Virtual staging

Virtual staging

Furnish an empty room in about thirty seconds, in twelve styles. The room stays exactly as photographed — only the furniture is new.

$29per listing

One photo or the whole shoot — drop them anywhere on this page. Free to try, no account.

The same exterior relit to dusk
The unaltered daytime original
OriginalStaged

A real render, Scandinavian style. Drag to compare — the brick, blinds, mouldings and floor are untouched.

Features

What you get back

Not just an altered JPEG.

Furniture that fits the room

Pieces are scaled to the real floor area with walking space around them. A king bed in a ten-by-ten room is the single most-cited complaint about staging tools.

Feet on the floor

Every item sits in contact with the surface and casts a shadow matching the existing light direction. Floating sofas and rugs sliding under walls are the next two complaints.

Your room, held

Wall colour, flooring, windows, mouldings, radiators and fixtures are preserved and checked. Changing them misrepresents the condition being sold.

Twelve styles

Contemporary through to Japandi, each one naming actual furniture rather than a mood. Stage the same photo twice and compare before you commit.

The original comes back

Staged image and unaltered original as an ordered pair, so the original can sit immediately before or after it in the photo sequence.

Marked and disclosed

Invisible watermark and IPTC metadata on every render, with the disclosure wording generated for each surface you publish to.

How it works

Three steps, about thirty seconds

  1. Step 1

    Upload a daytime exterior

    JPEG or PNG, no account and no card. Your original is never altered and never used for training.

  2. Step 2

    We render, then check our own work

    Renders that drift your framing or blow out the windows are discarded before you see them. You get shown the attempt log either way.

  3. Step 3

    Download the pair

    Altered image and unaltered original, ordered for the MLS, with disclosure text per surface and an audit record.

What virtual staging changes, and what it must not

Staging adds furniture. It does not repaint, re-tile, re-floor or renovate, and the difference is not stylistic — it is the line between a marketing image and a misrepresentation. A buyer who arrives to find different flooring has been misled in a way that a buyer who arrives to find no sofa has not.

That is why the room itself is held. Wall colour, flooring, window position, mouldings, radiators and every built-in fixture are named in the instruction before any furniture is mentioned, and every render is compared against your original afterwards. Renders that altered the room are discarded before you see them.

Why the furniture list matters

Asking a model to "make it Scandinavian" produces generic showroom staging, because a style adjective gives it nothing concrete to place. Asking for a light oak framed sofa in oatmeal linen, a pale birch coffee table, a sheepskin throw and a jute rug produces a room.

Each of the twelve styles names its actual pieces. You can read the list on each style's page, and the render you see there is that instruction run against a real empty room — the same room every time, which is what makes the styles comparable rather than merely decorative.

The two complaints everyone else earns

Across review sites, the two failures that come up more than any others are furniture that does not fit the room and furniture that does not touch the floor. A sectional eating two-thirds of a small living room, a bed scaled for a space twice the size, legs hovering above the boards, a rug sliding under a wall.

Both are addressed in the instruction and both are visible in the output, so they are worth checking on the comparison above: the sofa sits on the floor, casts a shadow consistent with the window light, and leaves walking space around it.

Compared

Virtual staging tools compared

Not on price per image. On whether what comes back is publishable without you doing the compliance work yourself.

ToolTypical priceReturns the originalDisclosure textMarks the output
Duskly$29 / listingYesYesYes
AI staging tools$0.24–2.67 / imageNoNoNo
Human staging services$16–35 / image, 24–48hrNoNoNo
Compliance-only packagers$49 / listingYesYesNo

Capabilities as published by each vendor. We do not list competitors’ fines or penalties, because the per-MLS fine schedules circulating in this category do not appear in any published rulebook.

FAQ

Questions worth asking

Stage a room

One photo or the whole shoot, no account, first result in under half a minute.