Atlanta Georgia Home Staging : November 2008

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.

How 15 Minutes Each Morning Can Help Sell Your Home

If your home is currently on the market, then you likely understand the importance of having a home that is show-ready.  Fortunately, there are simple and quick solutions that YOU, as a homeowner, can do each morning that will ensure you leave the buyers with a great first-impression of your home.

 

Let's begin with a list of the items you'll need:

  • Plastic bins (I recommend 3 or 4)
  • Pre-moistened wipes (polish and glass cleaner)
  • Laundry basket
Here's a check-off list that you can print and keep handy.  As you'll see, the list is sorted by room.  
      


Bedrooms:

  • Make beds 
  • Place clothes in laundry basket

Bathrooms:

  • Place items such as shampoo, conditioners, etc.. in plastic bins under your bathroom sink. 
  • Using pre-moistened wipes do a quick wipe down in the sink(s) and faucet (these too can be placed under the sink)
  • Hang towels
  • Ensure toilet seat lids are down.

 

Living Areas (Living Room or Family Room):

  • For homeowners with children, collect any toys and place in a wicker basket or toy box
  • Clear coffee table
  • Use pre-moistened furniture wipes - they're easy and convenient to use.  A quick wipe down of your accent tables (i.e., coffee and end tables) will make them look beautiful.

Kitchens:

  • Empty sink of any dishes
  • Clear off counter-tops
  • Place liquid soap, scrubber, etc... in plastic bin and place underneath sink
  • Kitchen table - Ensure the only item left is the centerpiece and wipe table down


 

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Georgia Interior Solutions (GIS), LLC is Atlanta Georgia's Premier Home Staging Provider.  Owner and Real Estate Staging Expert, Kathy Nielsen has appeared on the pages of Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Home Improvement; Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution and has had one of her homes appear on HGTV's Sleep On It.

With their extensive home staging portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the experience and knowledge on what it takes to make your home and/or listing appeal to the prospective buyers.  

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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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13 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • November 17 2008 12:39PM

Home Stagers - Want Your Before & After Pictures On the First Page of Google?

 

When I first created the group Staging Before & After Pictures, I knew it would be a perfect opportunity for home stagers to show-case their work within Active Rain.  What I didn't realize is that it would sky rocket their before & after pictures on the first page of Google.

Here's what I mean:

Using the key word phrase "Staging Before & After Pictures" the Active Rain Group Staging Before & After Pictures is the 4th one listed.

 

staging before & after pictures - Google Search
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Using the key word phrase: Home Staging Before & After pictures, the group appears in the 5th position.  

Home Stagers - This is a wonderful opportunity to gain visibility by simply joining the group and sharing your 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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23 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • November 17 2008 10:04AM

Home Stagers in Atlanta Unite

As I walked into IKEA on Monday morning, I drew in a deep breath in anticipation of the home staging roundtables that were to be held that day for the home stagers throughout Atlanta. As a co-host, having partnered once again with Karen Dembsky with Peachtree Home Staging, to host this event, I couldn't help but think:

  • Would all that registered attend?
  • Would the level of participation be high or low?
  • Would they offer up ideas on how we, as a community of professional home stagers, can help endorse and promote the industry as a whole?
The answers to those questions came throughout the day.
  • Between the two separate roundtables, we had 50+ stagers attend
  • The participation was high (extremely high)
  • Ideas on how to promote and endorse what we do as professional home stagers came freely
What was also extremely evident is that there's a passion to help.  All of the attendees understood the value in sharing ideas and thoughts on how to promote home staging industry and made great recommendations on how to move our industry forward.  

To the 50+ Home Stagers who attended:  THANK YOU!  Your attendance spoke volumes to your commitment to our industry.

A special thanks goes out to the following as well:

  IKEA - Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to host this event at your facility.  And a special thanks to Deidra Cunningham for all of your support.
  Bekins A-1 Movers - Lance Grooms and Mark Kligerman for not only sharing your Clear the Clutter program but for also sponsoring the lunch.
  Brook Furniture Rental - Your generous IKEA gift card of $50.00 which we raffled was very well received.  Thank you
  Cort - The accessory items you brought for the raffle were beautiful.

And to RESA (Real Estate Staging Association) and SIF (Stage It Forward group on Active Rain) - we had a mission we had set out to accomplish by hosting these meetings throughout the country.  You gave us the platform; provided us with the resources and help to make this event spectacular.  Thank you!

And last but most definitely not least - A special thanks to Karen Dembsky.  Karen - I couldn't imagine hosting this event with anyone other than you. 

And now for your viewing pleasure:  

 

Our a.m. roundtable:

 

Home Staging Meeting In Atlanta  

 

Home Stagers in Atlanta Georgia

 

 

 

 

IKEA - Deidra Cunningham sharing the benefits IKEA offers to home stagers throughout Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Co-hosts:  Kathy Nielsen, Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC and Karen Dembsky with Peachtree Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lance from Bekins A-1 Movers sharing information with the attendees on their "Clear the Clutter" service offering.

Home Stagers in Atlanta Georgia 

And a few of the attendees:

Home Stagers in Atlanta Georgia

Home Stagers in Atlanta Georgia

 

 

 

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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 • November 12 2008 11:36AM

Atlanta Home Staging Meeting - RESA/SIF Roundtable

 

First and foremost, a special thanks to all the Home Stagers in and around Atlanta for having registered to attend our RESA/SIF roundtables.  Having spoken to Karen Dembsky (my co-host for this spectacular event) this morning, I can tell you that we're both extremely impressed and pleased with the amount of stagers that have registered.  

The response has been absolutely phenomenal.  In fact, the a.m. meeting is now overbooked and we have ONLY 4 remaining seats available in the p.m. session.  If you're interested in registering for this afternoon roundtable, please use the following link.  Again, there are only 4 seats left so hurry!

http://resa.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=87&club_id=304550&item_id=68191

 

Event information:

 

            When:               Monday, November 10, 2008
            Where:              IKEA – in the Food Court
                                    http://www.IKEA.com
                                    441 16th Street
                                    Atlanta, GA  30363
 

IMPORTANT NOTE:  All participants (morning or afternoon) are invited to attend a complimentary IKEA lunch provided by Bekins A-1 Movers of Atlanta between noon and1:00 p.m.   Also during this time Bekins will be presenting their new ‘Clear the Clutter' program to aid home stagers and home sellers with an inexpensive solution to de-clutter items from a house while having the home listed. 
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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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1 comment • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • November 05 2008 04:55PM