Selling Your Home. Is There a Difference Between Interior Design And Staging? Yes, Yes and Yes!

Posted by Debbie Leavitt

When you are selling your home, it immediately becomes a product that buyers compare with all the other homes they look at.  Preparing to have your home look its best is a very smart idea.  However it is easy to spend time and money on things that may not help all that much, and could even have a detrimental effect.  A lot depends on the price range of the home.  Hiring professional help to put your home’s best face forward is a relatively new phenomena.

Most Interior Designers think they can stage homes and most Staging Professionals think they can do Interior Design.  There is some crossover, true, but the philosophies and purpose are very different.  There is much more training, talent and skill needed to be an effective designer than most Staging Professionsl possess.  On the other hand, many designers don’t really understand the common sense or purpose behind Staging.    Read more. . .

 

This is part one of a series of articles.  Thank you Kathleen for your wonderful insight.

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