Jo Potvin-Home Staging Cincinnati - Design To Market

Loft apartments, urban condominiums, and refurbished older homes in downtown spaces in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky continue to grow in popularity with everyone from young professionals to empty nesters. While buyers tastes vary it is critical to show the livability of these unique spaces.

Design To Market's diverse inventory of furnishings have enabled us to meet the needs of these diverse properties and to tell the stories that sells homes!

Loft Before Loft After

Living Room Before Living Room After

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Design To Market has been staging homes in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky since 2004. For more information about this project and our other Cincinnati home staging services please call us at 513-265-0952 or visit our website at www.designtomarketllc.com .

My daughter and I sat yesterday evening staring with rapt attention at the photo of the African child we were soon to sponsor. The plight of children in poor third world countries has been a big topic in our extended family over the past 2 years as my sister and her husband have gone though the rigors of an international adoption and look ahead with joy to the time that they will receive their new Ethiopian baby girl.

My thirteen year old has been profoundly affected by their experience and in her teenager way has set out to make the world a better place. She felt that we too could make a difference for a child that has less than we do. Our solution was to select a child worlds apart that could benefit from our assistance but that would also mutually make an impact on our lives. We selected a 12 year old girl from Malawi and have already started plans for letter writing and e-mailing. She like my daughter is an athlete. We assume that in her village participating in sports takes on a very different flavor than in our suburb of Cincinnati. But with plans of a letter already in her head, my daughter knows she will soon figure this out.

To tie this back to staging and my reason for posting this blog...our $28 monthly sponsorship is being funded by the hard work of a Cincinnati Stager (me!) and her paper route owning 13 year old daughter. We have committed to pooling our resources to sponsoring this child and we both know that as a picture is hung and as a newspaper is thrown we can think fondly of the profound effect we hope to have on a teenager's life an ocean away.

We set up our sponsorship through www.savethechildren.org .

For more information about Design To Market home staging in Cincinnati contact Jo Potvin at 513-265-0952 or visit our website at www.designtomarketllc.com .

As professional stagers we are often asked by homesellers to assist in deciding the advisibility of removing wallpaper. It is not inexpensive to remove wallpaper. However, if the goal of homestaging is to assist in making a listing appeal to the broadest number of prospective buyers then how can we skip this critical step?

Take a look at the following projects staged by Design To Market and see what you think.

Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For more information about this project and our other Cincinnati home staging services please call us at 513-265-0952 or visit our website at www.designtomarketllc.com .

BEFORE AFTER

I am often asked the question..."You're a stager what services do you provide?"

In truth, I believe there is not one answer for that one question! Other than to say..."We work with our clients to assist them in putting their best foot forward in the real estate market!" Take for example this bathroom that we "staged" last year...(and I promise is is the same room!) The truth is, with a good design team, a great contractor, an inspired Realtor, Lowe's, and a willing homeowner...the breadth of our projects can be limitless.

So...my answer the next time I am asked what servies we provide will continue to be..."Let's take a look at your home and we'll let you know!"

Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky since 2004. For more information about this project and our other Cincinnati home staging services please call us at 513-265-0952 or visit our website at www.designtomarketllc.com .

We are increasingly receiving calls from Realtors to stage homesin Cincinnati that are getting "hits" on MLS but very few showings. Vacant homes often fall prey to this challenge. It is difficult to drive interest in four walls and a few windows.

Today's buyer works to be most efficient in allocating their buying time to those that make the "MLS cut." For this reason as home stagers in the Cincinnati area we are continually working to insure that our staged properties present a tempting view to that first and so critical review on the Internet.

Put yourself in the shoes of a buyer perusing the listings in their desired neighborhood...which of these photos would drive you to make a call? You got it...atmosphere drives success. This home in the Cincinnati Neighborhood of Indian Hill was on the market vacant for months. Within weeks of staging there was increased activity and most importantly...a sale!!!

Design To Market has been staging homes throughout Greater Cincinnati since 2004. For more information about this project and our other Cincinnati home staging projects please call us at 513-265-0952 or visit our website at www.designtomarketllc.com .