ARE YOU LOOKING FOR RESOURCES FOR STAGING YOUR HOME? HERE ARE MY PICKS FOR A FEW BOOKS, MAGAZINES, AND TV SHOWS

When you’re looking for ideas for staging your home, from cleaning to organizing and de-cluttering to painting and accessorizing, try these, which are some favorites. Most apply to whether you are selling on your own or using an agent. If there are additional resources that are need for FSBOs, I will include them as well.

 

Books can be extremely helpful resources, both for the information and the photos.
Copyright 2013 by Kristen DiNobile

BOOKS

• How to Sell Your Home in Any Market: 6 Reasons Why Your Home Isn’t Selling … And What You Can Do to Fix Them by Loren Keim 
• Home Staging in Tough Times by Barbara Jennings  
• 301 Simple Things You Can Do to Sell Your Home Now and For More Money Than You Thought: How to Inexpensively Reorganize, Stage, and Prepare Your Home for Sale By Teri B. Clark How to Sell A House Fast in a Slow Real Estate Market: A 30-Day Plan for Motivated Sellers by William Bronchick

The Conplete Idiot’s Guide to Selling Your Home by Katie Severen

Home Makeovers That Sell by Sid Davis

Designed to Sell: Make Any Home the Hottest Property on the Block with Expert Advice from the Popular HGTV Series by HGTV

Selling Your House: The Secrets You Need to Know by Madeline Botts Meixner

Sabrina Soto also has a great book that just came out. While it's not geared towards staging, there is lots of information you can use for staging your home. Here's the info for that:
Sabrina Soto Home Design: A Layer-by-Layer Approach to Turning Your Ideas into the Home of Your Dreams

 

 

 

Magazines are also a great resource for staging ideas. 

 Copyright 2013 by Kristen DiNobile

MAGAZINES

• HGTV Magazine
• Better Homes & Gardens
• Martha Stewart Living
• DIY Magazine
• Coastal Living
• This Old House
• Fine Gardening
• Horticulture

I didn’t include links because I would recommend checking prices in three major places. Sometimes they are about the same price, but sometimes there are drastic differences and other times, sites may contain special offers. Check Amazon.com, Magazines.com, and the magazine’s site, which is that of the publisher.

WEBSITES

• Better Homes & Gardens
• HGTV: offers several useful sites
  • HGTV
  • HGTV’s Front Door
  • HGTV Gardens
  • HGTV Remodels
• DIY Network
• Pinterest
• Style with Comfort (which also offers free newsletters)
• Zillow
• Trulia
• Realtor.com

You may have noticed that I did not include any associations or organizations for stagers in my list of websites. Read about the reasons for this in Becoming a Home Stager. This is one of the many questions I get asked. To read a few more, take a look at Frequent Staging Questions

TV SHOWS

I recommend both staging shows and decorating shows because you can get ideas from any type of decorating show. Some are more useful than other. I’ll be honest that I am not as familiar with the shows on DIY Network. I don’t get that channel and it's only available with another package for a hefty increase in price. But I would love to get it. As soon as I can get Verizon Fios, I will and I'll have that channel! Lots of times, shows from DIY Network are run on HGTV again.

Even shows for home buying, like House Hunters, can be helpful. You can see what buyers are seeing as they preview homes. This will help you stage your own home. You can make sure you’re home doesn’t contain those elements you didn’t like on the homes you saw on TV. Most of these are on HGTV and a few from TLC on the bottom. Some are older shows but they still play reruns, so I included them as well. I didn’t include links because all you need to do is go to HGTV and click the top menu bar tab that says “TV”. The TV drop down menu has a tab for “Shows” and then if you look in that box you will see a choice for “All Shows”. Do the same for TLC.

HGTV

• Buying and Selling
• Candace Tells All
• Curb Appeal
• Design on a Dime
• Designed to Sell
• Get it Sold
• HGTV’d
• House Hunters
• House Hunters Renovation
• Meg’s Great Rooms
• Property Virgins
• Real Estate Intervention
• Staged to Sell
• Staging Secrets and Myths (this was a special program but I have seen reruns of it at times)
• The High Low Project
• The Unsellables

TLC

• Stager Invasion
• Sell This House
• Sell This House Extreme

Of course this is just a limited list and I also include resources in many of my other blog entries and articles. Look for more resources in future pieces.