Stage, with Laura Thompson
Give your place a proper introduction.
Laura sets up and styles your let or your home for its photographs and its first guests.
- A home or holiday let set up and styled, ready for the camera and for guests.
- From a Photo Brief to a full guest-ready set-up. The owner buys the pieces, at the shop's price.
- Start with a free discovery call about the let or the home, and the date you are working to.
The smallest step
Photo Brief £45A 30-minute video walk-round, a shot list of up to 20 photos in order, a room-by-room styling checklist
You have 14 days to change your mind after booking. See How booking works.
Free, and nothing to buy. Or choose your path.
Two paths, over the same care
A holiday let getting ready for guests, or a home getting ready to sell or let.
I have a holiday let
Ready for the camera. Ready for guests.
- Photo Brief£45A shot list of up to 20 photos and a room-by-room styling checklist
- Welcome Book£150Up to 12 pages from the owner's answers, print-ready and phone-friendly
- Shoot Day Styling£195The Photo Brief, then up to 4 hours on site on the photographer's day
- Season Refresh£195Up to 4 hours between changeovers, the season's textiles swapped in
- Guest-Ready Set-Up£995 up to 2 bedrooms; £1,395 for 3 or 4 bedroomsA planning visit, a sourcing list to budget, set-up days on site, an inventory with photos
I am selling or letting my home
Before the keys change hands.
- Staging Walk-Round£125Up to 90 minutes in the home and a written list of what to clear, move, mend and add
- Staging Day£325Up to 7 hours using what the owner has, a finishing list of up to 10 pieces
- Bigger Set-Up£325 a day, written quote firstBigger lets, several lets, or an empty home furnished with the owner's new pieces
The Photo Brief and Shoot Day Styling work for a sale or a let too.
Selling or letting, in fullYou have 14 days to change your mind after booking. See How booking works.
The owner buys furniture, linen, flowers, printing and the photographer at the shop's price. Travel is explained beside the prices once Laura sets it.
The changeover day, eight to eight
A Season Refresh, between one set of guests and the next.
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. The times are an example day.
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Winter's throw: swap Cushion: worn at one corner
8am
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. 8am
The list for the day
The let, room by room: what the season swaps, what is worn, what is missing. The owner's stored set of textiles, or new pieces the owner has bought, waits by the door.
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Check-out at ten The let turned round
10am
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. 10am
Check-out
The last guests leave and the let is turned round. Laura takes no bookings and sends no messages to guests: the guests are the owner's.
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Spring's linen throw in Cushions restyled A knitted throw for the chair
11am to 3pm
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. 11am to 3pm
The season, swapped in
Up to 4 hours: the season's textiles swapped in, beds and living spaces restyled, every room walked with the inventory.
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Tray, two mugs, flowers Towels folded on the bed The lamp left on
4pm
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. 4pm
Check-in
The next guests arrive to a let that is ready for them. If Laura wrote the welcome book, it is where the guests will find it.
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Worn one cushion Missing a third mug
8pm
Illustration: not Laura's work or a client's home. 8pm
The owner's list
A list of worn or missing items goes to the owner, so the next changeover starts with what it needs.
The welcome is in the details.
A welcome book written from your answers, ready to print and to share by phone.
Welcome Book £150A welcome book of up to 12 pages from the owner's answers, print-ready and phone-friendly, one round of changes
You have 14 days to change your mind after booking. See How booking works.
Plainly
- Styling and set-up only: Laura never takes bookings, messages guests or handles guests' money, and makes no promise about sales or nightly rates.
- Upholstered pieces Laura sources for a Guest-Ready Set-Up are chosen only from items that carry the permanent fire-safety label, and each label is photographed for the owner's records. Laura doesn't carry out or sign off fire, gas or electrical safety checks.
- The owner buys furniture, linen, flowers, printing and the photographer at the shop's price.
- Travel is explained beside the prices once Laura sets it.
Prefer to do it yourself?
Laura's app for this is LT: Welcome Mat; ask Laura about it.
Next door to Stage
Two of Laura's other sites that often come with it.
Start with a free discovery call
Your let or your home, the date you are working to, and what would help. Nothing to buy.
Free, and nothing to buy. The short form opens on Laura's Linktree. What happens next