Atlanta Home Staging Company: Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager (Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC)

Morningside, with it's tree-lined streets, is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Atlanta. Located just north of Virginia Highland, and close to Lenox Park - it's an incredible place to live.

It's also one of the neighborhoods that I've had the great fortune of helping sellers sell their homes quickly. For example, on Monday, I de-staged a home in Morningside. The home went on the market on a Friday and received a contract on Saturday.

Tuesday - I staged this oh-so-cute home. Here are before and after pictures:

Click on the following link to see more Before and After Pictures of homes staged throughout metro-Atlanta.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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Georgia Home Staging by Kathy Nielsen

One of our investors called to have us stage their latest flipped property in Mableton Georgia last week. I love staging their flipped homes as they're always so thrilled with how it looks when the home is completed. In fact, she always sends me a thank you note afterwards to tell me how pretty it is. In a time when most verbalize their appreciation, she actually takes the time to send an email as well. 

So, without further ado, here's the before picture of the living room:

Here's the same room after home staging:

Here's a close-up (after pictures taken by my favorite real estate photographer, Iran Watson).

To see more of our vacant home stagings throughout Atlanta Georgia, click on Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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While there are several advantages to having your home professionally staged, I've narrowed it down to the top 5 reasons:

• You want to crush the competing homes in, and around, your neighborhood
• You want to avoid stupid low-ball offers
• You're anxious to move to a new home
• You want buyers to fall in love with your home
• You know that staging is different than decorating

Our statistics this year, at AtlantaHomeStaging.net as it relates to how quickly the home receives a contract after having it professionally staged, has been phenomenal. Here are a few examples:

Virginia Highland - Vacant home staged on a Tuesday, under contract Monday - 6 days
Morningside - Vacant home staged on a Thursday, listed on Friday, under contract Saturday - 2 days
Decatur - Vacant home staged on a Wednesday, under contract the same day - 0 days
Decatur - Vacant home staged on a Tuesday, under contract on Wednesday - 1 day
Austell - Vacant home staged on a Monday, under contract on Saturday - 5 days

And there's more.

While no stager, including us, can guarantee the same result, with each of our stagings, we strive to do our very best to ensure your home and/or listing stands out!

In fact, our stagings have had such great success that we are scheduled to de-stage 7 homes in the month of May.

For more insight into what we offer, visit our Atlanta Home Staging Services page.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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Virginia Highland Home Staging After Pictures

According to Wikipedia, Virginia Highland, named after the intersection of Virginia Avenue and North Highland Avenue, was voted by Atlanta Magazine and Creative Loafing as the 2011 Best Overall Neighborhood.  

We staged this Virginia Highland home last week and am pleased to report that the agent, who held a very well attended open house yesterday, has two potential buyers with two more in the wings. The seller is over the moon.

Here are the after pictures: (all photos were taken by Iran Watson)

This formal living room is the first room you see when you enter the front door. 

As you can see the family room is long and narrow. The solution - we divided the space into two distinct sections; one side is an office, the other a spot for the family to relax.

The dining room, pictured below, can be seen from the front door and became an important part of that first-great-impression.

My objective with this room was to keep it simple. As a result, the room spoke volumes to the potential buyers.

Whether your refer to the area as Virginia Highland or Virginia Highlands (with an "s"), it's a great neighborhood! It was an honor and a privilege to help these sellers.

For more examples of our home staging projects throughout metro Atlanta, click on: Atlanta Home Staging After Pictures.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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One of the biggest misnomers when it comes to preparing your home for the market is that staging is a lot like decorating. The truth of the matter is that while there are some things that are similar, there are some huge differences between the two.

Let's first review the similarities between decorating and staging:

• Both require furniture and accessories
• You shop for both (stagings and decorating) at the same stores.
• Both aim for the home to look nice

Here are the differences:

• When decorating, you're striving to achieve a look that YOU like. When staging, it's NOT about you. Instead, it's all about the potential buyer.
• When staging, it's all about selling the "real estate" the home has to offer. For example, the extra chair in the living room, which may look great in a decorated home, may just be eating up too much space if the home is placed on the market.
• Decorating is very personal. Staging is the exact opposite. In our Atlanta home stagings, we minimize the personal touches (e.g., family photos, mementos, etc.).

As you can see, the difference between decorating and home staging is huge. Here at AtlantaHomeStaging.net, we understand the differences and apply them when staging a vacant home. We focus on highlighting the features, maximizing the amount of visual real estate the home has to offer, and target the demographic of the buyer.

Here's a collage of some of our Atlanta home staging after pictures:

 Originally posted at AtlantaHomeStaging.net

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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How This Atlanta Vacant Home Went from Staged to Under Contract in 1 day!

Yesterday, while driving back from a home staging in Virginia Highlands, I received the following text:

Forgot to let you know that we listed the home on Friday and got an offer on Saturday! Great team work!

We had just staged this home last Thursday. As you might imagine, I'm super excited, as is he. For us, this is a new investor that had reached out to us to put-us-to-the-test (sort of speak). With such a great result, we'll be staging other investment properties he has on the horizon.

So, how did we help get this Atlanta vacant home under contract in 1 day?:

• We visited the home on April 6th to see it first-hand
• We asked as many question as possible to learn the demographic of the buyer
• We selected furniture and accessories appropriate for the home

Here are a couple of before and after pictures:

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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Home Staging Flipped Properties in Atlanta

On Monday, we'll be de-staging a home that we had staged for an Atlanta investor that went under contract the same day it was staged. We finished the staging around 1:00 with potential buyers expected at 3:00. The results - they put a full price offer in on the home. The closing is this Tuesday. 

Was it luck? Not likely. I had staged another property for this same investor the week before and that too went under contract the first day it was listed. For another investor team - all 10 homes we've staged for them thus far have had contracts within the first week of staging, with some occurring on the first day it was listed.

This Atlanta home staging company, Georgia Interior Solutions, doesn't rely on luck. We never have and never will. Instead, we concentrate on the following:

• Showcasing the features the home has to offer
• Highlighting the "real estate" within the home
• Using accessories that help create a warm and inviting home

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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Choosing the Right Accessories When Showcasing Your Home:

When I'm doing a consultation for a homeowner who is living in the home while on the market, the number one question I'm asked is what accessories to buy and quickly followed by where to buy them. Fair questions, for sure. Choosing the right accessories can be a bit overwhelming but can be accomplished quite easily.

Here are some quick tips when choosing accessories:

• It's not the cost of the item that matters. Most of the accessories used in the images above were NOT expensive. 
• If selling in the spring, lean towards the floral that helps bring the spring-like flowers inside. Of course, if you're selling in the fall or winter, the rust colors work best.
• Minimize. Your goal is to showcase the home and not overwhelm the space with "things."  The "less is more" goes a long way when selling your home.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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Warning! Naked Home Pictures Included.  

The above photos were exactly what the potential buyers were seeing when they visited the home. Unfortunately, it didn't impress the potential buyers.

Now here are the same three rooms after being professionally home staged:

The entrance - Never underestimate the importance of that first impression. The entrance should be made warm and "invite" the buyer into the home. 

The dining room - A set table helps them to visualize having their own meals.

The living room - With furniture and accessories, the buyer now can visualize how to position their furniture.

And a close-up shot. Why? Because I can't possible stage a property without taking one (smile).

The above photos were home staged for one of our newest Atlanta investors! Should you have a flipped property in Atlanta or a vacant home - it's our speciality. Contact us today at 678 522 8392 to schedule an appointment. To see more of our projects, visits the following link: Atlanta Home Staging B&A Pictures.

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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The Challenges in Selling a Home That Is Vacant:

• The online photos of the home can be boring. 
• Four walls, floor, ceiling and windows are the norm in all homes.
• Potential buyers typically spend less time in the home.
• They lack warmth and can appear less inviting.

Dining room after home staging:

Formal living room before home staging:

Formal living room after home staging:

Master bathroom before home staging:

Master bathroom after home staging:

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

RESA Professional Stager of the Year - Southern Region 2011

Whether your home is vacant or occupied, this Atlanta Georgia Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen, understands what it takes to sell a home quickly. Her homes have graced the pages of several publications, appeared in TV commercials as well as on HGTV's hit program Sleep On it.

With years of experience and a massive inventory - Kathy makes the perfect choice.

 

 

 

 

Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Kitchen Transformations
• Short on Space? Keep it Simple
• Tips on Selling Your Home From a Professional Stager
• Curtains. Should they stay or go?
• How to dress up your coffee table and end tables when selling
• Quick tips for table settings
• How will buyers remember your home?
• Atlanta Home Staging Consultations - Check out what the homeowner did
• Atlanta Loft Gets Home Staged
• How to ensure your home appeals to a broad base of prospective buyers

 

 

 

 

 

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