Chicagoland Home Staging of Geneva

Chicagoland Home Staging of Geneva is a home stager in Geneva, Illinois. The business stages homes across the western Chicago suburbs, serving Naperville, Hinsdale, Western Springs, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, St. Charles, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Darien, Lemont, Orland Park, Oak Park, Riverside, La Grange Park, Elmhurst, Lombard, River Forest, Plainfield, Joliet, and Aurora. Its services include vacant home staging, occupied home staging, and staging consultations. Vacant home staging is the company's specialty: a design consultant previews the property, in person or virtually, recommends which rooms and areas to stage, and provides a quote before the team plans, selects, and installs the staging materials. Occupied home staging redesigns and arranges items the seller already owns, and consultations give homeowners a buyer's-eye assessment of the property.

The team brings more than 30 combined years of full-time staging design experience. Its approach uses what it calls design science, arranging pathways for walking, eye-level elements, empty spaces for the imagination, natural stopping places, and a neutral color palette. The company describes a technique it calls the Yellow Brick Road, which creates places to pause, lanes to walk, sight lines to gaze, and empty space so buyers can picture their own furniture. Founder and owner Margaret Gehr has focused on the design and merchandising of resale properties since 2005, when she founded the company, and studied at the Harrington Institute of Interior Design in Chicago. Owner Kathy Lobkovich joined the team in 2008 and became a managing partner in 2012; she holds a B.S. in Business from Marquette University. The company also refers clients to real estate agents it works with regularly.

Chicagoland Home Staging of Geneva holds a rating of 4.90 from the customers who have reviewed it. Its designers are multi-award winners, with nominations for Top 75 People in the Real Estate Staging World and the Most Influential People in Staging, and four wins as a Top 10 Professional Home Staging Team. Their insights have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, LUXE Magazine, MSN, DuPage Real Producers, and the Chicago Tribune.