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Get Online Home Staging-- Wherever You Live
Now you can get custom, room by room, home staging advice through this Web site! If your home is listed with an agent, but showings and offers haven't been coming, we can help! Studies have shown that professionally staged homes sell faster. And it's not expensive to get my detailed room by room instructions on how you can make the changes that will help your home sell.

It doesn't matter where you live-- if your home is listed in an MLS I can do it all online
An in-home visit from a stager isnt necessary
We use the photos already on the Web in your real estate agent's MLS listing
You get a customized, professional consultation at a reasonable, affordable price
You can get started by completing a simple form.

In- Home Staging In New Bern and Coastal NC
This is the home of Renew This House-- a professional service for homeowners, builders and house "flippers" who want to maximize the resale price or rental rate of their property. We make in-home personal staging appointments in North Carolina and the Eastern US.
Put my experience to work for you.
My 20+ years of business ownership, management in interiors, kitchens, flooring and commercial building materials can help solve your problems. I'm also a successful former real estate agent in Michigan and I'm currently a licensed real estate broker in North Carolina. I know what helps a home sell!

Article: Staging Your Home for Resale.
Is staging your home when putting it up for sale really necessary? The answer is an emphatic "'yes." Consider this: when you stand in line at the grocery store or browse through the magazine section in a bookstore, how many magazines are dedicated solely to the appearance of a home-- how it's decorated, or staged. Decorating magazines will command a large part of that store's shelf space. That's because most women (and many men) love to look at those pictures of warm, inviting, beautifully decorated rooms. But are those photos the way our homes look? The way we really live?
(Continue the article on staging your home for resale)

Why Stage Your Home?
Imagine your least favorite color. Now imagine walking into a home for sale that features that very color. I'm willing to bet that your first thought won't be, "Oh goody; I get to paint!"
A home on today's market must be as "personality neutral" as possible to attract the widest range of buyers.
Time and time again, I've seen it's been difficult for many of my clients to make the psychological leap out of their "comfort zone." It's understandably hard for them put away their loving personal mark on their home, their years of collecting cherished furnishings and their well-earned comfort found in familiar surroundings-- and to think as a buyer would as she walks into their home.
Why put obstacles in the path of an otherwise interested buyer?