We call it Home staging, and just like a stage set at the theatre, think of Juliet on the balcony, you need to have a focal point in every room, it should hi light the main feature the room has to offer, and sometimes thats hard to work out in a photograph

If this was a stage set, what is the stage designer trying get you to focus on?

Yep thats a view of a lake out the window

We centred the large boat in the window, it drags the eye to it and then the eye focuses beyond to the blue water of the lake, just outside.

The lakeside theme is continued by the picture just out of view on the left wall, a heron at a lakes edge and the book on the table is Canadian Waterfowl, so a buyer not only sees the lake outside on their visit but feels the full lifestyle of living by the lake in every corner of the room.

But be carefull not to over theme, a little is a lot.