Information, Tools + Inspiration to Grow Your Home Staging Business
How to stage a house with no obvious good features, and embrace the challenge while you’re doing it, is something many home stagers worry about.
In the hundreds of homes I’ve staged, I have yet to see a house that has absolutely no redeeming qualities. And, I’ve been in many real… Read More →
I came across an interesting article recently about a home stager who has come up with a new way to package her services over the holiday season which is traditionally a slower time of year for stagers.
She has started offering holiday home staging parties and I hope this story inspires you … Read More →
It wasn’t until Interior Designer, Linda Scaglione, found herself in the midst of Southern California’s housing collapse that she became desperate to find a way out of the sinking retail side of design.
When a friend suggested that with her skills she should consider getting into… Read More →
If you take nothing else from the Tiger Woods PR disaster, realize that there is very little that is private anymore. While you may not be famous, any time you send an email, Facebook message, Twitter status update or ‘Direct Message’ you’re essentially leaving a trail of digital communication.… Read More →
In a home staging business dilemma I posted last month, I tried to get you thinking about what you would do if you were asked to stage a house that was completely taken over by Christmas.
A special thanks to those of you who contributed to the discussion by posting your own advice to the story.… Read More →
Unlike in previous generations, career change has been a fact of life for many baby boomers and certainly their kids and grandkids.
Perhaps that’s inevitable when our ability to work now extends across 4 or 5 decades.
Many in their 50s and 60s, realize they still have many years ahead… Read More →
Unless you’ve been completely cut off from the TV and radio, certainly by now you’ve heard of Twitter – “the fastest growing phenomena on the Internet,” according to TIME Magazine. This totally free social networking site definitely hit the mainstream in the… Read More →
Last week, I discussed how home sales in the United States are at their highest level since 2007, but things are also looking up in the Canadian real estate market.
Though the economy in Canada has not been hit as hard as its US counterpart, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) will be… Read More →
Earlier this week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that sales of existing homes are at their highest level in over two years which bodes well for home stagers.
It is believed that Obama’s $8,000 tax credit for qualified first-time home buyers has been a driving force … Read More →
If you are in any way interested in becoming a home stager or interior redesigner, there’s a good possibility that you are constantly redecorating your home and/or working on a new home improvement project.
When you have a natural talent for decorating, the urge to decorate is always there.… Read More →
