Home staging is a process of simple steps to make your home show like a model without spending a lot of money. This can involve anything from removing clutter, re-arranging furnishings and in some cases re-design, to ensure that the house creates a great first impression and helps buyers to feel that they could really live there.  It is designed to appeal to the broadest range of buyers.

Unlike interior design, which reflects the owner’s taste, home staging neutralizes the owner’s style as much as possible.  The result will lead the buyer through the house so that the eye is directed to the home’s architectural features, not to the owner’s belongings.  It is important to note that the way you live in a home and the way you market a home are two different things.

Staging uses as much of the seller’s own furnishings as possible to keep costs down. The investment in staging is always less expensive than your first price reduction.

To clean, paint and add new carpet to a home is the only the beginning. It lays the ground work but you still have to set the stage and create emotion. Although carpet is nice, it elicits no emotion. You want your prospective buyer or renter to stop and feel as though they just walked up the path to their very own home. Staging is creating. You have to create some emotion by appealing to the potential home buyer’s senses.

•    Your home will look better than competing homes for sale

•    Your home will sell faster

•    Your home will sell for more money

•    Realtors recognize staged homes as the best properties to show

•    Photos look better in print and on the internet

•    Your home will be viewed by buyers, building inspectors, and appraisers as a           home that has been well taken care of and is more likely to appraise at full             value

•    Staging your home will allow buyers to mentally move into your home and              visualize living there

•    Your staged home will have a huge edge over the competition

Yes, the exterior of the home is the first thing you will do to a property, and is often the first and last impression you leave. We stage your home from the outside in, beginning with curb appeal. Creating curb appeal must be included into your budget. 

You need to welcome prospective buyers by appealing to their senses and emotions.  For expamle, you can have fragrant flowers or plants that appeal to their sense of smell or the sound of trickling water from a fountain to appeal to their sense of sound. All of these suggestions require minimal budget and create maximum impact!

Absolutely! Every year there are more and more classes going online. The students benefit in a multitude of ways, such as lower fees, total flexibility, total convenience, the ability to work at their own pace, the ability to get a 1:1 student/teacher ratio. 

Home Staging and Interior Redesign is being taught very effectively online as our many students will attest to.  So don't let anyone try to convince you that it isn't effective. It most certainly is effective - and best of all it's the most affordable way to learn too.

6.  Is it fair to compare Staging training with becoming a full service interior designer?

Of course not. The interior "redesign" business is very easy. That's why no degree is needed, not even a 2-year degree. You move the sofa from Point A to Point B. You move the coffee table from Point C to Point D. You just have to know why Point B and Point D are better than Point A or Point C.   

You do need to know some important interior design concepts so that you do a beautiful rearrangement for your client, but it's not the same as interior design created from scratch.  

7.  Can you work with any budget?

Yes, we can work with any budget and any style of home. Furthermore, staging benefits EVERY price range!