The child’s room is usually dark, the living room doesn’t have enough space for the main accent – the sofa bed, and the kitchen table takes up more space than you planned. These are situations that new arrivals often face..
Although every buyer tries to choose the most suitable option, unfortunately, it is difficult to assess all the circumstances when the construction of an apartment building has not even begun or its foundations have only just begun to rise.
“The most difficult thing for buyers is to assess the future space – whether there will be enough space for a sofa in the room, or whether there will be a washing machine in the bathroom. Together with virtual reality developers and experts, we have created a new generation tool that will allow home seekers to assess the space of their future home, choose the right interior and try to arrange the furniture,” says Robertas Dargis, Chairman of the Board of real estate development company Eika.
Until Friday, February 10, the EIKA VR service can be tried out at the capital’s shopping and leisure center “Panorama”, and later – at the company’s office.
Real estate professionals present four steps when choosing a home that new homeowners forget to consider.
Light in the room
Are you paying a high electricity bill because you live with the lights on all the time? It means you haven’t evaluated the lighting in your apartment.
One of the essential components of a quality life is sufficient insolation, or, in other words, natural lighting.
If the house has not yet been built, it is difficult to estimate how much natural light will enter the rooms. Meanwhile, virtual reality technology allows the buyer to determine how much natural light will enter the future apartment, how it will be distributed throughout the premises. A person no longer needs to stand in a real apartment, look at empty walls and try to guess whether the room will be light or dark.
View from the balcony window
You’ve bought your own home, settled in, but you have absolutely no idea what the view will be like from your balcony window? Will you be able to see the forest in the distance?
While it is possible to predict the lighting in an apartment by analyzing general construction plans, it is more difficult to look through the windows of an apartment building that is still under construction. However, it is not impossible.
By putting on virtual reality glasses, the buyer can look out the window or go out onto the balcony. It opens up a realistic view that the resident will see from their home.
Decoration: in the store – one way, in the kitchen – another
The tiles you chose in the store are completely unsuitable for a small bathroom space? The soft pastel peach color in the living room has become an eye-catching orange wall?
When choosing tiles or paint colors in the store, you have to decide from a small fragment how it will look in your home. It becomes even more difficult when trying to assess how one or another decor solution will fit with others, how to choose different finish combinations.
Virtual reality, on the contrary, allows you to try out many different color combinations and variations of the apartment interior and see the whole.
The area of a dwelling expressed in numbers can be misleading.
Did you plan to put both a desk and a wardrobe in your child’s room, but in the end there was barely enough room for a bed?
Each person perceives space subjectively. When buying a home, the consumer expects that the children’s room will be brightly lit, and the bed will not take up the entire bedroom area. However, the area of the apartment expressed in numbers can be misleading. Therefore, before buying an apartment or house, it is important to know how the functional spaces will be arranged and whether they will meet expectations.
One of the most important advantages of virtual reality is the realistic sense of space. The buyer can see how spacious the dining room will be, whether there will be enough space for a growing child, when the furniture is placed in the room. In virtual reality, the future settler can check whether this is how he imagines his home.
Visitors to PLC Panorama can try out the EIKA VR service until February 10. Starting February 13, it will also be possible to view apartments in virtual reality at the company’s office.
More information:
Jorūnė Juodžbalytė
Marketing and Communications Manager
UAB “Eika”
Phone: +370 520 45809
Mobile: +370 686 80126
Email: [email protected]