Information, Tools + Inspiration to Grow Your Home Staging Business
I’ve been supporting myself from a home-based business of one kind or another since 1989. Which means I’ve kept going through my 30s, 40s and now into my mid-50s.
I started or grew businesses during two severe recessions, a few health crises, various house moves and mortgages,… Read More →
Change feels scary. So most of us avoid it until some major life event prompts us to reevaluate how we’re spending our lives.
That’s kind of sad when you think about it. We have the power to change our lives at any point, why wait for a crisis?
Many Staging Diva Graduates have been… Read More →
In a recent post I shared how we shouldn’t take our natural decorating talent for granted. This cartoon made me laugh because it’s exactly what I was talking about.
A woman on the psychiatrist’s couch asks, “How can I relax when I know the couch would look so much … Read More →
So many people fret over how a color wheel works. They think this “knowledge” will make it easier to choose colors for their next decorating or home staging project.
Color inspiration comes easily from nature.
Taking a walk in a garden, by the beach or through a forest, you can’t… Read More →
You started your home staging business so that you could make a living doing what you love.
If you’re tangled up in too many tasks that are keeping you from that goal, it’s time to re-evaluate how you’re running your business.
In a recent article about too many home stager… Read More →
It’s so interesting how we choose to define ourselves. Often without knowing where those definitions came from, or realizing how they’ve limited our career (and life) possibilities.
Perhaps a grade school teacher said you were bad at painting. And you’ve spent the… Read More →
When I was doing marketing for large corporations I never got that warm and fuzzy feeling that I was making an important difference in the world.
That all changed when I discovered home staging.
It’s no exaggeration to say that our home staging services can have a profound and positive… Read More →
This home staging job in Phoenix Arizona is in the town of Sun City.
Fun fact, the Sun City retirement community was built in the 1960’s and 1970’s on the site of a former ghost town!
Don’t the curvilinear streets kind of look like crop circles from the air?
This home staging… Read More →
As the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program celebrates it’s 10th anniversary, I’ve been catching up with many of our Graduates to see how their home staging businesses have grown.
Stacy Goade of Alaska Premier Home Staging celebrates her 5th year as a home stager… Read More →
In January 2003 I did my first paid home staging project for a client.
Who could have imagined where my new home staging business would lead?
Definitely not me.
I was just trying to use my creativity to earn a living and support my family.
I had no interior design training. I had never decorated… Read More →
