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Professional Home Staging to Maximize Your Sale

Home Staging

Present Your Home at Its Best

First impressions matter in real estate. Olive + Baxter's home staging service transforms your property into a space that appeals to the widest range of buyers. We strategically arrange furniture, art, and accessories to highlight your home's best features and help potential buyers envision themselves living there.

Vacant and Occupied Staging

Whether your home is empty or fully furnished, we tailor our approach. For vacant properties, we bring in carefully selected furniture and decor. For occupied homes, we work with your existing pieces, rearranging and supplementing to create a polished, magazine-worthy presentation.

Staged sage blue living room by Olive + Baxter

Strategic Design for Faster Sales

Staged homes sell faster and often for more than unstaged properties. Our designers understand buyer psychology and use color, scale, and flow to make rooms feel larger, brighter, and more inviting. Every detail is considered, from fresh linens to carefully placed greenery.

Photography-Ready Presentation

Online listings drive today's home sales. We stage with photography in mind, ensuring your home photographs beautifully from every angle. The result is a listing that stands out in a crowded market and draws serious buyers through the door.

Staged guest bedroom with upholstered headboard by Olive + Baxter

Frequently Asked Questions

Does home staging actually help a house sell?

Staging is meant to help buyers connect with a home quickly by presenting it at its best in person and in photos. It uses color, scale, and flow to make rooms feel larger, brighter, and more inviting, which helps a listing stand out and draw serious buyers. Results vary by property and market, so we tailor the approach to your home rather than promising a specific number.

Can you stage a home that is still lived in?

Yes. For occupied homes we work with your existing furniture, rearranging and supplementing pieces to create a polished, cohesive presentation. For vacant properties we bring in carefully selected furniture and decor so rooms do not read as empty and hard to picture.

What drives the cost of staging?

The main factors are the size of the home, how many rooms need attention, and whether the property is vacant or occupied, since vacant staging requires bringing in and renting furnishings. An occupied home that mostly needs editing and styling sits at a different level than a full vacant staging. We scope it to the specific home before quoting.

Which rooms are most important to stage?

The spaces buyers weigh most heavily tend to be the living room, kitchen, primary bedroom, and main entry, so those usually take priority. We focus attention where it most influences a buyer's impression rather than spreading effort evenly across every room.

Do you coordinate with the listing photography?

Yes. Because most buyers see a home online first, we stage with the camera in mind so rooms photograph well from the angles agents actually shoot. The aim is a listing that looks its best in the photos that drive showings.

Stage for Success

Whether you're preparing a luxury property or a family home for market, our staging services help you make the strongest possible impression and achieve the best return on your investment.

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