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Home Stager Confession: 10 Reasons I Love Home Staging

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Become a home stager

From the first time I read about home staging, it took more than 5 years to become a home stager.

There was no reason for that gap other than plain old fear.

If I’d been able to imagine the 10 reasons I’d love home staging, I’m sure I would have jumped in sooner!

I’m sharing… Read More →

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6 Reasons Home Staging Is Needed In This Hot Real Estate Market

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Home Staging In Hot Real Estate Market

Home staging is still needed in this hot real estate market.

Don’t let record-breaking real estate prices, or speedy sales, dampen your enthusiasm for becoming a home stager.

I started and grew my own staging business in a very hot real estate market so I know first-hand that it works.… Read More →

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How To Sell a Home Faster With Home Staging: See Before/After Photos

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Living Room After Staging - Susan Atwell

There’s so much proof that home staging works in any real estate market.

Here’s how to sell a home faster with this example from Yonkers, New York.

It’s another fabulous transformation by Staging Diva Grad Susan Atwell of Atwell Staged Home.

Prior to becoming a home stager… Read More →

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What Coronavirus Means for Home Staging

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It’s hard not to panic with all this coronavirus news and wonder what it means for home staging.

So many of you are wondering, “Does Covid-19 mean the end of home staging?” or “Should I even think of becoming a home stager with this pandemic?”

The short answer… Read More →

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Home Staging Sells Palm Springs Mid Centry Modern Home

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Staging Diva Graduate Rob Reinhart of Make It-Home in Palm Springs California worked for years in Sales and Merchandising in the fashion industry before turning his talents to home staging.

He took the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program while working full-time, and within… Read More →

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What’s Wrong with this Beautifully Staged Home?

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bedroom home staging

I toured a beautifully staged home that went on the real estate market today. Brand new, never lived in. This smart builder knows home staging is important.

The asking price, just under $2 million.

Now in many cities that amount will buy you a grand estate with lots of land. Not here. Even… Read More →

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Home Stager Proves Home Staging Works and Shocks Neighbors

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home staging works bathroom

Home staging works whether you’re decorating a house to sell for a client, or you’re working on your own home. One of the side benefits of being a home stager is we know how to make money in our own real estate. In fact that’s how I got into professional home staging in 2002.… Read More →

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No Real Estate Offers – Time to Call a Home Stager?

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real estate price reduction

It’s so totally absurd that a home seller will put their life on hold for year or more, and only then reach out to a home stager.

Perhaps it’s because they don’t know such an option exists.

Or perhaps their real estate agent never suggests home staging.

It’s quicker… Read More →

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Home Staging Lets You Do What Comes Naturally

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natural decorating talent

A home staging career lets you use your creative strengths and eye for decor.

Does your creativity have you feeling like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole?

Until I fully embraced my creative side, I always felt that way in my work.

There are many things I appreciate about getting older,… Read More →

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Home Stagers Boring Doesn’t Sell

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Home stagers, I’m so tired of one house after another filled with boring neutrals and nothing memorable.

It washes over me like a sea of nothingness.

I don’t remember any of the rooms or the houses.

During a home staging consultation, we can be so afraid to take a risk. So we stick… Read More →

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