Us stagers -- well, we must be nuts! All of us! Do you think we have a "moving" fetish??? Statistics show that the average person moves every 5 to 7 years. I mean, seriously, who in their right mind would want to go through the process of moving to a different home a couple times a decade let alone make a move a couple times a week???
Okay, so we don't actually move, but we perform the act of moving. The stagings that really bring this thought to mind though is when Peachtree Home Staging in Atlanta gets to pick stuff up at one house in the morning and move it right to another house in the afternoon. We moved in home staged this vacant home early December.
2 weeks later this home was under contract. After the contracts due diligence period was satisfied, we moved in home staged a mile up the road in the Chamblee area of Atlanta. This next home was completely different so we changed up our look some! Hope you like it!
Never lost; but FOUND, we were!!!
I received an e-mail from a Realtor. It read . . .
"Hi there,
I have a listing located at 1368 Ormewood Ave, Atlanta, Ga 30316. Beautiful down-to-the-studs renovation. We have had fabulous showings but not offers! We've been the bridesmaid to two other homes that were picked (funnily enough they were staged).
My sellers and I would like to look into staging. Is this something you can talk to me about?
I e-mailed back . . .
"It would be a pleasure to stage that home! I have staged several in East Atlanta. I currently have one staged right around the corner. It's under contract -- went under contract first day on the market. It’s a beautiful rebuild -- Here’s some before and after photos.
Within minutes, my phone rang. What I heard on the other line was this joyous Realtor saying, "I found you! I found you. This is the house that made my listing a bridesmaid for the second time! You staged the other one, too!"
So, once found, and two days later we were outfitting the bridemaid to be an eye-catching bride. She hasn't walked down the aisle yet, but here's a sneak peak straight out from behind the dressing room door! :-)
I just had an encounter with an accessory hoarder!
Yes, seriously. This was the biggest accessory hoarder I have ever staged!
Now you may think I am speaking of a home owner I helped de-clutter to get ready to put their home on the market; but I am not.
This “accessory hoarder” was a cute little VACANT bungalow home in the sought after Virginia Highlands area of Atlanta in desperate need of Peachtree Home Staging.
Now, you may ask, “How can a vacant home be an accessory hoarder?” Well, it was like having vacant room -- inside vacant rooms! And to stage it right, it hoarded accessories like you wouldn’t believe!
There were vacant built-ins everywhere, just screaming for accessories to hoard!
There was the living room hoarder --
There was the dining room hoarder --
There was the kitchen hoarder --
And, there were TWO hallway hoarders --
Truth be known, I too, can be an accessory hoarder. But, as you can see, I do share and lend a helping hand to those poor vacant spaces needing my accessories. :-)
There are only a few things in life that I love more then what I do (and that's because my family would kill me if I didn't say that. Just kidding they will always be my #1 :) ) This industry has blown up before us over the past few years and who else should we praise and thank more other then our clients?
Our clients are who keep us in business. They are the ones who call us time and time again to stage another home they finished flipping. They call us to thank them because there house has sold three times faster then they thought it could. They send their friends and colleagues our number and referral. They are the ones who took the time to type in "home stager" in to Google and sift through the pages to find us. All we have to do... enjoy what we do and do it for them.
Yes, we may blog, tweet, post, market and "be connected" but at the end of the day we could not have gotten anywhere without the loyalty of our consumers! So today I would like to say thanks to all of the people who have used Peachtree Home Staging and support us in our journey to help make the home staging industry grow.
This video is the biggest complement I have gotten since I started my business. This is a client who flips houses and has called on me to stage a dozen or so houses. He is one of my favorite clients and his work is immaculate and always quality. He has a video blog that he does on flipping houses and in this instance he used and showcased my work. I could not be more ecstatic that he has so much faith in my work that he calls on me time and time again, let alone, use it in his video blog. You can also check out his website Sell Fast Forum or House Flip Tips for great tips on selling and remodeling homes!
Link to Video:
Dining Room Staging Quick Tips
~Karen & Brette
Walking into homes as a stager we are required to find simple and fulfilling solutions to the homes awkward and unfulfilling problems. This can sometimes leave us perplexed thinking to ourselves "What were they thinking in 1952 when they designed this house; there is no good furniture placement to watch T.V.?" Silly really, since in 1952 T.V.'s were up and coming with all 3 offered channels and not in every home. Not like today's new construction homes that have entertainment centers built in with room for a 56" television. We chose to hang Art to Demo the TV placement.
This home in Atlanta that Peachtree Home Staging recently staged had a long narrow living room leaving a lot of extra space somewhere no matter where we arranged it.
We came up with a fulfilling solution that would appeal to younger buyers in this trendy and up and coming neighborhood in Atlanta. Anyone can put a sofa table behind the couch and call it a day, but that was not what we were going for. So we got creative..... We pulled inventory geared to the younger buyer that meets the demographics of this home; a little metal sconce, a thin decorative photo, a tall plant, a plant about two feet tall, a short plant, and a couple oversized boxes ranging in sizes that looked like books. So with a bit of arranging and going back and forth we came up with a plan to balance and fill in the space.
It is these sorts of challenges that keep us on our toes as stagers. Yes, it is nice to go in have a nice simple day, but how long can that be fun? These creative solutions are the difference between home staging and interior design. As an interior designer, I would have gone and bought a sofa table and gotten many years of use out of it. As a stager it is about showing the space, making creative everyday use of it fit the target buyer.
~Brette
before fillling in the narrow space between the wall and loveseat --
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Peachtree Home Staging, LLC was founded by Karen Dembsky, a metro Atlanta resident for the past 27 years. Karen started her career teaching home economics, including interior design. After five years in education, Karen enjoyed a successful career in corporate sales and marketing.
During this time Karen bought different homes for her own living use, decorated them, and sold them. Two of them sold during the first month on the market for asking price and two of them sold the first day on the market above asking price!
When it was time to seek a new challenge, Karen became a Georgia licensed Realtor and has since served many clients both selling and buying properties. Through this experience, and feedback she continually receives from clients, Karen recognized the benefits her keen artistic eye provided to those she represented.
Karen uses her real estate expertise and artistic talent as a home stager to evaluate each room in detail for its general appeal and "WOW" factors.
Karen explains, "You only have one opportunity to make that first impression. Buyers only come back for a second round when the home appealed to them during the first visit. Buyers form their opinions quickly and your home is either in the running or forgotten. Buyers need to see what they like right off the bat, and then you need to keep that momentum going from room to room."
Karen's vast experience in real estate has taught her the importance of conscientiously determining each home's negatives and positives.
Since that time Karen has now successfully staged hundreds of homes in the metro Atlanta areaincluding Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Dunwoody, Decatur, Midtown, Atlantic Station, Peachtree City, Alpharetta, Vinings Fayetteville, McDonough, Riverside . . . and the list goes on.
"We all have different needs in a home, and frequently it is overwhelming for the home buyer to recognize the perfect fit for them when a home is cluttered, dated, too personalized or displayed in a way that does not reflect its potential to be inviting and functional." Karen further states, "By accentuating the positives, buyers can better recognize how the home may work for them.
Karen assisted a homeowner in staging their home for sale and then provided after photos for the Internet. They received a great offer the very next day! The buyers saw the photos on the Internet and made their offer prior to ever physically viewing the home!
"Remember,you are selling a HOUSE, a property; space. Disassociate yourself. When you buy a computer, you buy a shell that has the space to hold the items you want and need, software that makes it functional, and tutorials that demonstrate how it is best used. A potential home buyer is shopping for a house; functional space that they can make their home. Peachtree Home Staging creates the demo. That's what the buyer needs to see."
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