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Start a business as a 'house-doctor' preparing properties to sell for maximum price by Christine Rae (Canada), Anita Kenna (UK), Anne Peters (Australia)

This 120 page eBook with over 80 photographs is packed with invaluable information on how to carry out Home Staging to a professional standard and starting a Home Staging business.

The eBook includes:

Advice on EVERY room in the house

Comprehensive colour picture gallery

Insider hints and tips

Services to offer as a Home Stager

Business startup advice

Example documents

Links to relevant useful websites

and much more - see full contents click here

House Transformed : Getting the Home You Want . . . with the House You Have
by Matthew Schoenherr, Linda Hunter, Wendy Jordan

Though seemingly stout and permanent, houses are malleable, able to flex, stretch, shift, and even shrink. Remodeling can enliven all the spaces in a home, solving flaws, enhancing interior livability, increasing curb appeal, and making best use of the site. In some cases, an addition is needed, while in others merely changing the floor plan permits a rediscovery of space.

In House Transformed, architect Matt Schoenherr shares insight gained through an architectural practice specializing in renovation work. The 20 projects in this portfolio offer homeowners clever, workable ideas and answers, from connecting new and old parts of a house to gaining needed space through clever storage solutions. Not only has every home in the book undergone a remarkable renovation, but each features great moves, small moves, and simple transformations that are easily applied to any home.

This book also features radical before and after photos of beautifully transformed homes and provides a handy blueprint for design decisions.

Handmade Modern : Mid-Century Inspired Projects for Your Home
by Todd Oldham

Designer Todd Oldham offers a cheerful array of projects to decorate your home -- from test tube gardens to daybed libraries, color copy wallpaper to faux-fur blankets, for the ultimate Handmade Modern results.

Ultimate Bathroom Design
by Alejandro Bahamon (Editor)

This is an indispensable reference for the design of a room unlike any other. The bathroom is no longer given over solely to personal hygiene. It has become a refuge for those seeking purification, warmth, and respite and, as such, is designed to integrate functionality with beauty and relaxation. The hundreds of color photographs included in this practical yet visually pleasing book illustrate this truism and provide helpful decorating hints and ideas for anyone looking to re-design this most important room.

The House in Good Taste
by Elsie De Wolfe, Albert Hadley

After ninety years, The House in Good Taste by America's "first lady of interior decoration," Elsie de Wolfe, still offers timeless design advice.

Compiled from her articles in newspapers and magazines and first published in 1914, The House in Good Taste is a seminal book on interior design with ideas that have lasted a century because they influenced not only the wealthy clients of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, but popular taste as well.

De Wolfe advised Americans to shun ostentation and clutter in favor of simplicity, to dismantle the draperies in order to let in the light, and to replace garish colors with beige and ivory. "I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint," she declared, "comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they 'belong,' mirrors and sunshine in all rooms." The rooms that Americans inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century still today owe much to de Wolfe's tastes.

Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Presentation Techniques, Second Edition
by Maureen Mitton, Maureen Mitton

The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design

Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume.

Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind, it includes a diverse range of sample work, from student designers as well as well-known design firms such as Ellerbee and Beckett Architects and MS Architects.