home staging: 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)

home staging: Update to Prestigious SAM award house (staged by Restage) - 01/09/10 05:09 PM
I came across some more pictures of the property I had recently blogged about and that all of you would enjoy some nicer shots.

Yes they are a million times better....and that's why we alway's include FREE photography (professional) in our staging packages. Yes, it means we make less but the house cannot be shown to it's full advantage without it.
As you can see from my previous posts....

I also included some more pictures of this amazing house...

Above pictures is of the walkout games / media room - I placed the iron plates on the wall … (4 comments)

home staging: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! - 12/26/09 05:30 AM
Merry Christmas to all!
I wish all of you a safe and happy holiday season!

 
 
 
I hope that all of you have a happy and successful New Year!
 
 

 
 
 
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home staging: 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.
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home staging: Competition - Healthy or Not? - 11/23/09 03:51 AM
Is competition healthy in the home staging field or not?
In the past when I had heard about a new staging company my first response was always great another one. Staging is such a new field in Canada that not everyone has heard of it. Pricing is all over the place, quality is all over the place and customer service is often not always the best.
Allot of new staging companies only offer consulting services and not furniture rental as well as are newbies to the field and learn as they go. Thus the pricing difference. 
Now though my attitude has … (13 comments)

 
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