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title: Working for a Staging Company
canonical: "https://jpshlk.com/blog/working-for-a-home-staging-company/"
pubDate: "2015-07-10T00:00:00.000Z"
author: Josh Pasholk
description: I worked for a home staging company for a little while.
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Before I met Lila and Dines, the owners of Ojai Home, I had no idea what home staging was. I didn't know what I was missing out on.

## Working for a staging company was one of the coolest experiences of my life

Working for them, I learned a lot about the intangible concepts of design. Especially how a design should make someone happy.

### Huge den with fireplace in the east end of Ojai California

![Huge Den with fireplace in the East End of Ojai California](https://imgur.com/Jq8fdIx.jpg)

This was in the East End of Ojai California. When we got there, it looked nowhere near this.

### Some like a modern living room

![Modern Living Room from OHI Home](https://imgur.com/LUevpZI.jpg)

A lot of times clients would want something more modern that suited the buying trends at the time.

### Others, a rustic living room

![Rustic Living Room from OHI Home](https://imgur.com/j2MwP9K.jpg)

Other times, a bit more of a traditional design approach is needed to entice buyers in certain situations.

### All glass living room

![Rustic Living Room from OHI Home](https://imgur.com/2vQofJv.jpg)

This was a particularly nice living room that really stood out to me. Sometimes a space demands to be almost left alone with a very minimal touch.

### It's the little things

![Rustic Living Room from OHI Home](https://imgur.com/bdiKUXC.jpg)

A lot of the choices a stager makes are small, but add up to something more than the sum of all the parts. This is where the art of the design is.

### Every staging company has a massive amount of pillows

![Clever Pillow Storage](https://imgur.com/KTd3RMo.jpg)

After a good buddy of mine started working with us, we rigged up this pillow storage solution in one of our warehouse spaces.

### My little truck, loaded down

![My little truck Loaded down](https://imgur.com/G43JyXK.jpg)

Here is my little Mazda B-3000 loaded down as much as she'd go. Often we'd have both trucks operating on the same job to get everything done quicker.

### Lila's truck loaded with as much as physically possible

![Lila's Truck Loaded down with as much as Physically Possible](https://imgur.com/KuWChiX.jpg)

All in all I really miss working for OHI Home. The sense of family was very strong from day one, with Lila inviting me over for dinner weekly. Dines, her husband who I actually got the job through, is still one of my favorite people of all time.

Working with him at lynda.com was a really fun experience and I'll cherish the memories we made there. That my friends is a story for another day, and another time.

😜

*****

### A note about this post

This wasn't actually posted on the date listed. I am adjusting the dates to match around when the events happened.

## Thank you for reading!