Staging Success Spotlight

Many paths to a new career as a home stager

Home stagers come from so many different careers before getting into staging. Often the change is prompted by a midlife “is this all there is?” decision to do something more fulfilling. For others, it’s the kids going to school, a divorce, or a health crisis. Such was the case for Staging Diva Graduate Marcia Levitz. [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate on TV

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Jen Heilman of Clesson Brook Designs in Shelburne Falls, MA on being featured on TV for the show Mass Appeal. Jen writes, “What I love about home staging is that it has allowed me to use my interior design skills and my feng shui skills, to create beautiful spaces for [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Karen Wilson

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Karen Wilson of Completely Staged (Ohio) who had the courage to cut back her hours after 10 years in the corporate world so she could pursue her passion for design. Like many of my students, Karen had been helping friends and family for years with everything from choosing the best [...]

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Banker finds way to feed her creative spirit

Staging Diva Graduate Anuradha Rathore of Nine Dimensions LLC (WI) shares her personal story of her journey into home staging. Here it is in her own words: “Having my own business has always been something I wanted, but did not know where to start from. I am a sales and public relations consultant working as [...]

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Success Spotlight on Tweeting Staging Diva Graduates

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduates Jodi Whalen of Pear Tree Home Designs (NJ) and Susan Atwell of Atwell Staged Home (NY) for winning 2nd and 8th places respectively in the SureFit Sure Solutions Sweepstakes! The challenge was to show a dramatic room transformation using SureFit’s slip covers. A SureFit panel of judges selected 8 winners [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Pat MacKay

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Pat MacKay of Interior Therapy (NJ) who recently left her corporate job to start her staging business. She bought the Staging Diva Program and downloaded all the course material immediately because she had her first client and wasn’t sure how to handle it. Within weeks she had a second larger [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Leah Fritz

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Leah Fritz of Perfect Place Home Staging (WI) who is in her fourth year in business after taking the Staging Diva Program. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing, which is true for any entrepreneur, no matter how easy they make it look from the outside. Like all of us, Leah [...]

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Home staging a cure for empty shoebox condos

If ever there was a type of real estate crying out for home staging, it’s the vacant, boxy, modern condo. It’s very hard to make one particular unit stand out when there are so many others with identical or very similar floor plans in the same building. In a real estate market where condos are [...]

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Home staging a cure for seller fatigue

There’s no way around it. Living in a home that’s on the real estate market is awful, especially when it drags on month after month, and in some cases year after year. It’s hard to remain optimistic about selling your home when you’ve been riding that roller coaster of showings/no showings. Gradually the home looks [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Corrine Mann

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Corrine Mann of Sensibly Staged Designs (MN) who got her first project from doing the homework assignment between courses 1 and 2 of the Staging Diva Program. Corrine writes, “I am so excited! I am rushing to get my LLC, tax id, and business cards so I can truly accept [...]

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