Globe and Mail Home of the Week: Laneway House Takes the High Road

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On November 22 2013, the Globe and Mail featured a property listed by real estate agent George Niblock. Thanks George, for giving us the opportunity to photograph such a unique and beautiful home!

Check out the original article in the Globe and Mail to learn how this modern structure of steel and wood came to be. [READ GLOBE & MAIL ARTICLE HERE]

If you are interested in checking out this great home, you’re too late! The home sold within five days for the full asking price.

Zenbar Healing Studio

Recently, QStudios was asked to photograph the newest health spa in Oakville, Zenbar Healing Studio, located at 487 Cornwall Road Unit 9.

Click here for info!

Good luck to Carrie and her great staff.

 

Is Your Listing Ready for Photos?

When you book a photoshoot with us, usually it is assumed that the home will be photo-ready on the day/time that the photoshoot is scheduled.

What exactly do we mean photo-ready? To us, when the photographer arrives, the photographer should be ready to shoot immediately.

What is ‘not’ photo-ready? There are too many reasons for a house not to be ready to photograph. For starters, if the home has the following lying around, it is a good indication that the home is not ready for photos:

  • paint cans
  • tools/ladders
  • laundry (clean or dirty)
  • vaccuum
  • a stager, or contractor 🙂
  • anything that will ‘ruin’ a good photo
Please respect the photographers time…
In general, your listing probably is not the only photoshoot our photographers will have that day.  We never want to have a photographer late for an appointment. Although it is not the job of the photographer, they will usually help out by moving ladders and paint cans to help get the house ready.  This will inevitably will push back the remaining photoshoots that day. In fairness to everyone, PLEASE, have your listing ready for the arranged time.

If you need help getting your home ready, please read a blog post we wrote back in March 2011 that will give some tips to get the home ready.

Please read: Getting Your Home Ready For Real Estate Photos

If you feel that the listing will not be ready for the scheduled date/time, please call us ASAP to reschedule. Please remember that we require 24hrs notice to cancel/reschedule a listing. There will be a small penalty fee for cancellations with less than 24 hours notice, or if the photographer shows up to the home and the home cannot be photographed.

Get a Picture-Perfect Home Sale – By Amy Hoak/Wall Street Journal

I just came across this article written by Amy Hoak/Wall Street Journal that discusses the importance of real estate photography in selling your home…

Amy interviews a Chicago based photographer and he discusses some of his tips on how to get your property are the best it can be.

Check it out: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444812704577605310134435428.html?mod=e2tw

 

Worst real estate photo goes viral on web!

I came across this last month, and only now have had a chance to blog about it.

Basically the home had rental tenants that were not being cooperative, and did everything they could to make the home less appealing. There was even a shot with a lady sleeping in a messy bed, which has now been removed from the listing.

You can see the original article here: http://tinyurl.com/7yf2wo7

We only hope that we never encounter a place like this 🙂