Kathy Nielsen Atlanta Georgia Home Stager

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Kitchens- Part IV

Whether you're selling your home in Atlanta Georgia, or selling in your home in Portland Oregon - part of the formula for a successful quick sale (yes, there are other ingredients which are critically important. For more information on what those are, visit this post: How This Home Sold in One Week) is ensuring your home stands out from the others on the market.

A key room to many buyers is the kitchen. Considered the "heart of the home", buyers know that they will be spending an incredible amount of time cooking and entertaining in this room. Therefore, buyers pay particular attention to this room.

As a professional home staging expert in Atlanta, my job is to identify the challenges and create the solutions.

Here are a few examples of our Atlanta Home Staging solutions we implemented for these kitchens:

The Challenge: Despite it's bright green colored walls, this kitchen lacked appeal.

The Home Staging Solution: Under the advice of Georgia Interior Solutions (homestagingatlanta.com) this kitchen (along with other rooms in the home) went through a major transformation. For the kitchen we chose the flooring, counter top and paint color. We also recommended the florescent light be changed to canned lighting. As you can see, the kitchen now has a much more modern look and feel. Results - under contract in two weeks.

The Challenge: The homeowner knew how important a first great impression is but lacked the accessories and know-how on where to begin.

The Home Staging Solution: Selective accessories help to showcase this kitchen.

The Challenge: The light bulb is out. Okay, just kidding. The builder had added a few accessories hoping to have an impact on the buyer.

The Home Staging Solution: Using the right amount of accessories and adding stools to the countertop now allows the buyer to envision living in the home.

To see the other "challenges" and "home staging solutions" in this series visit:

Part I - Home Staging Atlanta - Living Rooms Before and After Pictures

Part II - Home Staging Atlanta - Occupied Homes

Part III - Home Staging Atlanta - Bathrooms Before and After Pictures

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.

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Bathrooms - Part III

In continuation in my series Home Staging Atlanta Before and After Pictures what's become obvious is that sellers face a variety of challenges when selling their homes. In this market, it's important to ensure the right kind of solutions are implemented that will help make a difference. The value in having your home professional staged is that home stagers see the challenge and create the solution to help sell the home more quickly. At HomeStagingAtlanta.com, we have the perfect solutions.

Here's a review of some of the challenges with bathrooms along with the home staging solution we implemented:

The Home Staging Solution: Beyond adding a few accessories, we recognized that there were a few renovations that would help the sellers get their asking price. The home staging solutions we recommended: change the countertop, change the faucets and light fixtures and add a frame to the mirror. The results - the home, on the market two years, was under contract in 2 weeks after staging.

The Challenge: This guest bathroom, seldom used, ended up being a place to store extra items.

The Home Staging Solution: As you can see, removing the items alone helped tremendously. In addition, the use of the white/cream accessories brought out a more polished look.

The Challenge: Plain and boring; hardly making it a bathroom the buyers would emotionally connect to.

The Home Staging Solution: We added just a few "select" pieces to help warm up the space.

For a review of my first two post in the series, visit Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Pictures Living Rooms, and Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Occupied Homes

And for those looking for tips on changes you can make in your own bathroom, here's an excerpt from a post I had written back in October of 2008.

How to add more style and luxury to your bathroom:

• Indulge: Add decorative towels and hand towels. Fresh new towels displayed over the bathtub and on the bathroom counter will help set a mood of luxury and indulgence.
• Slip Into Comfort: Add a pair of slippers next to the bathtub as it will serve as a reminder that there's warmth and comfort when you step out of that bubble bath.
• Take it Off the Hook: Instead of hanging a robe on a hook, purchase a nice wooden hanger. It's an easy solution that adds a touch of luxury.
• Plush It Up: From fluffy bath mats to fluffy towels, adding layers of softness adds a more cozy feel.
• Fancy that: How you display your items has an overall impact on how the room feels. Glass containers to house your bath crystals, soaps, etc... add instant style to your room.

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.

Home Staging Atlanta - Before and After Pictures Occupied Homes

In my first post in the series, Home Staging Atlanta Before & After Picture, I shared the challenges, along with the home staging solutions our company implemented for living rooms with awkward layouts.

While the layout of a room can in fact have its' fair share of challenges for sellers and buyers, the occupied home owner faces a host of unique challenges tied to selling their home.

Here's a list of some of those struggles as they begin preparing their home for the market:

• Most don't know where to begin.
• The process seems overwhelming
• They've grown so accustom to their things and the way they currently have the room laid out that they can't envision it any other way

Home Staging Atlanta Before and After Pictures of Living Rooms

The following living rooms all had several things in common:

• All are vacant
• They all lack visual appeal
• They left buyers confused and concerned

The Challenge: Long and narrow living room, when vacant, leaves the buyer wondering how to arrange their furniture.

The Home Staging Solution: The room was divided into two parts with a sitting area at one end and the sofa and armoire at the other. The addition of furniture and accessories warms up the space and provides the prospective buyer with an instant solution with how to arrange their own furniture.

The Challenge: A small living room. In addition, this is the room the potential buyers enter when seeing the home for the first time. When vacant, there's no great first impression.

The Home Staging Solution: Dressed to impress. The addition of art, rug, furniture, etc... created a first great impression and helped sell this home quickly.

The Challenge: A very small living room. Seated just off the kitchen, buyers weren't able to visualize how this space could accommodate their furniture.

The Home Staging Solution: With the addition of furniture and a layout that works well for this room, the room now appears visually larger.

The Challenge: Here we have an eat-in area and a living room combination. Buyers were struggling with how such little space could actually serve two purposes. Yes, that's me on the right side of the picture.

The Home Staging Solution: Buyers now see clearly how this room can function as both a living area and eat-in kitchen.

The Challenge: This contemporary loft with the cement flooring appears cold.

The Home Staging Solution: In keeping with the style of the home, we added solutions that truly show-case the space.

The Challenge: A beautiful home, yet the living area appears small.

The Home Staging Solution: By bringing in two chairs, sofa, end table, coffee table, we demonstrated to the buyers that the space could accommodate the "typical" amount of furniture the prospective buyer would be bringing into the home.

This is the first post in our series of Home Staging Atlanta Solutions.

At HomeStagingAtlanta.com we understand what it takes to help sell a home more quickly. Whether it's a house, a town home or a condo in Atlanta, our creative home staging solutions making selling the home less frustrating and easier.

Before & After Pictures of Home Staging in Atlanta

I was informed yesterday that the home pictured in this slide show has led to two contracts in less than a week. I couldn't be happier.

My objective with all of the homes I've staged in Atlanta, is to help them sell more quickly. Once we had the project completed, I knew with all the certainty in the world that we would have a direct impact in helping buyers to connect with the home.

So without further ado, here's a slide show of before and after pictures of the home we staged in Atlanta: