In a blog post last week, I asked how you would handle a home staging consultation in the home office shown here.
Lots of houses you’ll encounter throughout your home staging career will have offices like this where furniture, equipment and papers are kind of crammed into whatever space in… Read More →
The most common reason aspiring home stagers put off starting a home staging business is that they worry they won’t know what to recommend during a home staging consultation.
This is an irrational fear.
If you have an innate flair for interior decorating, coming up with ideas is more like … Read More →
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.”
Home stagers, I love this quote by American… Read More →
There is really no end to the kinds of ideas and home staging recommendations we can dream up for any one project.
Trade offs have to be made, and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
As a home stager, we have to weigh a number of factors before sharing our recommendations. In addition to… Read More →
Last week in a post on this home staging blog I asked you to share your ideas about how to stage the basement family room in the photo you see here.
If you have an eye for décor, you can easily tell that this space is much too distracting and crowded for a potential buyer to imagine their family relaxing… Read More →
Many new and aspiring home stagers worry they won’t really know what to recommend to their clients once they get into a home staging consultation.
If you have a natural talent for decorating, though, this is nothing more than an irrational fear.
When you get into a home and start looking around,… Read More →
In a recent blog post I asked how you would handle a home staging consultation in the living room pictured here.
This room is similar to many you’ll come across in your home staging career. A lot of people actually live like this – with too much furniture jammed into small spaces and no attention… Read More →
In a recent post on this home staging blog I asked readers how they would stage a living room based on the photo you see here.
This living room is similar to most that you’ll come across at your own home staging consultations.
A living room that obviously doubles as a child’s play room, just doesn’t… Read More →
As I was on the treadmill at the gym the other day watching another episode of HGTV’s Property Virgins, I was thinking again about how amazing it is that what comes naturally to professional home stagers doesn’t seem to cross the minds of real estate agents and home sellers.
There are many invaluable… Read More →
In a recent post on my home staging blog I asked home stagers how to stage a kitchen when the time comes to decorate a home to sell.
Many kitchens you encounter when you’re doing home staging consultations are similar to the one pictured here, but we all know how important kitchens are… Read More →
