Though the professional home stager is a more recent development in the professional community, staging homes has been around for quite some time. Staging your home is basically the process of making it presentable to potential buyers. This includes cleaning, rearranging furniture, painting and many other things that people will do to increase the appeal of their home. In the past most home owners were left to sift through the work and ideas on their own. Leaving them to guess what people wanted to see, or to decorating the house they way they like it. The professional home stager will actually spend time, normally up to two hours, talking with you about what you can do to improve the first impression of your home. The stager will not actually do the work for your in most cases, but will leave you with a list of things that you can do on your own. Often times the list will also include things that you should not do to your home. These consultations generally start at around two hundred dollars and go up from there, but their advice can actually help the home to sell faster and for more money in some cases. Their expertise addresses that fact the most potential home buyers will make their impressions of the house within the first thirty seconds.