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From the Leading Provider of Home Staging Certification Since 2007.
*Our home staging certification process is 100% flexible, and fits around your own schedule

Our Most Popular Home Staging Certification:
Your investment:
Just $247
Or six small payments
Duration:
6 to 8 weeks of part-time study
Guarantee:
All courses are covered by a rock-solid 30-day money back guarantee.
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Ready to Get Your Home Staging Certification?
You’ve come to the right place! The Home Staging Institute is a leading provider of online home staging certification since 2007.
Transform your passion for home decoration into a fulfilling career with our premier online home staging certification program.
For over a decade, we have been the top provider of home staging certification, guiding countless individuals to achieve their dreams of becoming certified professionals in the industry.
Join us today and take the first step towards a rewarding career in home staging!

If you’re not happy, we’re not happy, so all of our courses are covered by a rock-solid 30-day money back guarantee.
Guaranteed.
What Makes us The #1 Pick For Home Staging Certification?

- You receive lifetime access with no annual renewal fee.
- All content is written by a panel of active home stagers and interior decorators.
- Thousands of happy home stagers have trained with us.

- Each staging certification course is a mix of written content, interactive quizzes, and engaging slides.
- Our courses are updated monthly.
- Learn all you need to succeed in a home staging career, or start a home staging business.

- Our “Stage to Success” Initiative donates a portion of each enrolment.
- These donations help ensure our home staging certification courses are accessible to others facing hardship.
Learn Everything Needed to Begin Your Dream Career as a Home Stager.
- Learn all aspects of working as a professional home stager
- Designed for aspiring home stagers and professionals alike
- Learn pricing and the business of staging
- Go at your own pace! One week or one year, it's up to you.
- Discover the psychology of home staging
- Earn your stager certification, and your website badge
- Get access to our forms, contracts, and checklists
- Browse hundreds of examples showing staging theory
- Build your confidence to stage your first home
- No questions asked, money back guarantee


Four Home Staging Courses To Choose From
Who it’s aimed at
People who would like to stage the homes of friends and family, as well as be able to offer their services professionally.
Typical student
Would like 1-2 clients per month and be able to bring in some extra income.
Length of course
Roughly eight hours worth of reading, the Basic course takes the average student four weeks to complete.
Who it’s aimed at
People who want to do home staging for a living. With this course, you become a Certified Staging Expert.
Typical student
Would like 5-7 clients per month and wants to show they earned their home staging certification.
Length of course
Roughly twenty hours worth of reading, the Professional course takes the average student six to eight weeks to complete.
Who it’s aimed at
People who would like to offer their home staging services professionally and want immediate access to the Institute’s full range of products.
Typical student
Career-minded person who wants all their bases covered.
Length of course
Like the Professional Course, the Advanced Course takes 20 hours to complete, but there is a further 20 hours worth of reading the various additional products.
Who it’s aimed at
Realtors who would like to offer home staging services to their clients.
Typical student
Real estate agents who are looking to maximize their income with the smallest amount of effort.
Length of course
Roughly three hours worth of reading, the Realtor Course takes the average student one to two weeks to complete.














Affordable & Convenient Home Staging Certification
With so many home staging certification courses available, it can be hard to decide which one is best for YOU.
There are lots of expensive seminar-based programs out there, but home staging certification doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars and require travel to another city.
In addition to being more convenient, we firmly believe that it is better to learn home staging through a home study program.

The Benefits of Taking Our Home Staging Course
- Within the space of 4-6 weeks you can be fully certified, and up-and-running your OWN home staging business that brings in a regular income.
- You can work at your own pace. Need to go away for the weekend? No problem! Complete your current unit when you next get some spare time.
- The assignments are fun and engaging, ensuring you get excellent hands-on experience. You’ll complete real-world projects that immerse you in your local market a little at a time.

Move Through The Home Staging Course At Your Own Pace
We have designed a six-unit course that covers marketing, meeting with clients and agents, home staging psychology, home staging techniques, how to get your own beautiful website online quickly … and a lot more.
By the time you have completed the program and received your home staging certification, you will be qualified and ready to begin your home staging business. Our home staging certification is widely recognized and will help you build credibility among clients.

Simple Step by Step Process
We make the staging concepts easy to understand, but offer lifetime email support anyway.
Flexible Process Fits Your Schedule
Work on the course when you want, where you want, going as fast or slow as you like.
Done-for-You Home Staging Forms
Every home staging course comes with our home staging forms saving you time and bother.
Start a Business That You Love
Most students complete the Professional course in four-to-six weeks and go on to get their first paying client within three months!
How to Deal With Any Situation Imaginable
Our extensive list of frequently asked questions covers virtually any situation imaginable, gleaned from over ten years of doing this.
Where to Find Your First Customers
No business exists without a constant flow of paying customers. We dedicate two entire units of the course to this vitally important topic.
The Home Staging Institute offers courses and products that help people set up and run successful home staging businesses. Our home staging courses are online and can be completed from the comfort of your own home. The Institute was set up in 2007 when founder Jackie Riley, a successful home staging business owner, kept getting approached by people asking for advice. She found the same questions cropping up:
- How do I start when I have no experience in home staging?
- How much should I charge?
- How do you deal with problem houses?
She first created an eBook called Home Staging Success and this later became the basis for the courses on offer today, all of which have evolved over time to include the latest concepts and theory. More recently, her free guide on starting a home staging business has quickly become the most comprehensive source available online.
Today, the institute has students in many countries around the world, including America, Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and France. Since 2007, thousands of people have graduated.
We look forward to welcoming you aboard!
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How To Start a Home Staging Business
Our most popular home staging resource is our ultimate guide on how to start a home staging business. We are giving our 10,000+ word guide away for free for a limited time.
One of our most requested home staging resources this year has been a guide explaining how to become a home stager. This is for those who want to take their first steps into the industry.
Our free home staging contract sample will save you time and money while giving you a good idea of what we think should be in every home staging contract.
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Does the course have any exams before awarding staging certification?
If there are no exams, how can the certification remain trusted within the industry? Here at the Home Staging Institute, all students are required to take a home staging exam before we award the certification. Although this might sound intense, you can do it online, in your own time. There is no time limit for the exam, and you can complete it whenever you want.
Does the course offer any marketing material and information?
If you are starting a home staging business, then marketing is critical to getting your first clients. Included in our home staging certification are units on marketing, and in particular digital marketing. We’ve revealed what works best for our team, and also hired a digital marketing consultant to share insights from throughout the wider industry.
Does the staging training include hands-on training?
It’s good to put your knowledge to use in a hands-on environment. You might think the only way to achieve this is through in-person classes, but since we offer an online home staging course we encourage our students to stage their own homes and send us photos for review and feedback. In fact, this is part of our exam, so if you are taking one of our certification courses, you will definitely be getting hands-on experience!
Does the course provider offer ongoing continuing education?
Some home staging courses unfortunately provide limited-time access to their material. We pride ourselves on offering lifetime access to all our courses and all future updates and resources. Since we update our course frequently, you’ll be able to log in after you complete the course and discover new material.
Home Staging Certification Questions
Can I really earn home stager certification online?
Absolutely. Our home staging certification will provide you with easy-to-follow instructions, taking the guesswork out of the staging process.
You’ll have a clear, easy guide to walk you through what to do in every room of the house. Plus, you’ll have class assignments to help you learn the hands-on part of home staging.
It’s a supportive, stress-free situation designed to give you positive feedback and confidence for your new home staging business. It works!
Why is your course price lower than others?
The Home Staging Institute was founded with a mission to keep our course affordable so that anyone who has a dream of becoming a home stager can do so without money being an obstacle.
Do I need to pay any ongoing fees as part of your home staging certification course?
No. You pay up-front and that’s that.
What is the total course cost?
The Basic Course, which comes with six units and everything you need to know about starting your own home staging business costs $177, or $30 in six monthly instalments.
Our Professional Course contains the same material but includes the Certified Staging Expert diploma for those who complete the simple online exam. This course costs $247, or $42 in six monthly installments.
We also offer an Advanced Course, for those that want to dig into the psychology and marketing angles at a deeper level. Like the Professional Course, it includes the exam and official certification.
The Advanced Course costs $498, or $83 in six monthly instalments.
Payment details for all courses can be found on the home staging courses page.
Are there any prerequisites to take these courses?
There are none – apart from a few hours a week to set aside to get your certification. Our basic home staging course offers everything you need to know to start a home staging business, however, if you want to go the extra mile and earn your home staging certification from The Home Staging Institute, you can choose to complete our Professional Course.
Do you offer any free home staging training?
No, although we do our best to make all our home staging courses cheap and affordable. But not having a physical classroom, and doing all our training online, we are able to offer cheap home staging training which can be done from the comfort of your home.
We do offer a free home staging checklist template if you would like to start learning immediately, and one of the most comprehensive guides on how to start a home staging business available for free. Our home staging resources page also links to our free home staging contract and our guide on how to become a home stager.
What’s the difference between home staging and property styling?
Both home staging and property styling refer to preparing a house for sale. The two terms are interchangeable. This is why our Professional Home Staging Course is the same as our Property Styling Course. Both courses come with the same certification from the Home Staging Institute, so it doesn’t matter which one you take.
How long will your home staging certification take?
You can complete our home staging certification course online in four to six weeks, depending on how much time you can devote to your home staging course each day.
Do I have to pay extra if I need help after I finish the program?
Home Staging Institute does not charge any of its graduates for needing a little extra help. We’re here to support you, not charge you outrageous fees for answering a few questions. We offer free lifetime email support to all of our students.
What’s with the exam?
Don’t worry if you haven’t taken an exam since school! Some of our students actually report enjoying taking the exam! It’s very simple and consists of:
- Ten multi-choice questions that test your knowledge
- You posting some photos of the rooms you staged in your assignment work
- Several questions that confirm your understanding of the concepts behind home staging
Most students complete the exam in thirty minutes, some in even less time. And the best part is that you can sit it whenever you like, wherever you like.
Why should I get my home staging certification online?
One of the main benefits of completing your home staging certification online is that you can complete it in the comfort of your own home, whenever suits you. This makes our courses ideal to do when you find a spare moment, as opposed to travelling to home staging courses near you and working around the class schedules.
Is this home staging certification 100% online?
Yes, we aim to be the number one place to get your home staging certification online. We don’t offer any classes in person, which helps to keep our prices low.
Do I get a certificate after completing the home staging course?
You do! A certificate will be issued at the end of the course.
Do you offer home staging certification for realtors?
Yes, we do offer a specific home staging course for realtors. More information on our Realtor Course can be found here. This course is designed for realtors who want to offer real estate staging services to their clients to make some additional income.
It’s worth noting that all our home staging courses are suitable for realtors, so we recommend looking at all our options and choosing the one that best suits your needs.
Is there a free home staging course?
Yes, we occasionally open up a free home staging course here at the Home Staging Institute. This is a very minimal version of our Basic Course and includes our free home staging checklist. We open this course once or twice a year. More details on our free home staging course can be found here.
Is this a RESA Accredited Staging Course?
This quick answer to this is, no. Please take two minutes to read why.
In a nutshell, RESA (Real Estate Staging Association) is an independent third party that can determine whether a certain set of standards are met for home staging courses. If the standards are met, the course provider can pay $500 per year, and a $750 application fee, to display the RESA logo on their website and be listed on the RESA website.
Here are the reasons why The Home Staging Institute hasn’t submitted an application to become RESA Accredited.
1) RESA was established in 2007, a year after the Home Staging Institute was founded. $500 per year isn’t a lot, but over more than a decade it adds up. Our goal is to make home staging courses affordable for everyone, and cutting unnecessary costs helps us achieve that. At the time of writing, there are four RESA Accredited home staging courses, and three of these courses range in price from $999 to $1,300. Our most popular home staging course is just $247. We couldn’t find pricing for the fourth accredited course, despite clear and transparent pricing being a requirement to become accredited.
2) We already know our course is quality, and we feel we don’t need a third party to tell you it’s quality. We’ll let our past customers do that for us. We’ve been doing this for nearly 15 years and have taught thousands of students. You can read many of their reviews on our website. Our refund rate is under 1%, and for these few unsatisfied customers, we offer an immediate refund with no questions asked. We’ve purchased many other home staging courses (it pays to keep an eye on other courses so we can continually improve!), and have been embarrassed and shocked by some of the low-quality content.
3) The criteria to become a RESA accredited course are published on the RESA website. We meet 98% of the criteria, but there are a few things like the “manual must be large enough to accommodate notes” that we don’t meet. We are an online course and encourage our students to resist printing materials. All our slides, forms, templates, and checklists are provided digitally. A lot of the other requirements they check are what we would consider absolute bare minimums. For example, there can be no “get rich” promises, we must respond in a timely manner to customer inquiries, advertising must be 100% truthful etc. Of course, the Home Staging Institute abides by this Code of Ethics. We wouldn’t be in business for as long as we have if we didn’t.
4) There are 61 topics RESA states accredited home staging courses must include. The Home Staging Institute teaches most of these, but not all of them. For example, we don’t teach ‘Listening Skills’, and we don’t teach how to check domain name availability (for those wondering, it takes 30 seconds on a website like Namecheap.com to check domain name availability). We dive into additional topics that aren’t RESA requirements, like how to build your website, the role of a company blog, and how to excel in search engine optimization in the home staging industry.
Our final word on this topic is that we support what RESA is doing, but it’s not for us. We’ll let our history and student testimonials speak for themselves, save the $500 annual fee, and continue to offer what we feel is the best home staging certification available online, albeit not RESA accredited home staging training.