Is Home Staging For You?
Many people are interested in becoming a Home Staging professional, and for good reason – this is job which has a lot to offer you, and your clients. So it’s a win/win situation! For creative types it would, most certainly, be an appealing business. Anyone who has a good grasp when it comes to multi tasking and an interest in interior design and/or decorating would probably be very suited to this profession. It’s difficult to imagine anyone not being interesting in such a potentially lucrative and exciting career. Not only is Home Staging interesting, creative and highly rewarding, it offers you a real chance to work independently. Wouldn’t you like to be back in control of your own schedule? Of course you would!
Start up costs are low, making it an option for anyone who would like to try it. Home Staging is one of the latest ‘hot business opportunities’ and with a relatively small outlay, you could soon be enjoying the freedom of working for yourself. In the beginning, you could easily continue with your regular job, if you wanted to. With a Home Staging Business, not only are the set up costs low, so are the risks. Home Staging can make the world a more beautiful place, and helps people to sell their homes! Most often, Home Staging is about making a property more appealing to potential buyers, although the owners are always just as impressed. Home Staging is often referred to as ‘Real Estate Enhancement’, and courses can be extremely useful to Real Estate Agents and Home Builders. Home Staging can offer a fantastic ‘in house’ service to clients. Helping them, to help you, to get that property sold. Statistics show, a home which has been staged can fetch up to 20% more, and sell a property much more quickly. That’s especially good news with today’s real estate market.
Home Staging is about making a property’s best features stand out and lessening the impact of it’s more unattractive points. It is not so much about dressing it up, as dressing it down, by neutralising and removing the clients ‘personal imprint’ on the home. Neutralising is the key to opening the door to more buyers, by making the home more appealing to more people of all tastes and preferences. There are two approaches you can take to a Home Staging Business. You could offer a ‘consultancy service’, providing your clients with the ideas they need to ‘stage’ their own homes. Or if you’re a more ‘hand’s on’ person, maybe you would prefer to carry out those ideas yourself. A big difference between interior design and Home Staging is depersonalisation. Home Staging is not so much about design, as it is redesign. The clients’ own furniture and personal possessions are used in a neutral way. The more creative you are, the more your clients will benefit from your innovative style ideas.