The pictures of the inside of the house are exactly as the house was when I first walked in to view it. The carpets had been taken up in every room and most of the furniture removed apart from a few peices put by for collection. You have to try to look beyond what you see when you first walk in and try to imagine all that it could be, this comes easily to me with having developed properties before and seen the transformation of properties I've drawn planning applications for but it isn't a difficult thing to master how to do. First look up at the ceiling to guage the size of the room, rooms can be cluttered with furniture and personal belongings but up there on the ceiling is (usually) nothing but a light fitting. Train your eye to look at the corners, notice the size of all the area and play a little game of flipping the room upside down in your mind and imagining the ceiling as the floor. Sounds nuts but it really works with practice.
Next notice any features, skirting boards, picture rails, fireplaces. Block out and ingnore everything else thats there, try it in your own home before you start to view properties, really focus on the permanant parts of the room and make everything else invisable. Property developers/interior designers can do this without even having to think about it but they weren't born knowing how to do it, its a learned skill. Do you like what you see so far? The size, the features? Does it 'feel' right?
Go back to your upside down ceiling as floor house, imagine your furniture in that space. Again practice doing this at home, look right up at your ceiling, you know your belongings, you know where the sit in that room, imagine them positioned upsidedown on the ceiling. They fit of course, you have designed that room previously (oh yes you have!) so when you go into the new property do the same, will your furniture fit? Look up, arrange your furniture in that space, do you like it?
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