From an empty room to a furnished home, in seconds

Your photographer delivers empty rooms and the buyer scrolls straight past them. We put furniture in that fits the room, and we check every image ourselves before you see it.

Anemptyroomsellsnothing.Aroomwithasofathatistoobigsellslessthannothing.

What is virtual staging?

Virtual staging means furnishing an empty room digitally in the photo, so a candidate can see how they would live there. Nivora does it per property. We first look at what kind of home it is and who usually comes to view it, then have several versions made, and go through them ourselves: is everything standing on the floor, does the sofa match the room, does the style suit the house. You only get the version that survives that, so you never have to sit and choose.

The architecture is left alone. Walls, windows, radiators, floor and camera position stay exactly as your photographer shot them. Only the furniture is added, so you still recognise your own property.

Where the ordinary tools fall down is scale. A sofa reaching the ceiling, a rug hovering half a metre above the floor, a dining table for eight in a room four metres square. One image like that and the viewer stops trusting the whole listing.

Why an empty room costs you viewings

A viewer cannot judge an empty space. They do not know whether their own sofa fits, and when in doubt they click on to the next property.

Physically staging with hired furniture costs a day of work, a van and a sum you never recover on an ordinary terraced house. So it only happens on the expensive listings.

The tools that exist deliver something within seconds, but you have to sit and work out which of the five images is usable. At an agency with thirty properties a month, nobody does that.

How we go about it

Read the property first

A townhouse in Ghent, a coastal apartment and a villa on the edge of town do not get the same furniture. A five thousand euro designer sofa in a sixty square metre starter flat does not add up, and the viewer feels it straight away. We fix per property what kind of home it is and who comes to see it, and that drives the furnishing.

Several versions, then the choice

We produce several per room. Each version then goes through a check on scale, on whether everything sits on the floor, on whether the shadows match the daylight from the window, and on whether the style suits the property. What fails, you never see.

The photo stays yours

You get an ordinary image file back, ready for the portal, your own site and the brochure. No licence per user and no second system for your properties to live in.

Before and after, on the same property

Drag across the image and watch the furniture appear against the very same wall, window and floor. A small townhouse and a large reception room, because that is where the ordinary tools come apart fastest.

The same living room, furnished with a linen sofa, a low oak table, a jute rug and one bright abstract painting above the sofaAn empty living room in a Flemish townhouse with a wooden floor and tall windows onto the street
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A townhouse in the city is viewed by young families, so it gets a three-seat sofa, a low table and a rug that actually fits under the seating. Note the radiator and the window: they are still exactly where the photographer found them.
The same room, furnished with a sofa, an ottoman, two armchairs, a wool rug and one framed landscape on the right hand wallAn empty reception room in a villa with herringbone parquet and three tall windows onto the garden
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A room this size works against you when it is empty, because there is nothing to measure it by. Two armchairs opposite the sofa and a rug carrying the whole seating group give the viewer that measure.
Design work in progress on a screen, part of building software to order

Does this sound familiar?

If two or more of these land, there is almost certainly something to gain.

  • Your photographer delivers empty rooms and you post them as they are
  • You have tried virtual staging and the sofa was wrong
  • Only your most expensive properties get physically staged
  • You handle dozens of properties a month and have no time to vet images

What we are not going to claim

We are not going to say virtual staging is new. BoxBrownie, Styldod, ApplyDesign, REimagineHome and Virtual Staging AI have sold this for years, and some of them are cheaper per image than we are.

We are not going to say nothing ever goes wrong. Versions fail our check too, and on a difficult room with a sloped ceiling or a mirror it takes longer before a good one comes out.

And we are not going to say a furnished photo sells a property. It gets the click and the viewing. What happens after that is your work, not an image's.

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Questions, answered

The things people usually want to know before they reach out.

Not simply. In Belgium it has to be clear that this is a digital rendering, and the property must not appear different from what it is. So we always deliver the empty photo alongside and put the notice on the image by default. What you do with it remains your responsibility as an agent.

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Three photos of a property that is online now, exactly as your photographer delivered them. You get them back furnished with the empty version beside them, so you can judge the proportions yourself before anything is agreed.