What is the difference between Home Staging to Sell and Interior Design/ Decorating?

The biggest difference is depersonalizing verse personalizing. When someone is Staging their house to sell they need to declutter and depersonalize and make sure the house does not look like the home owners. The home is now a house a product for sale and needs to be neutral of the home owners energy.

Interior Design/Decorating is all about making a home represent a homeowner, the complete opposite of Staging. Interior Design is about personalizing and knowing the energy of the home owner.

Make sure you are clear on your intentions/actions when Staging that you are not decorating. That is the biggest mistake I have seen people make when trying to Stage their own home, they end up changing their decorating style, to another style they adore and it is still personalized, not de-personalized and of course the result is not a Staged House.

"Your Investment in ASP Home Staging will always be less than your first Price Reduction"
- Barb Schwarz, The Creator of Home Staging

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