“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.
Especially because it so nicely distinguishes between home staging and interior design.
Less… Read More →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… Read More →
Home staging business ideas are exciting. There are thousands of ways to grow your staging business and make more money doing what you love. But what if there are too many ideas, and too little time to do them all?
If you run your own home staging business, you’ve probably run up against… Read More →
One of the secrets to building a successful home staging business is to keep moving forward every week.
This can be difficult when: there’s no boss telling you what to do,”real life” gets in the way, or you just don’t feel energetic.
I’ve struggled with all… Read More →
The idea of home staging perfection, it’s an appealing concept, especially for all the perfectionists among us.
But is such a thing as the “perfect” home staging even possible?
I recently wrote a post asking home stagers how they feel about gray walls.
The reaction was… Read More →
Nothing wrong with being an HGTV addict, I’m one myself as are so many home stagers and interior redesigners I know. Many of us get into our home staging business after watching those shows and saying “I can do that!”
We were addicted to decorating even before HGTV.
So many… Read More →
It’s important to keep your home staging business looking sharp, after all we’re in an image business!
Some home stagers say “It’s too much work to improve my business image, I’ll fix it once I have more clients.”
Here’s the thing, you can’t… Read More →
Home staging is one of those businesses you start because you feel passionate about decorating.
Sometimes you also love the buzz of real estate but you don’t necessarily want to be a real estate agent.
It was certainly that way for me.
I almost fell into my home staging business in 2002… Read More →
In my last post I discussed how home stagers, or anyone who really loves what they do, will feel less need to take a vacation than someone stuck in a job they hate.
Staging Diva Graduate Donna Dazzo commented about how hard it is to get away from your home staging business when you don’t … Read More →
Home stagers, do you have as much trouble with getting into vacation mode as I do? Being my own boss, there is always so much I want to learn to improve how I approach my life and work, or new marketing ideas I want to get into place for the coming season.
I feel the pull of that against my desire to… Read More →
