ime, people like to 'showcase' their furniture if they have larger items, because it shows that larger items fit properly in the space and are proportional. It's one thing to use a measuring tape and 'know' it and another to see it.
If they're still living in the house, it's pretty hard to take pictures of the rooms that DONT include their furniture...
I'm not saying move the furniture out, it just confuses me why they would make the furniture the focus of the picture instead of making it more inclusive of the room the furniture's in, since the room is what people are buying.
I get what you're saying broc, it's just seem to me that sometimes when they focus in on the furniture, it makes the room seem smaller to me. Like in that 2nd picture I'm not sure if that's a smallish room or a ginormous sectional.