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RESA 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 MoreNaperville Home Staging Success Tips #250-255
This large, (5,055 sq. ft.) house in the affluent, Chicago suburb of Naperville, ILL is a grand home. With 5 bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths the 1992 construction offers a lot of space, with airy rooms and beautiful “park-like” views. It’s a relatively young house, and was in good condition when we arrived to stage it for…
Read MoreStaged Downers Grove Home Sold in 1 Day!
We recently staged a newly constructed home in Downers Grove. We like the community of Downers Grove. Everybody does. Located a mere 22 miles west of Chicago, it’s a thriving suburb that has been ranked – #8 in America’s Friendliest Towns (Forbes Magazine) #5 in its Best Places for a Healthy Retirement list (CNN) #2…
Read MoreHome Staging Chicago’s Western Suburbs – A Single Color Palette
At Chicagoland Home Staging we tend to use a single color palette for the whole house. This design tactic unifies the space, making a statement that is cohesive. It affords a sense of connectedness and order that most buyers dream of having in their next home. A single color palette, by being less interruptive, tends…
Read MoreHome Staging Tips: Furniture doesn’t belong shoved up against the walls.
As a professional Chicagoland Home Stager, it always amuses me that buyers have a difficult time understanding that furniture “floating” in the room can be a great option for open concept floor plans. Never the less, in many, if not most, cases while buyers say that they love the open concept homes, they just don’t…
Read MoreWhy we love Naperville and Chicagoland Real Estate Investors!
Naperville and Chicagoland real estate investors are great partners for Chicagoland Home Staging. Because the fix and flip investor understands that it isn’t the money you spend but the money you keep on each real estate transaction, they understand the importance of creating a marketable product that potential buyers will love. Creating a marketable product…
Read MoreInvestors, don’t leave money on the table. Stage your flip!
Investors know that sometimes you need to spend money to make money. This is why they buy fixer upper properties, replace flooring, paint, add new cabinetry, tile, and more. So, why leave money on the table by opting not to stage? Home staging creates a significant return on investment The National Association of Realtors has…
Read MoreNaperville Home Staging Makeovers: Bedrooms!
When providing home staging quotes to some of our Naperville customers, some think that bedrooms are additional rooms that provide little value. Too often this is a space that ends up neglected or becomes one of the first places cut in the staging budget. While it isn’t always necessary to stage all of the rooms…
Read MoreRolling Meadows Vacant Home Staging: Are you inspired?
As we complete another vacant home staging project for one of our Rolling Meadows, IL investors, I have to think about some of the other homes that we see online – homes that sit empty – and wonder if potential home buyers feel inspired when they look at the photos online. Rolling Meadows investors receive…
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