home staging success

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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Backstage with Staging Diva in April 2011

Even though I’ve been a professional home stager since 2002 and have trained thousands of Staging Diva Graduates, I’m still continually inspired by how much I can change the energy and look of a room simply by editing and rearranging what’s already there. Working on resale homes is a more creative process than I would [...]

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WOW Moments as a Home Stager

While listening to a recent talk by author Neil Pasricha, I started thinking about all the things I love about being a home stager— the moments that make me say “Wow!” I’ve included some of my own WOW Moments here: Re-rolling that final bath towel beside the Jacuzzi to complete a stack of 3 and [...]

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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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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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Staging Transforms Stale Properties into Hot Listings

In a slow real estate market, buyers have less incentive to buy because they know that increased inventory means asking prices may go down even more tomorrow. As listings sit on the market month after month, and in some cases year after year, they get forgotten by real estate agents and their clients. After all, [...]

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Home Staging Success Spotlight on Cheryl Ward

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Cheryl Ward of Ivy Home Staging (ON) on her first full-blown home staging project. She writes, “I couldn’t be more excited, ecstatic, enthused and motivated. A stranger saw my advertising, contacted me, hired me and paid me for a home staging consultation and arranged for final home staging once renovations [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Kim Nuzzaci

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Kim Nuzzaci of Moving Home Interiors (DE, MD, PA) on winning a national design competition sponsored by Pottery Barn.

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Nurse and mother proves home staging works

Holly Battaglia is a Staging Diva® Graduate and the owner of Maryland-based home staging business, Holly’s Home Matters. She recently sent in these photos of a project she had done for a couple who had been stuck with a house that didn’t sell for 10 long months. Perhaps the homeowners had originally been the “I don’t [...]

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Staging Success Spotlight on Carol King

Congratulations to Staging Diva Graduate Carol King of King Staging and Redesign (TX) on reinventing her life at the age of 62 to do work that she loves. Carol had run her own hair salon for 30 years and needed a change. She was also tired of the demands of having over 20 stylists working [...]

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