About Me…

Our home is our shelter. It reflects our personalities and provides refuge.  I have lived in many places — grown up on a farm in Iowa, lived in a rented bedroom, reconstructed a third floor walkup into a condo, settled into a house surrounded by trees.

How people arrange their shelter to meet their needs and their aesthetics has fascinated me for a long time.  I graduated from college with a BA in interior design. Since then I’ve done various things to earn a living; bought and sold homes and investment properties, remodeled fixer-uppers, rented to tenants, and designed, planted and maintained gardens… whatever needed to be done. Now I put all those experiences together in a career called “staging.”

It’s a great job. I get to go into all kinds of places, in every part of town, with only one goal: to make it look its best and stimulate the imaginations of people who might live there. I get to combine all my previous activities. I can drill a hole, paint a wall, place furniture, drape a scarf, build a design theme, or anything else that needs to be done.

And—if it’s something I can’t do, I know whom to call.

Here’s a resume of my experience:

¨ BA in interior design, 1982

¨ 13 years staging experience in a range of places

¨ Post graduate art classes

¨ Gardening design experience and consulting

¨ Accredited Staging Professional (ASP)

¨ Member, International Association                                                                 of Home Staging Professionals (IAHSP)

¨ 15 years in property investment

¨ 6 years as a full-time realtor (2000-2005)

 

 

Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to ask about me!

staging@stagingbysonja.com

Call 651-338-4552

Or email to staging@stagingbysonja.com