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… continue reading […]
Staging Business Tips
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… continue reading […]
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… continue reading […]
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… continue reading […]
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… continue reading […]
Protect Your Family and Staging Business from Bed Bugs
In November I traveled to check out colleges with my teen, who also wanted to see the latest Harry Potter movie. At the same time, the news was filled with stories about how bed bugs were taking over homes, hotels, movie theaters, etc. This got me thinking about what this means for home stagers, since… continue reading […]