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Home Staging Projects May Always Make You Nervous

Guest post by: Debra Gould

Article Overview: Home staging expert, Staging Diva, talks to home stagers about how to handle on-the-job anxiety.

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Home Staging Projects May Always Make You Nervous

If you’re wondering when you’ll stop feeling nervous about how a home staging project will come together, you should know that you may always feel that way and that if you do, you’re completely normal!

You’ll never be able to anticipate every problem or surprise that could come up and it’s impossible to see how your staging design ideas will all come together until you’re completely done.

I’ve been a home stager for seven years and I’m still nervous until I’m completely finished of a staging project. There will always be small hiccups (and sometimes large ones) that can throw you off but they’re the challenges that keep things interesting and help you grow as a stager and anticipate future problems.

Like how I once rented an armchair that wouldn’t fit up the client’s narrow staircase because the legs didn’t unscrew. Or the time I took two drapery panels out of their packages to discover one had been mislabeled and was 14 inches too short a mere hour before the photos were due to be taken of the property.

Those houses still looked fabulous and thanks to some last minute creative problem solving, nobody knew the difference and guess what? Nobody died. The world didn’t end.

Most live performers feel nervous before a show even if they’ve been touring for years but once they’re onstage they’re fine. Think of the moment that a home staging project comes together as “show time.” You’ll see that it always comes together and that you always feel anxious until that moment.

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Debra Gould, aka The Staging Diva®, is President of Six Elements Inc., an internationally recognized home staging company. Inspired by many requests from aspiring home stagers wanting to start similar businesses, Gould created the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program. Gould has trained 4000+ students in over 20 countries to start staging businesses. Buying decorating and selling six of her own homes in four years lead to an interest in real estate staging which she turned into a career with the launch of sixelements.com in 2002. Since then she has staged hundreds of homes in addition to teaching home staging training. Gould is the author of several home staging resources including a series of popular home staging guides made up of a Design Guide, Color Guide, Portfolio Guide and Twitter Guide. For more information about Debra Gould visit stagingdiva.com.

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