Finding the luxury in a master suite of a million dollar listing.....

This week my assistant and I staged a phenomenal home in the luxury Kiawah Island market. The agent, Lucie Jones of Dunes Properties, and I have worked together before. The last home we worked together on defied odds and sold in 4 months (the average DOM in this community is over a year - and there are currently 8 years worth of inventory on the market last I had heard). The moment she took this new listing she knew that we would be working together again.... As we walked through the home - a secondary home for the owners who lived in another state - it was clear that the home had been in their possession for many years and hadn't been updated in some time. The overall bones of the home were fabulous, however!

The biggest problem, in my opinion actually was in the master suite - it did not feel at all masterful. With a $1,000,000 plus price tag, that seems a minimum requirement. Here are the problems that I viewed with the room....

The queen sized bed shoved into the corner with only one night stand did not feel cozy for a million dollar luxury beach house. The problem seemed to be that there were no other walls to move the bed against without moving the bed under a set of windows. To top it off, the wall that made the most sense of moving the bed to (second set of photos) was unbalanced. The windows were not evenly distributed along the wall and simply moving the bed there would have felt awkward.... so, what to do?

(old dark photos removed for newly taken photos)

Now I wish we had finished this home earlier in the day, and hopefully we'll have the opportunity to go back to this gated community to take additonal after photos, but you can see the amazing change. We swapped the queen sized bed for a king, hung some curtains to create a solid wall where there were unbalanced windows (only losing a view of the neighbor's back yard), and creating a masterful luxurious setting. Much of the furniture that had been in this room was used in other parts of the home, the rest was either picked up by family members or donated to habitat.

Overall the change only costs a few hundred dollars, but what was the return on investment for the sellers?

How would potential buyers have responded to the thought of spending a million dollars on a home where the master bed was shoved in a corner? A king sized bed was out of the question with the previous layout.

Today, the views and open and expansive space is the first thing buyers will see when they walk into this space.... the agents for this property are thrilled and I'm hoping to receive positive comments after the brokers open house today....