Atlanta Home Staging Company: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Home

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.

Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Home

We hear this quote often.  According to Giga Quotes John Howard Payne, an American actor, dramatic poet and song writer, wrote this for a song in "Clari, the Maid of Milan" titled Home Sweet Home.  The quote actually begins with 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.'

This quote has always resonated with me for a variety of reasons.  As a little girl, our family was poor.  Actually, we were extremely poor.  Bread bags with rubber bands served as boots to cover our shoes in the winter.  Rent, as we could never own anything, was a whopping 60.00 a month.  Despite what we didn't have in our lives, we did have a home.  I look back at that period in my life and often times wonder how my mom was able to keep it together.  Were there school pictures of us on the walls?  No.  With 5 children, school pictures were too costly. Were there accessories that occupied space on shelves?  No.  There was however, a roof over our heads. 

So, if you've made it this far into the blog, you're likely asking what does "my being poor" have to do with real estate.  Truth be told, it doesn't.  What it does share with you is the fact that as a home stager, I feel honored to be invited into your home; to share ideas and to implement changes to further enhance the home. 

For those who've given me the opportunity to stage your home; Thank You!  For those considering staging, I would be honored.

Kathy

Georgia Interior Solutions

Home Staging Atlanta - Kathy Nielsen - 678 522 8392

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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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16 comments • Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager • April 26 2007 09:30AM

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Thank you for sharing!  Great post.
Posted by Jim Crawford ~ Atlanta Real Estate-ABR E-PRO (RE/MAX Paramount Properties) about 5 years ago

Hi Kathy,

This is such a wonderful post - we have given you a 5!  As real estate professionals, we have to always remember that this is what we do for people.  We are there to assist them in their quest for home ownership and this should never be taken lightly.  Thanks for sharing your story with us!

Posted by Robert and Lisa Hammerstein, Realtors® Coldwell Banker, Pascack Valley Area (Bergen County New Jersey Homes For Sale 201-218-6802) about 5 years ago

WOW! You have truely been blessed! You had humble beginnings, but now you are a professional business woman who owns her own business! You are an inspiration!

I do understand you point. I grew up with humble beginnings also. There were five kids in a 2BR/1BA mill house. Dad worked in the "cotton mill" while mom took care of the house. Dad had a fifth grade education so he made minimum wage. We had dried beans and biscuits mostly for dinner. I remember telling myself I was not going to eat dry beans and biscuits when I grow up. Wrong! It is one of my favorite meals!

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Posted by Michael Thompson, MBA (CENTURY 21 Anderson Properties, Inc.) about 5 years ago

Jim - Thank you!

Lisa and Robert -  I'm honored that you rated this a 5.  Thank you!

Michael - I feel very blessed as I'm sure you do as well.  Perhaps this gave us strength to take the bull by the horns and make things happen; I'm not really sure.  I do know this, I wouldn't go back in time and change a thing.  I am who I am given the uphill climb!  Thanks for commenting.

Kathy

Posted by Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager (Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC) about 5 years ago

Kathy,

Thanks for the post and the professional manner in which you referenced the quote.

Posted by James Frazier (James Frazier Personal Development Coach) about 5 years ago
Awesome post Kathy.  I had a similar youth and will always be thankful to my parents for the sacrifices they made for my sisters and I.  I hope you like the AR suggestions I emailed you and I hope you will be blessed.
Posted by George Tallabas - Idaho Real Estate (RE/MAX Advantage) about 5 years ago

Thanks, George.  And yes, I received your suggestions and they are awesome!  Thanks for sending them to me.

Kathy

Posted by Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager (Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC) about 5 years ago

Hi Kathy, I too grew up that way.  My dad was enlisted Navy.  They didn't take care of their own then, and they don't now.  But we had a roof, food, clothes, and love.  Thats all we needed back then.  Now look at us.  Will we ever have enough?  I set my business up with low pricing, just so I could help people who don't have much, and maybe need to sell to get out from under high mortgage payments.  I love doing their houses. 

Terry Haugen - STAGE it RIGHT!

Posted by Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495 (Stage it Right!) about 5 years ago
Great information!  I have always believed that staggers make a huge difference with selling properties.  Keep up the great information! 
Posted by Generation Mortgage | Reverse Mortgage Bank | (Generation Mortgage - Reverse Mortgage Bank) about 5 years ago

That's admirable, Terry.  I too love to help people with tight budgets.

Thanks, Eric (Open Home Mortgage).

Kathy 

 

Posted by Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager (Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC) about 5 years ago
My Dad left school to work and take care of the rest of his large family of 8.  He worked in the mines & when laid off -on road constructions jobs.My siblings & I all went to & graduated from college plus, by working our way through. We are all hard workers tho, he left us that Legacy & that was better than $.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) about 5 years ago
Thank you for the post, we all need to stop and remember that we are priveledged to be able to go into peoples homes everyday.  This post is very true.
Posted by Letitia Granum (Stage It Today) about 5 years ago
Kathy what a wonderful post and a true reflection on how you feel about the priviledge of working with your clients. You are obviously sensitive to your client's needs and it shows - a necessary ingredient in this business that we all need to have.
Posted by Karen Otto, Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging www.homestarstaging.com (Home Star Staging) about 5 years ago
Nice to know that other people come from such humble beginnings as I did.  While I might not have understood and appreciated as much then, I surely do now.  Makes me proud to have had a mother that loved us so much.  I would trade any and everything to just have her back.
Posted by Sybil Holcomb (Ayres Realty) almost 5 years ago
Kathy, thank you for sharing that part of yourself here. I agree with you about it being an honor to be invited into a person's home.  This post was very touching.
Posted by Karen Otto, Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging www.homestarstaging.com (Home Star Staging) almost 5 years ago

Thanks Sybil and Karen!!

Kathy 

 

Posted by Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager (Georgia Interior Solutions, LLC) almost 5 years ago

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