Atlanta Home Staging Company: January 2011

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.

Should You Change the Purpose of a Room When Selling?

Should You Change the Purpose of a Room When Selling?

As a home stager in Atlanta, this happens to be one of the most frequently asked questions I'm asked. So... here's my advice.

The short answer - yes.

The long answer is that there are variables that play into that decision. Here are a few:

 

  • Understand the demographics of the buyer. Young, old, with kids or without kids helps guide you.
  • Does the function of the room today fit across a broad base of prospective buyers?

 

What always makes sense is to ensure the room is displayed properly. In other words, if you have a bedroom that you're using for a storage room, now is the time to take and purge, redistribute and/or donate. 

Here's an example of a room that definitely served it's purpose for the homeowner when they were living in the home. Given that they had moved out, we were able to convert the room to a bedroom from a nursery.

Here's the before picture:

Bedroom before picture

Here's the after picture:

After Picture Bedroom

Home was on the market for almost 2 years without an offer. Converting this room and all the others in this home and the owner had a binding contract in 2 weeks.

 

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.

 

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26 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • January 20 2011 09:54AM

An Easy Way to Brand Yourself - Watermark your Photos Using Picnik

An Easy Way to Brand Yourself - Watermark your Photos Using Picnik

How important is branding? Extremely. And as a professional home stager in Atlanta, I understood, early on, how important it would be to ensure that anyone looking at my photos of my home stagings knew it was me, my company, that created the transformation. I also learned the hard way that when one fails to watermark, it can lead to bad things. They were snatched up and used as if they were the ones who created it. Shame on them and shame on me for not having "branded/watermarked" my photos. But I digress. 

This blog post will walk you through the steps using Picnik to watermark your photos. As you'll see, it's really easy.

First things first - log into your Picnik account. If you don't have one yet, go ahead and sign-up. It's FREE. They also offer a premium subscription at $24.95/yr. Well worth every penny.

Next, upload a photo either from your computer or from your library. Once you have the photo loaded, follow these steps as outlined below.

 

Instructions using Picnic

 

Instructions on how to create a watermark using Picnic

 

NOTE: Step 5 below should read "select your font."

 

Instructions on how to create a watermark using Picnic

 

Once you've added your text, save the photo. 

 

Here's what the finished product looks like:

 

Home Staging Atlanta Bathroom Accessory

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and I'll be sure to answer it.

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.

 

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Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

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15 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • January 15 2011 08:29AM

Home Staging with my "Lucky Charms"

Home Staging with my "Lucky Charms"

I started this blog with every intention of providing insight into just how important accessories are to showcasing a bathroom. It was suppose to be a follow-up like blog to the post from my post two days ago on Home Staging Kitchens. But as I gathered five of my favorite bathroom pictures from the homes I've staged throughout Atlanta, two things jumped out: 1) Three of the five photos I had chosen had one common accessory item used. It's the three small glass vases with the single stem. 2) All five photos were of homes that had received binding contracts within one to two weeks of staging. 

Looking back at these three photos, I do remember specifically choosing those vases because a) I like them and b) I had used them in other homes with great success.

So, here's my question to home stagers everywhere - Do you have your own "lucky charm" items that you use?

Here's a little history on each of these homes:

Home Staging Roswell, Georgia - This home had sat on the market for two years without a single offer. After home staging,  they received two contracts within the first two weeks. 

Bathroom after home staging

Home Staging Mablelton, Georgia - Sitting vacant for 8 months, we brought in furniture and accessories and had this home under contract in the first week.

Bathroom after home staging

Home Staging Sandy Springs - This was another home that had sat on the market for almost two years. Homeowners had moved and were paying two mortgages. With minor renovations and our home staging, the home was viewed the day the agent was hammering the For Sale sign in the yard.

Bathroom After Being Home Staged

 

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.

 

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Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

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14 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • January 11 2011 09:12AM

Home Staging Your Kitchen - Before and After Pictures Included

I recently had the good fortune of mentoring a couple of home stagers here in Atlanta. In one of our sessions,  we found ourselves discussing the importance of a kitchen as it relates to the buyer. They had printed off instructions from a website on how to stage a kitchen. The advice, according to this site was to remove everything off of the countertops. Period, end of sentence. 

As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I disagree with that advice. Here's why.

This is an example of what a kitchen looks like with nothing on the countertops:

Home Staging Atlanta Kitchen Before Picture

Here's the same kitchen (different angle) with accessories added.

Home Staging Atlanta Kitchen After

Here's another example of a kitchen we staged. In the case of this home, the homeowner had added a view pieces (yellow pitcher and silver tray in the corner).

Home Staging Atlanta - Kitchen Before Picture

Here's how it looked when we were finished. As you can see, we hand selected a few pieces to help make it more inviting.

Home Staging Atlanta Kitchen After Picture

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.

 

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Home Staging Website:  Home Staging Atlanta

Before and After Pictures: Atlanta Home Staging Portfolio:

Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

Blog: Atlanta Home Staging

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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26 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • January 09 2011 01:34PM