You’re just getting established in your home staging career with only a couple of projects under your belt but with each passing day you’re feeling more confident in your skills and the expertise you have to offer homeowners.
You find yourself one Saturday morning doing a home staging consultation… Read More →
Much of your professional image, your public perception and essentially your success as a home staging professional, boils down to the amount of confidence you have in yourself and your abilities.
This point is demonstrated brilliantly in a quote about leadership from Adlai Stevenson,… Read More →
Home stagers often need to either provide or recommend outside services, in addition to doing the actual rearranging of furniture.
The most common of these home staging services include:
Sourcing and selecting rental furniture/art/accessories Purchasing accessories (bedding, towels,… Read More →I talk to so many new home stagers or people wanting to get into the home staging business and almost every single one of them eventually mentions how their own fear can get in the way of moving forward.
Depending on where they are in their business, these fears can range from “what if the… Read More →
Before finally hiring Staging Diva Graduate Fabia MacNair, a desperate house seller had accepted an offer of $250,000 for her home knowing it was worth more. She wasn’t interested in doing the work needed to complete the home staging to-do list, however, because she just wanted to sell. … Read More →
I was chatting with a friend recently who happens to be in the market for a new home. She thought of me when she did a drive-by of a property she saw online, in the rural area where she lives.
It was the perfect location for her family and it was surrounded by attractive homes but there was a huge “Keep… Read More →
Over the past three years, Ontario Staging Diva Graduate Margaret Harlos has been solidifying her position as the expert home stager in her area with her business, Living Organized.
Margaret is a former Volunteer Manager and Program Coordinator for a non-profit organization.
She has … Read More →
“Oh, St. Joseph, guardian of household needs, we know you don’t like to be upside down in the ground, but the sooner escrow closes the sooner we will dig you up and put you in a place of honor in our new home. Please bring us an acceptable offer (or any offer!) and help sustain our faith in … Read More →
I’ve been contacted by a homeowner in Baden Pennsylvania looking for a home stager. This 1600 square foot home will be listed, fully furnished, within the next six months for a price yet to be determined. The median selling price for a home in Baden is $117,000 while the average listing… Read More →
What could make a stronger case for hiring a home stager than an offer coming in after a home was staged…from a person who saw the home before staging without any interest?
That’s exactly what happened with a Maryland property transformed by home stager and Staging Diva Graduate, Holly Battaglia.… Read More →
