Atlanta Georgia Home Staging : August 2009

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Kitchens- Part IV

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Kitchens- Part IV

Whether you're selling your home in Atlanta Georgia, or selling in your home in Portland Oregon - part of the formula for a successful quick sale (yes, there are other ingredients which are critically important. For more information on what those are, visit this post: How This Home Sold in One Week) is ensuring your home stands out from the others on the market.

A key room to many buyers is the kitchen. Considered the "heart of the home", buyers know that they will be spending an incredible amount of time cooking and entertaining in this room. Therefore, buyers pay particular attention to this room.

As a professional home staging expert in Atlanta, my job is to identify the challenges and create the solutions.

Here are a few examples of our Atlanta Home Staging solutions we implemented for these kitchens:

The Challenge: Despite it's bright green colored walls, this kitchen lacked appeal.

Kitchen before being professionally home staged

The Home Staging Solution: Under the advice of Georgia Interior Solutions (homestagingatlanta.com) this kitchen (along with other rooms in the home) went through a major transformation. For the kitchen we chose the flooring, counter top and paint color. We also recommended the florescent light be changed to canned lighting. As you can see, the kitchen now has a much more modern look and feel. Results - under contract in two weeks.

Kitchen after picture

The Challenge: The homeowner knew how important a first great impression is but lacked the accessories and know-how on where to begin.

Kitchen Before being home staged

The Home Staging Solution: Selective accessories help to showcase this kitchen.

Chastain kitchen before picture

The Challenge: The light bulb is out. Okay, just kidding. The builder had added a few accessories hoping to have an impact on the buyer.

Kitchen before picture

The Home Staging Solution: Using the right amount of accessories and adding stools to the countertop now allows the buyer to envision living in the home.

Home Staging Kitchen Before Picture

To see the other "challenges" and "home staging solutions" in this series visit:

Part I - Home Staging Atlanta - Living Rooms Before and After Pictures

Part II - Home Staging Atlanta - Occupied Homes

Part III - Home Staging Atlanta - Bathrooms Before and After Pictures

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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392.

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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 • August 22 2009 08:52AM

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Bathrooms - Part III

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Bathrooms - Part III

In continuation in my series Home Staging Atlanta Before and After Pictures what's become obvious is that sellers face a variety of challenges when selling their homes. In this market, it's important to ensure the right kind of solutions are implemented that will help make a difference. The value in having your home professional staged is that home stagers see the challenge and create the solution to help sell the home more quickly. At HomeStagingAtlanta.com, we have the perfect solutions.

Here's a review of some of the challenges with bathrooms along with the home staging solution we implemented:

The Challenge: With its' hefty price tag given the location of this home, the potential buyers weren't impressed.

Bathroom before being professionally home staged

The Home Staging Solution: Beyond adding a few accessories, we recognized that there were a few renovations that would help the sellers get their asking price. The home staging solutions we recommended: change the countertop, change the faucets and light fixtures and add a frame to the mirror. The results - the home, on the market two years, was under contract in 2 weeks after staging.

Bathroom After Home Staging

The Challenge: This guest bathroom, seldom used, ended up being a place to store extra items.

Bathroom before being professionally staged

The Home Staging Solution: As you can see, removing the items alone helped tremendously. In addition, the use of the white/cream accessories brought out a more polished look.

Bathroom After Picture

The Challenge: Plain and boring; hardly making it a bathroom the buyers would emotionally connect to.

Bathroom before being professionally staged

The Home Staging Solution: We added just a few "select" pieces to help warm up the space.

Bathroom after being professionally home staged

For a review of my first two post in the series, visit Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Pictures Living Rooms, and Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Occupied Homes

And for those looking for tips on changes you can make in your own bathroom, here's an excerpt from a post I had written back in October of 2008.

How to add more style and luxury to your bathroom:

Indulge: Add decorative towels and hand towels. Fresh new towels displayed over the bathtub and on the bathroom counter will help set a mood of luxury and indulgence.
Slip Into Comfort: Add a pair of slippers next to the bathtub as it will serve as a reminder that there's warmth and comfort when you step out of that bubble bath.
Take it Off the Hook: Instead of hanging a robe on a hook, purchase a nice wooden hanger. It's an easy solution that adds a touch of luxury.
Plush It Up: From fluffy bath mats to fluffy towels, adding layers of softness adds a more cozy feel.
Fancy that: How you display your items has an overall impact on how the room feels. Glass containers to house your bath crystals, soaps, etc... add instant style to your room.

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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392.

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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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12 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • August 20 2009 10:38AM

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Occupied Homes Part II

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Occupied Homes

In my first post in the series, Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Picture, I shared the challenges, along with the home staging solutions our company implemented for living rooms with awkward layouts.

While the layout of a room can in fact have its' fair share of challenges for sellers and buyers, the occupied home owner faces a host of unique challenges tied to selling their home.

Here's a list of some of those struggles as they begin preparing their home for the market:

Most don't know where to begin.
The process seems overwhelming
They've grown so accustom to their things and the way they currently have the room laid out that they can't envision it any other way

As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I understand just how frustrating the process can be for sellers. Fortunately, we offer a host of home staging solutions that can and do overcome the challenges.

Here's a small sample of some of the occupied homes we've staged with the unique challenge and the home staging solution we implemented:

The Challenge: Given how important a master bedroom is when selling, you want buyers to emotionally connect with this room. In the case of this room, there's nothing too engaging that would make this room memorable to the potential buyer.

Master bedroom before being professionally home staged

The Home Staging Solution: We set out to make this bedroom a room they would remember. In the design plan, we knew we needed to implement a plan that would tie everything together. We began with the bedding and kept with the use of black and white accents to coincide with the black and white marble in the fireplace.

Master bedroom picture after home staging

The Challenge: This sitting room resides in the master bedroom and as you can see, managed to become a "collection of stuff."

The Home Staging Solution: As you can see from the following after picture, we brought the area back to its' original purpose. Now buyers can actually envision enjoying their first cup of coffee, or better yet, snuggling up next to a roaring fire reading a book.

Sitting Room after being professionally staged

The Challenge: This keeping room is located off one of the key rooms of the home, the kitchen. As a result, it too becomes an important room when selling. The challenge with this room is that it lacks a cohesive look. The chairs, with one being brown and the other beige, actually interrupts the visual flow of the room.

The Home Staging Solution: The second beige chair, which was found in another room within the home, adds an element of design to the room. The use of the red accents picks up the red from the round carpet help tie it all together. The result - a cohesive look and feel.

The Challenge: Note: This room is directly on the left as you enter the front door. As you can see, the homeowner has taken this formal living room and used it as an arts and crafts room for their children; which is fine when your home is not on the market. However, when selling, given the location of this room and the importance of a great first-impression, this room becomes critically important.

The Home Staging Solution: I'm often asked if this is truly the same room given just how big the transformation was. I can assure you that it is. With the room converted back to its' original purpose, we now appeal to a broad base of perspective buyers and not just those with kids.

The Challenge: The room is small to begin with and is being consumed by the foos ball table. In addition, from a visual perspective, the feature of the room, the fireplace, is partially blocked.

The Home Staging Solution: Using just the right amount of pieces and furniture scaled to the size of the room, buyers can now a) see the feature and b) are provided with a visually appealing room.

The Challenge: While the layout is right, the pieces are wrong. As you can see, the room below lacks in personality.

The Home Staging Solution: Using the same general layout, but different pieces (which, by the way, were in the home), we brought a cohesive look and feel to the room.

Home Staging Atlanta provides a variety of home staging solutions all designed to support YOU!

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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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 • August 18 2009 08:15AM

Home Staging Atlanta - Living Room Before and After Pictures

Home Staging Atlanta Before and After Pictures of Living Rooms

The following living rooms all had several things in common:

All are vacant
They all lack visual appeal
They left buyers confused and concerned

What I've discovered as a home stager in Atlanta is that most homes will have some unique challenge making it even more difficult for the buyers to connect with the home. My job is not only add visual interest with my home staging services in Atlanta, but I'm also tasked to overcome these challenges by creating unique solutions for each. It's the portion of the job I love most.

Whether it's a home, a town home or a condo, our Atlanta Home Staging services has helped sellers sell more quickly and assisted buyers with getting that ever-so-important emotional connection to the home.

Here's a review of the challenges, by room, and the Home Staging Atlanta solutions we implemented.

The Challenge: Long and narrow living room, when vacant, leaves the buyer wondering how to arrange their furniture.

Living room before being home staged

The Home Staging Solution: The room was divided into two parts with a sitting area at one end and the sofa and armoire at the other. The addition of furniture and accessories warms up the space and provides the prospective buyer with an instant solution with how to arrange their own furniture.

Living room after being professional home staged

The Challenge: A small living room. In addition, this is the room the potential buyers enter when seeing the home for the first time. When vacant, there's no great first impression.

Atlanta Home Staging Before Picture Living room

The Home Staging Solution: Dressed to impress. The addition of art, rug, furniture, etc... created a first great impression and helped sell this home quickly.

Atlanta Home Staging After Picture Living Room

The Challenge: A very small living room. Seated just off the kitchen, buyers weren't able to visualize how this space could accommodate their furniture.

Living room before being professionally staged by home staging Atlanta

The Home Staging Solution: With the addition of furniture and a layout that works well for this room, the room now appears visually larger.

Living room before being professionally home staged

The Challenge: Here we have an eat-in area and a living room combination. Buyers were struggling with how such little space could actually serve two purposes. Yes, that's me on the right side of the picture.

Living room before picture

The Home Staging Solution: Buyers now see clearly how this room can function as both a living area and eat-in kitchen.

Living room after being professionally home staged

The Challenge: This contemporary loft with the cement flooring appears cold.

Home Staging Atlanta Before picture living room

The Home Staging Solution: In keeping with the style of the home, we added solutions that truly show-case the space.

Living room after being home staged

The Challenge: A beautiful home, yet the living area appears small.

Living room before being professionally home staged

The Home Staging Solution: By bringing in two chairs, sofa, end table, coffee table, we demonstrated to the buyers that the space could accommodate the "typical" amount of furniture the prospective buyer would be bringing into the home.

Home Staging Atlanta After Picture living room

This is the first post in our series of Home Staging Atlanta Solutions.

At HomeStagingAtlanta.com we understand what it takes to help sell a home more quickly. Whether it's a house, a town home or a condo in Atlanta, our creative home staging solutions making selling the home less frustrating and easier.

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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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 • August 16 2009 09:42AM

1000 Point Challenge For The Rest Of Our Members.....'The Series'

Calling all Home Stagers - I'm re-blogging this post as we've got a great challenge getting underway (starts Friday, August 13th at 12:00 central) that provides us with an opportunity to further showcase what it is we do. The rules are specific so please be certain read them carefully. For example: If you want to participate, go to Bob's blog post and leave a link to the NAME OF YOUR SERIES and for each blog post you write in your series, provide the link and the post number.

As you'll see, Bob has provided an example of what the series for home stagers could consist of. I like this example for obvious reasons (smile).

Good luck to everyone!! And reminder - the challenge begins Friday, August 13th at 12:00 central.

Kathy

Via Bob Stewart - ActiveRain (ActiveRain):

I have run a series of 1000 point challenges for our members over the past few weeks. The first one was designed to get everyone writing about 'Hyper Local Neighborhoods and communities' in their market. The current one, set to end Wednesday August 12th is designed to get our members out meeting local business owners and giving them some internet exposure.

Really, anyone could participate in these challenges, and we have many non real estate agents who have jumped on board and written about neighborhoods or local businesses in their market. I can certainly see, however, that these challenges are more specific to our real estate agent members.

So this time we are going to let our non real estate agent members get involved.

We have quite a variety of profile types on ActiveRain: Loan Officers, Home Stagers, Inspectors, Appraisers and many others. So after putting my head together with Steve and Janet and quite a few other people who have expressed an interest in participating in these challenges, I think we have come up with something so everyone else can get in on the points smogasbord.

The Challenge:

Over the next 14 days, I will be giving 1000 points per post for posts in a series designed to educate your local consumers about some component of your business.

SAY WHAT!?!?? That seems a little ambigious doesn't it? Yes, yes it does!

The problem is obvious......what theme or topic could I come up with that covers such a wide variety of businesses? So my theme is to write a series that highlights SOMETHING, ANYTHING. I don't care what you write about, but the series must have a theme and you must stay consistent with that theme.

Here are a few examples:

Home Stagers: If I was a home stager, one of the components I would want present in my blog would be a series dedicated to 'before and after' staging jobs of specific rooms. My seven part series (or if I only had time for five, my five part series) would consist of

Before and After Staging of a Kitchen

Before and After Staging of a Master Bedroom

Before and After Staging of a Children's bedroom

Before and After Staging of a Guest Bathroom

Before and After Staging of a Living Room

Before and After Staging of a Garage

Before and After Staging of a Den

I wouldn't just throw up some before and after pictures either. I would do a great job of explaining why the before pictures were an undesirable presentation of a particular room. Then in the after photos I would explain what we did to make the room a presentable room. I would create a series of blog posts that I would be PROUD to send to a potential client or referral partner showcasing my staging abilities.

Inspectors: If I was a Home Inspector, I would do a series of common issues that I come across when doing inspections in my market. The posts would have pictures of what to look for or what I see. There are a few inspectors that do this on a regular basis and their posts are outstanding information dedicated to their particular markets.

Loan Officers: If I was a loan officer I would do a series about the available loan products that I offer. I would even ask permission of some of my former clients who have used these products to allow me to use them (or their scenario) in the post in order to exemplify how this product was a good fit for their family. My seven part (or four parts if you don't have the time to do all seven) series might look something like this....

FHA Mortgages | Buying a home in Bellingham with a small downpayment and a short credit history

Reverse Mortgages | Using the equity in your Bellingham home to pay your mortgage

30 Year Fixed Mortgage | A traditional mortgage for your Belligham home purchase

USDA Home Loans | Does your Bellingham Home meet the requirements for a USDA Loan

(ok, ok.....three years ago I could have rattled off a ton more options and I know they are out there today......if you're a loan officer you know what they are)

Maybe I don't want to write about products because they change like the wind.......fine, write about Getting approved for a home loan. That would be a great series. Take each step and break it down so that a consumer can really get the details. Add in pitfalls that often trip an application at that point in the process. Include personal experiences of how not preparing to have your rental history verified led to a delay in funding. I don't care what you write about....you are much more qualified than I to understand what your consumers are in search of and what kinds of information they are most lacking.

What if I'm a real estate agent and I want to do a series? Go for it! Maybe you want to do a series on 'Getting Your Home Ready to Sell'. Or maybe you want to do one on 'The process of buying a home'. You could even use real life scenarios from a current client you are working with (with their permission of course).

What if I want to do a series helping real estate professionals understand email marketing? GREAT!! If your business is helping real estate agents, by all means, write a series of posts that caters to your strengths and your audience.

What if I want to do a series about nothing real estate related? I don't care.....but, I wouldn't advise it. The point is to get you conditioned to write blog posts that help your business. If you want to write a series about 'how to potty train your child', that's fine (and I will read every word as Kelan is currently leaning how to use the big boy potty.....but he's actually got the hang of it so I'll just be looking for tips on getting him to stop faking at bed time) but it's not really the point.

Here are the rules:

You can do one post every two days for 1000 points. The challenge will start on Thursday 13th at 12:00am Central Time (Central Time is what the AR clock runs on for stamping posts and comments) and the challenge will end on Wednesday August 26th at 11:59pm Central Time.

You must do at least 3 posts in order to qualify for the 1000 points for each post. Two posts isn't really a series. I thought about making it four, but I guess 3 is a series.

You must leave a link to each post in the comment section of this post (or the subsequent post I'm sure I will have to start once this post gets too slow).

In the comment section, when you leave your link, you need to leave the name of the series and a link to your post, for EVERY link you leave. PLEASE INCLUDE THE NAME TO YOUR SERIES. There will be some of you that have great ideas and I would like others to be able to use those ideas for their own series. If you don't want to share your idea for your series, you don't get to play!! Sharing is a cornerstone of ActiveRain.

Please keep track of which post in the series you are leaving a link for and leave the number in the comments. For example your comment might look like this: "Having the Perfect Tailgate Party for Your Seattle Seahawks Tailgate (I don't need to read this series, my people KNOW how to get DOWN!) http://activerain.com/........... (that's the links), post #4"

If you are not sure if your series will qualify, you didn't read the post close enough. I don't really care what you write about. I just want it to be a series. Write about something you are passionate about. Write about something that is going to help your clients. Write about something that is going to help your peers. Write about anything......as long as the posts have the same theme, and the name of your series imparts that theme, you should be fine. Feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly if you are unsure about anything I have written here. I only bite when asked 'where are my points' (and only if it's the 20th time I have heard the question for that particular day) and I promise to help you if you ask for the help.

(IMPORTANT: If you have not read Brad's post about writing to attract consumers and search engines, READ IT NOW!!! If you are not using the tips that Brad gives in this post you are only hurting yourself. I don't mean use them when you feel like it, or use them every now and then......USE THEM EVERY POST ALL THE TIME!!! They are that important. You should work this stuff into your series. Make sure to use geographic terms in your titles specific to your market! Do IT!! Don't ask questions!! Just do it!!! Don't be surprised, if I see you not using his advice, when I send you a message taking away points and reminding you. The loss of points pales in comparison to the loss of traffic and consumers if you aren't doing what Brad suggests in that post.)

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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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14 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • August 11 2009 07:59AM

Before & After Pictures - Home Staging Atlanta

Before & After Pictures of Home Staging in Atlanta

I was informed yesterday that the home pictured in this slide show has led to two contracts in less than a week. I couldn't be happier.

My objective with all of the homes I've staged in Atlanta, is to help them sell more quickly. Once we had the project completed, I knew with all the certainty in the world that we would have a direct impact in helping buyers to connect with the home.

So without further ado, here's a slide show of before and after pictures of the home we staged in Atlanta:

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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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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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12 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • August 05 2009 10:51AM

Model Home Staging in Atlanta Georgia

Model Home Staging in Atlanta, Georgia

Years ago, it was recommended that I NOT focus on model homes. Instead, it was suggested that I "leave that up to the interior decorating companies that exists as they're the pros." By golly, that was all I needed. Based on my success with home staging resale homes, I knew with all the certainty in the world that I could stage a model home.

I was right.

In the past four years, I've had the good fortune of staging many model homes throughout Atlanta. In fact, one of the homes was featured on the front page of the living section in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Prior to the article coming out, we had 9 homes under contract in less than 2 weeks.

So what made staging model homes a reality for my company?

I was on a mission. I knew that I could provide an cost effective solution that would save the builders and investors thousands of dollars.
I applied the same logic as I did with my home staging projects. Buyers need to emotionally connect with the home. Nothing new there.
I listened. Understanding the demographics of the buyer helped define what we would be bringing into the home.

Here are a couple of close-up pictures of some the accessories used:

Model Home Staging in Atlanta - close-up picture

Model Home Staging Atlanta - Kitchen counter

Our affordable rates make it perfect for staging model homes throughout Atlanta.

This model home resides in Bristol at Briarcliff in Dekalb County.

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 and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can also see one of her staged homes on HGTV's hit show 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. Contact them today for your free no-obligation appointment: 678 522 8392.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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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Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Kitchens- Part IV

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Bathrooms - Part III

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Occupied Homes Part II

Home Staging Atlanta - Living Room Before and After Pictures

1000 Point Challenge For The Rest Of Our Members.....'The Series'

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Before & After Pictures - Home Staging Atlanta

Model Home Staging in Atlanta Georgia