Virtual Design Tools in Real Estate

There is a way to help buyers visualize themselves in a new home and assist sellers who are preparing their homes for the market and that way is on many websites and apps. Here’s a sampling.

The proliferation of online design tools available can not only feed the imaginations of buyers but also help sellers transform their homes faster and more affordably. There a couple of tools and elements to keep the merchandise, the listing´s marketing, style preferences, timetable and budget ready and good to go when it is time for showing them online designers says.

Stage Time: Some sites now offer virtual staging with 3-D images that help home shoppers visualize a room without buying or rearranging a thing, say a pro broker Allison Bethell. “It allows clients to look at a property that they may not have been able to imagine living in before, but now can see how their furniture and artwork would look,” she says.

The staging can have an out-of-the-box look, but many buyers today, especially the millennials, are looking for a more authentic look in their furniture and interior design, one example of this technology in action is ROOOMY and a new app called THE IXA allows consumers to shop both high-end listings and the products used to stage them.

Designing in Real Life: DECOR AID is a New York based company that charges $ 150 per hour in packages of five or 10 hours of design assistance, although its design team begins with a free consultation. The company has 250 designers on its platform, some are internal and some are freelancers. Although many of the firm's clients own a home, real estate marketers also find service of design useful in primping rooms for resale, according to co-founder Sean Juneja.

Another great option can be DECORIST founded by Gretchen Hansen when she experienced difficulty furnishing her home, San Francisco–based Company that helps homeowners and salespeople through one of three packages. The service also provides customers with a shopping list, floor plan, and installation instructions. For items that are not available online, the company offers recommendations for local artisans or stores.

Because of the newly remodeled kitchens high range in the lists of many home buyers, it is perhaps not surprising that a tool is dedicated to this axis of all important home. Kitchen Visualizer, developed by Quote Countertops in collaboration with Colonial Marble & Granite, a manufacturer and installer of the industry in King of Prussia, Pa., Helps homeowners figure out how different colored kitchen appliances, cabinets, backsplashes, worktops , sinks, etc. look for the most typical kitchen designs, whether L-shaped, galley, island, or some other settings.