A label on every image
Each staged photo carries a visible Virtually Staged mark. It is a plain disclosure, not a logo.
Virtual staging for Okanagan property managers
Vacant units, furnished in the photo.
Send the photos you already took on the walkthrough. They come back furnished the next business day, every image labelled, the original attached, and a line you can paste into the ad.
Staged
Original
V-Stage is a small team in Kelowna. I’m Preston, and I’m the one you deal with — every room we stage gets checked against your original before it reaches you.
“The unit rents unfurnished. Is that honest?”
Every image is labelled, the original comes with it, and you get a line for the ad saying the unit is unfurnished.
“There’s still a tenant in there.”
Their things come out of the photo digitally. Nobody re-shoots an occupied unit.
“What does one unit cost?”
C$100 for the unit, and your first image is free.
The unit that isn’t empty yet
Notice is in. The tenant is still there.
This is the normal case, and it is the one that makes photos awkward. The unit has to go up before it is empty, so the only pictures available are full of someone else’s life. The listing ends up marketing the tenant instead of the unit.
- Their belongings come out
- The room is cleared digitally and furnished from scratch. Nobody has to move anything, and nobody re-shoots an occupied unit.
- You confirm what was hidden
- A photo cannot show the floor under a couch. I will ask you to confirm the condition of anything the furniture was covering.
- Worth a word with your broker
- Using photos taken while someone is still living there raises a consent question. It is worth raising internally before it becomes a complaint.
Staged
Original
Examples
See how an ordinary unit reads.
Demonstration rooms, run through the same pipeline that would run on your photos. Drag the slider to compare.
Staged
Original
The honest bit
Those rooms are demonstrations, not a client’s unit.
The staging is real work by the same pipeline that would run on your photos. The rooms themselves are samples, because no property manager has sent me one yet. You would rather hear that from me than work it out later.
So send me a unit. I’ll stage a room free, and if you like the result and you’re happy for me to use it, it goes on this page as the first real one.
Where the market is
Renters have more to choose from than they did.
CMHC put Central Okanagan vacancy at 6.4% in 2025, the highest of any major Canadian metro, and City of Kelowna one-bedrooms at 9.1%. Whatever that means for your portfolio, you know it better than I do.
That is a fact about the market, not a claim about photographs. I have no data showing staging changes how quickly a unit rents.
Staying honest
Furniture can change. The unit never does.
There is a real objection buried in this, and it is worth putting on the table rather than waiting for you to raise it. The Province tells landlords this about advertising a unit that rents unfurnished:
“When advertising an unfurnished unit, landlords should try not to use photos that show furniture, as it can create the wrong impression.”
Province of BC, List and show a rental unit (opens in a new tab)
The same page says a listing should mention when a unit will be unfurnished. So that sentence ships with the photos, written for you:
“Photos are virtually staged. This unit is rented unfurnished.”
Paste it into the ad. That is the whole fix, and it is the piece nobody else hands you.
The original comes back too
The untouched file ships in the same package, so the real room is always one click away.
Only movable things move
Room size, layout, flooring, built-ins, fixtures and visible condition are left exactly as they are. Window dressing counts as furnishing, so blinds or curtains may be restyled, but the window itself and the view through it do not change.
If you hold a BCFSA licence, the regulator’s advertising guidance says not to alter a photo in any way that would misrepresent the property, and that changing a physical characteristic of it is not acceptable. Furniture is movable. Walls are not. That is the line this service is built around. Read the guidance (opens in a new tab).
Worth saying plainly: this is what I have read, not legal advice. Your managing broker is the person to confirm it with.
How it works
Three steps, on a turnover timeline.
No software to learn, no account, nothing to install. Phone photos are fine.
Step 1
Send the unit
Notice is in and you have photos, even phone photos. Share a Drive link or upload a couple directly, with the address and anything I should know about the rooms.
Step 2
We stage and check
Each room is furnished digitally, then Preston checks every image against the original before it leaves. Anything uncertain gets held rather than sent.
Step 3
Get the set back
Original photos, staged images with a Virtually Staged label, a disclosure note, and a line you can paste into the listing.
Pricing
One price for the unit.
One unit is one job. The only thing that adds to it is a room the furniture has to come out of first, and your quote is confirmed before any work starts.
C$100
a unit
Up to 10 staged images, which is well past what a rental listing usually runs. A one-bedroom is normally three or four.
- First staged image free, so you can see the work before you spend anything.
- C$25 for a room whose furniture has to come out first, charged once per room however many angles.
- Free revisions included for practical fixes to a delivered image.
- Several units at once is fine. Each is quoted as its own job, on one invoice.
Founding-client pricing applies to your first 3 paid listings. Scope is confirmed when your photos arrive, and anything different is invoiced or refunded before work starts.
What you get back
One package per unit, ready to go straight onto whichever listing site you use.
- The staged images, each carrying a Virtually Staged label
- Your original photos, untouched, in the same folder
- A short disclosure note for your records
- The listing line: "Photos are virtually staged. This unit is rented unfurnished."
Questions before you send anything? Call 250-864-9446 and you will get the person doing the work.
FAQ
The practical questions.
What a unit costs, what changes in the photo, what to tell renters, and where you stay responsible.
C$100 for the unit, covering up to 10 staged images, which is more than a rental listing usually needs. One unit is one job. If a room still has furniture in it that has to come out first, that room is C$25, charged once however many angles you want of it. Your first image is free.
Free sample
One unit. Staged free.
Direct upload handles one or two compressed photos. For a batch of units, email a Google Drive link to preston@kryski.co and there is no size limit.