Designboards: like a Virtual Staging Staging to live has a different objective than staging to sell. However, homeowners and Sellers alike share a disconnect when it comes to visualizing how a home could look professionally staged. Either a homeowner who simply wants an update, or a Seller who ne
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12/11/2011
Home Interiors 2012: These are a Few of My Favorite Things One of my perk assignments as a Home Stager, is to research what’s trending for home interiors in 2012. Current, fresh style goes a long way with Buyers – after all, you may be competing with new home construction and models are staged
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12/06/2011
3 Tools to Help Sellers Understand the Benefits of Staging Previously, I posted Top 5 Reasons You Should Professionally Stage Your Home and it left me wondering if there are Realtors® who could use a credible marketing tool for their clients? Are you familiar with RESA (Real Estate Staging Ass
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11/30/2011
Top 5 Reasons You Should Professionally Stage Your Home, Colorado Springs. Is it just me? Or are you, REALTORS® and those affiliated with this industry, amazed that homeowners really don't understand that a home will sell faster and for more money if its professionally staged? Which scenar
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11/29/2011
(Part 2) In yesterday's post, How to Stage Your Vacant House on a Budget (part 1), I recommended a couple of ideas where Sellers could source furnishings and accessories. Relatives, friends, Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity ReStore retail outlets, and CraigsList are all economical options. On
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11/28/2011
How can you Stage Your Vacant House on a Budget? (Part 1 of 2) Sellers have a long list of reasons why they’d like to leave their property sit vacant. The cost of renting inventory is probably the biggest argument. I understand this reasoning. Its difficult to spend more cash in order to sell yo
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11/28/2011
Selling? Top Areas to Upgrade Your Home in Colorado Springs, CO The main rooms of influence when selling your home should all be “show ready” and upgraded in order to compete for the highest offer in your market. What are those? Living, dining, family, kitchen, and bathrooms should present as i
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11/27/2011
My dog ate my homework… in Colorado Springs. I wrote this blog Friday. Not Black Friday. A week ago Friday, I typed a few paragraphs and thought I’d download before and after photos from my latest interior redesign project on Saturday. Didn’t happen. Here’s the culprit. My sweet, 7-month Gold
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11/25/2011
‘tis the season’- Emotions Sell We know a Seller has 90 seconds to impress a Buyer. Whether they Google your address on Trulia, or physically drive by, their initial reaction can be the difference between an offer before New Year’s or before next summer. Real estate staging is a unique, ‘design
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11/14/2011
Staging with Cowhide: The Votes are In! Thank you so much for casting your vote this week! Its been a wet and wild ride in the "rain" hearing comments from Hawaii to New York, Canada to Florida. The ActiveRain community has been terrific and I appreciate everyone taking the time to read Staging
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11/11/2011