The Business of Home Staging!

If you are interested in this exciting and growing field then check out some these home staging schools.  Nothing beats natural talent, but you will also gain a lot of insight in how to start a home staging business by attending one of the professional staging schools.

Yours Redesigned
Serving the Chicagoland area is a full-service staging company that also trains other aspiring stagers.  They have been featured on ABC 7 News and in the Chicago Tribune.

 

►Decorate Redecorate
Over 5,000 stagers and redesigners have trained with their courses, books, CDs, videos, mentoring services. Also available: Certification, Directory, Sales Aids, Management Tools, Members Site, Newsletters, Hundreds of free decorating tips pages.
 

Art of Interior Placement
provides all the tools to launch a successful staging business, including hands-on practice in actual homes with a formula and principles to gain confidence; the psychology of why buyers buy, marketing and promoting to agents and sellers; forms and agreements, and a business plan, specifically tailored for this industry, so you can take control of your business.
 

Staged Homes 
This is one of the most widely recognized certification programs out there.  The ASP certification will give realtors and home owners confidence in your credentials.

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The Home Stager's Guild
has a four-day course that will teach you staging basics, as well as business skills to get going.

 

The Staging Diva
 is a great place to learn about the business end of home staging.

 

Home Staging Resource
 in Vista, California has a complete home staging training program, and their HSR certification is widely recognized.

 

 Show House Marketing
which helps interior designers and home
stagers in the marketing of their business

Midwest Staging Redesign Institute

A nationally recognized Redesign and Home Staging Training Company, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to launch a successful home based business. Training  includes hands-on experience, a proven process to redesign or stage any home; business start up information, marketing, business forms and agreements, specific to redesign and staging.  Offering certification in Interior Redesign through IRIS.

 

People often ask home stagers how to start a real estate staging company because they feel that they have a natural talent, or an eye for design.  Unfortunately, many of these new stagers wind up learning things the hard way because they go through the process of learning by their own mistakes, rather than taking the easy path of getting professional home staging training.

If you know of any excellent staging schools out there that we've missed, please let us know!

 

  For more ideas please visit our home staging tips section.

 

Have you had a good experience with home staging? Are you a home stager with some great before and after pictures?  Send us your comments and we'll post them!