Home Staging Photo Tips From Industry Leader Staging Diva

Build a winning home staging portfolio with these home staging photo tips from Staging Diva, the staging industry leader. Help for home stagers.

Australia Home Stager Transforms a Vacant House

Australia home stager, and new Staging Diva Graduate Katrina Gibbons of Stylus Home Staging Brisbane, shares a terrific example of how much more desirable a staged home looks than a vacant one. Check out Katrina’s transformation of a living room/dining room, and patio area visible just beyond the glass doors. By the way, this is [...]

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9 Tips to a Better Home Staging Business Card

Your home staging business card is one of the most critical pieces of your home staging marketing. Here are 9 home staging business card tips to ensure you’re creating the right image for yourself as a home stager: 1. Remember that home staging is an image business. I can usually tell which home stagers will [...]

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Sad Real Estate Listings

Isn’t it amazing how little care some real estate agents seem to put into their real estate listings? From bad MLS photos to typos in listings, I know most home stagers have seen it all. In the more relaxed spirit of summer, I just saw a funny clip from Ellen which pokes fun at bad [...]

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Using Home Staging Photos In Your Portfolio When You Just Give Advice

Recently I posed a staging business dilemma from Leah Fritz of Perfect Place Home Staging about whether it’s OK to use before and after photos for your staging portfolio when you didn’t physically do the work. In Leah’s case, the client staged her home herself based on all the advice Leah provided during a home [...]

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Can I Use Home Staging Photos When I Just Did a Staging Consultation?

Staging Diva Graduate Leah Fritz of Perfect Place Home Staging has this staging business dilemma and wonders what she should do. See what you think and add your comments below. “A homeowner I did a home staging consultation for took such excellent detailed notes during our meeting that she was able to execute my whole [...]

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Home Stagers Set The Table to Sell a House

Silly home staging tricks can often backfire when a home stager is decorating a house to sell on the real estate market. The trick is to maintain the right balance between romancing the home buyer while not being so over-the-top as to be distracting. After all, we want people focused on the house itself not [...]

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Camera buying tips for home stagers

As a professional home stager you really need to invest in a good camera. Buying that important piece of equipment can be a daunting task, though, especially if you don’t know much about photography. If you’re purchasing a camera primarily for taking before and after photos in your home staging business, stick with digital. Film [...]

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Start a home staging portfolio before starting your staging business

If you are in any way interested in becoming a home stager or interior redesigner, there’s a good possibility that you are constantly redecorating your home and/or working on a new home improvement project. When you have a natural talent for decorating, the urge to decorate is always there. Whether or not you have any [...]

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Beyond photographs – invest in your home staging portfolio!

Over the past week and a half, I’ve shared some basic photography tips to help you take better pictures for your home staging portfolio. If reading those posts has you thinking about the quality of your portfolio and whether or not it’s doing the best possible job of representing you, you should look at the [...]

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Photography Tips for Home Stagers – Part IV

Today is the fourth and final photography tip for home stagers for this series of blog posts. Today’s tip will prevent you from having to spend hours poring over your photographs trying to put together before and after pairs that demonstrate your strength as a home stager. When you’re putting together your home staging portfolio, [...]

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Photography Tips for Home Stagers – Part III

Today’s photography tip for home stagers is probably the most important one of all, especially if you’re currently developing your home staging portfolio. As a home stager this advice is probably pure common sense to you, but I will assume nothing and share anyway. Sometimes it’s the most obvious thing we overlook. Be obsessive in [...]

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