Perfect Setting Home Staging

I can’t speak to the earlier review which expressed a negative experience, since our experience was exactly the opposite. I assume whatever was a concern back in 2013 certainly isn’t the case today.
We hadn’t sold a home in over 13 years, and we learned that today, to make your home as attractive as possible even in a hot sellers market, you need to stage your home. You want to make sure buyers have nothing but a positive experience when they see your home, so making a small investment to remove any buyer objections about its interior appearance will always pay off.
Alain Pinel’s Ryan Nunnally (based in Los Gatos, CA), who is by the way the best realtor we have ever worked with, referred us to Deborah Drljaca at «Staged By 3», also known as «Perfect Setting». We were a bit skeptical about what the outcome might be since we had not made much investment in our internal décor, having a collection of mismatched furnishings we had acquired over time vs. a real coordinated look and feel. Deborah was fantastic to work with, giving us great advice and took her time to explain how the process works and confirm with us the changes that were needed and our various options. She also has a great sense of humor and was a delight to work with. What was even more surprising what that her quote for us was not only fair, but frankly more competitive than we could have imagined. She was also very responsive as we were going through the process, answering all of our questions and making sure we would be 100% satisfied with the outcome.
We prepared the home as she requested and we will never forget how we felt when we walked through our front door that afternoon to see it for the first time after the staging. We were absolutely blown away. It is seeing your home for what it could have been, that in the hands of Deborah and her team, they so transformed our home into a fantastic showplace, we simply could not believe it. We proudly held our daughter’s high school grad party in the staged home, and everyone raved about it. Of course, we successfully sold our home and received over asking, in no small part because of how well it presented itself to those who visited it.
Perfect Setting has a great team, offering great value and providing a great end result. You couldn’t ask for more.

This woman was sent by my realtor to stage my house before we listed it. She showed up unannounced 2 weeks before our listing date and without any permission (a handyman let her in as she told him she had our permission!) She threw our furniture and expensive paintings in the garage with no protection. She also moved our every day items, like a vita mixer, yoga mat, needlepoint bag etc., toothbrushes, contact cases, etc. to God knows where. I never met her nor did I get to pack my own items. I have no idea where anything is and I am furious! She has questionable taste– she put red and black towels in a spring green bathroom. My home has been photographed for a design magazine so I don’t think it was horrible. I understand decluttering and taking some furniture out, but I would like to have some input and know where my items are put.
One of my friends came over and was horrified. She wondered where our paintings were and why the stager had hung cheap prints from TJ Maxx!
I would never hire this woman nor subject her to my worst enemy!