Atlanta Georgia Home Staging

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.

Are Your Photos Separating You From the Pack?

By now, we've all know how critically important photos can be in helping to sell a home more quickly. What may not be as well known is how handy a little site called Picnik can be.

The following picture was enhanced using Picnik.

Here are the steps I had taken to enhance the photo:

  • Framed the shot with a shadow and then did another frame to create the small white border.
  • Added text (HomeStagingAtlanta.com) in the upper right hand corner
  • Reduced the exposure as the photo ended up being a tad bit over exposed.

These simple changes took less than 5 minutes to make. 

Given how important photos are to agents and to home stagers, these small changes can truly help enhance your photos. 

 

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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.

 

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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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18 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • July 15 2009 08:46AM

Getting it Right Matters!

 

Capturing the right photo is critically important to me.  As a home staging professional I use them in a number of different ways:

  • I pass them over to the agent and homeowner for their use in marketing the home
  • I use them on my web site (click here to see my portfolio)
  • I use them in my on-line marketing efforts (i.e., blog posts)
And the list goes on....

The truth of the matter is that I don't always get it right the first go-around. In the case of this home, which had been on the market for 18 months prior to being home staged and sold after staging in 2 months (yes, staging can help sell a home more quickly), I decided to re-take some photos before de-staging the home. When I initially staged the home, I had the ISO level way too high.  Unfortunately, this caused a lot of noise in the pictures. Fortunately, they weren't too bad and the agent was able to use them.

So, here's one of the pictures I took yesterday.  As you can see, I didn't get it right the 2nd time either.  Here's what I mean:

 

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Yes, that's me in the mirror. Right after snapping this picture, I realized what I had done.  So, with absolutely no time constraints, I took several more.  

Here's the one that WILL be added to my portfolio:

Atlanta Home Stager After Picture - Dining room

Here are a couple more photos (same room, different angles):

Atlanta Home Stager After Picture - Dining room

Atlanta Home Stager After Picture - Dining room

The moral of the story?  Takes lots and lots of pictures and be careful of mirrors (smile).

 

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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.G


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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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34 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • May 12 2009 08:42AM