# Two-room apartment tour: the photos you need for a tour that makes sense

> What a good video tour of a two-room apartment looks like, which photos to take with your phone and why the floor plan matters. With a real 46 m² example.

URL: https://thenichesociety.ro/en/blog-tur-apartament-2-camere-poze

A good apartment video tour shows how the rooms connect, which separate photos cannot do. **For a two-room apartment you need photos taken from the corners of every room, in the same light, plus the floor plan, which sets the route.** The tour sits next to the photos and the plan, not instead of them, and if it is generated with AI, you say so right next to it.

## What a good apartment tour actually is

An apartment tour has one job: to show someone who is searching how the rooms connect. The listing photos show each room well, but separately. They do not tell you whether the hallway opens straight into the living room, or whether the bathroom is next to the bedroom or on the other side of the flat. People build the map in their heads on their own, usually wrong, and only see how it really is at the viewing.

A good tour starts at the front door and follows the path a visitor would take. No jumps, no rooms appearing out of nowhere. That is exactly how we build a [virtual tour from photos](https://thenichesociety.ro/en/video-content/virtual-apartment-tour): the rooms enter the video in the order of the floor plan, not in the order they were photographed. For a two-room apartment that usually means hallway, living room with kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and balcony.

Below we go through which photos you need, how to take them with your phone and why the floor plan matters more than the quality of the camera. At the end we share what we learned from the first tour we made, for a 46 m² two-room apartment, and what to write next to the tour when you publish it, especially if it was generated with AI.

## The tour does not replace photos and the plan, it sits next to them

Before you start on a tour, it helps to know what people look at in a listing. The largest public research on this comes from the United States. The National Association of Realtors there asks buyers who searched online every year what they found very useful. In the 2025 report, photos were very useful for 83% of them, detailed information for 79%, floor plans for 57%, virtual tours for 41% and videos for 29%.

That market is not the Romanian market, so you do not take the numbers at face value. The order still tells you something useful: people want good photos and clear information first, then the plan, and only then the tour. A tour laid over poor photos with no plan does not save a listing. A tour next to good photos and a clear plan ties them together and gives people the full picture before they take time off work to come to a viewing. So the photos you take for the tour should be good enough for the listing gallery anyway.

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## The photos you need for a two-room apartment

The basic rule is coverage, not quantity. Every corner of every room has to appear in at least one photo. If a wall shows up nowhere, the tour either skips it or invents it, and neither is good. For a normal room, two or three photos taken from opposite corners are usually enough. For hallways and small bathrooms, one or two will do.

Besides the rooms, the transition photos matter: the front door seen from the hallway, the entrance to the living room seen from the hallway, the bedroom door seen from the living room. These are the photos that link one room to the next in the tour. Without them, moving from one room to another is guesswork. The list below is the one we use for a typical two-room apartment.

- 01The front door, from outside and from the hallway, with the inward opening visible.
- 02The hallway, from the end by the entrance, with the doors leading off it.
- 03The living room with kitchen, from at least two opposite corners, plus one shot towards the window.
- 04The bedroom, from the corner by the door and from the opposite corner, with the wardrobe and window in frame.
- 05The bathroom, from the door, with the sink and the bath or shower visible.
- 06The balcony, from the access door and from outside looking back into the room, if possible.

## How to take the photos with your phone, without a photographer

You do not need a professional camera. You need three habits. First: hold the phone straight, at chest height, not raised above your head and not tilted down. On the iPhone, Apple explains in its official guide how to turn on the grid and the level: open Settings, go to Camera and switch on the grid and the level. On Android phones you will find a similar grid in the camera app settings.

The second habit is light. Take all the photos at the same time of day, with the curtains open and the lights either all on or all off. When one room is in daylight and the next is under a yellow bulb, the tour looks like two apartments glued together. We say the same on the service page: one dominant light source across the whole set gives the best result.

The third habit is tidiness. Clear the countertops, close the toilet lid, take the clothes off the chairs and make sure nobody is in the frame. Everything in the photo ends up in the tour. A person caught in a mirror or a pair of slippers left in the hallway stays there in the video too, however well the rest was done.

## The route comes from the floor plan, not from the phone gallery

This is where most tours go wrong. The photos are taken in whatever order the person walked through the flat, and they go into the video in that same order. The result jumps from the bathroom to the living room and from the living room to the bedroom with no logic at all. When the photos arrive over WhatsApp, as they did for us, even the time they were taken is no longer any help. The only reliable source for the order of the rooms is the plan.

The floor plan or cadastral survey tells you which room is next to which, where you pass through and which way each door opens. On the survey, the arc drawn next to a door shows the hinge and the opening direction. It looks like a small detail, but a door that opens into the room in the tour when in reality it opens towards the hallway is the first thing someone who has already been in the apartment will notice.

In practice, before anything else, you draw the route on the plan: entrance, hallway, living room, bedroom, bathroom, balcony, or whatever order makes sense for your apartment. Only pass through rooms that are actually next to each other. If two rooms are at opposite ends, the tour goes through the hallway between them instead of jumping straight across. Only once the route is clear on paper do you move on to generating the video.

## New, fully furnished or small apartment: what changes

In a new, unfurnished apartment, the problem is that all the rooms look alike. White walls, the same flooring, the same light. The tour needs landmarks so it does not get lost: the window, the door frame, the radiator, the kitchen corner, a socket on a wall. Shoot wider than you would for an ordinary listing, so that every photo catches at least one of these landmarks.

In a fully furnished apartment, the furniture helps, because every room has its own objects and people find their bearings easily. The risk is a different one: too many things in the frame. The more small objects there are on shelves and countertops, the harder it is for them to stay identical from one frame to the next. Put away whatever is not part of the furniture and leave only what you want the buyer to see.

In a small apartment or a studio, every corner matters even more, because there is nowhere to hide a gap. An unphotographed wall in a nine square metre room shows up immediately as a jump in the tour. On the other hand, the route is short and simple, so the tour is usually done faster and with fewer difficult transitions between rooms.

## What we learned from the first tour: 46 m², two rooms, 13 photos

We made our first tour for a 46 m² two-room apartment in a new block in Bucharest. The owner sent us 13 phone photos and the apartment survey over WhatsApp. According to the survey, the living room with kitchen measured 21.9 m², the bedroom 12.1 m², the bathroom 4.3 m², the hallway 2 m² and the balcony 5.7 m². From the photos and the plan came a continuous 49 second tour in 1080p, joined from 10 short clips.

What worked well were the transitions through open spaces. From the hallway into the living room and from the living room towards the kitchen, the tour looks like a walk filmed in a single take. We generated the clips with Kling 3.0, and each clip starts from exactly the frame the previous one ended on. That is where the sense of continuity comes from, not from a transition effect added in the edit.

What was hard were the transitions through closed doors between rooms far apart. That is where it is easiest to tell the tour is generated. We also learned that a real photo placed in the middle of a long route keeps the tour faithful to the apartment, while a clip left to run on its own for too long starts inventing furniture. That is why every tour goes through a manual check before it goes out to the client.

## Where to publish the tour and what to write next to it

The tour does its job where people are already looking. On Storia, for example, buyers can filter listings by whether a virtual tour is available, alongside the classic photo gallery, so a listing with a tour also shows up for people who explicitly ask for one. You can also send the same video by message to people who ask about the apartment, before you arrange a viewing.

If the tour is generated with AI, say so clearly next to it. Article 50 of the AI Act requires those who publish AI-generated or manipulated images or video that resemble real places and could pass as authentic to disclose that they are artificially generated. The obligation applies from 2 August 2026. A short line under the tour, such as "AI-generated tour from real photos of the apartment", solves the problem without scaring anyone off.

For estate agents and developers there is one more reason. Romanian Law 363/2007 treats as misleading any commercial practice that, including through its overall presentation, misleads or is likely to mislead the average consumer. A tour showing a bigger room or a view that does not exist falls squarely into this. The tour has to show the apartment as it is, not as you would like it to be.

## Sources and further reading.

- 01[2025 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report, Exhibit 3-6 — National Association of REALTORS®](https://cms.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/2025-03/2025-home-buyers-and-sellers-generational-trends-report-04-01-2025.pdf)
- 02[Use iPhone camera tools to set up your shot — Apple Support](https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-your-shot-iph3dc593597/ios)
- 03[Agent's guide: virtual reality in real estate (in Romanian) — Storia](https://www.storia.ro/blog/ghid-vanzare/profesionisti/realitatea-virtuala-in-domeniul-imobiliar-cum-te-conectezi-la-trendurile-digitale)
- 04[Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems — EU AI Act](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/)
- 05[Law no. 363/2007 on combating unfair commercial practices (in Romanian) — Romanian Legislative Portal](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/88290)
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## Frequently asked questions

### How many photos do I need for a tour of a two-room apartment?

There is no fixed number, coverage is what counts. For a typical two-room apartment, two or three photos from opposite corners of each room, plus the transition photos between rooms, are usually enough. Our first tour, for 46 m², started from 13 photos.

### Can I make the tour from the photos already in the listing?

Sometimes, if the photos cover every corner and were taken in the same light. More often the transition photos between rooms are missing, and then ten minutes in the apartment to add them is worth it. You need the plan either way.

### Does a video tour work for a new, unfurnished apartment?

Yes. In an empty apartment the photos have to catch clear landmarks, such as windows, doors, radiators and the kitchen corner, so the tour does not get lost between rooms that look the same.

### Do I have to say the apartment tour was made with AI?

Yes. From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the AI Act requires AI-generated videos that could pass as real to be labelled as such. A visible line next to the tour is enough, and it is fairer to the buyer.

### Does a virtual tour replace viewing the apartment?

No. The tour helps people understand how the rooms connect and decide whether it is worth coming. The decision to buy or rent is still made after an in-person viewing.

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