Comments on: Home Staging helps two properties sell for full price first day on DC market

By: Patricia Ebrahimi

Patricia Ebrahimi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:10:03 +0000

Thanks everyone! I know, Debra, that good fellowship starts at the top and filters down, and you’re the top.

By: Debra Gould, The Staging Diva

Debra Gould, The Staging Diva — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:56:43 +0000

I love that all of you are here to support each other and spread the word that STAGING WORKS!

By: Karen Otto

Karen Otto — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:20 +0000

Knowing Pat, as a friend & colleague in the industry I am not surprised by these results. She is a top notch professional and an obvious expert in her home staging market. She proves again and again her skill, professionalism and knowledge in getting the job done. Also taking the care necessary to treat her clients with respect, Pat helps them transition from home dweller to home seller, nothing personal about it with results that work! Great testimony to the power of home staging!

By: Kathleen Lordbock

Kathleen Lordbock — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:55:52 +0000

Pat proves again that staging Sells. We stagers do need to stay current with trends and colors choices, but ultimately our job is to present the home in its best condition and highlight architectural details – not the decor. A neutral background and accessories that add some splashes of color will assure a prospective buyer that they can move in immediately and accessorize with their color choice and their work will be done. These fast sales generally mean a buyer that is ready to move quickly and with relative ease. We stage for the buyers – the sellers are moving!
Pat will have many more merry months – because she is a staging sista.

By: Leslie Godbold

Leslie Godbold — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:08:52 +0000

The results prove that professional staging works.and Patricia Ebrhimi has the talent and knowledge to do it!. Great Work Patricia!

By: Kathy Nielsen

Kathy Nielsen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:26:48 +0000

This is awesome, Pat. Congratulations on a successful stage. In looking at the before & after pictures, I can understand completely why this sold so quickly. Great staging.

Kathy

By: Gary Baugher

Gary Baugher — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:57:33 +0000

Congrats !!!!!!!! Love to hear others success stories. We continue to prove over and over our services work. Way to go !!!!!

By: Patricia Ebrahimi

Patricia Ebrahimi — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:05:56 +0000

You make the great point, Danica, that Home Staging is NOT interior design. Stagers must stay current as to home decor trends b/c that’s what buyers identify with when looking at properties. Naturally these things change, but that just mean we get to go shopping more often!!

By: Patricia Ebrahimi

Patricia Ebrahimi — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:59:23 +0000

Thanks Debra for the shout out regarding my merry month of May Home Staging successes!

By: Danica Henninger

Danica Henninger — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:45:50 +0000

I love these helpful blogs! That Patricia Ebrahimi of Show-Smart! was able to help elderly sellers see that their good taste in 1987 had to be “translated” to appeal to the buyer age group of 2009 is a client management approach that I won’t forget. The larger question is, what is “dated design?” If classic, traditionally elegant interior design is too “museum-like” for today’s buyers, when do today’s mocha or split pea green walls, dark wood kitchen cabinets and stainless rod pulls begin to look pedestrian? Does a crystal chandelier have to yield to a pseudo-bronze and glass fixture? Must draw draperies over sheers become curtains and side panels? Are valences, cornice boxes and lambrequins today’s dinosaurs? When does staging cross the line and become interior design? And should it? Were Debra to write on this topic, I, for one, would certainly buy it, as should every staging professional. “Dated” is not static, and anyone can, over time, fail to see what is passe.