Our 2012 Seattle Home Staging Statistics & Fun Facts

2012 Seattle Staged To Sell Home Staging Statistics

A Happy New Year to all of you and welcome to 2013! As usual, THANKS to an outstanding and dedicated team as well as YOU, our clients, we had an amazing 2012. It is always exciting for us to look back at this time of the year and see how we have grown as a company and as people. I'd like to take this opportunity to share some of our 2012 successes with you. Let's start with some 2012 fun … [Read more...]

Seattle Home Staging – Preparing a Magnolia Home for Sale

Staging a Seattle home in Magnolia

Recently we were asked to stage a unique and updated traditional home in Magnolia, one of Seattle's charming neighborhoods. For us at Seattle Staged To Sell, staging homes in Magnolia is just a blast.  After our initial visit, we identified both the challenges and the highlights. This is how we addressed them all:  Challenges:  This Magnolia home had one bedroom on each floor - this … [Read more...]

All Year Around Garden & Curb Appeal

winter gardens for homes for sale

Just because it may be wet and cold outside, that doesn't mean that you can’t have outside focal points and interest in your gardens.  Nor does it mean that you can't achieve an attractive curb appeal. It’s easy to have a year round garden here in Northwest. There are many steps that you can take and there are an abundance of plants and shrubs that you can choose from to brighten up your … [Read more...]

Why We LOVE Our Seattle Based Home Staging Business Model

Seattle Home Staging

Not all homes are alike and this is why here at Seattle Staged To Sell, we design and stage each home uniquely and stay away from a formula design where house after house, the design basically remains the same with little or no variation. It is true that using such a formula would save a lot of time and labor, but we prefer to take our time and spend the additional labor costs to achieve the best … [Read more...]

Seattle Home Staging – Preparing Houses For Sale

Seattle home staging

Seattle home staging prepares homes for sale and helps home owners to achieve their sale goals and sometime even surpass it. When you are preparing your home to put it on the market for sale, you need to keep these facts in mind: Your home will be competing fiercely with the other houses on the market. Homes going on the market is like being on a beauty pagent and the prettiest one wins. Ask … [Read more...]

Queen Anne Neighborhood Craftsman Home Staging – A Builder’s Own Home

Staged Craftsman Style home in QUeen Anne

Queen Anne Neighborhood Craftsman Home Staging - A builder's own home where every detail has been taken care of beautifully! The Queen Anne neighborhood, a sought after Seattle darling of areas, sits on a hill close to the downtown area with a lot of old charm of its own. An abundance of Craftsman Style homes is one the most charming aspects of this neighborhood. However, I have come to know that … [Read more...]

A Heartfelt Letter from Our Mercer Island Home Seller

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or some home sellers, it can be difficult to sell their home and close a chapter of their lives. I think most of us can identify with this since we all have gone through similar emotions for one reason or another. This was true for this Mercer Island home seller, our dear client Andrea.  For myself, as an example, it was hard to replace the baby cots with "all grown up" beds as my daughters were … [Read more...]

Cedar Park Neighborhood Contemporary Home Sitting On The Hill

Cedar Park house staged with the views of the lake

Cedar Park is one of those lush and quaint neighborhoods in Seattle, WA that everyone loves. This particular house in Cedar Park sits on the top of the hill overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade mountains.  As you can see, this house is nestled among trees on the hill top. This means views of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains without ANY obstruction AND lots of privacy. Do you see … [Read more...]

The Home Seller who Finally Learned to Trust the Home Stager

home sellers who finally learned to trust the home stager

   ften times I come across of home sellers who are either so attached to their homes that is really hard for them to let go or home sellers that just can't fully trust other professionals to help them with preparing their homes for the market. Both of these types of home sellers can create problems and sabotage their own success. Even though more and more home sellers are informed these days … [Read more...]

As Professional Home Stagers, We DO Walk the Walk & We De-Clutter

Walking the walk

Recently, we left our SODO warehouse and moved into a different space. Our new warehouse is much larger, has an office and is much more accessible from all of the freeways. It would would have been much easier for us to pack everything and just move it all into our new warehouse since the additional space was more than enough to accommodate it all. But as professional home stagers, we do walk … [Read more...]