The Advisory Staging Consultation

The advisory home staging consultation is the easiest way to start. A team member spends one hour walking through your property with you and shares how to prepare it for market using what you already have. Afterwards, you receive a checklist of everything discussed, so you can do the work yourself on your own schedule.

We go room by room in the order buyers will see the house: front door, entry, the main living spaces, kitchen, bedrooms. Along the way we talk through:

• Furniture placement, flow and which pieces to move to another room
• What to pack away early: photos, collections, extra chairs, countertop clutter
• Decluttering priorities, so the effort goes where buyers will notice
• Lighting: lamps, dark corners and how each room reads in daylight
• Which rooms deserve most of your time, and which just need to be tidy

It's a conversation, not an inspection. Ask anything: whether the dining table should stay, what to do with the spare room, whether the gallery wall helps or hurts.

After the visit, you get a written checklist of everything we covered, organized by room. It's meant to be used: specific enough that you know which chair goes where, short enough that you'll actually finish it before the photographer arrives.

Some sellers are happy to work through the list themselves. Others would rather have help making the changes. Ask us about support with moving furniture, packing away personal effects and general decluttering.

Sometimes a walkthrough shows that a house needs more than rearranging. The living room has no rug. The guest room has become storage. The walls are bare where art should be. That's where occupied home staging comes in.

We call it supplemental staging: the same consultation, plus furnishings, art and decor from our inventory mixed into what you already own. You don't have to decide up front. Start with the consultation, and if the checklist shows gaps you'd rather we fill, we can talk about supplemental staging from there.

Three ways forward after your walkthrough

Work through the checklist yourself. Ask our team for hands-on help. Or step up to occupied staging when the house needs pieces, not just rearranging.

We prepare a custom proposal once we know a little about your home and the support you need. If your house is already empty, skip ahead to vacant home staging instead.

Want to start before we meet? Our guide on how to prepare your home for staging covers the basics. You can also compare every option on our home staging services page, or request a free estimate.