Having trouble selling your home? You're not alone. Local families are turning to a new trend to try and get their home off the market.

It has 4500 square feet, four beds, and two-and-a-half baths, on three acres above Corvallis. But, despite its million-dollar views, Mike Wyse and his wife are having trouble finding a buyer for their former home.

"Uh, not a lot of nibbles out there right now," Wyse says. "Just, people are kind of waiting to see, I think, what the market does."

Enter Roni and Dana from Spark Designs Home Staging. They took this empty house and turned it into a home, bringing both big-ticket items and small touches in an attempt to help buyers imagine the possibilities.

"And the realtors," says home stager Dana Tucker-Cook, "especially in a tough market, they need to get creative, and find other ways of marketing their product."

"I brought it up to this client," says real estate broker Marcia Schnoor, "because I knew what a fabulous home it was, but and that most of the people that viewed it weren't seeing the potential the home had to offer."

The goal, when these folks are staging a home, is to give you a feel for how you would live in a particular space. Like, for example, this sort of big, boring deck, becomes a place to sit and enjoy a margarita on a sunny summer afternoon, just like that.

"In a slow market, we won't necessarily make your house sell for over market value," says home stager Roni Cook, "but we'll get your home sold in 90 days in a 160-day market."

With their home staged, and after nine months of searching for a buyer, Mike and Lee Wyse hope Roni and Dana are right.

"We understand that since August -- that's when we had it first staged -- there's been like 89 hits on the internet," Mike Wyse says with a shrug. "Now, whether that's a result of the staging or not, I don't know, but that's encouraging. At least people are looking."