UpStaging Designs partners with best-in-the-business Realtors, providing customized services for each individual seller client, applying proven staging and design principles. I collaborate with you and your seller clients to achieve our mutual goal: a quick sale for top dollar.

Experience Matters


With my experience as a licensed Realtor in North Carolina, I have a true understanding of what attracts buyers to a home. I am also an investor, property manager, short term rental owner and real estate rehabber, accustomed to hiring contractors from all different trades. I understand the importance of trusted partners.

UpStaging Designs will become one of your expert resources—a trusted member of your team of vendors partners.

 

Resources for Realtors

 

Free Resources

The UpStaging Designs blog is full of stories and insights designed to help both Realtors and homeowners understanding the importance of staging when marketing a home for sale.

Check out what the the real estate trade association learned here in
National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Staging

My Realtor partners love having useful tips to share with their clients.
Here are a few quick and easy sharable PDFs.
You can download them for free through the shopping links below.

 
 
Tips for Living in a Staged Home

Download my free PDF! Includes what to do when your house is on the market, but you still have to live there.

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Top 10 Staging Recommendations

Download my free PDF! Includes my basic essential staging tips. If you do nothing else, at least do this!

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Top Paint Colors for Staging

Download my free PDF! Includes overarching painting tips, plus my list of best Sherwin Williams paint colors for staging.

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Resources for Sale

If you’re ready to dive deeper, we have two great resources for you.

Seller Service Guide
$25.00

This comprehensive guide is a perfect resource to share with seller clients. It includes staging checklists for every area of the home, both inside and out. Plus, tips for showings, photo day, product recommendations, tips for how to live in a staged home and a practical decluttering guide.

Buy our digital e-book and you’ll receive a unique download code to your inbox, valid for 24hrs after purchase.

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Staging Strategies For Your Occupied Home
$25.00

Learn the difference between staging and design, how to see your home from the buyer’s perspective, and how to stage each key area before you try to sell the home you live in. How and what to declutter, the importance and use of decor, space planning, repairs and what updates will add value to your home.

Complete with detailed checklists and reminders, you’ll be prepared to stage your own home without the need to rent furniture or move out of your home in order to sell. This guide is easy to read and implement, not too much but just enough.

Buy our digital e-book and you’ll receive a unique download code to your inbox, valid for 24hrs after purchase.

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The first time I hired Ellie Mayes, I realized it was one of the best decisions I made to prepare my client’s house for market. Someone came through the open house and said, ‘This looks like something out of a magazine!’
— Patrick, Realtor
 

Partnership Benefits

Homes that sell faster at higher price points

Complimentary staging consultations add value, earning your seller’s confidence from the start. Our Realtor Partners also have:

  • Freedom from awkward conversations around preparations for marketing

  • Ability to focus on the details of marketing a property

  • Knowledge that staging and property prep is handled by a trusted professional

  • Better photos for marketing efforts

  • Homeowners who are taught to redesign and reimagine their homes from a buyer’s perspective, relieving difficult emotions around depersonalizing their home

 

 

Partnership Services

Staging consultations for all your listings


I use proven staging techniques that we customize for each unique home and client.  

Sellers receive professionally presented consultation notes, product and vendor recommendations, and a handbook of tips and reminders with each consultation appointment.

Additional Services
Occupied Staging - Vacant Staging - Color Consultation

UpStaging Designs can provide your sellers with occupied or vacant home staging and color consultation. These services immediately upgrade the buyer’s impression, making it easier for them to imagine living in a home.

 
I insist that my listing clients work with Ellie. Doing so always results in quick sales! I am proud to call her a business partner.
— Nancy, Realtor