HOME STAGING EDUCATION

Professional HOME STAGING Education

Fall 2024- Winter 2025

11/9-11/10 Frankfort, IL (Saturday/Sunday Workshop)

An in-depth 2 day workshop to better your skills, insight, and education in the home staging arena.

HOUSESTAGER™ PRO This 2 day educational intensive will focus on the building blocks of the science, psychology and art of staging a seller occupied home. Best practices to increase the marketability for the ideal buyer utilizing the seller’s current belongings. What stays, goes and how to up-style a space with supplementing shopped and/or rental furnishing and accessory props. Learn core updates that can bring the home up to par for today’s buyer. Styling lessons on room layouts, creating focal points, accessorizing, and the importance of color in selling a home. Price: 1475

• HOUSESTAGER™ Tailored shopping selection sheets for home updates.

• Curated HOUSESTAGER™ paint palettes for both paint and styling.

• Hands on, on-site styling sessions for real time learning in our Style Lab.

• Lifestyle design and interior styling methods to create optimal emotional appeal for the buyer.

For more detailed insight on this workshop, please visit our educational site: Interior Stylist Network

Class location: If traveling, the class will be held in the Chicago area, Frankfort, IL.

$250 deposit is required to save your seat.

If flying in from out of state, we suggest Midway Airport.  Once you are signed up for the class, we'll email you details such as hotel venues, transportation, etc.   

Please note:  Because we limit the number of attendees per workshop and our class dates are limited too. Remainder of workshop fee is due one week prior of class. 

REALTOR C.E. Home Staging Education

Home Staging for Realtors RB 710 3 hour C.E. Course

Now in its 17th year! This very popular Realtor CE Course gives a Realtor greater knowledge and understanding about importance of the process of home staging.

Help your client put their best house forward! In today’s competitive real estate market, sellers are often wanting to sell a home that does meet the criteria and expectations of today’s buyers. Home Staging continues to prove homes sell faster, and for more money. Eighty-three percent of buyers’ agents said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a future home. The course gives a REALTOR the knowledge they need to advise and educate their sellers on the process of home staging.

• How the practice and process of advising your client to prepare and stage their home to showcase in its best light will benefit them.

• How to advise and educate your client on the assets of improving and showcasing their property to yield the maximum financial return.

• Be aware of the basics of staging that can be advised by the agent, and when to recommend a professional to be involved.

• Offering best advertising and marketing practices to market your client’s property.

MAINSTREET ORGANIZATION OF REALTORS

Mainstreet offers both the 3 C.E. and offers a REALTOR designation, Certified Staging Consultant. The CSC is a 4 hour course which in includes home staging scenarios, tips, procedures of home staging.

For more information or to register call Education Dept. (630) 324-8400 or on-line Mainstreet Organization of Realtors

2024-2025 Mainstreet Schedule COMING SOON.

We’re excited to offer for the new calendar a new combined program for the Home Staging Consultant (CSC)  C.E./designation course adding an additional staging/design workshop at the end of each class. Spend the morning with instructor Julea Joseph for the CSC course, then an extra 1 hour HomeStaging+ 1 hour workshop.  This combination gives you that extra boost to a great Home Staging educational day. 

Accessorizing for Realtors Workshop 1-2pm

Get styling and home staging tips and tricks for creating a beautiful room. Learn the key ingredients that every room needs to make a statement. Understand how to weed through existing home props in an occupied house to to set the stage in key, selling spaces. Learn how to shop and designer favorite shopping haunts for great accessories to up-style a home for today’s discriminating buyer.  Get insider info on the latest interior design trends and how to incorporate them for a staged home. 

Intro to Color Theory 1-2pm

Color plays a vital role in the appearance of a home, whether staging a home for sale or updating the design of a room. Having a better understanding of color theory can give you the confidence you need to lead your clients in making wise decisions as they prepare to sell their home. 

In this seminar you will learn:

- Why color is important when selling a home

- How to create color balance within a home

- Basic rules of creating a color palette

- Understand how color affects personality

- Room perspective

- Color formula

- Best staging colors

- Color Trends 2024

The 3 hour CE course is taught at NSBAR's Northbrook and Barrington locations. For more information or to register call Education Dept. (847) 480-7177 or on-line a North Shore Barrington Association of Realtors

The Greater Gateway Association of REALTORS ®

The 3 hour CE course is taught via ZOOM. For more information or to register call Education Dept. (618) 692-8300 or on-line at The Greater Gateway Association