Home stagers often have trouble sourcing attractive art to rent to their clients when they’re decorating their homes to sell.

Once you take down the photos, diplomas, hunting trophies and religious items that have no place in a home when it’s on the real estate market, there’s often little left to work with.

Finding appropriate art that will enhance the home without taking over and getting it in the size and framing needed has been challenging until now. I created the Staging Diva Home Staging Art Shop to make this easier and I’ve created specific art galleries for every key room in the house. So you don’t have to wonder if a particular work of art is more appropriate for a master bedroom or dining room for example.

My goal was to take the mystery out of using art for home staging and make it easy for home stagers to earn passive income renting and re-renting pieces from their art collection out to home sellers or their real estate agents.

The Staging Diva Art Shop allows you to order online, preview how the work of art will look in a particular frame and matting, see it against different wall colors and more. There’s also an option to print the work in a variety of sizes on canvas to have a gallery wrap rather than a frame.

Visit the Staging Diva Home Staging Art Shop and don’t forget to sign up for your free copy of The Staging Diva’s Top Ten Tips for Using Art In Home Staging!

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva
President, Six Elements Inc.

Debra Gould, creator of the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program, has staged millions of dollars worth of real estate, including seven of her own homes. Debra is the President of Six Elements which offers Home Staging, Interior Redesign and Color Consulting services, as well as the StagingDiva.com website.

Gould has gained international recognition and has been featured in major media in the US and Canada including: HGTV, CNN Money, CBC National News, CBS Radio, GlobalTV, CityTV, The Wall Street Journal, Womanís Day, Reader’s Digest and more.

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Simplicity is the essence of great real estate staging. When it is over contrived it fails miserably in it’s mission of romancing the prospective home buyer.

Must we continue to see tea trays carefully perched at a forty five degree angle at the end of a bed? Or towels in a bathroom with a star fish or other shell placed on top? Is that to evoke a relaxed mood?

I saw a staging segment on TV awhile back. The staging team actually hung tassels around hand towels and emptied lentils onto charger plates on the dining room table as a decorative touch.

Are prospective home buyers to think the family lives this way? Are they to immediately imagine themselves living that way in such a dream home and want it for themselves too?

“Oh honey, don’t forget to put that shell back after you dry off from the shower!”

Why not just run a special headline across the agent’s feature sheet that says, “Notice the special details to delight and surprise you in every room, because this home has been decorated to make you pay as much as possible for it.”

Homeowners, home buyers, agents, fellow stagers: reply back with comments on your pet peeves and the Stupid Staging Tricks you’ve seen. I’d like to assemble a list of bad staging ideas to share with those who would like to effectively decorate homes to sell quickly and for top dollar— without insulting home buyers intelligence!

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould is president of Six Elements and creator of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program with 700+ Graduates worldwide. She is the author of “Staging Diva Ultimate Color Guide: The Easy Way to Pick Colors for Home Staging Projects”, and “Staging Diva Ultimate Guide: Creating The Perfect Portfolio to Sell Your Home Staging Services”.

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Many home stagers worry that they’ll forget some of the details they need to cover with a homeowner or real estate agent during a home staging consultation. Or they aren’t sure how to best organize the meeting, what to bring and how to best present their ideas in a way that won’t offend their clients.

After all, we’re going into someone’s home with the express purpose of changing it before they list the house for sale. That can raise some sensitive issues that need to be handled diplomatically.

I created the “Staging Diva Home Staging Consultation Checklist With Room-by-Room Client Planning Forms” to give stagers a tool to make home staging consultations easier, less stressful and more profitable.

This tool is really two products in one.

The first part guides you through how I do a home staging consultation based on the hundreds of homes I’ve staged over the last five years. I take you through:

• what you should consider before the meeting
• what you should bring with you
• how to start the consultation
• the process I use as I go through a client’s home
• how to end the meeting

In the second part of this new tool, the Room-by-Room Client Planning Forms, I give you exactly that. I’ve set it up so all you have to do is put your own logo and contact information on the cover of the planning forms section and then photocopy the rest.

I’ve given you forms/checklists to fill out for every room in the house! There are different pages for the:

• living room
• dining room
• kitchen
• master bedroom
• 3 additional bedrooms
• powder room
• 3 bathrooms
• play room
• home office
• family room
• den
• basement
• attic
• garage
• front porch
• exterior
• overall home
• suggestions for showings

You can fill these Room-by-Room Client Planning Forms out yourself or let your client do it as you go room by room during your home staging consultation. Another way to use the forms is to just have your own copy that you refer to as you go along helping you stay organized and making sure you don’t miss anything you should be discussing in a particular room.

If you or your client fills out the forms as you go through the home, you’ll have a professional looking and complete document to leave with the homeowner at the end of your meeting. This puts an end to the time wasting and unprofitable task of typing up a report of your recommendations after the fact. Besides, anyone with a non-selling home already on the market, or anyone about to list with lots to do to get ready, doesn’t want to wait the day or two it would take to get your report. They want immediate solutions and this tool allows you to meet this need.

And no more worrying that you’ll forget some of the details as you go through a house. It’s all laid out for you step-by-step, all you have to do is fill in the blanks!

Learn more about Staging Diva Home Staging Consultation Checklist With Room-by-Room Client Planning Forms.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Internationally recognized home staging expert Debra Gould is president of Six Elements and creator of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program with 700+ Graduates worldwide. She is the author of “Staging Diva Ultimate Color Guide: The Easy Way to Pick Colors for Home Staging Projects”, and “Staging Diva Ultimate Guide: Creating The Perfect Portfolio to Sell Your Home Staging Services”.

Debra also offers a Directory of Home Stagers to help homeowners and real estate agents locate home stagers who will decorate homes to sell quickly and for top dollar.

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I have a client who has a home in the Galloway Township area that needs a home stager immediately. The home is 2300 square feet, furnished, and will be listed soon at $350,000.

Galloway Township is located in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Being the largest municipality in New Jersey, it is an ideal place to start a home staging business.

We’ve made it really easy for you to apply for this home staging project. Simply complete the form at the new Staging Diva Home Staging Project Referral Service.

Be sure to include “Galloway Township Staging Project” for the project location in the first line of the form.

If you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

There is a $250 referral fee but ONLY if you get any paid work through this referral.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in England and South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus building and hosting your web page on the high traffic Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers for an entire year! When clients find you on their own from your listing in the Staging Diva Directory, I do not charge you a referral fee.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®

President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program.

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. We build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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I have a client who has a home in the Wellington area that needs a home stager urgently. The home is 1000 square feet, empty and is listed at $330,000.

Since it’s vacant this is the kind of project that would more than pay for all your Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training!

Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. With almost a half million residents, it is an ideal place to start a home staging business.

We’ve made it really easy for you to apply for this home staging project. Simply complete the form at the new Staging Diva Home Staging Project Referral Service.

Be sure to include “Wellington Staging Project” for the project location in the first line of the form.

If you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

There is a $250 referral fee but ONLY if you get any paid work through this referral.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in England and South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus building and hosting your web page on the high traffic Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers for an entire year! When clients find you on their own from your listing in the Staging Diva Directory, I do not charge you a referral fee.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva ®

President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program.

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. We build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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I have a client who has a home in the McHenry area that needs a home stager urgently. The home is 1100 square feet, furnished and is listed at $260,000.

McHenry is located Northwest of Chicago. With Chicago having almost 3 million residents, it’s an ideal place to start a home staging business.

We’ve made it really easy for you to apply for this home staging project. Simply complete the form at the new Staging Diva Home Staging Project Referral Service.

Be sure to include “McHenry Staging Project” for the project location in the first line of the form.

If you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

There is a $250 referral fee but ONLY if you get any paid work through this referral.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in England and South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus building and hosting your web page on the high traffic Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers for an entire year! When clients find you on their own from your listing in the Staging Diva Directory, I do not charge you a referral fee.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva ®

President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program.

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. We build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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I have a client who has a home in the Hartly area that needs a home stager urgently. The home is 1900 square feet, empty and is already listed at $228,500.

Since it’s vacant this is the kind of project that would more than pay for all your Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training!

Hartly is located in Kent County. With Kent County being a part of the Dover Metro Statistical Area, it is an ideal place to start a home staging business.

We’ve made it really easy for you to apply for this home staging project. Simply complete the form at the new Staging Diva Home Staging Project Referral Service.

Be sure to include “Hartly Staging Project” for the project location in the first line of the form.

If you don’t already have a website or a page on the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers, it will be more difficult to win this project. It’s hard to convince a client to hire you over the phone if they can’t see your portfolio.

There is a $250 referral fee but ONLY if you get any paid work through this referral.

Because of all the traffic I get to my two sites, SixElements.com and StagingDiva.com, I get lots of leads on projects from all over Canada and the US and even in England and South Africa! I will only refer them to Staging Diva Graduates.

I generate tons of traffic for anyone listed on the Staging Diva site. Only one good project would more than pay for your entire Staging Diva Training Program plus building and hosting your web page on the high traffic Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers for an entire year! When clients find you on their own from your listing in the Staging Diva Directory, I do not charge you a referral fee.

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva ®

President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging

Home Staging expert Debra Gould also known as The Staging Diva is president of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company that is frequently profiled in the media in both the US and Canada. Debra Gould developed The Staging Diva Program to create opportunities for others to grow their own profitable home staging, real estate enhancement businesses.

Learn more about the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program.

You can get your company listed in the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers. We build your page and all the code to help search engines find you!

Learn more about the Staging Diva Directory of Home Stagers

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