When your home goes on the market, it needs to make an entrance…a Grand Entrance.

This IS a contest…for a buyer. Homes that look beautiful on the market sell well and quickly.

Make a beautiful entrance…Stage it!

About Home Staging

Show-Smart! Home Staging is a critical piece in fast, profitable sale of your home.

Home Staging has become the norm in selling real estate in the DC market. Is it the economy?  That sellers are desperate?  Is it necessary?  Or is it simply that showing your product for sale as beautifully as possible is just sensible and, well, smart?  Whether it’s the advent of the internet or the explosion of TV shows all about showing your home well to sell it, professional Home Staging has raised the bar. The bottom line is that your competition is doing it.

Show-Smart! Home Staging can transform your home into a property worthy of the internet

Picture perfect properties sell first and fastest.  Everyone knows curb appeal now starts online. The National Association of Realtors now estimates that 90% of people look online for their next home.  Enter the need for fabulous photos.  A property without a photo is now relegated to the “Something must be wrong with that one” category.  One or two still shots doesn’t do it anymore either.  Home Staging by Show-Smart! is accompanied by Complimentary Professional Photographs and Virtual Tour produced especially and specifically to market your home.  We take great pride in showing off your home to its absolute best advantage!

Show-Smart! Home Staging reflects that the DC real estate market is as diverse as its population.

We pride ourselves on designing specifically for each property, be it condo in Georgetown, historic row house on Capitol Hill, suburban townhouse in Gaithersburg, colonial single family home in Bethesda or whatever else comes to us in Rockville.  Each home has a target market.  We have the knowledge and experience to understand and project your individual home’s best look.  And, although we maintain a substantial warehouse of accessories, rugs, lamps, pictures, silk trees and greenery, and a modicum of small or unusual furniture pieces as well as a few larger items, we outsource most of the larger pieces, giving us the freedom to style your home to its utmost potential for its target market.

It is our dedicated mission to help your home sell quickly and at the top of its market.

It’s what we do.  It’s why we do it.  And, we have the numbers to prove it.  Please call us to discuss your staging needs today.  Ask for Patricia at (757) 619-9789.  We look forward to working with you.

• What Our Clients Value About Us:

  “We paid another stager twice what Show-Smart charged for a consultation, and they told us we would have to remove all our furniture and rent a whole house full of new furniture. Patricia spent two hours with us explaining how she could rearrange our furniture more effectively and then showcase our home better by simply adding some color and accessories, a much more cost-effective alternative that worked!”

  P. Chang, Owner and Realtor, Single Family Home, Rockville

  “Patricia, I can't thank you enough. I have worked with professional television set designers before, but nobody made such a spectacular difference in just two hours! You said my place would look bigger [by rearranging the furniture], and oh were you ever right. The pictures and the listing look amazing. I already feel the place sold. You are the Magician. Thank you once again.”

  G. Meyers, Owner, Condo in Georgetown

  “We are WOWed by your staging, Patricia. Thank you so much for your wise advice and vision. We really needed a professional to “sell” our house. The icing on the cake was the professional Virtual Tour that you photographed. It is so much better than just a slide show. Have your potential clients look at it. They will sign up right away.”

  L. Sorenson, Owner, Townhouse, Decoverly

  “Thank you, Patricia. The buyer was absolutely the FIRST person to see the house staged. I’m sure your staging was the stimulus in the decision making process. ‘Kudos’ to you. I also noticed that it even ‘smelled’ cleanly occupied, rather than having that sterile empty scent. The Realtor’s told me 3 ‘nosey neighbors’ that had seen the house ‘unstaged’ last year said the staging made the BIG difference. And, your Virtual Tour, well...”

  S. Martin, Estate Trustee, Four historic Row Houses, Capitol Hill

  “I was skeptical of staging. But, my inexpensive, vacant investment property had been on the market over 90 days with no interest. Patricia convinced me that staging it would make the difference, and she was so right. It sold the first week! I’m totally sold on staging now.”

  D. Marshall, Owner Investor, Single Family Home, Hyattsville, MD