Home Staging Feature

Home Stagers Tune Into "Speaking" Houses

For 9 years I’ve been telling aspiring home stagers that if you have natural talent to decorate or stage a home, you’ll know. While you can pick up techniques from courses or the Staging Diva Ultimate Design Guide, you are born with talent or you’re not. Your innate talent is a divine gift, it cannot [...]

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The Freedom of Doing What You Love

When you’re ready to enjoy the freedom that comes from doing what you love while also getting paid for it, you’ll find 25 products and services to help you do just that in the Staging Diva Store. Whether you’re totally new to home staging and just dipping your toe in the water, or you’re already [...]

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Deciding What You Want to Be When You "Grow Up"

The feeling of being “creative” can be a fragile thing. But I don’t think “creativity” itself is fragile at all. Creativity is simply something we’re born with, so the question becomes whether or not we choose to nurture that gift. More often than not, we tend to bury our talents because we’re afraid or because [...]

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Stagers Get Work from Short Sales

In situations where a homeowner needs to sell their home but is unemployed, has medical issues or the home is worth less than they owe, the lender may agree to allow a real estate sale for less than the balance due on the mortgage. A “short sale” allows both parties to walk away and avoid [...]

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Home Staging – The Fascinators of Real Estate?

Leading up to the royal wedding, I learned about fascinators. Not that I’d never seen a woman’s head decorated with a small headpiece of feathers, flowers or beads. I really just hadn’t given them much thought until they popped up on all the TV talk shows. I confess there aren’t many opportunities to sport a [...]

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Living Room Staging Challenge

Here’s a common challenge that I’ve seen in hundreds of homes over the years. Somehow the living room manages to be sparse and cluttered at the same time, which is just plain BLAH. One of our goals in home staging is to make a home stand out from the sea of homes a prospective buyer [...]

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How to Step into Your Future

I confess—I hate working out. But health issues in my 40s forced me to make my long-forgotten gym membership a bigger priority. However, I never anticipated how many business lessons I’d learn at the gym and how it would help me stay in the right mindset. This is NOT an article about how you should [...]

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The Real Estate Agent Blew Up—Now What?

Here’s a great story sent in by home stager Simone that raises important questions you may have to deal with in your own home staging business! She writes: “I’m a home stager and I went to an agent open house hoping to make a new real estate agent contact for future business. The hosting agent [...]

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Celebrate Your "Stages of Success" and Win $25!

We encourage you to “brag” about your success as a home stager on The Staging Diva Facebook Wall. We hope you’ll give our supportive community a chance to help celebrate your “Stages of Success!” As long as you’re a subscriber to this blog, Staging Diva Dispatch, you have a chance to win $25 in any [...]

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Kitchen Staging Is Key: What’s Your Advice for This One?

Kitchens are so key when it comes to selling a home. Yet as home stagers, we mostly work with what’s there. After all, few home staging  clients are likely to splurge on new cabinets, backsplash, floors or countertops. Yet there are plenty of cosmetic changes that cost little and have a big impact, as you’ll [...]

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