Home Staging Tips and Inspiration to Grow Your Real Estate Staging Business
Home stagers, it’s official, Pantone has selected Emerald as their color of the year for 2013. I must admit I like the freshness of it and can totally see it as an accent color that splashes through different rooms in one of my next home staging projects.
I’ve never been one of those home stagers who believes everything has to be totally [...]
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love this quote for many reasons, but one is that it so nicely distinguishes between home staging and interior design.
Less is definitely more in home staging. We’re not trying to impress the home buyer with the contents, but rather with the [...]
Going to an interior design show is a quick way to meet industry contacts, learn about products and design trends, and give you confidence as a professional home stager!
When I first started my home staging business, Six Elements Inc., in 2002 I admit I sometimes felt like I was playing make believe. I had [...]
Home stagers, interior redesigners and color consultants are frequently asked to recommend the perfect white paint. After all there are hundreds of possibilities and most people can’t see the difference from one swatch to the next.
I personally find that when you put the paint swatches next to each other, it’s suddenly obvious which ones are more pink, green, yellow or blue. This is really helpful [...]
Like most home stagers, I can’t resist a weekend open house. I like to stay on top of what’s for sale in the neighborhoods I stage in, and what homes look like at various price ranges.
Occasionally, I pick up a new client visiting open houses and speaking with the real estate agent, but that’s [...]
I love color, but had never thought of doing a color consultation for people’s homes. In fact, the first time I visited a client’s home it wasn’t even as a home stager!
After closing my marketing communications firm years ago to do something more creative with my life and career, I discovered floorcloths.
Literally, “art you can [...]
Home stagers, redesigners and color consultants often look for jumping off points to develop a color palette. Many times I’ve found inspiration in a piece of art or nature. For example, the Staging Diva logo colors were inspired by cutting into a ripe papaya.
I discovered a new color tool for home stagers Sherwin Williams Chip It. This application allows you to pull an image from [...]
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