Last week Peachtree Home Staging hosted the 13th hole Tee Box at a fund raiser golf tournament sponsored by the Women's Council or Realtors. It was a lot of fun and a great way to mingle with folks.
I asked a client, Shelly Peacock, to join me. I had recently met Shelly when I had been hired by a Realtor in the area to stage her home for sale. Shelly and I had a great time visiting between lulls and she proved to be a huge asset as a "standing testimonial" about my services and my ability as a home staging professional!
Thought I'd share this idea of inviting a client to join you and be your "advertisement" so to speak when sponsoring an event or working a show, etc.
Also Shelly was an inspiration on the food/drinks to offer at our tee box. (it was a "progressive golf tournament" modeled after a progressive dinner)
We served:
Peachtree Bellini's (peach puree, peach schnapps, and champagne)
with Peach Butter over Cream Cheese (home-made by Shelly) and crackers
Fits well with Peachtree Home Staging, don't ya think?
My friend, Shelly!
Shelly, thanks a bunch! This was too FUN!
I am so proud that Peachtree Home Staging was the selected home stager for this incredible property located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, GA.
This home staging job was very important to me -- When I went to meet the Realtor for the first time regarding the project I learned the home had formally been owned by her in-laws and, although the home has undergone complete renovation, there were many memories held among the walls of this homestead!
Because of this I selected a talented understudy with a keen eye to assist me with the staging. She is very talented and has assisted me in other projects. She is 25 years old, works full time, is in college part time, working towards a degree in Interior Design. Her name is Brette Duffner. She is my daughter and I am quite proud to show our work together!
How folks live in a home is their business, how folks present the home for sale is my business!
For tips on how to prepare your home for sale and information on staging a home in Atlanta, visit the web site of PEACHTREE HOME STAGING or call us at 770 595-8809.
We do occupied and vacant home staging with professional perfection!
If you would like to e-mail us specific questions our address is: Karen@PeachtreeHomeStaging.com
Peachtree Home Staging is a proud APPROVED AND ACCREDITED Business of the Greater Atlanta Better Business Bureau. 
Peachtree Home Staging Serves all of Metro Atlanta: Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia, including, Alpharetta, Atlanta, Brooks, Chamblee, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Fairburn, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, McDonough, Newnan, Norcross, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Senoia, Sharpsburg, Stockbridge, Tucker, and Tyrone
This home is located in a trendy little neighborhood in Atlanta that has a lot of renovation going on -- I just LOVED staging this investors little bungalow vacant. Just for reference-- living room, dining room, kitchen, one full bath, and 3 bedrooms (one displayed as an office). Enjoy -- here's some of the finished results . . . just too cute; don't ya' think?
And, here's the best -- don't ya' just love a great jigsaw puzzle?
Know your demographics; know the area of Atlanta or the city, county, country and life style -- make it right for the seller to find the buyer. That is what makes home staging unique to interior design-- that's the art; that's the goal; that is what takes the expertise!
How folks live in a home is their business, how folks present the home for sale is my business!
For tips on how to prepare your home for sale and information on staging a home in Atlanta, visit the web site of PEACHTREE HOME STAGING or call us at 770 595-8809.
We do occupied and vacant home staging with professional perfection!
If you would like to e-mail us specific questions our address is: Karen@PeachtreeHomeStaging.com
Peachtree Home Staging is a proud APPROVED AND ACCREDITED Business of the Greater Atlanta Better Business Bureau.
Peachtree Home Staging Serves all of Metro Atlanta: Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia, including, Alpharetta, Atlanta, Brooks, Chamblee, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Fairburn, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, McDonough, Newnan, Norcross, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Senoia, Sharpsburg, Stockbridge, Tucker, and Tyrone
I am so excited about what is happening in the home staging industry. Coming from a Real Estate background, most all of my early-on posts when first joining Active Rain were dedicated to empowering Realtors and Home sellers on the value of home staging.
Well, by George, I think they've got it!
The last week in September was exceptional for me and Peachtree Home Staging. We staged 2 vacants that really makes the point!
First we staged a small renovated home in Atlanta that's listing for $150,000 -- just precious
Then we had the pleasure to be selected to stage a renovated exclusive estate home located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, just 16 miles away. This beautiful estate home is listed for $2,699,000
What a week! I'll be posting more photos soon!
No doubt about it . . . Home Staging is for everyone!
How folks live in a home is their business, how folks present the home for sale is my business!
For tips on how to prepare your home for sale and information on staging a home in Atlanta, visit the web site of PEACHTREE HOME STAGING or call us at 770 595-8809.
We do occupied and vacant home staging with professional perfection!
If you would like to e-mail us specific questions our address is: Karen@PeachtreeHomeStaging.com
Peachtree Home Staging is a proud APPROVED AND ACCREDITED Business of the Greater Atlanta Better Business Bureau.
Peachtree Home Staging Serves all of Metro Atlanta: Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia, including, Alpharetta, Atlanta, Brooks, Chamblee, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Fairburn, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, McDonough, Newnan, Norcross, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Senoia, Sharpsburg, Stockbridge, Tucker, and Tyrone
I had the pleasure of staging a vacant vacation home "to stay" for Peter Bilodeau and his wife Barbara.
Peter has 32 years in the newspaper industry and was with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for many years. Now Peter spends his time as a free lance writer. Peter recently wrote the article below that is being published in late October here in a local magazine.
But first, please note today's featured vocabulary home staging word: teeming
teeming -- abounding or swarming with something
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MAKING YOUR HOUSE PERFORM
By Peter Bilodeau
A new house is an empty stage.
You want your house to perform, whether you plan to live there forever, or eventually plan to sell it.
Just as you wouldn't send actors to perform onstage without a director, you wouldn't want to dump lots of things into a new house yourself, and hope it looks right. The eye of a home stager will help your new house perform for you.
Karen Dembsky of Peachtree Home Staging was our eye when we moved in to our new house.
Our house was an empty stage, and yet, a clean slate for the stager. In a few hours, she had a picture in her mind of how each room should look. Then, in one trip to a furniture store, we bought each room's main pieces very economically. Stops at other places resulted in a few accent pieces that would add just the right touches.
Today, the house performs well. It's remarkably clutter-free. There are no "extra" items stuffed in corners, yet, there are accent pieces, like matching vases on each end of the fireplace hearth, that make the house "sing." The once-empty stage now has furnishings acting in concert with each other, for an overall clean and functional look, thanks to staging.
Here's a bonus. A stager does not need a new, empty or clean house to make it perform.
Do you have a home you are trying to sell, and it's been sitting on the market for weeks or months? Even in a tough market, a home stager's touch will make it sell more quickly, and for a higher price than a house that is not staged. The stager will instantly spot clutter remove it. The stager may rearrange some furniture, or bring in alternative furniture, to help potential buyers see the most your house has to offer. In other words, the stager will help your house perform for you and your potential buyers.
Planning to stay in your house, and have furnishings that have served you well for years, but have outlived their welcome? And you just don't know where to begin? Or, is your house teeming with treasures that may not be displayed in places where their beauty would be most noticed? A home stager may help make your decisions easier, and, if needed, can help you cost-effectively make the right purchases. The stager can also show you how to let the true value of your heirlooms and other valuable or sentimental pieces shine like a beacon. You could have a "new" home that performs for you for less money than you had thought. The home stager becomes an investment with a return, even for a person who isn't going anywhere. Your house will be staged to "stay."
Staging helped turn our house into something we can live in for a long time, or, if we choose, something we could sell on the spot - a house that performs in two ways.
It can do the same for you.
For a brochure on home staging or more information contact Karen Dembsky at Peachtree Home Staging.com or call 770-595-8809
Peter Bilodeau is a freelance writer living in Peachtree City. He can be contacted at pbilodeau01@aol.com
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Wow! As you can see, Peter is a fantastic writer. He's a great editor as well. I often lean on his skills to improve pieces of my website and he has tweaked a few of my press releases as well. I love to write and not half bad due to that creativity gene, but Peter, as you can read, is a magician with words. As a professional it is important to me that I utilize Peter's professional services for my brochures and printed pieces.
I thought I'd share Peter's talents with you as he is available for hire, understands the message home stagers are trying to get out there, and easy to work with. Peter can take a sentence or two from another clients testimony and create a home staging article that includes that exact testimony making it a great addition to a web site. His e-mail address is pbilodeau01.com if you'd like to make contact with him.
Here's the great room of Peter's vacation home that Peachtree Home Staging staged to stay
How folks live in a home is their business, how folks present the home for sale is my business!
For tips on how to prepare your home for sale and information on staging a home in Atlanta, visit the web site of PEACHTREE HOME STAGING or call us at 770 595-8809.
We do occupied and vacant home staging with professional perfection!
If you would like to e-mail us specific questions our address is: Karen@PeachtreeHomeStaging.com
Peachtree Home Staging is a proud APPROVED AND ACCREDITED Business of the Greater Atlanta Better Business Bureau.
Peachtree Home Staging Serves all of Metro Atlanta: Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and Gwinnett counties in Georgia, including, Alpharetta, Atlanta, Brooks, Chamblee, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, Dunwoody, Fairburn, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, McDonough, Newnan, Norcross, Peachtree City, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Senoia, Sharpsburg, Stockbridge, Tucker, and Tyrone
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Peachtree Home Staging is dedicated to making your home sale a triumphant affair!
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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