Stage To Sell

If you’re at all interested in design and like looking at gorgeous pictures of homes, you must check out Houzz.com. In addition to a lot of amazing eye candy, Houzz has some great articles as well. I recently came across a one about the difference between staging and decorating. I have a lot of thoughts [...]

We are often asked, “Can you stage an occupied home?” As we wrote in a previous post, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” For this beautiful family home in Santa Monica, we were asked to do just that. The homeowner wanted to use as much as she could of her own furniture, but knew there [...]

Towards the end of 2011, Stage to Sell | Los Angeles Home Staging was contacted by some of our favorite clients over at Sunset Park Realtors to stage one of their new listings in Santa Monica. It was an occupied, multi-level townhome that needed some minor fixing up before it was ready to be staged. [...]

Here at Stage to Sell, we have been busy staging homes all over Los Angeles this summer. So busy, in fact, that we haven’t had a moment to blog about all the great projects we’ve been working on in the last month. So here’s a list for you – many of them already sold or [...]

It’s a commonly held misconception that home stagers only work on vacant homes. But what if you’ve got 3 kids, 2 dogs and a pet parakeet, and plan to live in your home while it’s on the market? You may think that staging is not an option for you. Now I can understand why you [...]

We were recently called on to Stage a new listing – a beautiful 4-bedroom home in Pacific Palisades. The family had moved out, but left behind some of their furniture and a few accessories for us to use. We were asked to “fill in the blanks” with the necessary furniture, art and accessories to give [...]

It’s happened 3 or 4 times in the last month. I’ve walked into a Home Staging consultation for a Los Angeles home and the seller says, “Oh, you’ll be happy because we just painted all the walls white!” I just want to know who has been out there spreading rumors that home buyers want to [...]

Gary Keller, author of “Shift: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times” and Chairman of Keller Williams Realty appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America last week to discuss how to sell a home in a buyer’s market. His most publicized quote from this interview (which has set Stager Blogs around the nation afire) is [...]

Today I had an experience that reminded me why I LOVE my job as the owner of a Los Angeles Home Staging company. It reminded me that I do so much more than help people prepare their homes for sale. Some days I am also a Real Estate therapist. Today was one of those days! [...]

This beautiful home, listed by  Kofi N. Nartey of SOTALOT Realty Group, will impress even the most discerning buyer. And not only that, you get a FREE Porsche if you buy it! ************************* 228 34th St, Manhattan Beach $3,600,000 HOUSE, VIEW, AND CAR! Buy this amazing house and get a new 2010 Porsche 911 Convertible! [...]