Don't just take photos...

I've never yet walked into a house and taken the right photo first time.  I always take a few test shots, examine them, change the room around, then take the real photos.  For example, this living room was lovely in reality, but wasn't right on the photos - the closest sofa created a block to your eyes.  So we moved the furniture around, and the second shot was much more open.

I couldn't get far enough back for a good photo of the bathroom, even with a wide angle lens, so I stood outside the window on a ladder, and took the photo from there!  Then, in one shot, you could see there were two sinks, a bath and a shower, without a weird-angled photo.

The second bedroom just needed tweaking, and the lights putting on. The forst photo was fine, but the second one was better.

This entire photo shoot took one day, with sixteen rooms to style, and at least a dozen different angles outside.  The photos were with the estate agent the following day, and both the client and the agent were delighted with the service.  Most people imagine home staging is for the really messy, badly decorated homes that you see on makeover projects.  Some are, but not all.  Some are simply about setting the house up to take good photographs.