Interior Redesign and Decorating — Home Staging Business Report

Interior redesign and decorating services are offered by many home staging companies. As a home stager you can do both and make more money. Learn how.

Home Staging Tips for the Laundry Room from Staging Diva

When it comes to rooms that are often forgotten in home staging, the laundry room often makes the list. After all, it’s a laundry room. How good can it get? As I’ve mentioned in my posts about staging the garage and the basement, it’s important to remember that home staging is all about romancing a [...]

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Home Staging Tips for the Basement

Certain areas of a home are more likely than others to be forgotten when it comes to staging a property to sell. However these spaces, which seem unimportant to some homeowners (or even some home stagers), might actually rank higher than expected on a prospective buyer’s house wish list. In a post on Monday I [...]

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Home Staging Tips for the Garage

You know that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore other parts of a house when it comes to staging it to sell. In a series of blog posts, I’ll outline the five most neglected parts of a property when it comes to staging, and how you can stage them [...]

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Staging Diva Connects with Grads at Interior Design Show

I had the pleasure of meeting several Graduates of the Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program and readers of Staging Diva Dispatch at the Interior Design Show in February. We were attending Trade Day, an excellent opportunity to see what’s new in the world of design and make connections with suppliers. While I spoke to [...]

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Staging Diva’s Top 5 Home Staging Tips Continued

On Friday I shared two of my top five staging tips in a blog post you can read here. They included paying attention to curb appeal and and de-cluttering. Here are my remaining top three: 3. Avoid wandering eyes You want to make sure there are no little problems in a room that will have [...]

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Do you know Staging Diva’s Top 5 Staging Tips?

There are so many small things home stagers can do to a property that will dramatically shorten the time it spends on the real estate market while increasing the final sales price for home sellers. Here are the first of my five favorite home staging tips, so you can help each property you stage sell [...]

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Part 2 of Recession Proofing your Interior Design Business

Here a few ways a home staging business can be more profitable than an interior design business: • As a home stager you get the opportunity to work with different types of people than you would as an interior designer. Generally, only very high income individuals hire interior designers, which limits your target market. Home [...]

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Recession proofing your interior design or decorating business

If you make your living as an interior designer or decorator the current economy has got to be hurting your business. When the economy is slow, many people who might otherwise hire an interior designer or decorator are forced to move such a ‘non-essential’ service to the bottom of their priority list. If you haven’t [...]

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Interior Redesign Colors Take More Courage

Some home stagers express concern about offering color consultation services. They feel comfortable recommending colors for a home staging project but worry about picking colors for a redesign project for a clients who isn’t moving. In many cases, the fear comes from knowing how many times we repaint our own rooms because the color isn’t [...]

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