Atlanta Georgia Home Staging : June 2008

Yup, that's right, I mixed it up and I did it by design. 

The home I staged last week is an occupied home and filled to the brim with wonderful whimsical items.  I was envious when the homeowner informed me that she had decorated the home with her two young children in mind.  How fun. 

Her next comment brought us back to the reason I was there; "We need you!  We suspect that while whimsical is fun and enjoyable for the kids, we don't believe it will help sell our home."

So... off we went to tour the home.  I entered the home using the front door (the same way a prospective buyer would enter).  Why?  Because I wanted to ensure that the plan I would develop for their home would make for a great first impression.

Here's the formal living room before the "mix-up."  This is the first room that you would see when entering the home:

The furniture, as you can see is in great condition.  However, the furniture seemed more suiteable for a family room which is exactly where it ended up.

Here's the same furniture used in the family room "after" we staged it:

See.... this mix up actually wasn't so bad after all.

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Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Atlanta area in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge on what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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One of the agents I partner with here in Atlanta received feedback from a prospective buyer that pretty much sums up the challenges with showing a vacant home.  Here's specifically what was said; "

Another new home with lots of rooms, nice features, beige walls...they're all starting to run together in my head".   

I can completely relate to this feedback.  As a home stager in Atlanta, I've been in hundreds of vacant homes and can attest to the fact that they all do start to run together.  Fortunately, I have my "before" pictures that I've taken to help remind me of the color of the countertops, the color, if something other than beige or white, of the walls.  I'm lucky as my camera goes with me everywhere.

The builder that I just staged for understood and has heard similar feedback as that stated above.  Fortunately, he just listed with a Realtor that uses me on almost every listing.  I was called in to see the home and grew excited with each turn I made.  Why?  Because I knew I could make a difference.

The home is located in Ansley Park in Atlanta.  According to the National Park Services in Atlanta, Ansley Park is an early 20th-century suburban residential district.  Completed in 1930, there are 275 acres with features such a curvilinear streets which are landscaped on either side like parkways.  It's beauty is marked with several parks scattered throughout.

It's a beautiful area and it was an absolute honor to have been selected to home stage this home.

Here are a few of the before and after pictures of the family room:

Here are a few pictures after the home was staged:

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Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Atlanta area in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge on what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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I met with one of my partner Realtor's this morning over at a home that I'll be staging this Thursday.  As we waited the arrival of the builder, we spoke of the condo that had just sold and how the pictures drew this buyer into the home.  As mentioned in a previous blog, the buyer first began looking at 3 bedroom condos.  However, once she saw the staged 2 bedroom condo, she fell in love and the rest, shall we say, is history.

While I always knew of the importance/benefits of having great "after" shots of the homes I stage, there's another important component that needs to be factored in.  One of the challenges many sellers have with their vacant homes is that their 4 walls appear no different than the next four walls.  Here's an example:

Formal Living Room of Home A:

Formal Living Room of Home B:

As a prospective buyer, there are two things that are strikingly different; one has carpet, the other hardwood; one has white trim where the other has black (which ended up getting painted white).

Here's what each of these rooms looked like "after" the homes were staged:

Home A:  NOTE:  This home went under contract before the listing could even be put into MLS.  After having been on the market for 2 years, the home owner was beyond thrilled.

Home B:  This home was just staged last Thursday.

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Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC, offers affordable solutions in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge on what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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Here in Atlanta, we have an overwhelming quantity of condos on the market.  In fact, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, there are currently 9,000 on the market with another 17,000 planned units.  To read the entire article, hit the link.

Suffice it to say, if you're looking to sell, you're going to need to differentiate your home from the others on the market.  Once a buyer has chosen the location and the price range for which they're willing to pay you can be assured that they will be looking at several units and not just one. 

Home Staging provides the greatest opportunity to help make your home memorable to the prospective buyers.  Case in point; here's a note I received from the sellers of a condo I had staged.

She was looking to purchase an empty three bedroom unit.  Then saw our two bedroom unit that had been staged and fell in love with it.  I can't give you enough praise for all your staging talent.  If this deal goes through, Bob and I agree you are the one to receive the credit.  We certainly couldn't have done it without you.  This has really shown me the true power of staging.

Here are a few pictures taken after we had staged their home:

HomeStagingAtlanta.com offers affordable solutions in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge of what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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One of the nicest compliments a home stager can receive is when their client contacts them to let them know that the prospective buyer wants everything used in the home staging.  I've had the good fortune of receiving that request on a number of different occasions and each time I feel completely honored.

In this particular case, it may boil down to the shower curtain used in the condo I had staged.

Here's a portion of the note I received from the homeowner last night. 

The buyer wants us to leave the shower curtain.  She loves it!!  Please let me know so we can include it or exclude it in the counter we're going to make before 3:00 tomorrow.

After telling her that I would gladly provide the shower curtain at no charge, here was her response:

Thanks for being so understanding about the shower curtain.  It's funny what people fall in love with.  That just proves how important staging is.

I think she's right. 

Kathy

HomeStagingAtlanta.com offers affordable solutions in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge of what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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I had the good fortune of staging the most adorable home on Friday of last week in Smyrna, Georgia.  The home was filled with wonderful accessories; great lamps and awesome furniture.  The couple, Jeff & Tracey, had hired me a year ago to stage an investment home that they had rennovated.  It was a great move as they had two offers during their open house and the house had closed in just 2.5 weeks. 

The reason why I was there on Friday is that they were now putting their own home on the market.  They had made some great decisions with respect to the changes they thought would be important to a buyer.  Here's what they decided upon:

• Remodeled their master bathroom with a wonderful tile (shower and flooring).
• Painted molding and walls throughout most of the home
• Had the Home Staged

So why was the third item (home staged) such an important decision?  While it was obvious that she was comfortable with decorating, she was unsure as to what changes they needed to make to further showcase their home.

Here are a few of the changes we made:

• Re-arranged the living room to highlight the amount of space.
• Removed most of the personal pictures. 
• Removed a pub table located in the sun-room
• Removed an over-size dresser in their bedroom as it made the room appear smaller.

Understanding what changes need to be made can sometimes be a challenge for homeowners.  The best advice is to seek out a professional who understands what needs to be removed; added and/or changed.

We have a professional photographer coming in this week so, when I receive the after pictures, I'll be sure to provide an update to this post.

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Home Staging Atlanta offers affordable solutions in getting your home ready for the market.  Serving home sellers, agents, builders and investors, they have the experience, skills and inventory to help make your home and/or listing stand-out from the others on the market.

With their extensive portfolio, you'll quickly learn that they have the expertise and knowledge of what it takes to make a home shine.  Need furniture and accessories?  No problem.  Their specialties are with vacant homes and model home staging.

For a free no-obligation appointment, contact them today.

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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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