohibitive.  Renting furniture and accessories for staging short term can be costly enough but what if the home doesn’t sell quick enough.  Do you want to pay the rental costs for 3 months, 6 months, or even longer?

Enter the world of Virtual Staging!  The advantages of virtual staging are tremendous.  First on the list is cost.  With proper planning the cost to virtually stage a room can be as little as $100.  And here’s the best part; It’s a one time cost that lasts forever or in the world of finance we can call it evergreen!

So how does it work?  Digital photos are taken of a room, area, or place inside or outside the home.  These photos are submitted to a virtual staging professional for insertion of furniture, fixtures, and accessories.  The professional virtual staging expert then digital places images of your favorite furniture and more into each area or room.  Even shadows are added to provide that realistic look for the photo.

There are basically two types of digital images of furniture, fixtures, and accessories.  One type is digitally designed and developed on a software program on a computer.  The other is the use of digital photos of real furniture, etc that are then enhanced and placed into the photo.  In our opinion the latter is far better and provides a much better and clearer image.  This better quality could make the difference in selling your home!

There are several firms that provide the virtual staging service.  Over the past few years several more have tried to enter the business but have failed and folded up the tent.  One company that we have worked with is VirtuallyStagingProperties.com (VSP) or go to Virtual Staging.  VSP is a pioneer of the art of virtual staging and only uses real furniture images.  In addition, they also perform traditional home staging as well.  The combination of providing both virtual and traditional home staging gives them a leg up on all the competition with design and quality.