The process of shopping for a home can be both incredibly exciting and extremely daunting, especially for first-time buyers. However, a new technology, virtual staging, can make the decision-making process much less intimidating, giving you more confidence in your choice of a new home.
What Is Virtual Staging?
When a seller lists a home for sale, they will often stage the home with selected furniture and décor to help potential owners visualize what living inside the home will look like. Sometimes, the home will be completely empty and vacant, leaving it to buyers to try and visualize decorating decisions on their own. Virtual staging revolutionizes the process by empowering buyers to visualize the rooms with the help of Augmented Reality and a mobile device. By using an app like Curate, you can view a vacant room through your smartphone/tablet camera and superimpose furniture and decorations on that image. You can choose from several design sets, move or trade out pieces and essentially “pre-decorate” the rooms of the home so you can more easily see what your design choices might be. If you particularly like a certain object, you can even click through to purchase it through the app.
Why Virtual Staging Helps Home Buyers
While becoming a homeowner feels like a rite of passage, it also is a huge decision with lasting implications. Once you close on the house, you are likely to live with that decision for several years to come. What if your furniture doesn’t look good in the house once you move it in? What if you have challenges with the space that you were not anticipating? The use of virtual staging helps take the guesswork out of the equation, allowing you to see how you can make the space livable before ever signing a contract. Buyers who use virtual staging can enjoy greater confidence in their home-buying decisions because they’ve already “seen” how the space works for them.
If you are considering your first home in Atlanta, please check out our guide for first-time Atlanta homebuyers. For more information about virtual staging or available homes for sale, call Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty at 404.948.4812.