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New Waterford business owner of home staging business “Staged Image” Linda J McMullin says that in today’s market builders, realtors and homeowners are always trying to get ahead of the competition in selling their homes and “staging”  is a valuable tool to help sell it faster and for more money.  After all, the way you live in your home and the way you sell your home are two different things,  Staging a home for sale will often include painting, clearing the clutter, furniture placement and bringing in props and décor items to give it that cozy and lived in feeling that customers are looking for today.

“ Staged Image” specializes in model homes and several builders in the Dartmouth area including a New Waterford native Claude LeForte has used my services to help with the sale of their new homes. Recently, I staged an empty home for LeForte Homes and it sold in a day.  In this case furniture is rented and with a little creativity and hard work the empty home can be transformed into a cozy lived-in space that customers can relate to and visualize themselves living their.   “Image is Everything” is the tag line used by Staged Image as customers usually make a decision to purchase a home within the first few minutes of entering it and so that first impression really is everything.

I enjoy the whole process of staging homes and have had the opportunity of working on some challenging projects throughout HRM and with the awareness of home staging and word of mouth my business is growing.  My next big project is a model home in Portland Hills Dartmouth and the open house will take place on May 12th.  So guys if you’re looking for that special gift for that special someone!

If you have any inquiries about staging a home for sale I can be reached at stagedimage@ns.sympatico.ca or my website is www.stagedimage.com