Friday, October 9, 2009

virtual staging vs imagination




I just read an excerpt from our WRA Realtor News Update on virtual staging. You can now remodel, replace furniture etc. virtually to show someone how a home might look but not the way it looks today. I wonder how upfront this may be. Does it leave the persons own imagination from working on what can be done? Does it say that if not done the way it is staged your tastes are not in vogue? Or does it actually give a few ideas on how a space should be and your imagination is stimulated even further. Hard to say. I do believe this would be a great Commercial Real Estate application. How many times have brokers shown a large baron 10,000 sq. ft space of concrete and windows to a client and trying to show and tell how the open space could fit their needs? I know I have been there. So open that it shuts down the senses on overload of where to start. Now without expensive drawings and draftings a client can be shown how it might layout for their specific needs and what it would look like in a 3D environment. Pretty cool, as long as we do not let our imaginations go to sleep.