How a professional home stager helps Irish properties sell faster for more

Eve Kelliher discovers what a typical day is like for Dara Carey

Dara Carey, Create Property Staging, is a member of the Home Staging Association UK and Ireland.

WHEN the for-sale sign went up outside her family home, it also heralded a new career chapter for Dara Carey.

Dara, whose parents were downsizing, took one look at the photographs being used, decided they “were terrible”, and swiftly set the scene for a Selling Sunset-worthy success story. “Since then, I’ve helped a few family friends who were selling properties to present them at their best,” says Dara. “I didn’t even realise that what I was doing was ‘staging’ — that it was actually ‘a thing’ — until I saw an article about it while scrolling late one night on maternity leave. I signed up for a course the very next day.”