When you get ready to place your home on the market for sale it becomes a product. Similar to a product on the shelf at your local store, the product has features and benefits as well as pluses and minuses, and competition. To compete with the competition in the marketplace you must be priced right and look better than the other products. Your home is no different, it is one of many homes for sale and you must present it, to the buyers, in the best possible light.

Staging is the process of preparing any home for sale, regardless of price or location. Using a proven, professional set of guidelines your house is reviewed for compliance with preset standards, and any necessary modifications are made. Once your house meets these criteria, a Staged Home Certificate will be issued and your home will be registered as a Staged Home. This entitles your home to a special marketing program developed to promote those homes which have been designated as Staged Homes.
 
This unique system has proven to help sell homes faster and/or for more money. Real estate agents will have great confidence in showing your home to potential buyers because they know it is Staged and ready to be sold.

Trish Kim has been bringing her clients unique interior design experiences in Washington DC Metropolitan area since 1988. She is the owner and design consultant of Pendleton & Young, Inc., doing business as StagedInterior.com, and is an Accredited Staging Professional™ Master - ASPM®, the first and one of only two staging professional with a Master designation in Northern Virginia as accredited by StagedHomes®. StagedHomes® is recognized as the leading international training organization, teaching staging professionals the skills to effectively stage homes for their clients and give them the Staged Home advantage.

Trish was personally trained and mentored by Barb Schwarz, the creator of the staging home concept, and is a member of International Association of Home Staging Professionals, IASHP™. Trish's strengths are in creative spatial arrangement, color coordination and composition, which create the "WOW!" factor so essential in giving sellers the needed edge in this market. Her talents are evidenced by the Before and After presentations.

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"Dear Trish,
          We once again thank you and Staged Interior for being an important part of the recent sale of our home in Falls Church, Virginia. Selling a home on the opposite coast is uncertain enough; trying to sell one that is vacant - and in the current market - requires advisors who truly are experts. Fortunately, we were steered to you.
          Staging a home is not something we've done before, so here are three things we particularly appreciate about working with you on our 'project'. First, your explanations of the process and timeline were clear and accurate. That is especially important when other contract work is being conducted on the house. Next, you are accessible. This begins with you returning our initial call while you were on travel out of the country and, throughout the project, there wasn't a time you did not get back to us immediately. Finally, you really do care about us getting top-dollar for our home. Your advice on other improvements and color/style selections, and personal involvement in preparing for our (one!) open house, were keys to our success.
          It's unlikely we will have the opportunity to engage your services again, something we would do without question. If the need arises, please refer to us potential clients who have questions from the 'seller' standpoint, or who just need some validation.
          Thank you, Trish and team, for a great transaction. We wish you continued success.
Very truly yours,"
- Ben and Laurie McCulloch, Sellers

"I just wanted to thank you for the amazing staging work your company did at my listing in Falls Church. I feel your work greatly impacted the quick sale we experienced and the higher than expected sales price. The rooms went from dull and drab to something you might see in Architectural Digest. Not only was your staging work terrific, your professional management of other minor renovations and other recomendations were key to the quick sale. My clients couldn't have been happier with your services!"
- Greg Wilson, RE/MAX Riverside, Broker/Owner