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Staging - Spare room
JustinTime19
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I will be selling shortly and thinking about staging.
I have a spare room with double bed/chest of draws/wardrobe. Should I focus on showing the space available, or adding a desk/chair to show that it can function as a home office and a double room as well especially as WFH is very popular these days.
Dimensions of the room 4.25m x 2.35m
I have a spare room with double bed/chest of draws/wardrobe. Should I focus on showing the space available, or adding a desk/chair to show that it can function as a home office and a double room as well especially as WFH is very popular these days.
Dimensions of the room 4.25m x 2.35m
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As long as it looks like it works as a bedroom, I'm sure that people would realise it could be used as an office. Better a bedroom than an office as people do wonder how easy a bed would fit.
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Our estate agent got us to put a bed in the office to show it would fit because people have limited imagination.4
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Green_hopeful said:Our estate agent got us to put a bed in the office to show it would fit because people have limited imagination.Out of interest...My spare room / office fitted a double bed, but we took it out during Covid as who would be staying(!) and it was a tight squeeze to say the least. The room looked bigger without one, it must be said, so it was sold like that.So I'm guessing you had a bit more cat swinging space?0
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For what it is worth, the third (smallest) bedroom in our previous house was used both as a home office and a bedroom (single bed) when required. I think showing both the options for using the room was quite useful when we sold.
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It looks like you have the length available in the room to do it, so I would. As long as nothing is impeded then I'd go ahead. Don't pick anything too big.JustinTime19 said:I will be selling shortly and thinking about staging.
I have a spare room with double bed/chest of draws/wardrobe. Should I focus on showing the space available, or adding a desk/chair to show that it can function as a home office and a double room as well especially as WFH is very popular these days.
Dimensions of the room 4.25m x 2.35m
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Make a bed (of sorts) using empty boxes.It's a common trick to show a potential purchaser what can be done.
Much cheaper than buying a bed.
As an aside, property developers often do this, but make the bed smaller than a standard one to make the room look huge.0
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