Have you seen the new show Stager Invasion on TLC? It premiered last night with two back-to-back episodes. It's a totally different take than The Stagers on HGTV.
After watching it I'm not sure that it's the best representation of how staging really works, but anything that keeps the business and concept out there in front of potential clients can't be a bad thing, can it?
The concept of this show is that they go into occupied homes that are a disaster and stage them with a team of about 20 people in 8 hours. The team walks down the street much like Extreme Home Makeover. They paint, landscape, build, and stage all in 8 hours. The stager, Lisa Lynch, likes to take every item out of the house into the driveway, do all the interior work, and then bring everything back in.
While many of us stage occupied homes - it's always annoying to me when they put time limits on these types of tv shows. In the real world a house in this shape could never be staged in 8 hours except at a large expense. I guess the added pressure makes good tv. They attempt to show the limited budget they can work on by purchasing only a few items for the home. In reality, the labor and staging cost would be exorbitant with that many people working on a house.
Though some feel the budgets on The Stagers are high, at least they are all disclosed and paint a more realistic picture of how staging works (although when do we ever get 5 days for each project!)
But I digress - some of the concepts that Lisa shares on the show are sound (de-cluttering, de-personalizing, use of space, etc.) but the idea that this is how staging works is not realistic. However, it does show how preparing a house for sale can help it sell quicker and for top dollar. The homeowners may not feel like a project of this magnitude is something they would like to tackle, so they may bring in a professional stager to help them. That's where we come in...
So what are your thoughts?
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