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Home staging anxiety may never go away

Guest post by: Debra Gould

Article Overview: The Staging Diva, Debra Gould, encourages aspiring home stagers to push through their fears and build the business of their dreams.

Home staging anxiety may never go away

Home staging expert, Debra Gould, has been a home stager for years and she still feels nervous about her staging projects until they're completely finished. She says, "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." If you feel nervous about how your home staging projects will come together and you're wondering when you'll stop feeling that way, Gould wants you to know that you may always feel that way and that if you do, you're completely normal.

You could be the best home stager around but you'll never be able to anticipate every problem or surprise that could come up. It's impossible to see how yourstaging design ideas will all come together until you're completely done and that, according to Gould, is where much of the anxiety comes from.

"I once rented an armchair that wouldn't fit up the client's narrow staircase because the legs didn't unscrew. And one 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. But 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,"says Gould, founder of the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.

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