When selling your home, ensuring that you do everything in your power to enhance its appeal and decrease its time on the market is vital.
Gone are the days when buying a home involved picking up a newspaper with classified ads and browsing through them and making tons of phone calls; or hiring a a to a realtor to do that for you. Back then all ads were text and no pictures were available.The digital age has propelled advancements in the way that the real estate industry operates, and now buyers have access to high-quality images of houses in their price range at the simple click of a button.
Professional real estate photography is a powerful tool that is crucial for the successful sale of any home. Although DIY-culture is increasingly popular in this day and age, leaving something as important real estate photography up to an amateur can hinder the sale of any home.
Professional real estate photos can make a huge difference for your listing, as you can see in the before and after images below. In this particular case, I also helped by staging the apartment a little, since it was completely empty and it's important to create a sense of proportion and a home-y feeling. The kitchen being brand new and of very good quality, I focused more on that.
exterior of the building
bedroom
living-room
balcony view
balcony view
living-room
kitchen
bathroom
This was a small apartment in the heart of Helsinki splendidly located inside a yard, very discreet and very quiet.
For the first time in two years, we took a holiday and we went to Greece. Living in the North, with all the beautiful summers (and it can be really, really beautiful) does make one miss warm beaches and blue waters sometimes.
Not to flood this blog with travel photos, I will stick to architecture and interiors. Let's start with Achilleion, a summer "cottage" built by Emperor Franz Josef for his wife Sissi, on the island of Corfu.
This was a one room space saving apartment, perfect for one person. The bed was a folding wall bed, Murphy style and the room had a little corner for a small desk. And of course, a small, romantic balcony.
