Los Angeles Home Staging Video – Hollywood Condo Staging
February 27, 2010
We staged this Hollywood condo right after returning from the Real Estate Staging Association International Home Staging Conference at the end of January.
When I spoke to the listing agent, she told me that she had received multiple offers after the first open house!
Yay! Home staging in Los Angeles helps sell homes faster.
This was the first home staging video I’ve created using my Flip Camera. Some of my camerawork is lacking. I promise I’ll get better with practice!
Los Angeles Home Staging a Glendora Townhome
February 18, 2010
Today we staged a cute Glendora townhome, located one block from Historic Route 66.
The home owner found Moving Mountains Design as the result of a this Pasadena Home Stager in the Pasadena Star News that appeared last week.
Despite (or maybe because of) her Senior Citizen status, she recognized that home staging is a wonderful tool that could help get her Glendora condo sold.
She is a retired real estate agent, and she told me that she wished “home staging was around when I was selling real estate. How much easier it would have been”.
The home owner put a lot of effort and money into getting her townhome into market ready condition, but hasn’t caught any buyer’s attention….yet. Let’s see if home staging is the magic wand to get this cute Glendora townhouse sold.
This townhome is 1,426 sq. ft. with 3 bedrooms & 3 bathrooms and is listed for $359,000.
For more information about this Glendora townhouse, contact the listing agent, Chris Purkiss at (626)335-8118.
Los Angeles Home Staging A Hollywood Condo – Multiple Offers After 1st Open House!
February 13, 2010
We were hired to stage this vacant Hollywood Condo by the homeowner, who was also the listing agent.
She chose Moving Mountains Design because we are professional and experienced and because she liked the photos in our home staging portfolio.
The condo was vacant after having been rented to tenants for some time. The REALTOR wisely put a lot of energy and effort getting the condo into market condition. She did everything right to get it sold:
- She hired an experienced, professional home stager to make the condo more appealing to buyers
- She priced it right
- She marketed it well
For more information about this Hollywood Blvd. adjacent condo, contact the listing agent, Judy Oroshnik, Prudential California Realty, at (323)671-1248.
Listen To Your Home Stager – Part 2
January 18, 2010
Today was the first open house for our home staging project in South Pasadena.
I spoke to the listing agent after the open house and he was ecstatic. Despite the rain, he had a great turn-out and the comments were overwhelmingly positive. He said he got many comments about how the home appeared move-in ready (top on my list of the comments I want to hear about a home I stage) and how pretty everything was.
Dining Room before home staging
The dining room had too much furniture, and the furniture wasn’t really suited to the style of the house.
Dining Room after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
A fast recap of this home staging project:
The listing agent hired me for a home staging consultation on his South Pasadena listing. I met with him and his clients and we discussed everything I felt needed to be done to get this home ready to sell. The homeowners and listing agent were diligent about doing everything on the list, and they got it done in record time. The clients moved out, the house was repainted, re-carpeted, and cleaned over the course of a week!
Living Room before home staging
The living room furniture was too casual. It was better suited to a family room.
Living Room after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Here’s the family room transformation:
Family Room before home staging
There was so much furniture, I wasn’t able to take the before and after shots from the same angle!
Family Room after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Looking at the photos, I almost can’t believe its the same house or how quickly it was transformed.
Listen To Your Home Stager
January 16, 2010
Over the past few weeks we’ve done several home staging consultations in Los Angeles and Pasadena.
In 2 cases, the listing agents paid for the consultation and both agree it was a great investment based upon the transformations that resulted. In both instances I suggested repainting and new carpet. In both cases the interior of the homes had not been painted in several years and the paint looked tired and soiled. And in both of the homes the carpet had become so soiled and worn that it was not salvageable.
I’m happy to report that both homeowners made the investment to get their San Dimas and South Pasadena homes sold quickly and repainted the interiors and recarpeted.
I’ll be posting pictures of the South Pasadena home we staged later today (we haven’t staged the San Dimas house yet) so you can see what a difference listening to your home stager can make. But in the mean time, here’s some before and mid-way photos of how the South Pasadena home we staged was transformed by new paint and carpet.
Here’s the before shot:
South Pasadena Living Room before home staging
Now here’s the living room mid-transformation after completing the suggest work in the home staging consultation:
South Pasadena Living Room mid-transformation
BTW, the paint color is Sherwin Williams #7571 Casa Blanca, which is a very soft golden tan.
Stay tuned for more pictures!
Arcadia Home Staging – Confucius says “One Must Have A Good Tool In Order To Do A Good Job”
November 30, 2009
What does Confucious have to say about home staging in Arcadia?
What does Confucious have to say about home staging in Arcadia?
What do Confucius and home staging in Arcadia have in common?
There is an old Chinese expression which translates roughly to “One must have a good tool in order to do a good job”. This comes from an ancient text called the Analects of Confucius.
This wisdom can apply to many aspects of our lives, but when selling a home in Arcadia, that “good tool” is Moving Mountains Design Home Staging.
Doing a good job, in real estate and in home staging, means making sure that, from the moment a potential Arcadia home buyer drives up to the front of your house, steps inside the front door and looks around, he or she feels like they have found the perfect home, the home they want to buy. There are many Arcadia homes for sale so you have to make sure your home is in excellent condition and shows beautifully. Home staging by Moving Mountains Design will help your home make a good showing.
Here’s how Moving Mountains Design can be your “good tool” when selling your Arcadia home:
- When you hire us to stage your home, you are hiring an Arcadia home staging company with years of experience in the area and hundreds of homes staged and sold.
- We understand whom the home buyers are in Arcadia and we stage to their taste. Because of our extensive experience staging homes in Arcadia we understand what these home buyers will find appealing.
- Feng Shui is important to many Arcadia home buyers. Michelle Minch is trained as a certified Feng Shui consultant and understands how to “fix” many Feng Shui problems that may slow down the sale of your home.
- Our private home staging furniture and accessory warehouse is located in Arcadia. We are a local business. We eat, shop and work in Arcadia.
- Our furniture and accessories are hand selected for you and our selection is customized to show off your home or listing. We know how to make your home or listing look its best and we have the accessories, artwork, luxury linens, towels and Persian rugs to do just that.
- Our furniture rental partner has a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse full of hundreds of sofas, chairs, dining tables and beds! When you hire Moving Mountains Design to stage your listing or home, you aren’t stuck with what ever furniture we happen to have left over in our garage or mini-storage like you would be with some lower priced home stagers. You will get a custom staging plan using beautiful furniture in excellent condition that makes your home look like a photo in a magazine.
- We provide professional quality photographs of the rooms we stage. Our photos will make your home look outstanding on the internet and in printed brochures and marketing material. We provide these photos FREE for our complete home staging clients. Since 80-90% of home buyers start their search for a new home on the internet, professional quality photos are very important.
- Even in this market, many of the homes we stage sell in 60 days or less, often in the first 2 weeks and some over asking price.
This Arcadia home closed escrow 29 days after staging by Moving Mountains Design
This Arcadia home sold after the first open house after being staged by Moving Mountains Design
Don’t try to do the job of preparing your home or listing for sale with a dull tool.
For the best home selling tool call Michelle at Moving Mountains Design 626)441-8975 or contact us by email to learn how we can help you prepare your Arcadia real estate to encourage a faster sale at a higher price. We also stage homes in Pasadena, San Marino, San Gabriel, South Pasadena, Altadena, Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
Home Staging Is #2 In Top 12 Home Improvements Survey Results
November 6, 2009
Do-it-yourself Home Improvement Project
Home Gain released their 2009 Top 12 Home Improvements Survey results yesterday.
The Home Gain survey, completed by 1,000 Realtors, listed 12 top do-it-yourself home improvement projects for people getting ready to put their home on the market.
Click here to go to the Home Improvement Survey results
The top 5 recommended home repairs with the greatest return on investment were:
1. Cleaning and decluttering
2. Home staging
3. Lightening and brightening
4. Landscaping
5. Repair plumbing
If you’re unsure where to start with your home improvement projects, hire a professional home stager for a home staging consultation.
When you hire Los Angeles home staging company, Moving Mountains Design, for a home staging consultation, we visually inspect your home, both interior and exterior. Based upon our extensive staging and design experience, we’ll recommend the most important repairs and upgrades you can make to maximize the appeal of your home to potential buyers. We provide you with a written Comprehensive Consultation Report which includes paint colors (if painting is recommended) and carpet color recommendations (if carpet needs to be replaced) as well as pointing out items that need to be repaired, areas to be de-cluttered, furniture placement and improvements to your landscaping. If we feel it would be in your best interest to purchase new bedding, towels or throw pillows, we’ll include some inexpensive places to purchase those items. You can do as much of the work (or as little) as you would like. Our services are a la carte.
We have a Rolodex full of service providers, including moving companies, painters, cleaning services, carpet installers, handyman services, countertop fabricators and landscapers, among others, if you need help completing the preparation of your home.
In the event you need rental furniture, art work or accessories (if the house is vacant or you need a few pieces to augment what you already have) we can provide that as well.
Moving Mountains Design maintains a large warehouse of rental accessories, art work, plants, bedding and towels for use in vacant homes. We can dress up any style of home from Craftsman to Contemporary, be it a condo, a cottage or a castle.
Call Michelle today (626)441-8975 to arrange for your home staging consultation. Moving Mountains Design is among the top home staging companies in Los Angeles and Pasadena, based upon our experience and excellent track record of getting homes sold quickly. We know what makes homes sell!
Los Angeles Home Staging – A Second Condo For A Real Estate Auction Company
October 19, 2009
As I wrote in an earlier post Home Staging A Condo For A Los Angeles Real Estate Auction Company , Moving Mountains Design staged 2 Los Angeles condos last week for a real estate auction company.
Both condo developments we staged the models for are new construction and are vacant. The auction company had rented a few pieces of furniture on their own, but didn’t feel that the small amount of furniture made the model home units more appealing. They hired Moving Mountains Design to do a full model home staging of all 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, a home office (also could be used as a family room), living room / dining room combination, eat-in kitchen and a massive ground floor family room.
Here are some photos before and after staging:
Dining Room/Living Room before home staging
The auction company VP I was dealing with wanted to make sure that potential buyers knew this area could be a dining area as well as a living room with an open floor plan.
Open floor plan living room/dining room after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Another view of the living room/dining room after home staging
Condo kitchen after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Master bedroom after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Please note, the power hadn’t been turned on yet on the day we staged, so I had to be content with natural light for the photos. I like to augment the available light by lighting the lamps and ceiling fixtures.
Information regarding the auction of these condos can be found here: Independence Villas
Moving Mountains Design is one of the most successful home staging companies in Los Angeles, CA. We measure our success by the speed in which our staged homes sell, often with multiple offers above listing price. We work with home sellers, listing agents and asset managers to prepare homes for sale. Some of our services include vacant home staging, occupied home staging, color consultations, corporate and executive relocations, move organization, redesign, and interior design. We also stage model homes, REOs, foreclosures and auction properties.
For more information about our home staging services, contact Los Angeles home stager, Michelle Minch (626)441-8975.
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Home Staging a Condo For a Los Angeles Real Estate Auction Company
October 18, 2009
This week we staged 2 Los Angeles condos for a real estate auction company.
This was the first time they had worked with a home stager and this was the first time I had worked with a real estate auction company. I think its a match made in heaven. The condos they will be auctioning look 100% better now that they’ve been staged by Moving Mountains Design. Having a more desirable product to auction should create greater urgency to bid resulting in more units sold and higher prices paid.
Here are photos of the Pacoima condo after home staging:
Livingroom After Staging
Family Room Toward Kitchen After Staging
Condo Kitchen Looking Toward The Family Room
Condo Master Bedroom After Home Staging
Master Bath After Home Staging
Kid's Bedroom After Staging
These are not expensive condos relative to Los Angeles home prices. But the model now looks like a high price, luxury unit after home staging. We used just enough furniture, accessories and artwork to highlight the condo’s architectural features and to give purpose to every room yet still remain cost effective.
These condos originally listed for around $400,000.00. According to the website, the opening bids at auction will be $125,000.00-$150,000.00. The auction is scheduled for November 15, 2009.
For more information about the Hansen Villas Condos, visit the Kennedy Wilson Los Angeles home auction website and scroll down to the Hansen Villa information.
If you have any questions or would like more information about using home staging to help sell your REOs, foreclosure listings or you are a real estate auction company, please contact Michelle Minch at (626)441-8975.
Vacant Home Staging For An Arcadia Townhome
September 8, 2009
This week we staged a vacant Acadia town home located in a very nice complex on Fairview Ave. When I first met the homeowners, they were in the process of moving out, hence all the before photos show their moving boxes.
Upon my recommendation, they agreed to paint the entire unit, have the carpets steam cleaned and hire a handyman to take care of a few minor repairs. They did a really nice job making their condo move-in ready. They were smart about hiring a professional home stager, and doubly smart for following my recommendations.
Arcadia condo living room before home staging
Arcadia condo living room after home staging by Moving Mountains Design
Arcadia Townhome Dining Room Before Home Staging
Dining Room in Arcadia Townhome After Home Staging by Moving Mountains Design
Master Bedroom in Arcadia Townhome Before Home Staging
Arcadia Condo Master Bedroom After Home Staging By Moving Mountains Design
Any potential buyers who walk in the front door will see:
- a spacious living room with a fireplace,
- gleaming hardwood floors,
- a large dining area,
- lots of kitchen counter space,
- spa-like bathrooms and
- a large master bedroom with giant walk in closet.
- They’ll also see a well priced condo in a desirable Arcadia neighborhood, that is neat as a pin and well maintained.
For more information about this terrific Arcadia townhome, contact the listing agent, Sharon Chou, Century 21 at (626)446-8402 direct or (626)833-8888 mobile. MRMLS#09096771
For more information about our vacant or occupied home staging in Los Angeles, Pasadena or Arcadia, call Michelle at (626)441-8975
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