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Naperville Home Staging Gig Goes Younger and Brighter
This Naperville home staging project was a house we knew well. We had staged it when the owner still lived there, and once they moved out, we came back in with our own furniture and accessories. It is a large house, located in a part of downtown Naperville where the lots tend to be smaller. The…
Read More2015 NAR Home Staging Profile
The National Association of Realtors released its 2015 Profile of Home Staging recently. 2300 realtors participated from throughout the United States. The results have caused some home stagers to be thrilled and others to scratch their heads. Here are the results we thought were the most interesting. The full report can found here. Most people…
Read MoreKitchen Staging Ideas: Too Far vs. Not Far Enough
Kitchen Staging Ideas proliferate, but it takes a delicate touch to get a kitchen exactly right. The whole scenario relies on how you treat the counters. The biggest mistake we see home owners make is in clearing the counters off and leaving nothing there at all. This bare presentation leaves potential buyers with nothing to look at,…
Read MoreHome Staging Ideas Dining Room Locations
When you have an open plan first floor, where do you locate the dining room? Part of the kitchen or on the carpet as part of the formal living room? We recently encountered this conundrum when we staged this charming home in Oswego, IL. Interestingly it has no formal dining room as it is an…
Read More2014 Year In Review Reveals 5 Strands Of Growth and Gratitude
With Christmas fast approaching, we can’t help but reflect back on 2014 and take stock. We are starting to review our experience, assessing the successes of the 2014 home staging year, looking at where we were able to prepare homes for sale with style and fast results, and what 2015 might look like. We’re illustrating our…
Read MoreRESA Top 10 Finalist for Best Home Staging Team
What an honor for my folks to be voted into the Top 10 Best Home Staging Team! We are a partnership, with a full-time office coordinator, a warehouse supervisor, 4 freelance stagers (some of whom have been with us for all of our 10 years in business) and 2 marketing contractors. In order to be…
Read MoreRESA Top 10 Finalist for Vacant Stager of the Year – US!
The Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) has announced their Top 10 Finalists for their 2015 Awards. Chicagoland Home Staging was nominated in 2 categories this year – Best Vacant Stager US and Best Staging Team. This is an annual competition, where the first round is judged by the whole association. To have been nominated into the…
Read MoreSelling Your Home During The Holidays
There are definite advantages to selling your home during the Holidays! 1. There is not as much competition. Those that are out there are serious buyers, so while you may have fewer showings, those you do have are more likely to produce a good result. 2. When your house is on the market, you have to…
Read MoreStaging A Vacant in Naperville
One of our most fun projects lately was staging a vacant in Naperville, IL. The lot had been empty for years. Though new builds in Naperville sell well, no-one had imagined how to fit a spacious home on it. Until now. Now we have a beautiful, spacious home, with windows cleverly placed so that each…
Read MoreHome Staging Conundrum
We know this story well in the home staging world. We hear it time and again. An affluent couple buys a house. They make it their own, with their favorite antiques, lighting fixtures and colors. They love it. Then they have to move. They take their furniture and the house looks odd empty, no sense…
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