Training Homes Receive Free Staging

Are you located on Vancouver Island or in Vancouver, BC, thinking of selling in the near future and you need to stage your home? Or, are you a realtor and you know your client’s home needs staging? Just moved into your new home and you’re too tired to set it up? Think you can’t afford to have a professional do this? Think again!

We teach a 5 Day Professional Accredited Home Staging & Design course. There are three days in a classroom setting, and two days in real client’s homes. The training homes are treated as any other client’s home and overseen by professional instructors who have years of experience in home staging and redesign. As part of the practicum, we need real client’s homes just like yours to become part of our program. These are called training homes.

Requirements

  • Your home needs to be more than 1500 square feet and have 3 different rooms that we can work in for the day.
  • You need enough of your own furniture that we can rearrange it to create better traffic flow and more balance + harmony in your rooms.
  • For a move-in-redesign, your art, collections and treasures will be beautifully displayed and showcased to reflect your personal style in your home. For a staging training home you may be given homework where you are required to pre-pack your personal items and collection. We may also recommend paint colours during our initial consultation. Our goal is to create the right look for your target market using your things.
  • You must be open to having up to 10 students in your home for the day – we arrive at 9 am and finish up between 4 & 5 pm.

Process

  • We will come out and do a one hour consultation with you to determine what needs to be done before we come in to do the actual hands-on staging in your home.
  • During that time we let you know if you have any homework to do before we come back and do the actual hands on home makeover.
  • The day of the home makeover we bring in up to 10 students and we typically do 3 rooms – living, family, dining and/or entranceway.
  • When you return at the end of the day and you get to act just like they do on television when we do the reveal of your new look.
  • We look for training homes for our courses in and around Vancouver, Kelowna, Victoria and Calgary.

Cost

  • $0 – Approved homes will receive free staging.
  • We ask that you pay it forward by making a charitable donation of your choice on behalf of PRES®.

FEEDBACK FROM PAST TRAINING HOMES

Just being newly married it was a real challenge bringing our two households together in a unique way that would identify us both and become a blended family space. PRES did such a wonderful job in blending our individual bits and pieces together to create new atmosphere to old spaces. It was a touch of brilliance how they took a seemly nice piece and turned it into a spectacular piece merely by clustering it or showing it off in the most effective way. We love the new look they created by taking our own art and positioning what we already had. The family room is especially comfortable and cozy with its new seating arrangement…a cozy place to gather and hang out. Our breakfast nook feels like a piece of Tuscany. We really enjoy the creative touches that the PRES team pulled together and we have since added our own little touches to continue the themes that they inspired.

Krista and Darrell, Coquitlam BC

PRES completed a major unbelievable transformation to help me get my client’s house ready for selling. The client was working on some renovations while the team worked around the chaos of lumber, carpet, paint and trades people. Their positive attitude greatly contributed to the finished product – a beautifully staged home. The kitchen sparkles, the master bedroom is a WOW , the dining room inviting, and the placement of furniture works to showcase the architectural detail in the home. I highly recommend considering offering this training home special to your client’s for getting a property ‘Open House Ready!

Leanne Woodward – Prudential

Sussex Realty North Shore, BC

Engaging PRES to stage our house to be market-ready was an investment that reaped huge benefits. For myself, PRES reduced my stress levels to manageable levels (we were in the midst of an international relocation), suggested practical and affordable changes to our home, and knew all the best places to shop for the furnishings to add the final finishing touches. A return visit from our Real Estate agent once the decorating was complete realized an increase in market value of $50,000. Our house sold within two weeks! Today, in our new home, I continue to enjoy all the beautiful furnishings that were chosen. I wish I had invested time and money in PRES’ expertise sooner so I could have enjoyed the wonderful changes we made to our Vancouver home while we lived there.

Trudy

North Vancouver, BC