Home Staging Certification: Fact or Fiction

Home Staging Certification: Fact or Fiction

As long as I’ve been involved in home staging education there has been a lot of misinformation out there about home staging certification.

So let’s discuss a few of these issues right here once and for all. If you don’t know me, I’m a home staging educator from back in the early 2000s so I’ve seen all of the current programs appear, evolve, and market themselves over the years. Some have a track record and some are brand new.

I love the industry but what I don’t love is some of the myths students come away with as a result of different schools’ marketing efforts. There is unfortunately just a lot of misinformation out there.

Home Staging Certification: Fact or Fiction

  • You need to be a certified home stager in order to get started in the business.

    This is pure fiction. While it is true that it can definitely be an advantage to have a certification under your belt, it’s not absolutely necessary. In my experience, your portfolio is the number one most important aspect of your success. You need to be doing professional-level work and you need to be able to show this to clients. Our home staging courses are designed to develop your skills along with your portfolio. Home staging is not like other professions where a specific certification is a requirement. Which brings me to the next item on the list…
  • There is one particular school’s credential that is a must-have to be successful as a home stager.

    Again, fiction. There isn’t a certain school or program that will make or break you in home staging. Not too many people really care which program you got your education from. People do care about whether you’re good at your job and they care about what they will gain from using your service. Get the education that works best for your learning style, budget, time frame, and desire for hands-on or online. And by the way, our program offers the best of both worlds as it blends hands-on practice, personal attention, and the convenience of online learning. See our home staging course reviews for more info.
  • Home staging certification is great for building your confidence.

    Fact. When you’re new it can help to feel like you’re really ready if you’ve gotten a certification from a school that you respect. I personally think confidence boosting is one of the primary benefits of getting a certification.
  • Home staging certification is a way to guarantee success.

    Fiction. No program will guarantee your success, no matter what their marketing materials may imply. You still have to put the work in. So it really helps if you truly love home staging so much that it doesn’t feel like work to you. Because returning calls, doing your bookkeeping, working on marketing, and all of the other back-end stuff will probably feel like work at some point. The payoff is huge: your own business! Imagine what you want to achieve and then do it.
  • What about certification programs that are “accredited”?

    Fiction. Accrediting is not really a thing in home staging. There are no industry-wide standards in home staging. If an organization claims to bestow an accreditation on schools that they approve…this is really not a meaningful designation. The entity or organization is founded and made up of people running or teaching different home staging schools. The entity or organization charges staging programs a very hefty fee in order to “review” and “approve” the training materials. But why? It’s marketing, and it’s a way to protect the circle of people (the organization’s board of directors) with a vested interest in limiting the number of schools that have the “accreditation” (which, again, has no real meaning). In the case of School of Home Staging, we were founded by an instructor who has been in home staging instruction for longer than almost all other programs, and longer than the organization that would be “approving” us. In the real world, this accreditation basically has no meaning whatsoever.

The most important thing for you to do when learning home staging is to have fun. Choose the school that feels right to you.

Check out our home staging certification online courses to see what we offer.

I hope this has been helpful!

-C.M.

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    Top 3 Online Home Staging Courses

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    The 3 Best Home Staging Courses Available Online

    If you’re looking for best home staging courses online, you have so many choices nowadays as opposed to when I started back in 2005.

    Back then, home staging training was a lot harder to find and it would usually entail travelling to another city, and the total cost was easily well into the thousands.

    Home staging training wasn’t very accessible, to say the least.

    Things have really changed! 🙂

    Here are the 3 Best Online Home Staging Courses

    1. School of Home Staging

    2. Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program

    3. QC Design School

    The vast array of online course options is great for you when you’re becoming a stager, but it can be confusing to choose the right course.

    Some courses are very expensive and it can be a big decision, even with courses that have a refund policy.

    I’m going to give you what I think are your three best options for home staging courses out there for you to decide from.

    home staging courses onlineSchool of Home Staging

    One of my goals as a home staging teacher has always been to try to eliminate the barriers to entering this field that once existed, and still exist in terms of high course fees.

    Our courses are not quite as comprehensive as you will get if you choose one of the higher-priced programs listed below, but they can get you off to a great start and give you the info you need.

    Other programs may have you obsess over things like how many inches apart you need to set silverware on a dining table, but such minute detail is not what we spend your time on at SHS. Our programs are great for self-starters who want to get certified and start earning quickly.

    Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program

    The Staging Diva program is an excellent, thorough home staging course that will teach you all about making a good living as a home stager.

    You can take the courses a la carte or you can opt for the complete program.

    I recommend the full program because it’s going to cover absolutely everything you need to know about getting your business started on the right track.

    When I look at the list of Staging Diva courses, I honestly don’t see anything that I would want to miss out on. (It’s also a better deal to buy the package.)

    QC Design School Home Staging Certification Course

    QC Design School offers a very good online program that will give you a double certification in home staging and redesign.

    One of the reasons this program makes the list is the double certification — it will give you the ability to take on redesign clients as well as home staging clients. And it’s always a good idea to be diversified.

    This way you can still be doing what you love, but you’ve added a whole new client base.

    The course price is definitely reasonable, especially when you consider the added business potential.

    Some recommended products may use affiliate links. schoolofhomestaging.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc or its affiliates.

    If you have a moment, please let us know what challenges you have faced when seeking home staging training. We are always looking for ways to improve and serve you better.

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