There is no single path to a home staging career. Home stagers come from many different backgrounds and past jobs before building their own business decorating homes to sell for the real estate market.
I’ve had home staging students who were in: nursing, auto sales, financial services,… Read More →
As a home stager we are a critical part of the “team” that sells a house. That’s not to say we always feel like team members, or that we’d necessarily even want to!
It all depends which real estate agent we might be dealing with and their attitudes towards home staging… Read More →
Australia home stager, and new Staging Diva Graduate Katrina Gibbons of Stylus Home Staging Brisbane, shares a terrific example of how much more desirable a staged home looks than a vacant one.
Check out Katrina’s transformation of a living room/dining room, and patio area visible… Read More →
As a home stager you’ve probably run into the treasured collection of decorative plates, figurines or stuffed animals during a home staging consultation.
The stuff your home staging client loves (or believes they can’t live without) but you know will look like clutter to… Read More →
I became a home stager for freedom and creativity. It doesn’t matter how long I’ve been a home stager or business person, I still get stuck like everyone else.
It’s only natural to have our energies and ideas ebb and flow. It’s part of the process of creating our ideal… Read More →
For the first time ever two media jobs have made the Worst Job list according to CareerCast.com. Newspaper reporters made the top 10 list because layoffs have meant declining salaries and more work for the remaining reporters.
They don’t even mention the fact that reporters are now… Read More →
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… Read More →
There is an absolute explosion of home staging information on the Internet.
At the time of this writing, a quick search of the phrase home staging on Google will find over 131 million results in 0.57 seconds!
Six years ago there were “only” 13 million results.
Clearly, it’s… Read More →
Your home staging business card is one of the most critical pieces of your home staging marketing.
Here are 9 home staging business card tips to ensure you’re creating the right image for yourself as a home stager:
1. Remember home staging is an image business.I can usually tell which… Read More →
When I worked in corporations, it was really taboo to talk about salary. I think those “rules” are made by the people who don’t want you to discover you’re making less salary than a coworker doing the same job.
Since home stagers are self-employed, they don’t… Read More →
