Why use a professional stager.

Home Staging is a very popular service all over North America for everyone selling a home. You've seen the TV shows and it doesn't seem too hard to fluff pillows and pack up items so you can do it right?

Wrong, well you can start packing we wont stop you on that but being a professional home stager is more than just fluffing pillows and re hanging art. To be a professional home stager you have to understand the real estate market, know who your target purchaser is, and history of decor so you know what type of layout or accessories is appropriate for each room. It also involves graduating from an Home Staging School, I graduated from Quality Course Design School which is a local school here in Ottawa. In school we learned about colour history, psychology, and applications, Room styles and what makes a certain room a "Traditional" "Casual" "Eclectic" etc type room. We also learn about decluttering properly, neutralizing decor, depersonalizing with out impersonalizing, the visual weights with in a room, Focal points whether it's natural or made, how to make a focal point if you need to and more! I could go on for ever talking about what we learned in school but I'm sure you wouldn't want to read it all! Home Staging is our career so we know the Ottawa market and what each homes needs or doesnt need.
If you are the hands on type we have packages where you get to assist us with the projects that way you get to put your staging skills to the test.

As you may know FIRST impressions are everything. Dont pass up the opportunity to have a professional stager take a comb though your home and let you know the BEST way to appeal to the most amount of home buyers.
-Kristy

High-ho High-Ho it's off to School We go......

Well, I received a fabulous call from Bell High school recently....They have asked if I would be their teacher for a general education course on Home Staging, Choosing Colour & Professional Organizing! Of course I said MOST DEFINITELY!

Starting September 2009 I will be teaching these 3 general education courses for 10 weeks! More information can be found in the printed books that come out at the end of the summer. We are going to learn how to stage a home to make it look it's best for sale. How to determine what colour you should be choosing for your walls and how to get organized in ANY room!

if you have any questions about the up coming courses let me know and I'd be glad to help!
-Kristy