Skip to main content

Selling Your Home? These Real Estate Photo Tips Will Help Your Home Look Its Best

When you’re selling your home, taking good photos is crucial. After all, your photos will serve as potential buyers’ first impression of the property. It’s what will make their decision on whether to come see your home or to pass it over for another option. With that in mind, we’re leaving you some of our best real estate photo tips. Read on below to find out what you should – and shouldn’t – do during this process. With these real estate photo tips in hand, you should feel confident in your ability to take photos that will have all eyes on your home.

real estate photos

One of the most basic real estate photo tips: putting away any miscellaneous clutter. Image: Matthew Bolt Graphic Design

Declutter first

First things first, before you can take good photos, you need to set the stage to show the house in its best light. Put simply, you need to get rid of any clutter that could clog up the frame of your shot. At the very least, having clutter laying around distracts the viewer from getting a good look at your home. At worst, it could be enough to make potential buyers pass over your listing in favor of other, cleaner options.

To do this, look at each room with fresh eyes. Is there stuff laying on counters and tabletops? Are beds left unmade and blankets askew? Are kids’ toys taking up valuable floor space? Once you’ve answered questions like these, do your best to spruce up.

light

Use as much natural light as possible. Image: Stone Creek Builders

Keep it bright

Good lighting is important when taking any photo, but this goes double for real estate photos. Few people want to buy a house that feels dark and dingy. It’s up to you, as the photographer, to help the rooms in your home feel as light and bright as possible. Fortunately, you can achieve this goal through proper staging.

Natural lighting is best. With that in mind, make sure you take photos on a day when the weather is good and the sun is bright. Start by opening your windows and blinds. Then, take a few test photos to see if you can pick out any dark spots in the room. If so, add in lighting to supplement until the whole room feels well-lit.

angle

Use angles to help viewers get a true sense of the space. Image: Jason Thomas Architect

Cover all angles

Next up, it’s time to get down to the business of actually taking photos. When you do this, rather than taking pictures straight on – which can make them feel flat – you’ll want to work in angles. Doing so will help give the room a sense of depth, which will make it more visually interesting to the viewer. It will also give buyers a better sense of the size of your home.

When you’re taking photos, don’t just stop at one and call it a day. Instead, take pictures from multiple angles so you can be sure to give buyers a true sense of the room. In the end, you can choose to use the best one or to provide multiple perspectives, but the key is to take viewers on a visual tour of your home. Make sure you’re telling the full story.

edit

Don’t be afraid to make some small edits. Image: Legacy Custom Homes

Make some edits

After you’ve finished taking photos, it’s okay to make some edits. We’re not suggesting that you change the way the room looks entirely; we’re simply recommending that you ensure that your real estate photos show the home at its very best. To do that, you can make some small changes to the photos.

These days, most computers come with basic editing software. You don’t have to do much. Simply adjust the brightness and contrast, if needed. Additionally, be sure to crop out any oddly cut-off items. When you have the photos looking their best, you should be ready to post them along with the rest of your listing information.

Do you have any real estate photo tips that we missed?

The post Selling Your Home? These Real Estate Photo Tips Will Help Your Home Look Its Best appeared first on Freshome.com.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SKÅDIS: 5 ways to make the IKEA pegboard even better

IKEA introduced its own pegboard system, SKÅDIS, two years ago and I’d say it’s one of the best systems IKEA launched in recent years. I love how super customisable it is, with a growing range of accessories that help keep things organized. It works everywhere, in your wardrobe to bathroom . Probably anywhere you have a flat surface to hang it up. Photo: IKEA.com SKÅDIS pegboard system See it on IKEA.com But no matter how perfect a system, you can trust IKEA hackers to improve on the SKÅDIS. And they’ve settle these 5 issues you may have faced with the handy IKEA pegboard. Read on for their fixes. 5 IKEA SKÅDIS issues and fixes #1 Expensive hooks? You’ll need quite a number of hooks and accessories to fill up the SKÅDIS pegboard, and Kenyer was shocked at how quickly they all added up. So he figured he could make his own hooks to save cost. Photo: Kenyer Over at Instructables , he shows us how to twist copper wires into the SKÅDIS hook shape. It works s...
Post a Comment
Read more

Enjoy Sweet Dreams With These DIY Headboard Ideas

A headboard is one of the last things you see before you fall asleep and one of the first things you see when you wake up. Demonstrate your unique design style by creating your own. Below are some ideas and tips to get you started. Do you think the formula for sleep is on this London bedroom’s headboard? Image: Clifton Interiors Ltd Chalk headboard Create this look with a can of black chalkboard paint. Almost any type of wall – drywall, plaster, wood, brick or concrete – will work, as long is it is properly prepped. Chalkboard paint is easy to apply, dries fast and can be cleaned with soap and water. But you’re not limited to the color black – chalkboard paint comes in just about every color. If you don’t want to use paint, consider chalkboard contact paper – and yes, you can use chalk on it. An Edmonton hockey-themed room. Image: Cameron Homes Hockey goal headboard For the ultimate hockey fan, nothing beats a hockey goal headboard. Complete the scene with a team blank...
Post a Comment
Read more

Sliding Bookcase Doors KALLAX hack to divide your rooms

I replaced single-glazed sliding doors that divided the sitting room and dining room with a sliding KALLAX bookcase. For one “door”, I used two 2×2 cubes and one 2×1 unit. As we already owned 4 separate KALLAX 2×2 cubes and they seemed to be exactly the same width as the internal doors, we thought it might be possible to stack them. With one additional 2×1 KALLAX they almost matched the height of the internal doors. Sliding KALLAX bookcase doors in closed position First, still a work in progress but let us show you how it looks from the dining room, when the units are pushed together to close up the doorway. And the units pushed apart to enter the living room. We can access the storage cubes from both sides — from the dining or living room — which is so very useful. What I like most is, when viewed from the living room, when closed, it looks almost like a built-in unit. IKEA item used: 2×2 KALLAX units x 4 1×2 KALLAX units x 2 Other materials: 3M mounting tape...
2 comments
Read more