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Home Staging Scrapbook- Share Pics of your First Job!

By Kate Hart

Home Stager with Hart & Associates Staging and Design

October 18, 2009 08:57 AM

This weekend I was going through some photos of past home staging jobs and had a great time remembering some of the wonderful (and sometimes strange) things we had seen over the past few years. I thought it would be fun to share our first staging jobs. Below are mine:

The room I staged in my first staging class. Not bad for 45 minutes and using what you have. Notice the valance I made from a runner!

The first home I staged on my own- it was a woman I had never met before and she let me do it for free to use for marketing. I ran into her last weekend in a lighting store and she remembered me! She said the room is still the same!

The first vacant home I staged. It sold within 2 weeks! I still have the striped urn- it cost me a fortune!

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Michelle Minch

Moving Mountains Design Home Staging, Pasadena, CA - Los Angeles, CA

Home Staging Los Angeles and Orange County, CA

Kate: I don't think I took any photos of my first 4 or 5 staging jobs. I was so excited, I forgot! That was before I discovered Active Rain, blogging or ever dreamed of having a web site. Here is a photo from the first vacant staging job I did using rental furniture.This was about 4 years ago. Living room after staging by Moving Mountains Deisgn

Oct 18, 2009 09:28 AM

Kate Hart

Hart & Associates Staging and Design - Radnor, PA

Michelle I love it- I know that furniture well. Thanks for sharing- it is amazing how far we have come! It is so much fun to look back. KH

Oct 18, 2009 09:39 AM

Laurie Calhoun

Gloria Home Staging, Inc. - Winter Springs, FL

Seminole County FL Home Stager

Here's the first occupied home we staged. We did it free for some friends who were moving, to build our portfolio. The camera we used for the befores was a little one whose battery was getting tired, so the before of the living room was too blurry to use, so the only picture we have of this room is a corner. You can see it in the right of the after shot.

Living room corner before Staged living room

This is our first vacant staging. It was a tiny (960 sq ft) home - really a perfect first vacant.

Great room before Great room staged

Oct 18, 2009 02:31 PM

Kathy Nielsen

http://atlantahomestaging.net - Marietta, GA

Atlanta Georgia Home Stager

How fun.

Home Staging Atlanta - Before Picture Home Staging Atlanta After Picture

I haven't looked at these pictures for a really long time. So, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Kathy

Oct 19, 2009 12:17 AM

Connie Tebyani

Platinum Home Staging, Inc. : RESA-Pro - Calabasas, CA

Platinum Home Staging, Los Angeles and Ventura County

Fun, fun, fun! Here's my 1st Owner Occupied. He told us before we started that he was giving all his old furniture to his gardener. SO we brought in rental furniture even though he was still living there.

Platinum Home Staging, Inc.

Here's my 1st vacant, which actually included a LOT of paint and new carpeting:

Here was my first Re-Design:

Oct 19, 2009 02:39 AM

Michele Hess

Simply Staged Inc. - Rockford, IL

Home Stager Rockford - Simply Staged Inc

Great idea Kate! Here is a photo from my first or second vacant which was in the Parade of Homes in our area.

Simply Staged

Oct 19, 2009 10:01 AM

Hey all thanks for sharing!

Laurie, it looks really great. You must have been exhausted from moving all the furntiure. The vacant is really warm and inviting.

Kathy, I love that butcher block cart! I needed one last week.

Connie- those rooms look great!

Michele- this is gorgeous! I am so impressed that you did a Parade of Homes for one of your first jobs. I would have been terrified!

Oct 20, 2009 12:59 AM

Valerie Sagheddu

Apostle Art Home Staging & Design - Stroudsburg, PA

~Home Staging Professional, Poconos, PA

Kate...Remember this from the ASP class??? This was the space I was heading up... Not bad for having ZERO materials to work with! ...This was Soooo much fun!