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Atlanta Home Staging Before & After Pictures

Atlanta Home Staging Before & After Pictures

It feels so good to help a seller sell their home more quickly. Our Atlanta Home Staging services are truly making an impact on how quickly a home sells. Case in point, this home featured in the post How this Atlanta Investor Sold His Home in 24 Hours is just one example. Another Atlanta investor we've been working with for the past few months is now on home number 5. Each of those homes have gone under contract in less than 2 weeks. We're now scheduled to do upwards of 10 homes per month beginning in January.

There's a formula for this success and it boils down to three main things:

  • Price
  • Marketing
  • Visual Appeal

The visual appeal is where home staging can help tremendously. Here's a before and after picture of the home we staged just yesterday in Atlanta:

Vacant Home Staging in Atlanta
Vacant Home Staging in Atlanta


Atlanta Home Stager After Picture

Home Stager Atlanta Before Picture

Whether you're an investor, real estate agent, homeowner or investor, we have the perfect solutions available to help sell your home more quickly.

How to Showcase Your Bathroom For Less than $100

How to Showcase Your Bathroom For Less than $100

We're all looking for low-cost solutions and I have a few up my sleeve that can help tremendously. As a professional home stager serving the Atlanta, GA area, I've seen these tips implemented with great success.

A trip to a local home improvement store and a discount home decor store and for less than $100.00, you can easily help transform your bathroom and help turn it into a showcase of a room.

Here are a few low cost solutions:

  • Re-caulk - One of the easiest and least costly items is to remove the old caulk and replace with new. A tube should cost approximately $6.00 and can be used to caulk around the sink and bathtub. You're going to be amazed at just how big of a difference it will make.
  • Toilet Seats - Replacing the seat will create a fresh clean look. Replacement costs can vary greatly. A low cost solution wBathroom Sinkould be approximately $12.00
  • Cleaning Supplies - Removing the film from shower doors, bathtubs, sinks, etc... will help make the bathroom shine. Approximate cost $15.00. But don't stop there. Cleaning the faucets and mirrors will further make it shine.
  • Replace Towels - showcasing a set of fresh and fluffy towels will make the room inviting and welcoming. Two bath towels and two hand towels can be purchased at discount home decor stores for less than $25.00.
  • Store your personal hygiene items - a real simple solution is to purchase plastic bins that you can then store under the sink. Approximate cost - $4.00 per basket.
  • Replace shower curtain and hooks - small change, big reward. Shower curtains (and nice ones at that) can be purchased for as low as $7.00. Hooks can range from $5.00 to $10.00
  • Replace light switch covers - Another extremely low cost solution that can truly make a difference. Approximate cost $3.00 per switch.
  • Paint - A simple, yet very effective solution is to paint the walls. The average bathroom should take no more than a gallon of paint. And while paint prices can vary greatly by product and by store, a real low-cost solution is to look in the oopsie section. The oopsie section contains paint that, for whatever reason, didn't turn out to the customer's satisfaction. A gallon of paint typically goes for $5.00 a gallon

In addition to the solutions above, there are some no-cost solutions that will also help. Here are a few tips to further help transform your bathroom:

  • Remove toilet seat covers
  • Toss all items under the sink that you no longer need or use.
  • Wash floor rugs
  • Shop within your own home for artwork that you can use in the bathroom

These tips on how to showcase your bathroom for less than $100.00 were brought to you by your friendly Atlanta Home Stager, Kathy Nielsen. In my next blog, I'll be sharing low-cost solutions for the kitchen. Stay tuned....

How This Atlanta Investor Sold His Home In 24 Hours

How This Atlanta Investor Sold His Home In 24 Hours

As a professional home stager in Atlanta, I've had the distinct pleasure of working with many investors. What I've discovered is that most have worked staging into the budget - resulting in home after home getting professionally staged. It's truly a win-win proposition for everyone involved; including the buyer. The investor sells more quickly, the agent on the listing leverages the fact that the home looks great and the buyer is provided with solutions on how to decorate their new home.

In the case of this home, the investor had me stage on a Thursday and the following day the home went under contract. Here's precisely what he did:

  • He used a great agent
  • He priced it right
  • He made the home look beautiful thru home staging

Now here are a few photos of the home as it appeared to the buyers:

Master Bedroom After Home Staging:

Home Staging After Picture Master Bedroom

Bathroom After Home Staging:

Home Staging After Picture - Bathroom

Living Room After Home Staging:

Home Staging After Picture - Living Room

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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.

Why Stage An Already Decorated Home?

Why Stage An Already Decorated Home?

In minutes from now, I'll be heading out the door to stage a home in Smyrna, Georgia that has appeared in multiple magazines. Yes, the home that beautiful. From the outside in, it is a home I haven't stopped "gushing" about. This home has some of most incredible pieces of furniture and accessories that it simply blows me away.

So, why has my company, HomeStagingAtlanta.com been called in to home stage this home? Because it absolutely needs it and needs me. Yes, you read that correctly. The seller knows it's a must as well.

Here's a list of the challenges we face:

  • There are so many accessories that none of the true features of the home are standing out
  • The furniture, in its' current arrangement, is perfect for living. However, for selling - not so good
  • The furniture pieces in this home tend to lean towards the "large" size. As a result, we need to pare it down as the items are consuming the real estate the room has to offer
I'm also super anxious about today because I had been asked to arrange for a real estate agent to see the home as well. In other words, he asked if I knew of any good real estate agents that I could recommend. I have the perfect agent who is meeting us at the home at 10:00 this morning. I can't wait for her to see it and even more anxious to have her see it when we've completed the staging.

Stay tuned.... I hope to be able to post some before and after pictures as early as this weekend.

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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.

The Effectiveness of Home Staging

The Effectiveness of Home Staging

I read an interesting blog post this morning written by a Broker/Realtor by the name of Loreena Yeo. In it, she describes a home in Texas that would have a much easier time of getting their desired price if they would only seek the advice of a professional home stager and an agent that believes in the value of staging. You can read the entire post here. As a professional home stager in Atlanta, Georgia, I couldn't agree more. I've had the great privilege of working with many home sellers and have not only helped them obtain their desired price but also have helped them sell more quickly.

Case in point, this town home, pictured below, had sat on the market for 2 years. The frustration the homeowners had experienced had reached an all time high. With reason. Two years is an incredibly long time for a home to sit. The agent who had this listing had used us in the past and had recommended that they have the home professionally staged.

In the initial visit, I entered the home using the buyers-eye. My objective is to try and emulate the same experience the potential buyers were experiencing. In this particular home, I simply wasn't connecting with the home on an emotional level. The home was empty; void of anything that would allow me to envision living here.

After we staged the home, I remember locking the door behind me and knowing with all the certainty in the world that we'd be de-staging this home soon. I was right. The home went under contract in less than 8 weeks after we staged it.

Here's how the home looked before and after:

Living Room professionally home staged

Vacant Living Room

This is what the potential buyers were seeing when they toured the home.

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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.