Most of these projects are about a person living in a space. This one was about a camera. A Malibu rental was getting ready for its listing photos. The job was to make every space that might land in frame look like somewhere you would book on purpose. Organizing that only you can see is one thing. Organizing that has to read at a glance, in a photo, on a screen, is another.
The pantry, in glass
The fastest way to make a kitchen look styled is to stop the packaging from talking. We decanted the dry goods into matching glass, pasta and grains and lentils each showing their own color through the jar. A couple of olive branches in plain pitchers and a leaning cutting board did the rest. Nothing in that shot is fancy. It just stopped competing with itself.
A linen closet like a hotel
The linen closet got the hotel treatment. Towels folded to one size and stacked square, soft baskets for the odds and ends, pillows and toppers lined along the bottom. A linen closet is the kind of thing a listing photo usually skips. Done right, it is the thing that makes the place feel looked after.
Down to the laundry room
The detail people remember is the one nobody expects, so we styled the laundry room too. Detergent in glass, clothespins in their own jar, a brass faucet left to shine over a cleared counter. By the time a rental looks this composed in the small rooms, the big rooms have already made their case.