When I go into a house I look around initially, ask questions on lifestyle and what their schedules are. Do they have young children, teenagers or pets, etc. And then I start making suggestions. Yes, I want the house to look as best as possible but and this is a big one the homeowners still have to live there. Selling your house is a difficult and stressful time in any ones life. My job as a stager is not to make it worse but to help make it easier. I … (7 comments)
home: Stager House Hunting!?!?!
- 02/15/10 04:37 PM
We recently started house hunting for our family. With a growing family (3 girls....need more bathrooms) and a busy lifestyle we've outgrown our home. Being a stager / designer makes it especially difficult when were looking at a house for us. I thought I could be more objecive and look past all of the personal items and weird paint but guess what I'm looking at the houses for myself and not as a stager. It seems that I'm just like every other buyer and wish a stager would have visited the house before us. I don't want to see dirty clothes … (7 comments)
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home: Decorating for Christmas while selling....Should you...or not???
- 12/13/09 08:57 AM
Decorating a house for Christmas has alway's been one of my favorite activities. It's different than normal decorating and let's me go wild... I love all the different options that are available and for me Christmas decorating is always more is more instead of the old adage of less is more. That being said what do I tell my clients trying to sell their house? Do they put up the tree or not? Do they add lights or not...and on..and on... My opinion is that if they live in the house while selling - of course. I want the sellers to … (4 comments)
home: Training the competition?
- 11/24/09 01:42 AM
I recently started receiving quite a few emails and phone calls from new stager's requesting to apprentice with our company. What would you say? I personally felt that it was a conflict of interest as why would I train my competition and supply insider information? How does our company benefit? Besides the obvious free labour for a short term the downsides I felt far outweighed the positives. I would not ask another company to train me so I could learn how to start my own company it seems unethical. We do not offer training courses or our policies may have been different. … (12 comments)
I am constantly asked this question...How much is too much?
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