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-Vanessa
10 Good Reasons To Use Floor Plans
With Your Interior Designer & Home Stager
1. Map Out Space
Even starting out with a basic 2D floor plan allows you to map your space. From there, you can decide on window placement, or see if your favorite furniture will fit before you even step in to the room.
2. Compare Floor Plan Options
Especially when working with new properties, you can see how a floor plan will facilitate traffic flow and get a mental picture of how your family would do occupying a space. For homes already lived in, you can experiment with using pillars instead of walls or window spaces to make a room appear larger.
3. Visualize Spaces In 2D And 3D
A 2D view gives you a basic map. A 3D view offers the opportunity to visualize a space more realistically. RoomSketcher allows a 360 Panorama feature so you can see the space as if you were already there.
4. Compare Style Options
Lets say the home seller uses a lot of browns, but you prefer brighter colors. Or, maybe they used a lot of carpet, and you prefer tile or wood floors. The right floor plan tool gives you an idea how different colors or textures would look in the rooms.
5. Allow For Easy Changes
A good floor plan tool will allow for high quality images for a realistic view. But you should also be able to collaborate from different locations to view and discuss desired changes. For example: The interior designer suggests a wall paper in gray hues. The client goes in, takes a look, and inputs their preference with shades of green for both to consider.
Simple and efficient!
6. Plan Indoors And Outdoors
It is terrific to plan the indoor spaces. But what about outdoor spaces? Like garages, patios, and pool areas? A good 2D and 3D floor plan tool will allow you to plan your outdoor spaces as well as your indoor spaces. So feel comfortable going from winter to summer, and from the back porch to the beach! J
7. Use Real Items
We all have our favorite brands for furniture, accessories, and outdoor items. Wouldn’t it be great to plan your space with your IKEA sofa, Pottery barn pillows, and Ethan Allen hutch? As you wish!
8. Provide Floor Plans On Brochures And Print Literature
If you’re the home seller, and you can offer professional quality 2D and 3D views of your home with accurate measurements to a home buyer, this sets your listing apart from other properties.
Add in realistic views of the indoor and outdoor spaces, you decrease time on the market by 50%. 81% of sellers think a floor plan will help sell their home faster.
9. Provide Floor Plans On Websites
More than 90% of home buyers start their home search online. Floor plans are opened 7.5 times more often than maps on well-known real estate websites.
So, it makes sense to provide images files of floor plans for prospective home buyers to reference.
10. Floor Plans Sell Homes Faster
In some parts of the United States, realtors are selling properties largely from floor plans. If you’re staging your home, also offering a floor plan would also decrease time on the market.
Allowing people to see more information and more options about a space gives them more reason to choose your home for purchase.
If you’re a home buyer or home seller, the floor plans offer new and inventive ways to learn more and get desired results quicker.
So, as an interior designer or home stager, providing these opportunities to your clients offers them more value and allows you to shine.
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