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This article has some great ideas for stocking your staging toolkit. I especially loved the “earthquake putty” idea, even though I’m not in California I can still think of a few ways to use this.
And don’t you just love the grapes idea?
Enjoy,
Rebecca
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If you struggle with furniture placement, or if you’re a designer looking for a great new tool, check out Icovia Space Planner Software at: http://www.icovia.com/
You can try it for FREE online and see what you think!
All the best,
Rebecca

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In this interview, Barb Schwarz discusses how she is training more and more stagers — up to 9,000 people to date. That doesn’t include the professional stagers who are NOT trained by Ms. Schwarz. Many choose to avail themselves of different training opportunities, depending on their strengths and weaknesses.
The Staging Diva offers business training to [...]

There are only 153 in Massachusetts, but the numbers are growing as the competition in the housing market stiffens. Are you going to ride the wave by starting your own business? I just did a fantastic interview with the president of http://SixElements.com, Debra Gould. She has an amazing website complete with tele-classes and e-books that [...]

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Here’s a press release about a new alliance between IDRC and Home stagers!
Rebecca

Interior Door Replacement Company announces strategic alliance with International Association of Home Staging Professionals.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2006 — In a savvy move that taps into the distribution channels and networks of the fast-growing home staging industry, the Interior Door Replacement [...]

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Here’s an interesting story about how a Connecticut home stager helped two clients in very different ways, based on their budgets. You can do it yourself if you have limited cash on hand!
Enjoy!
Rebecca
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This NY Times article discusses some of the average costs for home staging by the hour and for an initial consult:
Cost varies by home and market. Stylers typically charge $50 to $150 an hour to rearrange furnishings and make other changes and can spend from three hours for a small condo to two full [...]

Some home stagers keep stats on the homes they have staged. This helps to show how staged homes sell faster than unstaged homes.
Speedier sales: The length of time on the market for a home dropped from an average of 163.7 days to 8.9 days for homes that are staged. The days on the market after [...]