We have worked alongside Paloma Harrington of the Home Staging Association for the UK and Ireland for many years now. We are a founding member and Elaine, our founder, is the senior advisor for coaching and professional development. Paloma and Elaine developed the iconic HAS Business Course together through lockdown to ensure that new stagers were not only equipped to stage the homes they were working on but also to run their businesses effectively.
One of the strong messages of the training is to help new stagers find their niche. Trying to be all things to all home sellers or estate agents is a really exhausting way to market a business. Added to which, staging a vacant city centre apartment requires a very different approach to staging an occupied country manor. The furniture is on a completely different scale, the logistics present different challenges and the time to be charged is completely different.
At Lemon and Lime our niche is pretty clear looking at some of the homes we have had the privilege of staging so far this year. Extensive floor plans, acres of land and outbuildings all feature heavily! Quirky is also a theme, from the magnificent arts and crafts home top centre to converted chapel bottom left.
As the leading staging business specialising in country homes we have furniture and accessories in our rental armoury that fits the huge spaces in the homes we are invited to present to the market. We have antique pieces to blend seamlessly in occupied homes and to help curate new build homes in a way that feels organic and evolved. We are experts in empathetically re-homing treasures to their next rightful owners whether that is family, a specialist collector via an auction house or the local recycling centre. We decorate, recarpet, landscape and repair everything from blown window panes to gravel drives using our team of trusted contractors.
All our hard work and expertise is directed to ensuring our clients achieve the very best sale they possibly can, so they have the financial freedom to move on to their next life adventure. Our clients tend to be business owners and investment-savvy people who understand that staging a home before it is sold often represents the best investment they ever made with returns of several thousand percent within weeks.
If we can help you or one of your clients, please get in touch.
Office 01332 987740 Elaine 07967 636718
