# AI home staging - virtual staging for property photos Source: https://www.raya.design/en/for-real-estate Language: en --- Raya is AI home staging software for real estate agents, developers and investors. Upload a room photo from the listing along with photos of the furniture and decor you want in it, and the AI places them in the room in under a minute. Walls, windows, floor and framing stay exactly as in the photo, so buyers see the same apartment, just furnished. On the same account you plan the look on a moodboard and fix photos in the editor: wall colour, flooring or a single piece of furniture. All online, in the browser, with no app to install and no furniture to rent. [Try it free](https://www.raya.design/en/login) - 20 credits to start, no card ## Virtual staging - how does AI home staging software work? Home staging in Raya starts with two things: a photo of the room and photos of the items that should go into it. That can be a sofa from an online store, a coffee table, a rug, a lamp, plants or artwork - up to 16 photos at once. In the Instructions field you describe where things go, for example “sofa under the window, rug under the coffee table”. The AI matches the items to the perspective, light and scale of the room. When you upload photos of specific furniture, virtual home staging shows an interior that can actually be recreated: the room gets the items from your photos, not random furniture invented by the AI. At the same time the AI is instructed not to touch the walls, floor, ceiling, windows or doors and to keep the framing of the photo. Furniture already in the room stays too - unless you turn on Empty the room. ### Online home staging before a sale - a tidy or empty room in a minute Home staging in Raya is more than adding furniture. It works for a real estate agent who gets photos taken in a lived-in apartment from the owner, and for anyone selling or renting out their own place who wants the listing photos to look good. In under a minute you have a tidied-up or completely empty room, and an empty one you can furnish from scratch right away. #### Clean up room - a listing photo without the clutter The **“Clean up room”** feature removes clutter: scattered clothes, toys, rubbish and too many knick-knacks. The furniture stays where it is, so the room looks ready for the photographer rather than caught in the middle of an ordinary day. #### Empty the room - bare space instead of someone else’s furniture The **“Empty the room”** feature removes everything movable from the photo - furniture, rugs, curtains, floor lamps and decor - and keeps the walls, windows, doors, floor and built-ins. Buyers see the space and the light, not someone else’s furniture and taste. #### New furniture and a person - an interior that looks lived in An empty room is a good starting point for furnishing it anew. You upload photos of furniture and decor, and in **“Enhancements”** you add a person or a pet to the shot so the interior does not look like a catalogue page. In the example below the room got a green sofa, a walnut coffee table, a rug and a rattan pendant, and a woman walks through the frame. You can also do both steps at once: add photos of new furniture with “Empty the room” turned on, and the old pieces disappear while the new ones take their place. At every step you can also change the lighting: turn a photo from an overcast day into a sunny one, or show the room at golden hour, at dawn or at night. Enhancements can also add small decorative touches. A room furnished in 2K costs 2 credits, in 4K - 4. Several versions of the same room are several separate generations, and each one stays in your account history. [Furnish a room with AI home staging](https://www.raya.design/en/homestaging) ## Online home staging in three steps - an app in your browser The online home staging app runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install and no visualization software to learn. The photos you already take for the listing are all you need. 1. **Upload a room photo** - JPG, PNG or WEBP up to 10 MB. Ideally the whole room, a level camera and daylight. 2. **Add furniture and describe the layout** - Up to 16 item photos and a short instruction on where they go. Optionally choose lighting and enhancements. 3. **Stage and download** - In under a minute you have a furnished room in 2K for 2 credits. Use the slider to compare it with the original photo. You can furnish the same room several times with different furniture. That way you show buyers two layouts of the living room without a new photo shoot and without moving anything in the apartment. ## Moodboard before home staging - one style for the whole apartment When you furnish a whole apartment rather than one room, it is easy to end up with a living room in one style and a bedroom in a completely different one. That is why it pays to pull the look together on a moodboard first. You upload 2 to 16 photos of furniture, materials and decor, and the AI arranges them into one inspiration board in one of 6 styles, from a classic grid to material flatlays and a colour story. Below are example boards in 4 of the 6 styles. Two of them were made from the same set of furniture, so you can see how the style alone changes the way the set comes across. - **Artistic collage** - Furniture and materials cut out from their backgrounds and composed on one surface. Good for a first conversation with the owner: the whole living room set is visible in one frame before anything goes into the listing photos. - **Colour story** - Palette first, furniture second: swatches of green, walnut and rattan next to a sofa and table in the same shades. Useful when every room in the apartment should keep to one colour scheme. - **Scrapbook** - The same furniture set as in the colour story, this time pinned to a cork board. A more relaxed look that is easier to share in a post or story about a new listing. - **Realistic** - A finished scene instead of cut-outs: a bedroom with a burgundy wall and mouldings, a rust-coloured bed and brass lamps, with fabric, metal and flooring swatches on the side. The Realistic style goes a step further: it places the furniture from your photos in a shared perspective, as a preliminary interior visualization. That way you can check with the owner whether the set works together before it goes into the listing photos. A moodboard in 2K costs 2 credits. You then upload the same furniture photos as objects in home staging, so every room gets items from one approved list. All board styles are described on the page of the [AI moodboard generator](https://www.raya.design/en/moodboard-generator). [Create an apartment moodboard](https://www.raya.design/en/moodboards) ## Real estate photo editing - walls, floors and single pieces of furniture Home staging adds items or empties a room, but it does not change the finishes. That is what photo editing is for. You describe the change in one sentence, or draw a rectangle over part of the photo and write what should change there, and the rest of the frame stays as it was. - **Wall colour** - Turn tired grey walls into a warm white, so buyers see the room freshly painted before anyone picks up a roller. - **Floors** - Worn laminate or old carpet gives way to boards or tiles. You can upload a photo of a specific floor from a catalogue as the reference. - **Removing single pieces of furniture** - Select an old wardrobe or armchair and say it should go, and the rest of the furniture stays. To empty the whole room, Empty the room in home staging is quicker. - **Swapping furniture for something new** - Upload a photo of the new sofa, mark where the old one stands, and the AI puts the new one into the shot. An edit in 2K costs 2 credits. A photo meant for a banner or a printed brochure can be upscaled to 4K or 6K from 4 credits, without generating it again. [Edit a property photo](https://www.raya.design/en/edit) ## Virtual staging in a listing - how to show it honestly? A photo after AI home staging is a visualization: it shows how the apartment could look, not how it looks today. A buyer who comes to a viewing and finds bare walls should know that beforehand. Otherwise, instead of interest in the listing, you get disappointment at the first meeting. Good practice is simple: label the photo as a visualization or virtual staging and show the original photo next to it. Do not use editing to hide defects such as damp, cracks or the view from the window. Before publishing, also check whether the listing portal has its own rules for such images. ## Home staging video for social media Turn a furnished room into a few-second clip with a slow camera move or into an animation from a preset. In the “Furniture from Box” preset the room starts empty with a cardboard box on the floor and ends as a furnished living room. Videos last 4 to 8 seconds, come in landscape or portrait and cost from 4 credits. You get to the video generator with one button under your home staging result. Portrait fits reels and stories, where a moving frame holds attention longer than another photo in a carousel. Landscape works on a development’s website and in a client presentation. [Generate a video from a visualization](https://www.raya.design/en/video) ## Traditional home staging vs AI virtual staging An online home staging app will not replace furniture in an apartment that buyers visit. It replaces it where the decision to view is made first: in the listing photos. | | Traditional home staging | Virtual staging in Raya | | --- | --- | --- | | **Cost** | Renting or buying furniture and decor, transport, a stylist’s time | 2 credits per room in 2K | | **Time** | Several days or more to order and set up the furniture | Under a minute per room | | **Layout options** | One layout for the whole time on the market | Several versions of the same room with different furniture | | **Logistics** | Access to the apartment, bringing furniture in and taking it out | A room photo and a browser | | **In-person viewing** | Buyers see the furnished interior on site | On site the apartment looks as in the original photo | Traditional home staging still wins where the impression at the viewing matters most: in high-end apartments and in sales with no time pressure. Virtual staging works for listings, rentals and apartments the owner does not want to invest in before selling. The two can be combined - a moodboard also helps when planning staging with real furniture. ## Who is home staging software for? AI home staging is used by people who sell or rent out property from photos. Each group starts from different material. - **Real estate agents and agencies** - An empty apartment from the listing gets a furnished living room and bedroom on the day you take on the property. You show the seller how the photos come across differently before they decide to refresh the apartment. - **Developers** - You show units handed over in shell condition as furnished interiors. Buyers see a room with a bed and a wardrobe instead of bare walls and screed. - **Investors and flippers** - Before renovating you check in a photo how new floors and wall colours change the apartment, and after renovating you furnish it virtually instead of buying furniture for the sale. - **Landlords** - You show a long- or short-term rental furnished or with a new look before you order any furniture. You take the listing photos once and change the layouts in Raya. - **Home stagers** - Before visiting the apartment you pull the look together on a moodboard and show the client the room with the chosen furniture. Approval comes before anything is delivered. ## What Raya users say We collect reviews in the app. For now they come mostly from interior designers and interior architects who create visualizations of their projects in Raya - each review sits next to their work, before and after. The full list is on a separate page. [all user reviews](https://www.raya.design/en/testimonials) ## How much does AI home staging cost? Everything runs on credits. A room furnished with home staging costs 2 credits in 2K and 4 in 4K, a moodboard 2, a photo edit from 2 and a video from 4. You get credits with a monthly subscription or top up with a pack, with no commitment. You start with 20 free credits valid for 14 days, which is 10 furnished rooms in 2K, with no card required. Enough to test home staging on photos from your own listing. - [full pricing](https://www.raya.design/en/pricing) - [free trial](https://www.raya.design/en/free-trial) [Create an account and furnish your first room](https://www.raya.design/en/login) ## AI home staging - frequently asked questions ### Can AI home staging furnish an empty apartment? Yes, but you decide what with. You upload photos of furniture and decor, up to 16 at once, or describe them in the Instructions field, and the AI places them in the room photo. Raya has no ready-made furniture sets or style buttons - if you do not have an idea for the look yet, start with a moodboard. The clearer the item photos, the more faithfully they end up in the room. ### Can the AI remove old furniture from a photo? Yes. In home staging turn on Empty the room: the AI removes everything movable - furniture, rugs, curtains, floor lamps and decor - and keeps the walls, windows, doors, floor and built-in kitchen units. If you add photos of new furniture, the old pieces disappear and the new ones take their place. The AI fills in the parts of the floor and walls that were hidden behind furniture, so compare the result with the original photo before publishing. A single piece of furniture can be removed in photo editing. ### Will virtual staging change the walls, windows or floor? It should not. The AI is instructed to keep the walls, floor, ceiling, windows, doors and framing, and to change only what you add or remove. It is still an interpretation of the photo rather than a photograph, so compare the result with the original using the slider before publishing. Wall colour or flooring you change deliberately, in editing. ### What kind of photo works for online home staging? Ideally a photo of the whole room taken at eye level, in daylight and with a level camera. We accept JPG, PNG and WEBP up to 10 MB. The output matches the photo’s proportions and the framing stays the same. A phone photo is fine as long as it is sharp and not overexposed. ### Do home staging photos need to be labelled in a listing? We always recommend it. A “visualization” or “virtual staging” label with the original photo alongside protects you from accusations of misleading buyers and from disappointment at the viewing. Also check the rules of the portal where you publish the listing. ### Can I use these photos in listings and ads? Yes. On every plan you have full rights to use the generated images commercially - in listings, on your agency’s website, in brochures and on social media.