Every once in a while, it's good to review what a space looked like before it was staged. Often we feel like these spaces just fall effortlessly together. It takes days of planning and lots of man-hours to make these staged spaces look good. Slide the arrow to see before and after on this Portland, Oregon staging project.  

Not all home staging is created equally. We were lucky enough to have photos of the same house staged both by another stager, whom we will call Stager "X", and by Spade and Archer. 

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Spade and Archer was founded on November 12, 2009. Since then we have staged roughly 2,500 homes since then. Last week we had the privilege of staging a home in Portland, Oregon that we originally staged in 2012. Take a look at how our work has changed.

Anybody can stick a bunch of letters behind their name. ASP®, RESA®, CSP® AHS, LEED AP, PhD. YADA. YADA. YADA. Do those letters mean anything? Int his post I'll go over what the letters behind your staging professional's name mean and what they did to earn them.