Deb Lindner
Why Don’t I Just Leave It Empty? Won’t
It Look Bigger?
The short answer is ‘No’. There are three big reasons why selling an empty
home is a big mistake:
1. Empty rooms look smaller than furnished rooms.
Often people think it’s the other way around, and that by adding furniture
they will be losing ‘space’. But this is simply not true. In fact, in small living
rooms or combined lounge/dining rooms, when we put furniture in the
transformation is most dramatic.
I remember when I was styling a renovation project for an investor called
Mark. It was a small property on a busy, main road (so there was no real
front yard), and the block had been subdivided, so there was no back yard
either. Inside the empty home, the living room looked very small too and
Mark was really concerned about possible buyer objections about the size
of this room. I recommended that he create both a living room AND dining
room in this space, because it was very important to show his buyers that
there WAS enough room for both. He came back to me and said he didn’t
believe there was enough room to do this, and if we put a dining table
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