It took a village to stage 4 bedroom home in 6 hours.

Our goal was to stage an occupied home with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths in 6 hours. AND WE DID IT!

HOW, you may ask???   The following items were crucial to getting this done on time.

1.  I did a home visit several weeks before the scheduled staging date.   Having adequate time allows for PLANNING so that when the staging team arrived, we all knew our action plan and began to stage immediately. 

  
 2. Take lots of "before" pictures and measure every room with doorways, windows, furniture and any other immovable objects.  I also took note of size of sofas, beds and other furniture that I planned on using.  Back at the office, we created a floor plan also placing accessories in the room.  

3.  Looking at the amount of time and rooms to be staged, I knew I needed 3 stagers and gave them the floor & accessory plan prior to the day of staging.  We also determined that our strategy of execution for the day of the staging would be that all 3 stagers would move furniture in each room, then leave 1 stager in each room to complete accessorizing.   Our goal was to spend an average of 1 hour to complete each room. 

4.  I had empty boxes in each room for items that were not used.  The homeowner agreed that we would leave them in the hallway and he would remove them for us at the end of the day.

5.  We brought our own lunch and took 20 minutes eating in the house.  Every minute was precious.

The seller returned at 3:00pm and we were putting on the finishing touches!  He was amazed that we accomplished all we did in 6 hours and couldn't believe the transformation.  

What do you think?  (this is my first time posting pictures)