Speaking Up about Home Staging

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My Name is Melissa & I'm a Stage-a-holic

You know that you are in a bad way when you get one of those cutsey emails from you mother-in-law.  You know the ones with the adorable animals and the amusing captions.  Tell me what you see when you look at this photo.....

 

 

Here's what I saw.... terrible wallpaper and flooring that needs some stick on tiles bad!  What about that trimwork?  Don't they know it's not the 70s anymore?  Sigh...

I am Melissa & I am a stage-a-holic....

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Melissa Marro, a published artist, now turned staging advocate and national speaker speaks her mind about real estate and the home staging industry.  In her 'no holds barred' approach, audience members find real answers to the industries pitfalls and learn how to overcome them with tried and true information and guidance.  With marketing as her passion, she turned a small home based business into one of the nation's largest home staging and training facilities.  She now operates as the CEO of First Impressions Home Staging & Interior ReDesign as well as an instructor for Staging And Resign and regularly speaks at the StagerList Expos and Real Estate Staging Association (RESA)'s trade events.

For more information on having Marro speak at one of your real estate functions, please contact her at 843.822.2622 or email at marro.melissa@gmail.com

If you would like Marro's team to provide information on staging a property in the state of South Carolina, or the Greater Charleston Area, please visit www.WeStageSC.com, email marro.melissa@gmail.com or call 843.822.2622.

16 comments • Melissa Marro www.StagingAndRedesign.com www.WeStageSC.com • June 29 2007 08:19PM

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I am grinning from ear to ear!  laughing cat because you have got it bad...really bad! There is no cure except for blindness (heaven forbid...take my hearing please!).
Posted by Sheron Cardin - how2homestage.com (California Moods Inc) over 3 years ago

Oh please --- not that wallpaper, again?

Posted by Karen Dembsky, Atlanta Home Staging (Peachtree Home Staging LLC, Home Staging in Atlanta, GA) over 3 years ago
Ok, that's funny...I saw the same things you did...Scary!  Cute
Posted by Cindy Richter, IRIS Dallas, TX Home Stager (Interior Motiv Home Staging) over 3 years ago
OMG - That is exactly what I saw first too! My name is Anthea...and I'm a stage-a-holic too.
Posted by Anthea Click - Nashville Area Home Stager (Fresh Perspectives) over 3 years ago
OK --- cat, bag, wall - I'm not in a deep as you are!!!
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 3 years ago

Posted by Teresa Meyer-Home Staging Cincinnati-OH. Stage a Star: Home Stager Cincinnati (Stage a Star Staging & Consulting Services) over 3 years ago

Melissa....couldn't resist.

Posted by Teresa Meyer-Home Staging Cincinnati-OH. Stage a Star: Home Stager Cincinnati (Stage a Star Staging & Consulting Services) over 3 years ago
Even before I started staging I would be in some ones home and make comments to myself about what they needed to do to update.  Now its gotten worse that the shopping aspect is part of it.  I find it difficult to drive buy certain stores with out stopping to see what they have in stock for my inventory.
Posted by Isabel Gomes, Interior Decorator, Stager - London, Ont (Gomes Design) over 3 years ago
Hi Melissa, I recently had the SAME reaction to a similar picture. I mean... this place needs some help before it goes on the market!
Posted by TACOMA~FEDERAL WAY~AUBURN~KENT~WA 206-679-4768 Julianna Hind, REALTOR(R) (eXp Realty) over 3 years ago
Julianna,  That house I think I would have to refer out... I mean if there are that many cats in it, I just can't imagine the smell..... lol.....
Posted by Melissa Marro www.StagingAndRedesign.com www.WeStageSC.com (First Impressions) over 3 years ago
Melissa: My eye immediately went to the crack in the wall behind the cat. Yikes!
Posted by Michelle Minch Home Staging Los Angeles & Pasadena, CA (Moving Mountains Design Home Staging, Pasadena, CA) over 3 years ago
You got me, i only noticed the bad wall paper, missed the other stuff. man i'm slipping,lol..
Posted by Home Stagers in Atlanta / Chamblee area (Home-A-Dress) over 3 years ago

How funny!!  I just was trying to figure out what the writing on the bag was!!!  I'm a dog person...so here's one of my three babies!!  Her caption is "I feel pretty, I feel pretty...".

Posted by Lori Hakeem (Charles Rutenberg Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago
Lori, how cute is that?  I have 4 cats and a dog (and about 20 fish)... apparently I'm an every kind of animal person.....
Posted by Melissa Marro www.StagingAndRedesign.com www.WeStageSC.com (First Impressions) over 3 years ago
Wow!!!  That's terrific!!!  I really do love all kinds of animals (except reptiles).  This little one is a rescue, so I named her "Hope".
Posted by Lori Hakeem (Charles Rutenberg Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago

Melissa:  SNORTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!  That was great!  I had to show my husband and even he klaughed hard at your comment.

My name is Karen.  I have none of my formal living room furniture left and I can't remember which house what pieces are in.  I am a Stage-a-holic.

Posted by Karen Reynolds (Champagne Staging, LLC) over 3 years ago

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