Why I really like working with some agents, and why I don’t like working with others.
Oh, agents . . . can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I have some agents I just love working with. Here’s why: they show up at the house and work with you and the home-owner send me the comps I request, and give me clear ideas about who their target market is and […]
Window treatments – on the cheap.
This may have been covered in the past but the feedback I had from some other stagers about some recent window treatments I did encouraged me to blog on this. I had some windows in a room that needed some accents so I used tension rods and placemats. The placemats I got at Target on […]
Organizing a storage unit for a Home Stager – ME!
Today, I spent the morning organizing my new storage unit. I’m sharing it with another stager that I work with often so half of the space is hers. I wanted to make sure that I could find my things easily. I’ve seen plenty of storage units belonging to stagers and we are notorious for de-staging […]
Organizing a Home Stager: Me!
I got a new storage unit – my old one wasn’t working for me. So now I’m going to be sharing with another stager – we’ll each use half and share/rent each other’s staging items. I wanted to do this right – plan it out so that when I needed an item – I could […]
staging and pre-listing inspections
I recently went on a staging consult for a realtor and her client to evaluate what was going on with this house. It had sat on the market for over a year with barely a showing. This realtor just got the listing, as the original agent wasn’t doing a whole lot. There were a lot […]
what to do with a bunch of bare windows . . .
One of the things I run into a lot when staging a house is the big empty space over the sink in the kitchen, or an empty series of windows in a little used room or back entryway. People don’t think about them much – it’s not like they need privacy, nor do they want […]
