Dark and Drab... How furniture brightens a space...

This seems really kind of interesting to me.  We finished staging a home today that was called 'dark' and 'very vanilla' by agents & buyers alike (prior to us getting our hands on it.)  We were there until 11:30 last night staging and had to bring in just a few things this morning.  While we were waiting for the furniture to arrive my assitant and I kept commenting how dark it was... the buyers were definately right.  We, of course, added lamps, etc hoping the agent would come turn them on before buyers walked through.  We even thought of putting them on a timer.

This morning when we arrived, surprisingly, without a light on in the home the home was brighter!  Somehow the furniture made the difference.  We are assuming that it broke up the patches of dark with splashed of color & shimmer.  Your eyes had more to look at, so they did. 

Today I went to another vacant listing presentation.  The complaint from buyers was the same.  Dark.... I told them the story of the home we did today and walked away with another job and signed contract.  I explained that I'm not exactly sure how it work (the dark to light thing) but that it does!  I find it very interesting...

Here are photos of the completed home....

Some additional photos that I don't have before photos...

This is just another example of what staging can do to help bring life into an otherwise dark & drab vacant home.  In this highly competitive market, shouldn't your clients be getting every edge they can?