Staging Business Tips

Home Stager, Declutter and Liberate Your Dreams

My house doesn’t always look like a home stager lives here (especially since I don’t have a cleaning lady), but for the most part my environment is free of unnecessary objects and the usual dust collectors you’ll find in most of your clients’ homes. As most of my students and readers know, I hate clutter. I [...]

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How I Conquered One of My Biggest Fears and How You Can Too!

When you decide to follow your dreams and do work that you love, there are so many fears that can stop you in your tracks, if you let them. That’s one of the reasons I write so much about mindset, confidence, fear and more. I’m sharing how I conquered one of my biggest fears in [...]

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Staging Diva Grads Don’t Wash Towels

I’ve often told this story to Staging Diva Grads. I was very clear when I started my own home staging business 9 years ago that I wanted to focus on my creative talents to make a living. I had been a small business owner since 1989 and wanted to create something new that would be more [...]

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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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Staging a “Must” to Stand Out

Are you worried that if the real estate market is slow, there won’t be enough demand for home stagers and staging services? Quite the opposite is true, once home sellers know about home staging and understand that it can help them sell their homes more quickly. At least 10% of the population moves every year, [...]

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Stagers, Do Real Estate Agents Make You Crazy?

Ah March . . . the official start of the biggest real estate season of the year! As a home stager, you’re likely thinking about all the ways you can market yourself to real estate agents. After all, they’re the gatekeepers to your potential clients. Without them you won’t have a business, or so you [...]

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Staging Photo Tip: Dark Rooms with a Bright Window

A typical photography mistake is to shoot towards a bright window. When you do this everything else in the photo looks too dark. But what do you do if you need the natural light for your shot? First, see whether you can make the shot work by standing in a slightly different spot to change [...]

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How to Stage an Attic Powder Room

Once you get out there and start doing home staging consultations, you’ll find all kinds of things that might surprise you. Home stagers see it all, from taxidermy collections to a 10-square-foot lizard terrarium between the kitchen and dining room (I didn’t find that as appetizing as the owners, apparently). But more often, you’ll just [...]

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How to Stage an Office Area

Georgia McCurdy of Five Star Staging (FL) took a home that needed to display a functional office area and created it in this bedroom nook. An abundance of clutter and too much art made the room feel cramped and disorganized. Simple decluttering and the removal of excess furniture immediately made the space feel larger. By rearranging [...]

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Home Staging and Seasonal Decorating

When planting seasonal urns for homes that will be on the market in late fall/winter, I prefer something that doesn’t scream “Christmas” while still being appropriate for the season. With Christmas almost upon us, I’m starting to get those inevitable “seasonal decorating” questions from new home stagers that go something like this: “Is it normal [...]

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