Atlanta Home Staging Company

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.

I'm Stuck on a Title So... I'm Using This One

 

I've just spent 45 minutes coming up with 18 different titles for this post. NOT KIDDING. And... I can't think of a single one that would work. This isn't the first time it's happened. I've been known to create a post, put it in draft and come back to it because I couldn't think of a title. Poor me, I know.
 
I've been around long enough to know the value of creating an SEO-friendly title. So, sure, I could have the title read "Atlanta Home Gets Home Staged." Or, "How This Atlanta Home Stager Helps Draw the Buyers In." I have similar titles on previous blogs so... I didn't want to go there.
 
So, here's the blog post with that absolutely silly title:
 
Kitchen before home staging: It's a photo that "may" draw the buyers off the Internet and into the home. But... why settle on "may." You're trying to sell the home, right?

DR Kitchen Before Home Staging

Here's the home after being professional home staged by Atlanta's best home stager (done for SEO purposes, (smile).

Dining Room Kitchen After Picture

And because I love giving homeowners photos that are outside of the norm, I shot this one:

Detail Shot

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

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Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

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Beat Out The Competition - An Atlanta Condo Gets Staged

Condos can sometimes be difficult to sell. And when vacant, it sure makes it a little bit more of a challenge. Add to that that there are likely several units for sale and you've got some stiff competition.

One of the reasons why home staging is so effective is that it allows the buyer to further envision themselves living in the home. You're not leaving the buyer to use their imagination as to where they'll eat, where they will sit, etc.

Home Staging also provides solutions as to how they could layout their own furniture. 

The following are before and after pictures of a recent condo we staged in Atlanta. 

Atlanta Condo before home staging

 

LR After Home Staging

DR and LR After Home Staging

LR After Home Staging

Master Bathroom Before Home Staging

Master Bathroom After Home Staging

DR Detail Shot

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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Home Staging in Marietta Georgia - My backyard

Home Staging in Marietta Georgia - My backyard

We home stage all over metro Atlanta but in the case of this home, it was a mere 3.4 miles from my own home. What a treat!

Another treat (and yes, this day was full of them) is that I had Iran Watson, Atlanta's best real estate photographer scheduled to shoot this home. Turns out that Iran knows the Atlanta investor and didn't know that I staged all of his Atlanta investment properties. In fact, Iran, impressed with my work, tried to convince this Atlanta investor to switch stagers. The investor turned to Iran and said: "I love my home stager and I'm not switching." Finally, it was revealed that the home stager was me. Too funny. 

The icing on the case is that I had the assistance of my twin sister, Kerry, with the staging. Her home is a mere 1.5 miles away and she happened to have had a vacation day. 

This vacant home went through an incredible transformation. Here's how the living room/kitchen eat-in appeared.

Home Staging Atlanta Before Picture:

LR Before Home Staging

Home Staging Atlanta After Picture:

LR After home staging

The following were also taken by Iran Watson, a Real Estate Agent in Marietta and an Atlanta Real Estate Photographer. I just had to include these two detail photos as they look to me like they belong in a magazine. Nice job, Iran.

Exterior lights photo taken by Iran Watson

Shower faucet

Home Staging in Marietta was an absolute treat!

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

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Email:  Kathy@HomeStagingAtlanta.com  

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Home Selling Challenges And Solutions (Before and After Pictures Included)

Home Selling Challenges And Solutions (Before and After Pictures Included)

As an Atlanta home stager, I transform homes. Whether they're occupied or vacant, my objective is to showcase the space as well as the features the home has to offer.

When called into this occupied home, I was able to recognize some of the challenges right off the bat. Here's a quick review of some of those challenges and the solution we created for each:

Living room: This picture was taken right off the entrance. Notice in the picture that I'm looking at the back of a love seat?

Living room before home staging

Living room after: As you can see, we removed the love seat and replaced it with a leather accent chair. We also replaced the coffee table and end tables to help pick up the black in the fireplace. We also changed up the accessories and here's how it looks now.

Living room after home staging

Master bedroom before. The challenge - while the window treatment was the perfect color for this room, it added some additional weight to the room that just wasn't needed. 

Master bedroom before home staging

Master bedroom after: The solution - we removed the window treatment, mirror swapped out the bedding, added lamps and a few accessories.

Master bedroom after home staging

Dining room before: First, my apologies for the quality of this before picture. I simply didn't have my flash on and had to adjust in a photo editor. The challenge for this particular room is that the dark furniture and the large china cabinet (although I loved it) consumed this room.

Dining room before home staging

Dining room after: By removing the china cabinet and replacing the dining room table, the room has a much more open feel to it.

Dining room after home staging

Close-up:

 

dining room table close-up

If you're a home seller and are experiencing similar challenges, your best bet is to call upon a professional home stager. If your home is located in or around Atlanta - feel free to contact me.

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

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A Little TLC, and Me!

My hat goes off to this Atlanta homeowner! Despite his frustrations, given that his house was on the market for such a long time, he took my advice and made the necessary changes (i.e., paint, replace light fixtures, countertop, remove wallpaper, etc.) and wow what a difference. I call that a little TLC.

Sure, it looks plain (as you'll see in the before pictures below) but... he didn't stop there. That's where the "ME" comes in. A home stager in Atlanta (or, sometimes called House Stager). A neighbor, who had used me to sell a home last year and happened to have kept my contact information, was kind enough to pass over my information. 

Here's the office as it appeared this morning:

Office before home staging

Here's how it looked when we were done:

Office after home staging

Living room before:

Living room before home staging

Living room after:

Living room after home staging

And a close-up.

Coffee table close-up

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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When Preparing Your Home For Sale - Aim for a Cohesive Look

When Preparing Your Home For Sale - Aim for a Cohesive Look

As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I'm often asked by sellers what "look" they should aim for that works well when selling a home.

The short answer is to when possible, keep it as consistent throughout. Why? Let's use paint color as our example. Let's say that the living room is a celery green, the dining room is red and the kitchen is yellow. Each time you introduce a "new" color, your eye stops, registers the new color (all subconsciously) and carries on. With the use of one color, there is no stopping. Your eye continues to flow and as a result, can help make the space appear "visually" larger. 

Yesterday, while staging this home in Austell, Georgia for an Atlanta investor - the walls were all painted the same color. So... what I elected to do is to carry that thought process of "keeping things consistent" with using like-colors in the furniture and accessories throughout.

Here are a few of the before and after pictures.

Living room before home staging.

Living Room Before Home Staging

Living room after home staging

Living Room after home staging

Guest Bedroom:

Guest Bedroom Before home staging

Guest Bedroom after home staging

Guest Bathroom Before Staging:

Guest Bathroom Before Home Staging

 

Guest Bathroom

 

 

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

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Atlanta Home Staging - Same House. Second Time Staging

 

A couple of years ago, I had the distinct pleasure of home staging this home in Atlanta, Georgia. I remember the agent calling me only a few weeks later with the good news that the home was under contract. We were all pleased.  

Fast forward two years.... the owners received confirmation that they would be moving to California for a job transfer.  They were so impressed with how the home looked when they made the purchase that they wanted the same home stager (me) to stage the home.

I suppose this was bound to happen as I've been professionally staging homes throughout Atlanta for almost 5 years. And for those that may be wondering if it's a new agent or not - they are using the same one who originally listed two years ago. 

Here's the home as it appeared two years ago when I first staged it.

Home Staging Atlanta After Picture Kitchen

Here's how it looks now, after the 2nd staging. Please note that the following is NOT a picture I had taken. After having staged the home, the owners were having cleaning people brought in to do a thorough cleaning. I'll be back this week to take my own photos and will post a few other rooms.

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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Home Staging for an Atlanta Investor

Home Staging for an Atlanta Investor

 

I was a busy bee this morning with staging this home for an Atlanta investor. I'm pleased to say that all went well. The investor met me at the house as I was taking pictures.  She loves how the home came out.  So do I (smile). 

Here are some before and after pictures:

 

Kitchen before:  As you can see, it's a beautiful kitchen

Home Staging Atlanta Kitchen Before Picture

Kitchen after:  Here's how Home Staging Atlanta helps to capture the buyers on an emotional level:

Atlanta Home Staging After Picture Kitchen

 

 

Living Room Before:  It's hard to tell that this is the living room. The pictures on MLS left the buyers guessing.

Home Staging Atlanta Living Room Before

 

Living Room After: This new look eliminates the guessing game.

Atlanta Georgia Home Staging After Picture - Living room

Close-up of Island:  I just loved how this turned out.  Notice my signature green apples?

Atlanta Georgia Home Staging Close-up

Home Staging homes for Atlanta investors, flippers, REO's, homeowners, agents and the list goes on. Give us a call! We're here to help you sell your home quickly!

To see other examples of our work, visit our website: HomeStagingAtlanta.com

 

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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A Prospective Buyer Pays A Visit DURING Staging

Last week, while staging this town home (see below), we had a prospective buyer pay a visit.  She happened to be viewing the home next door which was also on the market.  I had been introduced to the potential buyer via the agent who was showing her that home. That agent had offered to show me her listing so that I could see the difference in floor plans.  She also made mention that her listing was already "partially staged."  I couldn't wait to go in.  My excitement quickly vanished when I entered.  It turns out that her definition of "partially staged" equates to a rug and a floor plant for the living room.  Dumbfounded, I excused myself. But, I digressed.

The prospective buyer stayed for approximately 10 minutes in the home next door.  When she made the visit to the home we were staging, she stayed for almost 20 minutes.  Why the difference?  

  • Because she had someone to talk to?  No, that's not it.  She had the listing agent there to engage in conversation inside the other home.
  • Could it have been the price?  No.  Both were priced at equal amounts.
  • Could it have been that we (me and my assistant) have awesome and incredible personalities?  Not likely.  But... for those wondering, we do have great personalities (smile).
So... what I truly believe, based on her vast amount of compliments, is that staging gave the home more interest; more things to view, to touch, and allowed her to visually take stake, on an emotional level, in the home.  Adding furniture and accessories can truly make a difference in how the home appears.

Here are a few pictures:

Before Picture of living room area:

Home Staging Atlanta Georgia Before Picture

Here's the same room after we staged:

Home Staging Atlanta Georgia After Picture

And here's the room at a slightly different angle:

Home Staging Atlanta Georgia After Picture

And while I don't have a "before" picture to accompany the following picture (see below), I did like how the picture came out.

Home Staging Atlanta Georgia After Picture

To ensure I captured the size of the kitchen, I sent the following picture to the agent for his use.

Home Staging Atlanta Georgia After Picture

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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.  Kathy Nielsen, Owner and Principle Design Specialist is considered an expert in the field of home staging.  Her expertise has landed her on the pages of Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Home Improvement; Atlanta Business ChronicleAtlanta Journal Constitution and will soon have 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 expertise and knowledge on what it takes to make your home and/or listing appeal to the prospective buyers.  

 

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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