Home Staging in Portland Oregon Blog

Making the Master Bedroom Memorable: Home Staging Portland OR

When buyers are looking at homes, if the master bedroom is Vacant it’s difficult for most people to make an emotional connection with this room.  You might ask “why is this important?” As professional home stagers in Portland Oregon, we know that the master bedroom is a room that should convey “this is a peaceful…

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Keeping it in the Family: Home Staging Portland Oregon

As a home stager in Portland Oregon, I love to help clients sell their home quickly. Recently I had the honor of staging a beautifully remodeled home for a dynamic young couple who are repeat clients; the husband is a talented contractor and his wife is a savvy Realtor — together, they’re a formidable team!…

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Even Beautifully-Decorated Homes can Benefit from Staging

As professional home stagers, we often explain that the difference between decorating and staging is that decorating is done for the homeowner’s taste and style, and staging is done to attract the target buyer. When it’s time to put your home on the market, making a few changes in how your home is perceived can…

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Home Staging Tip ~ So there’s No Complaint About the Paint, Please Use Restraint

As professional home stagers, we’ve heard for years that when you’re selling your home, your wall colors should be current colors, and preferably neutral ones.  Nothing says “dated” more than walking into a home whose walls sport colors from ten or twenty years ago.  But painting your home to prepare it for selling is one…

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Does Home Staging Work? The Sunday Oregonian newspaper says it does …

The real estate “season” is in full swing in Portland, Oregon and other markets across the country.  Many areas are seeing increased activity and less inventory, a welcome change from the past few years.  One of the marketing tools available to agents and homeowners is home staging, and savvy consumers are discovering how staging can…

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Portland Oregon Home Stager Featured on HGTV’s “My First Place” Thurs 4/26/12

On Thursday April 26 (10:30am Pacific/1:30pm Eastern) another episode featuring our home decorating and design work will air on HGTV. This particular episode, one of five that we did, highlights the home search of a newly-married young couple.  They find a home in Sherwood, Oregon (a suburb south of Portland) that fits them perfectly ……

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Home Staging Tips: Making Giant Strides with a Home Staging Consultation

Based on a recommendation from their listing agent, these smart homeowners hired our Portland Oregon home staging company for a Verbal Consultation recently.  During the consultation, we provided cost-effective home staging tips including easy cosmetic fixes, the best furniture placement to create a good traffic flow, paint colors, curb appeal & landscaping ideas, updating cabinet…

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Staged on Thursday ~ listed Friday ~ Under Contract Sunday! Home Staging in Portland OR

As professional home stagers in Portland OR, we love helping our clients reach their goals of a quick home sale so that they can move on to the next phase of their lives.   Recently we staged a Portland home that was listed on Friday, and had a pending sale on Sunday! Our staging services…

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This Portland Home was Lived in by One Family for 50 Years … Staging it was an Honor

We recently staged a 1962 home in Portland Oregon that has been owned and lived in by one family for 50 years!  When the heirs decided to sell the property, their listing agent suggested that home staging would help buyers imagine themselves living in this home.  Walls were painted and new carpeting was added, but…

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Portland Home Stager’s Designs on HGTV April 2nd ~ My First Place in Portland, OR

The first episode I did the design work for airs on April 2nd at 8am Pacific time /11am eastern (check your local listings for times on the HGTV channel); it’s titled “Quick Bid on a Bungalow.” Here is the storyline: “Portland Oregon newlyweds Troy and Linea hope their first place will be a Craftsman Bungalow. They…

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