RESA Industry Awards Entries Being Accepted Oct 20th to Nov 20, 2012 RESA is pleased to announce some amazing and fantastic changes in the home staging industry awards! For example, the submission and voting process is now completely automated. For more information, you can visit our newly create
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10/21/2012
I recently added the following new page to my website and thought it might be of value to the Active Rain community as well. Q. How effective is home staging? A. Home staging is an extremely effective marketing tool as it helps separate your home or listing from the others on the market. Equally
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10/20/2012
Home Staging Tip - Bed Shams - Because Floppy is Sloppy And because I hate sloppy, I created an easy solution to help keep those pesky little bed shams from toppling over at the top. And yes, I'm a virgo so.... something like a bed sham not sitting up straight for a picture irked me. Here's a ver
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10/16/2012
Historic Marietta Homes There's something about historic homes that I just love. In fact, the homes, nestled along Whitlock Avenue in Marietta, Georgia, is what drew me to Atlanta to begin with. So, what an honor it was to be asked help a Marietta homeowner prepare their historic Marietta home fo
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10/16/2012
Curtains - Should They Stay or Go When Selling Your Home? Short answer - GO! For the record, I don't hate curtains. In fact, every single window in my own home has some sort of window treatment. However, when I'm staging homes throughout metro Atlanta, 99% of the time, I'll ask that they be remov
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10/09/2012
How to Prepare Your Home For Sale During The Holidays I'm all for decorating during the holidays. In fact, I have boxes and boxes in my attic of Halloween and Christmas decorations. However, should I put my home on the market during the holidays, I'd use about a fraction of what I have. There's a
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10/02/2012
How To Compose and Style a Marketable Image For those that follow my post either here in Active Rain or my blog on my home staging website, you know that I'm a huge fan of taking close-ups. Most of the time, I'm taking the depth of field images and other times, it's a simple close-up picture. Out
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09/20/2012
How To Re-arrange Your Boards on Pinterest Juliet Johnson, a social media professional, shared this tip at a RESA MasterMind Summit and I just had to share with all of you. It's super easy to move your Pinterest boards around. Here's how. Log into your Pinterest account. You'll see the following
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09/10/2012
Are Artificial Flowers Okay to Use When Preparing Your Home For Sale? As a home staging professional serving metro Atlanta, it's one of the most frequently asked questions. The answer is YES! However, quality matters greatly! Where do I get "quality" artificial flowers? Fortunately, there are a v
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09/03/2012
Atlanta Home Stager - I'm in the Business of Making Homes FEEL Good! When I first began staging homes, I realized that not only was there a huge difference in how the home looked visually, but also how it felt. I found myself wanting to linger. The same happens to the buyer. That "feel good" feel
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08/22/2012
