From a new bed to new living room furniture, adding new pieces to your home is a brilliant way of breathing life into it. Furniture upgrades can totally transform your interior spaces, but there’s one significant problem.
How do you know if something truly looks good in a room before you buy it? Imagine spending loads of money on new furniture and discovering that your vision doesn’t come to fruition. Some places will let you send stuff back, but you might be stuck with it!
Thankfully, modern technology makes it possible to see how good furniture looks before you buy anything. Keep in mind that this still won’t 100% confirm or deny if your furniture will be great, but both options will definitely give a much better idea.
Virtual Staging
Virtual staging is a relatively new concept in the real estate world. Normally, it’s used when someone is selling their home. You take empty rooms and a virtual staging company will give you the professional service you need. Here, they take the room and add furniture or decor to it from a virtual database. In essence, you see a render of the room and what it looks like with all the new furniture in it.
As mentioned, this is done when selling homes to make the rooms look more attractive – and to display their potential. It is also possible to use this concept when shopping for new furniture in a bid to transform your home into something better. We recommend this idea if you’ve just moved in and the rooms are empty – or if you’re renovating a room and have cleared everything out.
From here, use a virtual staging company to put furniture in the room and give you an idea of what it will look like. This type of service is fairly cheap yet it helps you visualize things and can make you avoid costly mistakes!
Augmented Reality Apps
These days you will find some cool apps that help you put furniture into any room in your house. Ikea was one of the first companies to do this, but plenty more have followed suit.
It all revolves around augmented reality and your smartphone. Load up an app and then point your camera at the room. You can then choose furniture from the app and place it on your phone screen, seeing what it looks like through the camera. There won’t be anything in your room in real life, but it basically lets you see what it would look like in a video.
These apps aren’t always perfect – and most give digital renders of furniture that aren’t completely accurate reflections of what something looks like. Nevertheless, they easily help you spot if something sticks out or will not go in your interior living space.
It’s worth trying both or either of these ideas before spending money on new furniture. They make it easier for you to visualize what pieces look like in rooms, so you can avoid making a massive mistake and wasting money. Now, you can find great furniture pieces to upgrade your rooms every single time.
