Home Stories
Meaningful photography for beginnings, goodbyes, and the years in between.
Help your clients celebrate more than the transaction. Home Stories from As You Are Photography document the people, pets, rooms, and everyday details that make a house meaningful.
More Than a Closing Gift
Some gifts are appreciated in the moment. Others become more meaningful with time.
A Home Story gives your clients photographs of a chapter they may not otherwise think to document: the beginning of life in a new home, the final days in a beloved one, or the way a house has changed as it became truly theirs.
The front porch. The kids’ rooms. The dog’s favorite window. The moving boxes that haven’t disappeared yet. The backyard they fell in love with.
These are the pieces of home that become memories.
Three Ways to Give a Home Story
Welcome Home Story
A relaxed, documentary-style photography session that captures the first chapter of life in a new space.
Rather than simply posing for portraits, your clients can be photographed settling into the places and routines that are already making the house feel like theirs; from family portraits on the front porch to kids exploring their rooms, pets investigating the backyard, or everyone gathered in a favorite new space.
$250
Includes:
Approximately 30 minutes of photography
15 professionally edited digital photographs
Family portraits, candid moments, and details of the home
Immediate household members and pets
Full-resolution and social-media downloads
Private online gallery
Six months to schedule the session
Travel within the included Kansas City service area
Farewell Home Story
For sellers saying goodbye to a home that mattered.
A Farewell Home Story gives your clients a chance to document the spaces and details they want to remember before handing over the keys.
These sessions are especially meaningful for longtime homeowners, families relocating, empty nesters, clients downsizing, and anyone leaving a home with a story worth preserving.
Their session might include the rooms where their children grew up, favorite spots around the house, marks on a doorway, the backyard they tended for years, family portraits, or simply the experience of being together in the space one more time.
$450
Includes:
Approximately 60–75 minutes of photography
35–50+ professionally edited digital photographs
Documentary family and home coverage
Multiple meaningful rooms, spaces, and details
Full-resolution and social-media downloads
Private online gallery
Home Anniversary Story
A relaxed, documentary-style photography session that captures the first chapter of life in a new space.
The relationship doesn’t have to end at closing.
A Home Anniversary Story gives you a meaningful reason to reconnect with clients after they’ve had time to truly settle into the home you helped them find.
Instead of another sales-oriented check-in, you can reach out with something celebratory:
“It’s almost been a year since you bought your home. I’d love to help you document how much life has happened there since.”
Home Anniversary Stories can celebrate a first year in the home or another meaningful milestone and can be incorporated into a larger past-client appreciation strategy.
Partner pricing and anniversary programs available.
How Do Home Stories Work?
1. Choose a Home Story
Select the experience you’d like to give your client.
2. Give the Gift
You’ll receive a personalized Home Story gift certificate to share with your client.
3. Your Client Schedules Directly
Once they’re ready, your client contacts As You Are Photography to select a date and complete a short questionnaire about their household and home.
4. I Take It From There
I handle the planning, photography, editing, gallery delivery, and client communication.
You purchase the experience. You don’t have to manage it.
What Does a Home Story Look Like?
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Home Stories aren’t traditional portrait sessions simply relocated indoors.
They’re small visual narratives about the relationship between people and place.
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The People
Relaxed portraits of the household together, along with the quieter interactions that make relationships feel real.
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The Place
Rooms, porches, yards, windows, architecture, and the spaces that make this particular home recognizable.
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The Details
Keys on the counter. Moving boxes. Children’s artwork. A favorite chair. A pet at the window. The little things that may someday carry surprising emotional weight.
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Life Happening There
Cooking. Playing. Reading. Gardening. Unpacking. Drinking coffee on the porch. Kids showing off their rooms.
The goal isn’t simply to document what your clients look like.
It’s to remember what life here felt like.
No Perfect House Required
Your clients don’t need a professionally styled home.
They don’t need to finish unpacking.
Their children don’t have to sit still.
Their dog doesn’t have to cooperate.
Home Stories are designed around real homes and real life.
Moving boxes, unfinished rooms, toys, pets, and everyday routines can all become part of the story.
A home doesn’t have to be finished to be worth remembering.
Why Gift a Home Story?
Give your buyers or sellers something directly connected to one of the biggest transitions in their lives.
Create a Memorable Client Experience
A basket gets used. A bottle gets opened.
A photograph of a child in their first bedroom or a family on the porch of the home where they spent 20 years becomes more valuable with time.
Give Something That Lasts
Your clients will remember the person who helped them begin, or complete, that chapter.
Stay Connected to the Story
You don’t need to coordinate calendars, prepare your client for the session, or manage photography logistics.
Once the gift is given, I handle the rest.
Keep It Easy
Realtor Gifting Options
$250
Approximately 30 minutes
15 finished photographs
Best for buyer closing gifts and new-home celebrations.
Welcome Home Story
$450
Approximately 60–75 minutes
35–50+ finished photographs
Best for deeper documentary coverage, meaningful seller gifts, relocations, and longtime homes.
Farewell Home Story
Custom partner options available
Designed for Realtors who want to incorporate photography into past-client appreciation and relationship-building.
Home Anniversary Programs
Your Gift Can Grow With Their Story
If you purchase a $250 Welcome Home Story, your client may choose to apply the full value of your gift toward a $450 Full Home Story.
They simply pay the $200 difference.
There is no obligation to upgrade. The original Welcome Home Story is a complete photography experience as gifted.
You may also purchase the Full Home Story outright for a client.
About As You Are Photography
As You Are Photography is built around a simple idea:
People and places don’t need to look perfect to be worth documenting.
My approach combines relaxed portraiture with documentary storytelling, creating photographs that feel natural, personal, and grounded in the places where life actually happens.
Rather than forcing every family into the same poses or setting, I look for the relationships, routines, details, and spaces that make each story distinct.
Home Stories are an extension of that philosophy: photography centered not just on how people look, but on where they are in their lives.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Welcome Home Story gifts may be scheduled within six months of purchase.
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An unused Home Story may be transferred to another client before it has been scheduled.
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No. Once you give the gift, your client schedules and communicates directly with As You Are Photography.
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Yes. The full $250 value of the gift may be applied toward a $450 Full Home Story. The client pays only the $200 difference.
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Absolutely not. The Welcome Home Story is a complete session and gallery as purchased.
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Yes. Pets are part of the household and are always welcome in Home Stories.
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Not at all. Home Stories are intended to document real life, and moving boxes or unfinished spaces can often become meaningful parts of the story.
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Yes. Farewell Home Stories are specifically designed for clients preparing to leave a meaningful home.
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Yes. Partner options for repeat gifting and Home Anniversary programs are available.
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Standard Home Story pricing includes travel within the designated Kansas City service area. Additional travel may be available for a fee.
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Yes. Realtors may purchase either the $250 Welcome Home Story or the $450 Full Home Story outright.
Give Them More Than a Closing Gift
Give them a way to remember what this chapter felt like.
Whether your client is walking through the front door for the first time, preparing to close it for the last time, or celebrating another year of life inside it, a Home Story helps preserve the part of real estate that can’t be measured in square feet.
Initiate a Productive Dialogue
Complete the form with contextual information regarding your challenges, timelines, and desired outcomes, and our team will respond promptly with an evidence-based recommendation framework.