There is actually a lot more to it. You need experience! To be a good home stager, You need to know about Real Estate value in the area you will be working in, you need to know trends, and you will need to be a part time counselor! You must have an eye for space, and attention to detail. You must take a staging course and obtain a certificate you can present to your clients and a great portfolio with good photos to show them your work. With options to rent furniture, you need capital for the beginning. Then your real skills come into question. But first, you have to understand what home staging is.

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Home staging is NOT home decoration, it’s quite the opposite! While decorating, you inject your client’s personality into his home to suit him the best. On the other hand, home staging means removing the client’s personality from the place. You don’t know who the potential buyer will be – young professional? Elderly couple? Philosophy student? You have to present the opportunities that the property offers, but you have to leave some space for buyer’s own imagination.

To become a good home staging professional, you need great visual imagination and creativity, but also the empathy with various kinds of people. You will arrange dozens pieces of furniture, art and decoration into one coherent composition. The proper eye for detail is necessary – you have to decide whether the candle, bowl of fruits or book along with a pair of glasses will underline or destroy the atmosphere. You have to catch the pros and cons of every property, which call for stressing or downplaying.

Practice a bit. Try it with your home, your parents’ house, your son’s condo and always ask for opinions. Once you are confident enough, start your own business! Leave a few business cards with the local real estate agents, buy some newspaper adverts and check for furniture rental stores around.

Hard days, weeks and months will began. But if you will be able to resist and will constantly deliver great quality with each home you stage, soon you will get some referrals, which will help you to breathe more freely. If you endure some time, home staging business will for sure reward your creativity and determination.

Always think about the space. Your bedroom shouldn’t be cramped with furniture and electronic appliances. The centre of this private universe is the bed. It’s the most important piece and all other are subordinate. Don’t hesitate to buy a king size or queen size bed instead of a normal double and believe me, this investment will pay for itself. Match it with your preferred mattress: remember – the softest doesn’t necessarily mean the most comfortable. Your body will be healthier with firmer support.

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Your bedside table or nightstand should be at comfortable height to be easily accessible from the bed. This storage place is intended just to place a book or glass of water on it, so you don’t need anything huge. Don’t place any additional table in the bedroom as you would start bringing your work here and that’s not the best idea on how to achieve relaxing sleep.

Choose lights with adjustable brightness; they will help you to create intimacy when you want to talk with your partner and help you to avoid painful flashes when you have to suddenly turn on the light in the middle of night.

Don’t forget about open space. We want the bedroom to be airy and not hitting a chair or closet after stepping out of the bed. Keep most of your clothes in another room and have just a small place to leave your evening clothes. If you can’t do this, install decent wall to wall closets. Your bedroom should look compact, not like a storage area for various pieces of furniture.

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The next thing you really need are good curtains, which will keep you in darkness for the whole night, especially when your bedroom is east oriented (unless you want to wake up 5 am every morning). And that’s it. You don’t need additional chairs, tables, boxes; you even shouldn’t have a TV in the bedroom. Don’t place too many things on the walls, one painting is enough. A bedroom should be a sanctuary of relaxation, not a gallery or museum full of vases and statues. You will have plenty of opportunities to use these decorations in other rooms.

Add quality sheets (400 thread count and more) and blankets, pillows with memory foam and your Heaven on Earth is ready to be slept in.

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As soon as you get your new piece of leather furniture, you should put leather protector on it. This acts as an additional shield and keeps any dirt from being absorbed deeper into the material and also helps you with cleaning. Light colored leather will benefit from this procedure especially if you have an accidental spillage of coffee or even red wine.

Another dangerous enemy is sunlight. If you don’t apply UV protection, be sure to change the position of the furniture from time to time, especially when just a few particular areas are directly exposed to sun beams on a daily basis. It’s pretty hard to get rid of faded color stains later.

Another natural enemy of your leather sofa is cracking. It starts occurring, when the leather runs out of its natural oil after some time. Moistening products will help you, but you have to use them on a regular basis.

Regular maintenance requires you to clean the furniture every 1-2 weeks with a dry cloth (mainly to get rid of the body oils and salt people leave there) and vacuum it. Apply the moisturizing and protecting treatments 3-4 times a year on the most affected parts (seats, arms) and once a year on the whole surface, including the insides of panels.

What should you do if that glass of red wine or bowl of blueberries finally ends up on your beautiful leather chair despite all your efforts? If it’s polished leather, it’s not such a big deal if you act quickly. Simply wipe off the liquid, dry it and finally you may use a bit of oil to polish it again if needed. Unfinished leather is not a very common material for furniture; in this case you will need to play a bit with leather soap. Buy one made for furniture; like saddle soap for saddles and baby wipes for babies. Similarly, never use silicone polishes, wax polishes or other chemicals which are not intended for leather surfaces! You will avoid many additional unnecessary problems!