To Stage Or Not To Stage...

[Beth D.]

I've always been of the mindset that staging a house to sell gives people a "visual" on how it looks as a home. However, when we bought our personal residence it was completely empty which I preferred because then I was less distracted by furnishings and could see the bones of the house/details.

Our current project is a house that could have different "options" for layouts... (meaning the dining room could be one of two places). Part of me wants people to have it empty so people can envision where they would put it without precedence and the other part of me doesn't want them to be confused about which room it should be.

So which is better for rehabbed homes?
Do you keep empty, partially stage, or fully stage?