Interior Designer or Home Stager? Are they both the same? NO!!!

Now I have had many people come to me and ask;

“why should I stage when I paid a professional Interior Designer to design my home when I first moved in?”

Well there is a huge difference between the two professions and some people don't quite get it. An interior designers' purpose is to design your home to your liking and comfort. They design to the client’s needs and wants, while a stager does the opposite. Their job is to create an environment that appeals to the home owner's taste. Interior designers design for a client to create an environment that suites how they live. They remodel, rebuild, they work with the structure and architecture of the home.

A stager’s purpose is to take out the current home owners personal belongings, they will de-clutter, clean and make the space appealing for all future potential buyers. It is a great way to minimize and remove distractions that throw off a buyer when taking a closer look at your property. Their primary focus is to suggest furniture, art, accessories, paint color, light fixtures as well as flooring to create a new layout for the space. The end result of this process is to ultimately raise the value of the property by reducing the home’s flaws, or if staging a home that is new or unfurnished the purpose is to create a living space that buyers can see themselves in.

Now hopefully by the end of this little spiel, we can all understand the difference between an interior designer and a home stager.