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Sell Your House for More With These Paint Colors
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Sell Your House for More With These Paint Colors

We’ve previously discussed what top home features sell a house for more, and faster. Today, we’re taking a dive into which are the best paint colors for home staging that will actually increase the selling price of your home. Blues and Greys What’s the secret to increasing your home’s sale value? According to Zillow who … Continued

Test Your Home Staging Skills Take Our Quiz
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Test Your Home Staging Skills Take Our Quiz

Are you having trouble figuring out how to properly stage your home in preparation for a sale? Take our quiz to find out some helpful tips about staging your home the right way. For further help from a team of experienced and qualified home staging professionals connect with White Orchid Interiors and get a fast … Continued

Here’s What We Loved About Dwell On Design 2017
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Here’s What We Loved About Dwell On Design 2017

Dwell on Design was an absolute delight this year. The design mega-conference provided guests with an exciting and clear presentation of this year’s most popular modern home staging and design trends. Hosted in the Los Angeles Convention Center June 23rd–26th this exhibition featured over 2,000 modern furnishings and products, and over 30 different onstage presentations. … Continued

Staging A Luxury Home? Don’t Forget These 6 Things
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Staging A Luxury Home? Don’t Forget These 6 Things

Luxury home staging is an integral part of the selling process. There it is key to work with a team that fully understands the potential of your home – one that knows the importance of home staging as a gateway to swiftly getting your home sold. This vacant staging property was under contract at asking price … Continued

3 Keys To Hack The Summer FSBO Market
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3 Keys To Hack The Summer FSBO Market

Listing your home For Sale By Owner can be a hefty task. You’ll need patience, availability and extra time to dedicate to the details but it can ultimately save you up to thousands of dollars on selling costs. If you put a little extra effort into the details it can help you get your home … Continued

Harry Styles’ Hollywood Hills Home Reimagined With Home Staging
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Harry Styles’ Hollywood Hills Home Reimagined With Home Staging

Harry Styles home is for sale. According to Curbed LA, Harry Styles recently listed his Hollywood Hills house for $8.5 million. The house is 4,400-square-foot, and three-bedrooms. Harry Styles’ house features a pool, a home theater, a gym, and views of both downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. The modern style abode, though well appointed, currently features … Continued

Occupied Home Staging: How To Shop Your Client’s Home
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Occupied Home Staging: How To Shop Your Client’s Home

Selling a home that is still occupied can be a stressful situation –  for the current homeowner, real estate agent, and you, as the home stager. That anxiety can easily be avoided with the right home staging tips in your home staging toolkit. While occupied home staging almost always requires limited or no furniture inventory, … Continued

4 Critical Tech Tools For Professional Home Stagers
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4 Critical Tech Tools For Professional Home Stagers

  What are your favorite home staging tools? This day in age there’s an app or tool to help you with just about anything. Why not use that to your advantage? Let some of the amazing tech tools out there help your home staging business. From contacts to emails to payments – these tools will … Continued

Home Staging vs. Interior Design. What’s The Difference?
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Home Staging vs. Interior Design. What’s The Difference?

You may be wondering what the difference is between home staging and interior design, and you wouldn’t be alone. Home staging vs. interior design – how can you tell the difference? While home staging is a type home design, it is in fact different from interior design. Home staging, or house staging, means preparing a … Continued

Wayfair Adds Outdoor Furniture Options For Summer Home Staging
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Wayfair Adds Outdoor Furniture Options For Summer Home Staging

Calling all professional home stagers! Just in time for the long, luxurious days of summer, major ecommerce site Wayfair announces the addition of numerous must-haves to it Wayfair outdoor furniture collection. Therefore, Wayfair’s new pieces are guaranteed to impress all your summer open house guests. Brightening up your home to ready it for sale this summer. … Continued

What You Need To Know About Outdoor Home Staging For Summer
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What You Need To Know About Outdoor Home Staging For Summer

With summer just around the corner, it’s time to get yourself ready for all your favorite seasonal activities: barbeques, pool parties, and home-selling! Summer is one of the hottest seasons for real estate. Is it the right time to sell your house? Whether this is your first time selling and staging your house, or you’re … Continued

Home Staging Musts For Professional Home Flippers
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Home Staging Musts For Professional Home Flippers

Wondering how to flip a home like a professional flipper? Maybe you’ve already poured a considerable amount of time, effort, and money into flipping a house and you’re ready to sell. Professional home flippers face unique considerations when selling their newly renovated properties. Home staging can be key for how to flip a home. It … Continued

Home Staging Success: Boulder Home Rakes In $315,000 Over Asking!
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Home Staging Success: Boulder Home Rakes In $315,000 Over Asking!

White Orchid Interiors’ Home Staging Success stories are a recurring feature where we share the inside scoop how staging a house works. Learn how we stage a house, how fast the homes sell, and for how much! Type: Vacant staging Style: Modern Luxury Size: 5 bed / 5 bath; 4,458 sqft List Price: $2,085,000 Sold Price: … Continued

How Much Does Home Staging Cost?
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How Much Does Home Staging Cost?

Home staging costs: while it may seem counterintuitive to invest in a house you’re saying “sayonara” to, nominal home staging cost can earn a home-seller tens of thousands more than their original asking price. Today we’re breaking down what exactly goes into figuring out home staging costs. Selling your home takes time, effort, and money. … Continued

4 Reasons House Staging Is Essential This Spring
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4 Reasons House Staging Is Essential This Spring

Not sure is=f staging a house is the right move this spring? See why house staging this spring is essential to making an easy and profitable home sale. House staging is a key factor in getting your home sold faster and for top dollar. Home staging is designed to help market and display your home … Continued

Styling Tips For Staging These 4 Architectural Types
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Styling Tips For Staging These 4 Architectural Types

Selling an architectural home? Get home staging tips, like the dos and don’ts of styling an architectural home before hiring your professional home stager. Learn what to spot in a top home staging expert. First, a key to successful home staging is enhancing your home’s best features. Home staging design options can vary depending on time of … Continued

How Home Staging Works
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How Home Staging Works

Considering home staging but wondering exactly how home staging works? We’ll take you through the home staging process. Feel good about hiring a professional home stager and selling your home faster and more easily than before. Home staging has exponentially gained popularity. It is a home-sale must. Realtors and home-sellers, alike, swear by the ability of great … Continued

Love It Or Hate It? Rate These Spring Decor Trends
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Love It Or Hate It? Rate These Spring Decor Trends

White Orchid Interiors home staging expert Lauren Matthews recently shared some of her favorite shades of green for spring, now we’re curious what you think of some of this spring’s hottest home staging decor trends. Whether you’re a home staging professional, or you have a major crush on design you’re going to want to weigh … Continued

Green With Envy. Our Favorite Shades of Green For Spring
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Green With Envy. Our Favorite Shades of Green For Spring

I’m sharing my favorite spring paint colors 2017. Repainting for an upcoming home staging? Maybe you’re just giving the house a refresher for spring. Either way, I’ve got the scoop the best green paint colors for spring. Wondering what the hottest spring paint colors 2017 are? Spring is a time of renewal; when the flora and fauna … Continued

10 Secrets To Holding The Perfect Open House
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10 Secrets To Holding The Perfect Open House

We’ve talked about how you can get a leg up when it comes to taking the For Sale By Owner, like how to stage a big house on a tiny budget and 6 secrets to successfully sell your home FSBO. Now I’m dishing on how to host the ideal open house your first time out.  When it comes to selling … Continued

Happily Ever After: This Home Redesign Will Melt Your Heart
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Happily Ever After: This Home Redesign Will Melt Your Heart

We’ve showed you how you can stage a million dollar home in just one week on DIY’s “Raise the Roof,” now White Orchid Interiors is honored to contribute to an emotional home redesign surprise on Freeform’s “Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?”  From Raising The Roof To Roses At White Orchid Interiors we get to participate … Continued

Lauren’s Top Decor Picks For Home Staging This Winter
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Lauren’s Top Decor Picks For Home Staging This Winter

You’ve battened down the hatches. You’re ready to snuggle up in front of the fireplace. Winter is nearly here. But before we watch the clock tick down on another calendar year, all across the country there are still tons of houses waiting to be sold. Check out these top picks for a successful winter home staging. Real Estate’s … Continued

The Secret To Home Staging At Any Budget
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The Secret To Home Staging At Any Budget

Regardless of whether you’re selling a budget-friendly home or a multi-million dollar property, home staging is an essential part of an easy and profitable home-sale.There are a number of critical to-dos when selling your home, but home staging is the one that can net you the biggest return on your real estate investment. Learn the secrets … Continued

Meet The Home Staging Team: Marisa Harris
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Meet The Home Staging Team: Marisa Harris

We’re taking you behind the scenes here at White Orchid Interiors to learn more about how professional home staging works, and about the people who make each home look so appealing and effortlessly put together.  White Orchid Inteirors‘ Marisa Harris has an eye for aesthetics and a passion for design. With an education in interior design, Marisa has climbed … Continued

Home Staging Success: The Design Secret That Got This Realtor Two Instant Full Price Offers
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Home Staging Success: The Design Secret That Got This Realtor Two Instant Full Price Offers

List Price: $750,000 Location: Denver, CO Size: 2 Bed, 1 bath; 1,230 sqft Home Staging Style: Comfortable contemporary Home Staging Program: Office, living room, master bedroom Home Staging Outcome: 2 Full-price offers in 3 days! About The Home-Seller Do you know the design secret to help ensure full-price offers on your home, instantly? Lorie G., a Denver real estate agent, does. … Continued

Why Fall Is The Best Time To Sell Your Home
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Why Fall Is The Best Time To Sell Your Home

Fall can actually be the most beneficial season to sell your home, despite popular belief. Many people think that spring is the best season to sell a home. Whether that idea persists because the weather is cheery, or because selling a home might be the ultimate form of “Spring cleaning,” this belief has greatly contributed … Continued

Home Staging Success: How This Home’s Staging Netted Five Offers Fast
Home Staging Success Stories

Home Staging Success: How This Home’s Staging Netted Five Offers Fast

For this mid-century ranch home in Santa Ana, California, the White Orchid Interiors home staging team to turned a focused eye toward the home’s potential target buyer. In a short time, the home’s seller and agent were sifting through five offers. Sale Price: $960K Location: Santa Ana, CA Size: 4 Bed, 3.75 bath; 2,242 sqft Home … Continued

Behind The Scenes Of Our Second “Raise The Roof” Home Staging
Home Staging Success Stories

Behind The Scenes Of Our Second “Raise The Roof” Home Staging

This time we got to provide professional home staging for a once-small bungalow in Denver’s Wash Park neighborhood. It’s been truly amazing working alongside “Raise The Roof”contractor-host Keith Nylund to see how he pops the tops of these houses, in order to make them truly modern homes. These homes had so many fun historic elements. By bringing in great … Continued

Success Story: Re-Listed With Home Staging, This Mid-Century Sold How Fast?
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Success Story: Re-Listed With Home Staging, This Mid-Century Sold How Fast?

ABOUT THE HOME Sale Price: $529,900 Location: Denver, CO (Park Hill neighborhood) Size: 4 Bed, 3 bath; 2,562 sqft Staging Style: Contemporary Mid-Century Staging Program: Staged living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom.   Before home-seller Kellen contacted White Orchid Interiors, he had listed his home in Denver’s hot Park Hill neighborhood for sale vacant. … Continued

Behind The Scenes Of Our First “Raise The Roof” Home Staging
Home Staging Success Stories

Behind The Scenes Of Our First “Raise The Roof” Home Staging

We’re so excited to be a part of DIY Network’s new show, “Raise The Roof.” We were thrilled to provide professional home staging for contractor-host Keith Nylund’s recently-renovated houses. I think that giving viewers a peek into the home staging world has opened up a few eyes. The first of our two episodes of “Raise the … Continued

We Wondered What Would Happen If Donald Trump Needed Home Staging
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We Wondered What Would Happen If Donald Trump Needed Home Staging

The race for the Presidency is in full gear. That means that in just a few months, either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be moving into the White House and out of their usual residence. That’s why last week I wondered just how I might use home staging to prep Hillary Clinton’s current residence. This … Continued

Lauren Matthews Featured on DIY Network’s “Raise the Roof”
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Lauren Matthews Featured on DIY Network’s “Raise the Roof”

We’re incredibly excited to announce that White Orchid Interiors Founder, Lauren Matthews, will guest star on DIY Network’s new home-improvement show Raise the Roof. On September 6 and November 4 at 8pm PST/9pm MST Lauren will appear alongside contractor-host Keith Nylund to give recently-renovated homes the stylistic edge they need to attract buyers and bids, fast. Raise … Continued

How To Live In A Staged Home
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How To Live In A Staged Home

Staging your home for sale is a valuable part of the home-selling process. But if you’re still living in the house how can you avoid messing up the staged home on a daily basis? I’m asked this question all the time. All. The. Time. Work, kids, pets — the prospect of cleaning up every last … Continued