Upstaged by Design

Meet Patricia Donaldson, Creative Director and Company President of Upstaged By Design, providing Home Staging and Interior Redesign Services to the Real Estate, Residential and Business markets.

If you are in the service market, then you know image sells and her company motto “You never get a second chance to make a winning first impression” takes on real meaning.

WHO BENEFITS FROM HOMESTAGING, ORGANIZING and/or INTERIOR REDESIGN?
Patricia assists Real Estate agents and their clients to sell homes faster and usually at a higher price by staging. She helps homeowners that are ready for change but not necessarily ready to move, declutter and beautify their living space and she helps people with downsizing issues as well. She is thrilled when her clients express amazement over the difference it makes and how easy it was with her expertise.

Don't forget the Estate Sales or the empty dwelling also need to show well. As a Home Stager Patricia can rent furniture at minimal cost for empty dwelling or suggest storage solutions for a jam packed estate sale. She will suggest survival tips while home is up for sale and open houses. She also deals with what to do with your pets during such events. If your house has been up for sale already in the MLS and not selling , after she is done staging she will then offer up the after pictures for a new looking MLS listing.

Her job starts with the phone call. She will ask everything from how old is the house, to how long have you been living there, to what the asking price is. As part of her preparation she will locate schools close by, drive around the neighborhood to see how other houses show and start her assessment turning into the driveway. She will take in the grounds surrounding the home, the walkway up and including the front door. She takes in everything that could possibly keep your home from selling. She will bring to your attention her findings then do as little or as much as you would like done. She will make it as STRESS FREE as she can for the homeowners. It is a well known fact that staged homes sell faster with quite often at asking price or above. People shop with logic, however buy with emotion.