How to Dress Your Property for Photography - The Kitchen

This post forms one of our series of posts on preparing different areas of your home for photography. In this post we look at one of the main rooms of the house - The Kitchen.

- Before -

This is how your kitchen may look before you start dressing it. There’s a lot of ‘stuff’ here that isn’t helping to show the kitchen off to its best.

Hopefully when we come to photograph, the kitchen will look less like the one above and more like the one below. Here, a lot of the stuff, like the things on the stools, washing up liquid, dog bed & bowls and some of the tea towels have been removed, and the kitchen is much more presentable.

- During -

This fairly typical of how we may find a kitchen, things we definitely don’t want to see in a photoshoot have been tidied up and removed and the kitchen looks pleasant enough.

You could stop here, but we’re going to show you how much better this kitchen could look if we did a bit more styling. First though, we are going to take everything out of the kitchen and take the opportunity to give it a good clean.

Taking everything out of the kitchen encourages you to be really careful and considerate about what items you add back in.

- After -

When choosing which items to style your kitchen with consider your existing kitchen and what sort of items would elevate it. Here the room is fairly devoid of colour so adding in some extra colour with the cushion, limes and bright green herbs and plants helps to balance the kitchen. We’ve also reduced the number of stools to three, generally objects look better in groups of odd numbers and one fewer stools helps to stop the island feeling so crowded. Everything we’ve added is designed to make you think the kitchen is a great space to spend time.