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Kasia McDaniel

Let me guess... you are here because...

you know your house is worth it. You want to at least cover the fees to buy your next house. You want to be done and free!

And you want to get your house sold quickly.

You know that you need to make your house look great but…

  • You don’t know how to do it
  • You’re worried you will pick the wrong colors 
  • You and your spouse don’t agree on what to do

If any of that sounds like you, you are in the right place! My name is Kasia McDaniel and I help homeowners like you get your house ready to sell so that you wow buyers and get offers to buy your home.

Here’s how I can help

how to start staging now ebook

Secret to Selling your home faster

Sign up for the free ebook, How to Start Staging Your House Now. You will learn:

  • Home staging facts that will help you understand how home staging really helps sell your home faster
  • Recommended home improvements to get the most bang for your buck
  • A checklist of 10 action items to get you started on staging your home to get maximum return on your investment

 

Get success stories, staging tips and home decor hacks for your home.

Subscribe to my podcast, Creative Home podcast, and hear exactly how you can decorate your home, update it or get valuable home staging tips to get your house ready to sell.

You’ll find out:

  • New colors trends and how to use them in your home
  • Decorating hacks to organize your home more efficiently
  • “How to” home staging tips
  • Home staging stories

Places you can hear my story or featured in

7 Designer Tips for Furnishing a Tiny Bedroom

by Nafeesah Allen in Better Homes & Gardens

How to Decorate an Entryway Table

by Lilith Hudson in LivingEtc

Top Home Staging Podcasts in 2022

Ranked #3 by Feedspot in April 2022

 

15 Interior Tweaks That Will Sell Your Home

by Amy Stansfield in Wallsauce.com

13 Essential Tips for Staging a Home

by Julia Weaver in Redfin

What You Should Never Do When Staging a House?

By Anna Cottrell in Homes and Gardens

10 Things That Make Your Home Look Smaller (and how to fix them)

By Katie Dohman  in Family Handyman

10 Things Home Stagers Hate to See Inside Your Home

By Katie Dohman  in Family Handyman

How to Stage your Home For a Quick Sale

By Cynthia Measom  in Yahoo!Finance

10 Best Bedroom Improvement Projects Based On How Much Time You Have

By Kathleen Willcox  in Realtor.com

Blue Diamond Staging Has the Answers, Before and After the Sale

by Alan Wooten for The Fayetteville Observer

 

How 3 Veterans Successfully Broke into Entrepreneurship

By Deborah Sweeney for MyCorporation

Chamber Announces Ambassador of the Quarter

Moore County Chamber Press Release for Sandhills Sentinel

30th Class of Moore County Leadership institute Program Underway

Moore County Chamber Press Release for The Pilot

Get a Hand With Decking The Halls

by Laura Douglass for The Pilot

Newly Named Blue Diamond Staging & Design

By Laura Douglass for The Pilot

Unwrap the Magic of Christmas House

By Kathryn Talton for The Pilot

Brand Your Small Business with a Gusher of Local Publicity

By Joan Stewart for The Publicity Hound

Chamber Ambassadors Respond to the Challenge

By Moore County Chamber for The Pilot

Home Stager Proves Home Staging Works, Shocks Neighbors

by Debra Gould for Home Staging Business Report

Setting the Stage to Sell Homes Fast

by Mackenzie Francisco for The Pilot

Homes Staged to Sell, Designed for Living

By Laura Douglass for The Pilot

Volunteer in the Spotlight

By Kasia McDaniel for Habitat for Humanity of the NC Sandhills Newsletter

I’m going to let you in on a little secret…

The homeowners who take the time to make their house look great, get the better return on investment.

It doesn’t matter the size of your home, the style of your home or the price point of your home. The fact that you DO something about getting your house ready to sell puts you ahead of everyone else who doesn’t.

You then get to work, stage your home so that you can sell your house faster. Then you can STOP worrying about how much longer before someone buys this house and START moving out in your next home.

Free Secret to Selling your Home Faster

Download my free video series to help you get started on selling your home

Here is why I do what I do…

I was in the military for almost 10 years…

And we had to move every 2-3 years. We bought each home because we didn’t want to live on base.

With each move, I prepared each home to sell by decluttering, cleaning and rearranging furniture to make it appeal to a buyer. 

However, as I looked at houses for sale, I noticed sellers didn’t do much staging, if at all! I wanted to take them by the shoulders, shake them and say, “Do you know you can sell your home faster just by doing x, y and z? Do you know that by not doing these things, you are turning buyers away?”

 

Kasia McDaniel military vet

It wasn’t until I redesigned my basement did I see my true calling.

My husband and I bought a Colonial home in Virginia with “good bones”. But it needed an update because it was stuck in the 1970s and this was 2007.

We hired a company to remodel our kitchen but then took a class to remodel our “scary basement” ourselves. After a year and a half of weeknights after work and weekends, we were proud of our 1,000 square foot basement.

It had a movie watching area, craft area, play area, wet bar, guest room and an en-suite bathroom plus storage.

Our friends and family were gobsmacked

They couldn’t believe we remodeled most of the basement ourselves into this lovely retreat! They kept asking, “Who did this? How did you decide on the layout? How did you know what colors to use?”

Then the little statement that changed everything for me…

 

“You should be a designer”

I picked out the colors, the layout, the furniture and put them all together. My family wanted to know when I would be renting out the place and for how much!

So I looked into it because I wasn’t happy in my current job. I should have been grateful for the job I did have that paid me lots of money. People thought I was crazy to leave it.

But when I looked at my life in a different perspective, I realized I never chose my career. The military chose it for me.

So what would I have done instead?

I had to be walloped upside the head to be a home stager

After much soul searching and looking into Interior Design school at the age of 38, I realized I was too old to “go back to school”. I didn’t have time to spend 4 more years again and THEN find a design company.

I wanted things done now.

Which is when I discovered home staging. After reading the description about home staging, I realized I ALREADY DID THAT with each home I owned and sold.

So I immediately got to work and started sharing my staging success stories.

I realized homeowners need to be shown how they can get their home sold faster.

And it doesn’t take much. Sometimes it’s just getting a fresh perspective from someone who has not lived in the home and seen the same stuff over and over again.

I discovered homeowners didn’t know where to begin to get their house sold. They thought all they had to do was vacuum up a bit and put a “For Sale” sign up. Nope that wasn’t going to work anymore.

I created many different free products but realized homeowners really wanted face-to-face interaction. I had to show them where to move the furniture, bring in accessories to show off the space and tie it all together with the “the look” that made the house look irresistible to buyers.

 

There are enough obstables in your way, and one of them should not be, I don’t know where to start.

Imagine waking up and learning you have the first piece of getting your house ready to sell.