School of Home Staging was founded by a home staging instructor/business owner with more than 15 years of experience in the industry, having taught thousand of new home stagers. Find out how to become a home stager with our training, other courses, or learning on your own.
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How to Become a Home Stager
You can sign up today for our home staging certification program.
Our training will prepare you for your next step as a professional home stager. Through our home staging certification program, you can become qualified for home staging jobs or you can start up your own business. We will walk you through learning how to stage homes and getting your business started.
Qualify for Home Staging Jobs
Most cities now have large, busy home staging companies that hire stagers as designers, staging associates, assistants, or project managers. Our training material and assignments will help you qualify for one of these positions, since you’ll have the know-how and before and after portfolio to show off your skills.
Home staging jobs are a good way to further your experience and do what you love without taking on the responsibility of starting and running your own business. You can always decide to start your own business later on.
If you want to know how to become a home stager without taking any kind of training program, you may be able to get hired as an assistant or associate stager at an existing company in your area. Depending on your prior experience, this could be a viable option.
Start Your Own Home Staging Business
Our course material will get you ready for starting up your own business. By following our start-up action steps and completing the staging assignments, you’ll have the knowledge and the portfolio to start taking on clients.
Home staging is an excellent business to start if you’re creative and have a knack for making things look good. If you like color and design, and if you’re good at coming up with solutions. This is truly work that doesn’t feel like work. And if you also love real estate, that’s a major bonus.
Thanks in part to exposure from HGTV and other media outlets, home staging has become a go-to part of the selling process. And the great news is the industry still has room for growth. Agents recognize the value in it: 77% say that it helps buyers visualize making a property their home. Twenty-eight percent of agents report that they stage all homes before listing them. You can read more about home staging in this report from the National Association of Realtors.
Enjoy the Rewards of a Real Estate Staging Career
Using home staging psychology to boost a home’s appeal is a fascinating way to take your work beyond good decorating. So if you like marketing and the psychological aspects of sales, this will come into play in staging. The psychological component is one of the things that makes this work so interesting and different every day.
Other aspects of home staging are rewarding as well. As a real estate stager, you’re helping people make more money on the sale of their home, since staged homes generally sell for higher prices.
This can be a real help for folks since a home sale can help people pay bills, buy a move-up home, add to college savings accounts, save for retirement, and more. It feels good to help add thousands to a home’s sale price.
In addition, you’ll have the freedom of being your own boss. You can be there to pick kids up from school and you can take your vacation days any time you feel like scheduling them. Not a morning person? Schedule afternoon and evening appointments.
You can keep part-time hours if you want to, and you can set up your appointments so that you never have to sit in rush hour traffic.
Once you’ve finished the training you can start enjoying the many rewards that come with having your own staging business.
- As a home stager, you can start earning $75+ per hour in just a few weeks
- You can set your own hours, plan your own vacation days when you want to, and never miss another family milestone or event
- Wake up every day knowing that you get to do what you love and earn a good living doing it
- Choose to operate with or without inventory — we’ll show you how
- Enjoy helping folks sell faster and for more money
- Become a valued member of your local business community
- Since you set your own hours, you can have the freedom during your week to volunteer for schools, Meals-on-Wheels, animal shelters, anything you’ve always wanted to do
How to Become a Home Stager (on a Budget): Start Your Business for Less Than $200
Some programs will instruct you to spend tens of thousands of dollars on your business start-up, including whole houses worth of furniture and accessories as well as the monthly storage costs for these items. (I just saw an ad for a home staging inventory fire sale from a failed business and it made me feel so sad because this is completely avoidable.)
Our training will show you how to start making money without having to take on this type of huge risk and commitment, so your business can be profitable on day one and you add inventory gradually. You can also opt to remain inventory-free if you choose.
How to Become a Home Stager Through Other Online Training Programs
Check out our course reviews page to see what options you have. There are programs in a range of price ranges and each one has a different structure and overall vibe, you you are sure to find a good fit. Take your time doing the research.
We like the Staging Diva program because of the feedback we have heard over the years, and the fact that you can take courses a la carte or opt for the whole program.
