Home stagers have to step out in faith when they decide to embrace their creative talents.
There’s no firm guarantee about what the future holds. Which is true of anything you decide to do in life, isn’t it?
Aren’t we all looking for “wow moments”?The times… 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 →
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 home staging business dilemma post I asked what you would do if you were putting away your home staging accessories only to discover you brought home an unknown number of bedbugs with you from your latest home staging project.
There were some great comments on that original business… Read More →
If you’re a home stager in Clayton, California who offers Christmas Decorating services, have I got the client for you! This homeowner contacted me to recommend a Staging Diva Graduate to “stage” his 400-square foot formal living room for Christmas.
This sounds like… Read More →
Imagine being able to stage homes on TV. How fun would that be?
Half a dozen Staging Diva Graduates have recently been approached by a rep from Europe’s largest private broadcaster to be on a TV show about home staging!
The program follows a family in Europe as their high-end, luxury home is … Read More →
Many aspiring home stagers are reluctant to start a business because they claim that nobody will spend money on home staging in this economy. However, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has released statistics saying that American consumers plan to spend more than $447 billion dollars… 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 →
