Updated - See comment below for a sneak peek at what the rooms looks like AFTER being staged.
I have something to admit...
I keep an eye out on my competition and try and out-stage them (no pun intended) each and every single time. Amazingly enough, it's not for the reason you may be thinking. My objective isn't to simply add another home to my portfolio. I have hundreds of homes under my belt and have literally over 18,000 photos from which to pull from for both my blog and my website.
And... my competition isn't the other stagers.
Instead, my competition is really the other homes that reside in that same area. My objective mirrors the sellers. My goal, as a professional home stager, is to do what it takes to a) have the home I'm staging stand-out and b) to ensure it engages the buyer. It's part of the formula for success and I use it on every single staging.
For those that follow my blog at Atlanta Home Stager Info or my outside blog here in the rain called AtlantaHomeStager, you know I can't simply make a post without having some sort of picture.
So without further ado.
These are the "before" pictures of the home I'll be staging tomorrow. You're going to want to either bookmark this or subscribe to my blog (look to your right in the side bar) so that you can see how the home turns out as I'll be posting the "after" pictures either tomorrow or Thursday.
Ready? This is the living room.

Here's another angle:
After Picture:

Close up:

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
How to arrange a living room when selling your home.
A common challenge for most sellers is understanding what actions to take in each of the rooms. Given that we live amongst our things, we end up being familiar and perhaps even comfortable with the current arrangement. However, there are some extremely easy and very effective changes that will work in almost every living room out there.
Here's a collage I created of an occupied home we had staged:

Visit our Atlanta Home Staging Information blog for the step-by-step process. These changes were done in less than a day and made a significant impact on how the buyers viewed the home.
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
Capturing the right photo is critically important to me. As a home staging professional I use them in a number of different ways:



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
Three Staged Homes - Three Now Under Contract
I'm calling this my Atlanta Home Staging Trifecta. I was notified on Tuesday that three of the homes I had staged are now under contract. Happy Day! The sellers are thrilled, their agents are ecstatic and I couldn't be happier.
Here they are, along with a little history:
Home Staging East Point Georgia
This home is owned by an investor. We had the home staged and within days it went under contract. One day prior to the closing, we de-staged. Closing came and the financing for the buyer fell through. So, we re-staged. Two weeks later, we're scheduling another de-stage as the house is once again under contract.
This coming week, I'll be staging a 2nd property for this same investor. I'm calling this new property "the rainbow home." I'll be posting before pictures soon in another post so be on the look-out.

Home Staging Midtown Atlanta Georgia
This is a town home located that we staged 3 months ago. Prior to being staged, this home had been on the market for over 1 year.
The homeowner was thrilled with how the staging look and beyond thrilled with the results.

Home Staging Mableton Georgia
This home, priced higher than most in the neighborhood given its' finished basement, had lingered on the market for 8 months.
Staged and under contract 6 weeks later.
Take note - all of this inventory is coming back in and is ready for YOUR home. Contact us today for your free in-home evaluation. We'll preview your home, whether vacant or occupied, and provide you with a home staging proposal.
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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.
A Before & After Bedroom Transformation - Home Staging Marietta, GA
Okay, I admit it, I love to make my home staging clients squeal.
In this particular home staging, the homeowner clapped; the agent squealed and the agents' mom wants to fly me to Connecticut to decorate her home. And while pleasing my clients is always nice, the real objective behind home staging is to ensure the home appeals to the prospective buyers.
The opportunity to enhance the visual aspect of the home is exactly what home staging is about. And at HomeStagingAtlanta.com, we aim to do just that.
Here's an example of home we just finished last week. Here's the "before" picture of the master bedroom:

Now here's the same bedroom after being staged by Atlanta's premier home staging company:

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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