home staging portfolio

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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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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Home staging portfolio photo tips

A picture truly is worth a thousand words. Everyone loves before and after photos. That’s why so many magazines and TV shows use them in home decor and personal makeover stories. If you’re not careful with how you shoot and present your photos, you’ll be sabotaging your business efforts considerably. It takes time to set [...]

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Be self-critical when evaluating your home staging portfolio

Don’t be critical to the point of being paralyzed by a need for perfection, but it’s important to put real time into making your home staging portfolio as strong as you can. I sometimes take 30 shots of the same room just to be able to pick the absolute best before and after angle. It’s tedious [...]

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Home Staging Portfolio Makeover

Your home staging portfolio is one of the most important marketing pieces you have as a professional in such a creative industry because it’s a direct reflection of your abilities. Like any ability, true mastery comes with practice. The longer you are a home stager, the better you get at transforming homes. It’s important that [...]

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Weekend Home Staging Portfolio Project

If you’re struggling with the idea of building your own home staging portfolio, try this quick weekend project. It can be done in your own home or at a friend’s or neighbor’s. Perhaps you’d even like to tackle this as a holiday gift for a family member? Find a bathroom that is structurally sound but [...]

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You know you’re a natural born home stager when…

Many of my students share similar stories of how they always knew home staging was in their blood, even if they didn’t know what it was called. You know you’re a natural born stager when: from a young age you kept decorating and redecorating your room you spent more time creating Barbie furniture or decorating [...]

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Head Shot Blunders That Can Hobble Your Home Staging Business

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” It’s ironic that home stagers tell their clients this when referring to the pitfalls of putting an un-staged home on the market, yet don’t see the correlation with how they put themselves on the market. Home staging is an image business and YOUR image [...]

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Proving you’re the right home stager to hire

I recently referred a homeowner to the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers and was told she’d been there but didn’t like the portfolios of the stagers in her area. That’s when I decided to write about the five most common mistakes I see stagers make with their home staging portfolios. The first three mistakes [...]

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Professional logo and website must-haves for a home staging portfolio

After referring a home owner to the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers and being told she’d been there but didn’t like the portfolios of the stagers in her area, I decided to write about the five most common mistakes I see being made with home staging portfolios. The first article I posted on this [...]

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