Home staging is an exciting career path that can lead you to great success in both the design and real estate industries. So, what do you need to become a professional home stager?
A post-secondary degree is not required to work as a home stager, but some type of professional training is still important! It will allow you to provide clients and real estate agents with professional advice and implement effective staging techniques. You can get all of the training you need from a home staging certification course instead of through a high-cost degree program.
The home staging certification course provides all the knowledge and skills you need to help clients achieve the sale of their home. Most certification courses can be completed in less than a year and offer career-ready training so you can begin working right away.
What You Can Do with a Home Staging Certification
As a certified home stager, you’ll be able to start your own business or work for an existing company or real estate firm. You’ll work with both clients and real estate agents to stage residential and commercial spaces for sale.
Using your knowledge of depersonalizing, accessorizing, and focal points, you’ll present your designs to clients for approval. Your role focuses on removing personal items and redesigning the area to suit all kinds of buyers. As the home stager, you’ll coordinate with real estate agents and clients to schedule your staging projects before open houses or private viewings. This involves planning the transport of furniture and accessories between homes, selecting color schemes for each room, and hiring professionals to paint or perform landscaping jobs.
Benefits of Learning Online
QC’s online Home Staging course allows you to earn your professional certification in as little as 3-6 months, working on your course a few evenings each week. You’ll study on your own schedule and at your own pace, submitting assignments as you go without having to worry about deadlines. All of your course books and assignments will be available in the Online Student Center, and you’ll also receive physical copies of your texts.
After you submit a unit, you’ll receive detailed audio feedback from your personal tutor for every assignment before you move on to the next unit. Your tutor will tell you what you did well and what could be improved in your work, providing personalized guidance and examples to help you improve your skills.
What You’ll Learn
Your home staging course will teach you how to present homes to potential buyers in a way that allows them to envision it as their own living space. You’ll learn to focus on the best assets of the house, creating focal points in each room to highlight certain features. Through the use of color theory and accessorizing, you’ll create design concepts that show potential buyers the possibilities available for each space. You’ll also study the principles of depersonalizing and decluttering, which helps to diminish the current owner’s connection to the house.
QC’s Home Staging course also comes equipped with full business training that will teach you how to start and effectively run your own business. Not only will you learn how to market your brand through traditional and digital channels, but you’ll also learn how to package and charge for your services.
What You’ll Do
- Coordinate project tasks and timelines
- Declutter and depersonalize
- Create floorplans and furniture arrangements
- Work with color theory and create color schemes
- Recreate specific design styles to target buyers
- Select window treatments
- Accessorize
- Create curb appeal
- And much, much more!
What You Won’t Do
- Be involved in the actual sale of the house
Sample Assignment
Throughout your course, you will complete hands-on assignments that focus on real homes and scenarios. Your course texts will help you plan design concepts and provide solutions to the problems presented.
In the sample assignment below, you’ll take photographs of the exterior of either your own or a friend’s house. Then, you’ll identify any flaws or problem areas that take away from the appeal of the house, and provide solutions on how to fix them.
What You’ll Get
When you graduate from your home staging course, you’ll receive your certification and professional designation of International Staging & Redesign Professional (ISRP). This certification is yours to use for the rest of your career with no additional costs or fees.
You’ll also have lifetime access to the Online Student Center where you can find up-to-date course texts, free business templates, create a professional profile, and submit your work to the student showcase. Plus, you are eligible to enroll in any additional courses at a 50% discount! Further your career with new skills and grow your design business.
GET STARTED TODAY
Enroll with QC Design School and earn your home staging certification in 3-6 months, working on your own schedule and at your own pace. QC’s student support specialists will help you every step of the way. Graduate and start an exciting career that you’ll love!
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