Home Staging at an Affordable Price
Let's take the overwhelm out of your move
Services to fit every need
No project is too big or too small! We want to help you get top dollar and a quick sale on your home!
We offer a variety of services to stage occupied as well as vacant homes. Please review our service options below. Additional services are available based on the home’s needs and home seller’s budget.
We offer professional home staging services in Snohomish County and King County, including Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Woodinville, Bothell, Snohomish, Mill Creek, Lake Stevens, Everett, and surrounding areas.
Occupied Staging Services:
All occupied homes start with an extremely detailed Consultation and Staging Report, so we have a plan of attack and can help you sell your home fast and for the best price possible.
Consultation and Detailed Staging Report for the "DIY" with an EYE for Design
In this intensive in-home consultation, we will be using a detailed and customized Staging Report to write down everything that needs to be done to get the home the best price possible! We follow an 8-step in each room design process that ensures maximum return on investment (ROI) for every staging dollar spent. This service is designed to give you all the objective, expert advice you need to do the staging work yourself in the form of a detailed report.
The consultation can take up to 2 hours and we will cover the following:
- Detailed phone interview in order to completely understand your project
- Buyer demographic research, so we are designing for your typical buyer
- Checklists for each room of the home
- Open House Checklist – Showing instructions
- Curb appeal for first impression impact
- Recommended furniture arrangement and flow
- De-cluttering, de-personalizing and optimizing space in each room
- Highlighting architectural features and guiding the buyer’s eyes to notice high-value assets
- Lighting, window treatments and accessory arrangement
- Color advice and emotional connection points in each space, so buyers fall in love!
You will walk away with all the answers, a Priority Shopping List and an Exclusive Vendor List to help you complete the staging process.
**If the home is larger than 2500 sq. ft. with multiple staging areas there could be an additional time cost to cover the larger home and additional time spent on the project.
Power Staging and Mini-Makeover
Feeling overwhelmed with preparing your home to sell? This staging service is all about rolling up our sleeves, following the detailed Staging Report and working together to start staging the main areas of the home right away. You won’t believe the difference a few hours makes just using what you already own!
This service can take up to 4 hours in the home with 2 hours planning/prep time and includes:
- Kitchen staging and organizational strategies
- Main living area staging and emotional connection point set up
- Main bathroom design
- If time permits, we will tackle other key living areas, so your home is show ready
- We will bring in essential staging accessories to give you a “visual shopping list” of what to purchase for modernizing and setting the stage for buyers to fall in love
- You will walk away with beautiful “after” photos of your staged rooms!
This is also a critical service just before professional MLS photos are taken because we style each space for maximum photo impact!
Ultimate Power Staging and One-Day Home Makeover
This service simply extends our time together to include a day of rolling up our sleeves, following our detailed Staging Report and tackling the main areas of the home while staging for photos.
This service can take up to 6 hours in the home with over 3 hours planning/prep time and includes:
- Kitchen staging and organizational strategies
- Main living area staging and emotional connection point set up
- Main bathroom, master bedroom and bath design
- If time permits, we will tackle other key living areas, so your home is show ready
- We will bring in essential staging accessories to give you a “visual shopping list” of what to purchase for modernizing and setting the stage for buyers to fall in love
- You will walk away with beautiful “after” photos of your staged rooms!
New Listing or Open House Staging Weekend
This service takes all the stress out of staging and is perfect to make a great first impression for the home that is just about to go onto the market or have an Open House!
A JM Staging & Design consultant will spend two days prior to the “Open House” weekend transforming the house into a buyers dream. The consultant will be working with a detailed JM Staging & Design Action Plan (included) that will be given to the home seller to complete the transformations at the end of the session.
To get top dollar, every home should go through our complete home staging transformation before being listed!
- We can do all the work for you and completely stage all the main areas of your home!
- We will bring in essential staging accessories to give you a “visual shopping list” of what to purchase for modernizing and setting the stage for buyers to fall in love
- You will walk away with beautiful “after” photos of your staged rooms!
Power Shopping
We’ll create a budget and shop for those accessories that serve as investments in the sale of your home. I’m an expert in sourcing the best items at the most reasonable prices!
Vacant Staging Services:
Vacant Home Staging — Free Phone Consultation and Estimate
Vacant homes are especially in need of staging because they tend to take longer to sell and get the lowest price. Call JM Staging & Design for a price estimate that gives you options and works within your budget while making your home BEAUTIFUL!
Frequently Asked Questions about Staging
Although professional staging is a relatively new industry, people have been “fixing up” their homes to sell for decades. These days due to HGTV, home buyers have an “expectation” and are willing to pay quite a bit more for a home that is “model home” looking.
If you could get just 10% more on the sale of your home, how much would that be?
Home Staging is the preparation of a home to sell by a professional who specializes in this form of design and has been certified and trained on the art of home staging. Many definitions you have seen no doubt stop after the word “sell” and that is part of the big misconception and devaluation of home staging. A professional home stager has the resources and can objectively view the home as a product and highlight its assets while downplaying its flaws. The home seller cannot view their home objectively, while many successful Realtors do not have the time or trade resources to properly stage a home.
For as little as a few hundred dollars you can have a detailed list of what you can do to maximize the value of your home!
Home sellers are usually overwhelmed trying to successfully stage their own home. Why? Because our homes are like our children, we don’t always see all of its flaws. We’ve gotten used to the way it looks and in fact it is difficult emotionally to change it. If you can’t view something objectively then you are unable to market and package it effectively. Not to mention most home sellers don’t “stage” homes everyday for a living. That’s what HSR Certified professionals are for and that is where the greatest returns come in.
Even if your house sells quickly in a good market, it doesn’t mean it sold for the amount it would have sold for had it been professionally staged. Remember, HSR Certified professionally staged homes sell on a conservative average for 10% more in a good market (see the Latest Home Staging Statistics).
Only a mere 10% of home buyers can actually visualize the potential of a home and most of these folks are “investors” or “flippers” who will hammer you on price. In our Consultation walk through, I will identify those “price eroding” factors of your home, so that you can do the simple fixes that maximize returns.
This is also why having a vacant home professionally staged is so important. Buyers cannot visualize size and scale so furniture helps to give them a frame of reference.
three phases to home staging
01.
Maximizing What You Have, so That it Appeals to Buyers
You will be amazed at the dramatic transformation I will be able to accomplish in a single Staging Day using what you already have! Successful home staging must make financial sense and I am experienced and trained in making the most of your current belongings in order to turn buyer traffic into offers. We will start with a Consultation in order to assess your space.
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Recommended Purchases or Rentals as “Investments” in Selling Your Home
Working within your budget, I will only recommend purchases that will MORE than pay for themselves in the speed and dollar amount of the sale. During the Staging Day, I will bring in accessories in order to get fantastic photos for your Realtor’s marketing efforts and to attract Internet traffic. Over 95% of home buyers are online searching for homes BEFORE they visit a home, so we want to make an excellent first impression and compel them to come to your home.
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Simple Yet Dramatic Cosmetic Updates and Changes for ROI
Depending on your budget and timing, we may suggest paint, electrical, and other cosmetic improvements that will result in a high return on investment. I will tell you which rooms and improvements are “worth it.”
Not sure where to start?
Free Phone Consultation and Estimate
It may seem overwhelming and hard to envision now. That is why my expertise and experience is important. I will walk you through the potential that I see and create a transformation that you will love, based on your input and style.
Feel free to set up a no-obligation chat to discuss your project, get more information about the various options available, and what it will look like to work with me.
The fine print: Payment is expected upon agreement in writing to the services listed above prior to beginning the design phase. The web links provided in the final source list may include affiliate links, which means I earn a small commission from your purchase at no additional cost to you.
