Spring 2020
Setting the stage
5 Home stager helps sell any on-the-market space
By McKenzie Moellering Standard-Radio Post reporter
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fter working for years in a corporate environment, Kim Rabon was ready to explore her creative side. In May 2016, she started Here & There, a concierge service focusing on home and real estate staging and decorating. “We realized quickly that this market didn’t really have anyone locally that did staging and so we wanted to fill that niche and that need,” Rabon said. After almost four years in business, Rabon estimates she has staged between 75-100 homes in the Rabon area and often manages seven or eight homes at a time. “Homes we stage typically average just one month on the market, so it can make a big difference,” Rabon said. Down to a science Home decorating involves getting creative and having an eye for design. But many may not realize that there is a science to the entire process. “There’s definitely a science to staging as you want to control where the eye moves; you want to figure out ways to make the room look bigger,” Rabon said.
Kim Rabon, owner of Here & There, stages homes that are going on the market. More often than not, she sees homes sell in about 60 days or less. — Submitted photo
In a vacant home, the owner has moved on. Rabon doesn’t like seeing photos of how the room was set up, giving See STAGING ▶6
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