Does she furnish or stage, or both?

Yeah, the custom-made items kind of throw me off, because that's stuff I know for sure is staying, and the special art work. If she custom designs something, or buys it specifically for the home, those are most likely things that are staying. I know on Texas Flip and Move, some of the people who buy the homes ask if they can buy some of the staging furniture, too. Also, we don't know 100% of what they all decide. I keep forgetting we only know what we see on the show.

After I posted my question, I saw another thread in which someone else said some of the furnishings are the homeowners', sometimes with slip covers; much of it could even be pieces they already gave her to incorporate into the design. That would make some sense. I guess I never gave it too much thought - then again, I just started watching it a few months ago, got caught up through apps and reruns.

I never thought she would be staging someone's home they are about to move into -- I understand when it's done on Flip or Flop, or Income Property, but not people who will be moving in their own furniture, ostensibly within a few days.

I wonder about those over-sized clocks that she puts in EVERY home.

Thank you.

I was thinking, when I was watching an episode the other night and saw what was definitely a slip-covered couch, that she might even have access to their furniture and puts some of it in, but in a neutral way that the watchers won't know it's used (so to speak).

Which makes me wonder why she doesn't just get their furniture, or at least more of it, instead of using so much staging furniture? It would be more helpful to the families to have their own furnishings moved in, be a lot less energy, waste less time. I know it's prettier for tv to see all the new furniture, but I like to see how people are going to live in their spaces.

I guess that answers my question, though, about where she gets all those huge wall clocks from - she recycles them as staging pieces. I always thought, "why does she think everyone wants a 3 foot clock on their wall like she has in her house?" Now I know, it doesn't stay. Thank goodness for that.

Joanna has a furniture store and a line of furniture she supposedly designed; she seems to be hawking furniture more than anything else. I read many of their clients decline to buy the staged furnishings.

Put puppy mills out of business: never buy dogs from pet shops! 

She is not a trained designer so 'stager' is a more appropriate descriptor for what she does.

In any case, there is usually no way the clients can buy the staging items since the Gaines' seem determined to spend every dime of their budget on the reno even tho it's always very easy to see where they could save the clients some money. [starting with not ripping out old wood floors and replacing them with new wood floors, a wasteful extravagance the Property Brothers are also prone to indulge in]