Northern Lights Home Staging and Design

Mary Ann was such a pleasure to work with. I was selling a house and the owner needed some direction on how to decorate the house. Mary Ann worked very well with the seller to prep the house for listing. Mary Ann did an amazing job decorating the house and staging it. In fact, we estimate that the staging she did helped the seller net 10% more than she would have without the service. That is an excellent investment when selling a home and we only wished all of our seller would hire Mary Ann to do the same for them!

Mary Ann was professional and helpful in providing advice on our design project in our reception area using existing resources and furnishings. Being from a non profit agency I appreciated her using what we had to make the area look better and not costing us much money and giving me the advice pro bono.

A Real Estate Professional once gave us very valuable advise. She said "if you can't do something, find someone that can do it for you!" We had been looking for a virtual staging solution that is affordable, quick and professional. Northern Lights Home Staging and Design made our first time Virtual Home Staging experience a success! We were very happy with the professionalism, turnaround time and most important the results. We would highly recommend Northern Lights Home Staging and Design for your virtual staging needs.

Mary Ann was very professional and great at addressing all my questions. She's very knowledgeable about colors and helped me find a counter top type and color to go into our existing kitchen. She also came up with some great recommendations regarding some space issues in our home. We ordered a kitchen counter based on her recommendation and we are awaiting it's arrival. We look forward to the transformation! Thanks Mary Ann!

Mary Ann was very helpful and courteous! Home renovations can be overwhelming. I was caught up with the self help projects, the "you can do it" messages common on YouTube, and being completely overwhelmed when buying materials at Lowe's and Home Depot. For the uninitiated, you need to start with a plan and vision; that's where Mary Ann came in for me. She got back with me promptly, listened to my wants, and wrote out a plan with colors and brand names. Very reasonably priced.

Very helpful and much appreciated advice . Great for troubleshooting and problem solving. From staging the actual place to promoting it Northern Lights Home Staging was an inspiration.

i contacted Mary Ann Benoit of Northern Lights Home Staging in late March to assist with a large interior renovation my wife and I wished to get an early start on this Spring. We were renovating just for our own enjoyment as we are very happy with our home....just needed to give it a fresh look! She was very helpful and found great suggestions for Vinyl Plank Flooring and Quartz countertops that we adopted. Mary Ann is very good with colors and we soon had exactly what we wanted! She also recommended a renovation contractor and we were able to get him started right away! We are now relaxing in a new updated home that we are proud to invite guests into....thank you Mary Ann!

Mary Ann Benoit of Northern Lights Home Staging and Design is a talented and inspiring home stager and designer that cares about her customers and goes the extra mile to give them the best! Her background as a Home Stager and Bed & Breakfast owner also gives her a unique perspective, making her a valuable resource for vacation rental owners in need of updating their properties and increasing their income and bookings. Mary Ann is also a gifted writer and video creator. She uses these skills to manage website and social media marketing content that attracts ideal buyers and customers. This makes her a wonderful resource for both home sellers and vacation rental property owners.

Mary Ann is professional and detail-oriented. She was very responsive and straightforward from our first conversation to the completion of the project. I highly recommend Mary Ann for all your home staging needs!

We had an excellent experience working with Mary Ann! We contacted Northern Lights Home Staging and Design through Houzz and before our first meeting she had already started working on color ideas for our home addition. Ms. Benoit spent time before and after our consultation working on colors and design with us, communicating via email, so that in addition to our "official" consultation, she gave us a good deal of her professional time. Mary Ann Benoit is easy to work with and down-to-earth. Our anxiety about working with a design professional was put to rest within the first 5 minutes of our consultation, allowing us to to be open about our preferences and ideas while remaining open to hers. We highly recommend Northern Lights Home Staging and Design both for professional knowledge and results, and for being a pleasure to work with.

Mary Ann deserves a "stellar" rating for her home staging services, talent, experience and knowledge as a Professional Home Stager. A home stager myself, my husband & I enlisted Mary Ann to take on the oversight of staging our home when a new job and relocation required us to sell our $575,000+ home in a lagging real estate market, & a very busy time in our lives! Her perspective helped us make decisions that were hard to make but that were in the best interest of our home sale. When the home staging was competed and a professional real estate photographer captured the essence of our property for an excellent Internet presence, Mary Ann also created a fantastic Face Book Page & a video to help boost our online marketing and show the property in a way that real estate listings could not. We had immediate requests for home showings, and fantastic feedback from home buyers and real estate folks during the entire listing period. In addition to Mary Ann's staging talent & knowledge, she provided us with constant professionalism and personal service by staying in regular communication with us during our home listing; by being on time and meeting deadlines; by reducing our stress because of ongoing support and her experience; by completing all work, then following up with our additional requests; by reducing our staging costs by using furniture & decor we already had; by updating, & increasing our Face Book Page presence & audience; by ensuring that we were satisfied with her staging, costs & marketing services; and by being part of the team that successfully got our home sold in a bleak real estate slump . Because our home was staged to show all of it's features and to attract home buyers, our home sale was solid, and profitable. Had we not staged, or had we poorly staged our property that was in competition with other homes, it is safe to say we would have been forced to drop our sales price, significantly, and received less profit for a future home purchase. Mary Ann was not only a home staging contractor, she was, for us, a coach, a mentor and a great support in a very stressful and high anxiety time in life! Home staging is worth every dollar, but hiring Mary Ann Benoit, of Northern Light Home Staging & Design, was more than worth every dollar and lead us to success, and a new future.

I have received excellent service and attention-to-detail from Mary Ann at Northern Lights Home Staging. She is responsive, prompt and professional and was able to stage my listing on very short notice. I recommend her to anyone looking for a home-stager.