I have a client with a soon to be vacant home in Rosemount Minnesota who desperately wants to hire a home stager.
She’s already purchased another house and is terrified that she’ll have two mortgages in two months.
This house has been on the market 9 months with no offers and the… Read More →
I have a client with a vacant home in Richmond Hill, ON that needs staging. It’s almost 3,000 square feet so this project should be worth a few thousand dollars in profit to the right home stager.
Renovations are almost complete and the client is anxious to have a stager in place as soon… Read More →
Homeowners and real estate agents just got a free new tool to quickly find a home stager right in their neighborhood.
With the spring real estate season getting underway, and especially with a “buyers market” in many cities, a growing number of homeowners are looking for home… Read More →
In a digital world, your home staging portfolio can be your website, your profile page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, or the more conventional hard copy portfolio that you present in person.
No matter what form it takes, the quality of what’s inside your home staging… Read More →
In the last week two new states were added to the list of where Staging Diva Graduate Home Stagers are located. Sally Duval of West Fargo became the first in North Dakota, and Deborah Perry of Idaho Falls became the first in her state of Idaho.
There are currently over 400 Staging Diva Graduate… Read More →
Many women approaching their 40s write to me wondering whether they should go to Interior Design School.
It’s an issue I struggled with myself many times over a 20 year period.
I interviewed a number of interior design schools at various points in my past career but never followed through… Read More →
If you’re serious about promoting your staging services, you need great before and after photos. These take time to plan and shoot; don’t expect to run through a house and get a bunch of great shots in 10 minutes.
If you’re trying to show the before and after of a certain … Read More →
One of the ways to improve your own home staging before and after photos is to use a program like Photoshop or other photo editing software to help the shot look better.
I’m not suggesting putting in or taking out items (the decorating equivalent of sticking somone’s head on someone… Read More →
Since home staging is a completely unregulated field, some home stagers seem to think “anything goes.” They’ll steal portfolio shots off of fellow stagers’ websites, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.
Others do things without really thinking through the ramifications.… Read More →
It’s amazing to me how many home stagers complain that they can’t find customers.
At the same time, I get hundreds of emails and calls from real estate agents and homeowners frustrated by the difficulties of locating a home stager in their area.
Some days it feels like I’m… Read More →
