Atlanta Georgia Home Staging : April 2007

This Atlanta Home Staging Company, Georgia Interior Solutions, has the expertise and experience to help showcase your home and/or listing so that it stands out from the others on the market. With years of experience and a massive inventory designed to compliment any style home, we implement solutions that draw the buyer in and allow them to emotionally connect with the home.

Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Home

We hear this quote often.  According to Giga Quotes John Howard Payne, an American actor, dramatic poet and song writer, wrote this for a song in "Clari, the Maid of Milan" titled Home Sweet Home.  The quote actually begins with 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.'

This quote has always resonated with me for a variety of reasons.  As a little girl, our family was poor.  Actually, we were extremely poor.  Bread bags with rubber bands served as boots to cover our shoes in the winter.  Rent, as we could never own anything, was a whopping 60.00 a month.  Despite what we didn't have in our lives, we did have a home.  I look back at that period in my life and often times wonder how my mom was able to keep it together.  Were there school pictures of us on the walls?  No.  With 5 children, school pictures were too costly. Were there accessories that occupied space on shelves?  No.  There was however, a roof over our heads. 

So, if you've made it this far into the blog, you're likely asking what does "my being poor" have to do with real estate.  Truth be told, it doesn't.  What it does share with you is the fact that as a home stager, I feel honored to be invited into your home; to share ideas and to implement changes to further enhance the home. 

For those who've given me the opportunity to stage your home; Thank You!  For those considering staging, I would be honored.

Kathy

Georgia Interior Solutions

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Kathy Nielsen RESA National Board Member of the Year

 

 

About the Author: Kathy Nielsen, a RESA 2010 Home Stager of the Year Finalists is  a nationally recognized leader within the home staging industry, offers affordable home staging solutions to help sell your home more quickly.  Kathy can be reached via email at info@homestagingatlanta.com or by phone at 678 522 8392.  Their Atlanta Home Staging services offer a variety of options to accommodate all budgets. To view examples of their before and after pictures, visit their portfolio at Home Staging Atlanta Gallery.

 

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16 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • April 26 2007 09:30AM

Living Rooms - Before & After Pics

It's a Monday, and as always, I'm excited about the staging project that lies ahead.  The opportunity for the day - to transform a vacant 2 bedroom condo into a warm and inviting home. 

With the accessories packed the night before and the furniture (my own for this particular home) having been delivered on Sat, I feel more than prepared for the day.  Despite all the pre-planning, I hadn't factored in the fact that the road, the very road leading to this beautiful condo would be closed for paving.  With no other alternative than to park a block and a half away, I'm forced to cart the accessories, in the rain, mind you, to the condo.  Without the assistance of a fellow AR Stager, I'd still be there a week later.

But what starts as a rather tough day ends beautifully.  Everything I had envisioned for the home was realized.

Here's the "before" picture:Before Picture of a Home In Atlanta

Here's the "after" picture of the home staged by Georgia Interior Solutions:

Home Staged in Atlanta - After Picture

 

For more "before" and "after" pictures visit the new group titled "Staging Before & After Pictures".

Kathy

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Kathy Nielsen RESA National Board Member of the Year

 

 

About the Author: Kathy Nielsen, a RESA 2010 Home Stager of the Year Finalists is  a nationally recognized leader within the home staging industry, offers affordable home staging solutions to help sell your home more quickly.  Kathy can be reached via email at info@homestagingatlanta.com or by phone at 678 522 8392.  Their Atlanta Home Staging services offer a variety of options to accommodate all budgets. To view examples of their before and after pictures, visit their portfolio at Home Staging Atlanta Gallery.

 

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7 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • April 18 2007 07:57AM

Home Staging Atlanta Helps Investor Secure $35K More

From 6 months on the market without a single offer to SOLD in 3 days after staging for $35K more! 

It's a Wed. an I've rec'd an inquiry via my web site Georgia Interior Solutions regarding staging a property located in Douglasville, GA.  After having spoken to the investor, it turns out the home, once a duplex and recently converted to a single home, had been sitting on the market for 6 months without a single offer.  Anxious to see the home, I'm able to schedule an appointment with her for the following day.

The home, as you can see in this "before" picture lacked warmth and left nothing for the prospective buyers to connect to on an emotional level.  Having once been a duplex, there were plenty of rooms but rooms that lacked purpose and definition.

  GIS Before

The results:  The investor, having fallen in love with the results of the staging, decides to take the asking price from $225K to $260K.  In just three short days after staging the home went under contract for the full asking price.  That's $35K more than they anticipated!

GIS "After"

We take great pride in showcasing the homes best features, highlighting the space and creating a home that welcomes a broad base of prospective buyers.  Contact us today to schedule your free in-home evaluation.

 

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Kathy Nielsen RESA National Board Member of the Year

 

 

About the Author: Kathy Nielsen, a RESA 2010 Home Stager of the Year Finalists is  a nationally recognized leader within the home staging industry, offers affordable home staging solutions to help sell your home more quickly.  Kathy can be reached via email at info@homestagingatlanta.com or by phone at 678 522 8392.  Their Atlanta Home Staging services offer a variety of options to accommodate all budgets. To view examples of their before and after pictures, visit their portfolio at Home Staging Atlanta Gallery.

 

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15 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • April 14 2007 01:24PM

Myth #5 - Your home must be turned into a showplace before it's listed.

Staging hits the Parade. 

Parade is an insert found in our Sunday paper the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  I believe it's an insert in many papers across the country so you may want to check.  In the Sunday edition, there's an article on 5 Biggest Real Estate Myths written by Vivian Marino. 

Myth #5 - Your home must be turned into a showplace before it's listed.

Realty:  Homes in mint condition are the first to be sold, but sellers must be careful not to over-improve.  Some renovations can exceed what is customary for comparable homes in an area, while others may compromise a home's character-like redoing the kitchen in a 1920 Craftsman-style house with stainless steel and granite. 

Improvements can shorten the time it takes to sell a home but rarely are moneymakers.  One survey found that homeowners can recoup 78.8% on average, for remodeling a basement.  Put another way:  They'll lose 21.2%.  A less-expensive strategy is to "stage" a home, creating a neutral setting that appeals to a range of tastes.  The goal is to draw attention to a home's merits and minimize its shortcomings.

At Georgia Interior Solutions, the words "drawing attention" and "neutralizing" settings speaks specifically to what we do with each and every staging project.   These solutions are investments that do pay off!  Thanks Vivian for the confirmation.

Kathy

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Kathy Nielsen RESA National Board Member of the Year

 

 

About the Author: Kathy Nielsen, a RESA 2010 Home Stager of the Year Finalists is  a nationally recognized leader within the home staging industry, offers affordable home staging solutions to help sell your home more quickly.  Kathy can be reached via email at info@homestagingatlanta.com or by phone at 678 522 8392.  Their Atlanta Home Staging services offer a variety of options to accommodate all budgets. To view examples of their before and after pictures, visit their portfolio at Home Staging Atlanta Gallery.

 

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7 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • April 08 2007 06:32AM