Best Home Staging Companies

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Why We Chose It: Showhomes has conducted tens of thousands of home stagings and is the largest company offering this service in the U.S. It also offers a live-in home manager service, a unique and cost-effective option for homeowners who want a more personalized staging approach.

Showhomes is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and has locations in 19 states. The company has been featured on HGTV, the Travel Channel, and "The Today Show." It has helped more than 30,000 homeowners and real estate agents stage their properties since it was founded in 1986.

Through Showhomes, customers can choose from a variety of services, including vacant home staging, owner-occupied staging, home restyling, and home updating. Showhomes also offers a very unique service model: home manager staging.

Clients’ vacant homes will not only be staged with furniture and decor items; a home manager will actually live in and care for the home until it sells. According to Showhomes, this arrangement is not only financially beneficial (as the home manager will pay a monthly fee, or “rent,” while they live there) but it improves the look and marketability of the property as well.

The cost of staging with Showhomes varies based on the size and style of the home, the number of rooms to be styled, and whether the home will be vacant, owner-occupied, or home manager-occupied. Pricing can also vary from one locale to another, as Showhome locations are franchised. Home staging costs can be deferred until the home sells, however, helping homeowners avoid an upfront, out-of-pocket expense.

Showhomes is only in 18 states as of January 2022, but the company opens new franchises on a regular basis.

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Why We Chose It: This company offers home staging services for a variety of properties, but specializes in luxury and high-end homes. It maintains large warehouses full of furniture and decor inventory in three states, and provides services to clients across the nation.

Based in California, Meridith Baer Home was accidentally founded in 1998, after Baer moved her belongings into a friend’s for-sale home to help potential buyers visualize the space. The home sold almost immediately, and a new service was born.

Though Meridith Baer Home stages any type of property, it specializes in dealing with luxury properties and estates. The company has warehouses in three states but offers staging services across the country. MBH also offers interior design and luxury furniture leasing.

The cost for staging a home varies according to the property itself, square footage, the number of rooms, style, how long furniture is rented, etc. The expense, however, may be worth it for higher-value homes with a larger asking price.

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Why We Chose It: As an affordable alternative to in-person home staging, Stuccco offers low-cost virtual staging images with a quick turnaround and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Home staging can be incredibly beneficial for selling a home, as it helps buyers better visualize themselves in the space. Since most home-buying searches begin online, though, virtual staging can sometimes be an acceptable—and much more affordable—option.

With Stuccco, homeowners and real estate agents can digitally stage a property for a fraction of the cost of true home staging. Images cost only $29 each, with staged results delivered in 24 hours or less. All designs come with a 60-day guarantee and up to two free rounds of revisions; if you’re still not happy with the result after that period, Stuccco will refund the price you paid.

Another benefit to Stuccco virtual staging is that it can be done for any home, anywhere in the country. Stuccco will also digitally remove any existing furniture from images and can help with design, offering everything from exterior and landscape design to paint color changes, decor concepts, and full renovation design.

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Why We Chose It: Barion Design’s team of designers and graphic artists can transform photos of your home into luxurious and professionally staged spaces that are more likely to draw in buyers.

Barion Design has personally and virtually staged more than 50,000 luxury homes across the United States since its founding in 2005, helping to entice buyers and create an emotional attachment to properties that are for sale. The team is composed of both experienced graphic designers and staging experts who work together to ensure that your home’s virtual staging is not only aesthetic, but seamless.

After a design consult, Barion Design’s team will work to virtually stage each desired area of your home for about 10% of what it would cost to traditionally stage. Pricing is based on a flat rate per photo, but can run as much as $900 per image. This is notably more expensive than the average virtual staging company—and the finished product typically takes longer to receive—but the results tend to speak for themselves.

Since Barion Design’s services can be entirely virtual, the company can digitally stage homes anywhere in the country. It also offers restyle and renovation design services, as well as digital staging with furniture removal or updating.