About Carla

Bio

Carla Woolnough is Your Personal Home Staging Coach. "Home staging has become a necessary investment to set your property apart in a crowded and highly competitive real estate market." As founder and owner of professional home staging company Nex-Step Design, nex-stepdesign.com, she has staged hundreds of homes for resale, maximizing potential selling prices and minimizing on-market listing times for her clients. As co-founder, Carla established the largest short-term furniture rental company for the professional staging industry in Canada. Carla is also the national spokesperson for RE/MAX Canada’s Are You Fit to Sell program www.fittosell.ca. Committed to educating homeowners and realtors who would prefer to stage their homes or listings themselves, Carla has created the self-help How To Stage Your Own Home DVD series. This innovative 4 DVD set includes step-by-step "how-to" teaching tips which will help maximize equity and minimize the listing time. Carla Woolnough's professional affiliations include memberships in (CCSP™) Certified Canadian Staging Professional™, one of Canada's largest home staging training organizations, and (RESA™) the Real Estate Staging Association™. Carla grew up in a real estate family and resides in Guelph, Ontario, Canada with her contractor husband Scott Woolnough.

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I just thought I’d run through what a typical consultation would be like so you can get an idea of what to expect. It’s quite simple:

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Tips and Tricks

When it comes to furniture placement take a look at how your rooms are laid out. And remember buyers usually travel in threes. You want to position your furniture so that when they are touring your home all the rooms feel spacious and open.

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