How To Avoid The Guessing Game When Selling
When preparing your home for the market, it’s important to ensure that you don’t leave the buyer “guessing.” Each room should have a defined purpose. The reason? While there are some buyers who can visualize the space on their own, most cannot. With some minor additions (perhaps by using what you already have), you can [...]
Painting Tips for Sellers
Painting Tips for Sellers:
Color Me Purple
by Kathy Nielsen
As a home staging professional serving metro Atlanta, I’m frequently asked two questions when it comes to painting the interior; should we paint? And if yes, what color should we use? The answer as to whether or not you need to paint really boils down to the current condition [...]
Real Estate and Photography
Buyers, as we know, are now narrowing their search for their next home using the internet. If we can capture their attention from the listing, then we stand a better chance of taking them from the internet and into the driveway.
Even though I’m NOT a professional photographer and am NOT a real estate agent, I [...]
How To Ensure Your Home is Ready For the Potential Buyers
Tips for Home Sellers
One of the biggest challenges sellers face when they put their home on the market is to ensure it’s “ready for the buyers.” The tasks of picking-up and ensuring the home is clean can be painstaking. However, with a daily morning ritual and using the following checklist, you can minimize the effort [...]
How I Sold This Town Home in 6 Weeks
How I sold this town home in 6 weeks in this market.
This town home, pictured above, had sat on the market for over a year without a decent offer. Yes, there had in fact been offers but they were so low that were insulting to the homeowner. Left discouraged, his only recourse, or so [...]
How to Arrange Your Living Room When Selling Your Home
Tips From a Professional Home Stager:
Having worked with hundreds of homeowners, I’ve seen first-hand the frustration that many have gone through in preparing their home for the market. Not knowing what changes to make is a big part of the challenge. In this article, I’ll address one of the key rooms within the home, the [...]
Home Staging Vs. Interior Decorating
As a home staging professional in Atlanta, Georgia I’m often asked what the difference is between home staging and interior decorating. Truth be told when I’m shopping for accessories to be used in a home staging project, it feels exactly the same as when I’m shopping for an interior decorating/redesign project. After all, a lamp is a [...]
Model Home Staging
Model Home Staging
Builders have known for years just how successful having a model home can be. And while the trend was to use interior design firms to furnish and accessorize their homes, they’ve opted for a far cheaper alternative called “home staging.” How do I know? I’ve had the good fortune of staging many of [...]
