cincinnati home staging: Design To Market: Staged Home Sells In 3 Days - 05/16/08 11:09 PM
What is the most significant difference between the first and second photos? The first was taken on a Thursday before the house was sold and before staging by Design To Market Home Staging. The second was taken 3 days later after the home was staged and after … (16 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design To Market Home Staging: Family rooms that make a difference! - 03/24/08 10:56 PM
Families spend most of their "together" time in the family room. Often the emotional decision to purchase a home is impacted by the perceived livability of these spaces. Take a look at these properties staged by Cincinnati's Design To Market and think about the impact on a prospective buyer.
Before … (12 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design to Market Home Staging: Works miracles in owner occupied homes! - 03/17/08 08:45 PM
The scenario: Beautiful home...wonderful floor plan...attractive furniture. Why call Design To Market to stage this home? Take a look at these photos and see if the answer makes sense:
Before After
Before After
Before After
Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For more information about this … (16 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design To Market Home Staging: Featured in Cincinnati Business Courier - 03/16/08 09:46 AM
The Cincinnati Business Courier recently featured an article on Cincinnati's top home staging company Design To Market. Click here to read this article and to learn more about home staging in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For more information about this … (7 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design To Market Featured On Cincinnati's Channel 12 HomewoRx: Sunday February 17 11:30 AM - 02/13/08 12:46 AM
Design to Market's owner, Jo Potvin, will be featured with Gary Sullivan this Sunday, February 17 at 11:30 AM. Tune in to see the transformation of a Cincinnati area home to experience first hand the impact of home staging.
Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For … (2 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Call a bedroom a bedroom! - 01/30/08 09:53 PM
We are often working with empty nesters and individuals that have decided to turn their homes' bedrooms into other more creative spaces. In a home that is owner occupied this can become confusing as the inventory of spaces to match the family of a prospective buyer gets jumbled by other purposes for … (14 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Staged Home Delivers WOW! Factor - 01/18/08 07:46 PM
Hearth room before staging by Design To Market...
Hearth Room after staging by Design To Market...
WHICH WOULD YOU BUY?
Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For more information about this project and our other Cincinnati home staging services please call us at 513-265-0952 or visit our website … (26 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Creating WOW...Make the Fireplace the "heart" of the home! - 01/07/08 11:59 PM
What is one of the most alluring spaces in a home on a dreary day in January? Easy answer...the FIREPLACE. Take the time to look at this space though the eyes of a prospective buyer and make it POP!
These fireplaces settings were staged by Design To Market home staging … (24 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design To Market: Please Help Us With Our Kitchen! - 12/27/07 11:06 PM
A prospective client called Design To Market in crisis mode...they were about to lose the home of their dreams if they could not sell their current home. They were desperate for help creating the right look for the kitchen in their otherwise updated and well maintained home. The asking … (13 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Design To Market LLC: Take a Second Look at our Warehouse! - 11/01/07 08:20 PM
For those that missed Part 1 of the Warehouse series, please click here to take the initial tour. In this new entry, we will share additional shots of the Design To Market Warehouse.
The photo above is a racking system that enables us to use vertical space while maintaining visibility of … (39 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Mason Condo: One Year On The Market Enter Design To Market LLC and Home Sells in 21 days! - 07/27/07 11:06 PM
The following quote tells the story!
Jo,
My house has been on the market for a year with no offers. Since I had moved before listing it, there was no furniture when we had the showings. My realtor suggested I stage it and contacted your company to do … (7 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Staging Consultations: One simple step toward SOLD! - 07/27/07 11:40 AM
As a professional Accredited Home Stager here in Cincinnati, one of the services we specialize in is the Staging Consultation. Not only do we work with Sellers directly, but we also have many Realtors we partner with that offer the consultation as part of their overall marketing plan.
A Staging Consultation is a … (3 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Wallpaper: Remove it for a faster sale! - 07/15/07 05:30 PM
It's a tough decision to make. Beautiful wallpaper professionally hung and in perfect condition. We often face this dilemma as we review options with our clients. It is expensive to remove wallpaper and often painful for the home-seller...I would say however that it is almost always the correct decision.
This kitchen … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Realtors: One more reason to PARTNER with a Staging Professional - 06/25/07 12:43 AM
A Seller contacted me a few weeks ago to do a Staging consultation with them. They were frustrated that the house had been on the market since March but had only had 6 showings. They took their Realtors advice and "neutralized" the downstairs and painted everything white. Now they were left … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Staging Q&A's - 06/23/07 12:57 AM
STAGING Q&A (from REALTOR Magazine Online July 2007 issue)
1. What's the value of staging?
A well-staged room invites buyers in and helps them see past the sellers' possessions to the layout and square footage. Staging also helps draw buyers' eyes to the best feature of the room, such as French doors … (3 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: What's your BEST TIP......Sellers Survival Guide during the Selling Process?? - 06/18/07 07:57 AM
I'm in the middle of writing a "Sellers Survival Guide during the Selling Process" that I can give out to my clients. These are tips that will help them "survive" the endless showings, last minute showings, and just keeping the house in pristine condition during the selling process. I know for … (15 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Sellers: Great Staging Tips AND the most important one of all! - 06/13/07 04:20 PM
These are some great tips for sellers to use when preparing their house for sale. I've added my additional comments in bold.
Surefire Staging Tips from HGTV's "Get it Sold"
Pack up.
This includes personal photos and portraits. Less is always more. The less clutter and knickknacks you have lying around, the more … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: An English Tudor Transformation....It's got the WOW factor now! - 06/13/07 09:05 AM
This was an English Tudor that was so much fun to stage! I LOVE older homes anyway...filled with character, hardwood floors, built ins, nooks, and those beautiful OLD trees with so much shade! I live in a part of town that is newer so I am used to new construction and … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Subtle changes bring the outdoor views in - 06/12/07 07:26 PM
It always amazes me how small subtle changes in a room sometimes can produce that "WOW" factor so easily. My case in point: This beautiful older home's breakfast room. The seller told me that he always envisioned himself drinking his coffee and enjoying the morning paper in this room but looking at … (4 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: A really cool Kitchen transformation...my favorite! - 06/12/07 05:46 PM
This is probably one of my favorite kitchen transfomations that I worked on. The seller was a dream to work with. The house itself is a wonderful old English Tutor.....with only one problem...THE KITCHEN! We solved this problem by painting over the wall paper because we didn't know what kind of … (9 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Vacant Staging....What a difference PART 2 - 06/07/07 06:42 PM
Lately...I've been working with alot of new construction homes that have an angled fireplace. Builders love to build them with vaulted ceilings because it makes the room feel much bigger than what it actually is. This also creates a problem for potential buyers. Since the angled fireplace is a new feature (at … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Vacant Staging....What a difference...PART 1 - 06/07/07 06:25 PM
Why sell a house that is completely empty? This particular vacant house is as the Realtors like to say..."BETTER THAN NEW!"....however...Staging it can make all the difference! This house is located in a beautiful subdivision with lots of new construction. It's competition is brand new builders spec homes as well as the option for potential buyers to visit the gorgeous … (3 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Fresh and Bright Bathroom Transformation - 06/07/07 05:38 PM
This bathroom needed a fresh new look. The current bathroom was small and a dark color was used which made the space feel too heavy and formal. Working with the new construction neutral paint.... we introduced a nice soothing green palette. Just making these simple changes using accessories only....we transformed this bathroom into a fresh and bright … (9 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Featured in HOME IMPROVEMENT MAGAZINE - 05/05/07 11:25 PM
I was very honored that Cincinnati's HOME IMPROVEMENT MAGAZINE chose to feature Stage a Star in their May edition of "Decorating on a Dime". In addition to us, the magazine also featured other area Redesigners and Stagers. The feature article "Decorating on a Dime" showcased Makeovers for under $1000 as well … (15 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Quick Curb Appeal with Paint - 04/21/07 11:04 PM
Before this home was to go on the market, a quick change of paint colors was ordered to appeal to the broadest audience of potential buyers. Purple was the homeowners fave. color...thus the purple shutters and front door. After a few hours with a paint brush...the homes curb appeal skyrockets with this … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Family Room...Defining the Space for the WOW factor! - 04/21/07 10:44 PM
This family room lacked warmth and was uninviting. Great key pieces of leather furniture were left by the owners of the vacant home...all that was needed was decorative accessories to give it the "model home" look and feel that would get it sold. Happy to report that this home received ALOT … (0 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Family Room: Accenting with Props make a huge difference! - 04/20/07 11:31 PM
It is amazing how staging props can make a HUGE difference in the presentation of a home! This particular house had been on the market for 6 months with very little interest and no offers. Its understandable that potential buyers would be disappointed viewing this home as it looks in the … (7 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Dining Room...Creating what it was meant to be! - 04/20/07 11:18 PM
The Dining Room in this house was not being used for dining...instead it had confusing mis-matched pieces of furniture in it and was just bland and unattractive. Stage a Star went to work transforming this room into a beautiful and elegant dining room giving this room purpose that would help potential buyers visualize themselves … (3 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Kitchen Makeover...Model Home "WOW!" - 04/20/07 10:52 PM
This was the kitchen of a client that had been transferred and had barely lived in her new construction home six month and hadn't had a chance to even start decorating. The client described her home as having a "A college dorm look and feel to it". We got right to work staging … (4 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: Staging for the MLS: Vacant properties - 04/17/07 07:35 PM
We are increasingly receiving calls from Realtors to stage homes that are getting "hits" on MLS but very few showings. Vacant homes often fall prey to this challenge. It is difficult to drive interest in four walls and a few windows.
Today's buyer works to be most efficient in allocating their buying time to … (6 comments)
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cincinnati home staging: My Solution to the Angled Fireplace....Pictures! - 03/31/07 01:31 PM
This week I was busy with my team staging an owner occupied house....with many challenges! One of those challenges was the wonderful Angled Fireplace. Here in Cincinnati, we are seeing alot of new construction with this feature. I'm still trying to figure out why builders think an angled fireplace is a great design...I guess … (3 comments)
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