I know you but I don't....

I'll play too! 

Name: Susan Smith

Location: Hartford, CT

Age: Physically I'm 43 and a half, but I feel more mid-thirties

Specialty: Home staging and interior redesign

Education: B.S. Mktg, M.B.A., MOM, NUTs

Experience: Over 15 years B2C mktg of financial services

Associations (if any): I'm naked.

Married: Yes - 10 years next Valentines day

Kids: Yes, girls...2 and 6

Hobbies: Who has time for hobbies!  Can you call moving a hobby?  Have had my fair share of that.

Favorite Color:  Ocean :)

Favorite quote: "One day the intention became a resolve, and I arose from my chair to make a new beginning".  Shorter version: "Life is short.  Go long."

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: Marketing, networking, being creative, and making the world a more beautiful place, one room at a time.

Me too!

Name - Terry Haugen

Location - Brevard County FL

Age - old enough to remember the Beatles first hit

Specialty - dogs and home staging

Education - AAS in Computer Science

Experience - dogs (lots of professional years, if I tell you how many you'll guess my age :-)), home staging 11

Associations - 22

Married - yes

Kids - one son, two grandchildren

Hobbies - my grandchildren

Favorite color - green

Favorite quote - "its 5:00 somewhere, time for a beer"

What do you love most about staging - the ability to be creative, the shopping, AND the beer when I get home :-)

Nice to finally get to know some of you!

Terry Haugen - STAGE it RIGHT!

My turn

Name: Stephanie Heron-Weeber

Loaction: Scottsdale, AZ - actually in the Rio Verde foothills but our address is Scottsdale

Age: 49 - no that can't be right am I that old?

Specialty: Home Staging

Education: All done back in England plus the University of Life and School of Hard Knocks

Experience: 20+ years in aviation which is not much use to me now except I can say I have International experience and a Pilot's License!

Associations (if any): Naked

Married: Yes  

Kids: 2 golden retrievers and 2 horses

Hobbies: Active Rain, walking the dogs, riding and Cowboy Action Shooting - yep, don't mess with me:)

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite quote: "The brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the day we are born and stops the moment we get up to speak in public"

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I enjoy Staging on a budget and finding great deals on designer items.

Oh, me too, me too 

Name: Calie Waterhouse

Loaction: Chandler, AZ

Age: Just turned 40  - and 40 is the new 30

Specialty: Marketing & Home Staging

Education: I'm a professional student - love to learn!

Experience: 6 years in home staging. Previous life included  event/wedding planning, advertising & marketing, litigation

Associations (if any): I associate with all home stagers - working to make the world a better place :)

Married: Absolutely! 17 years.

Kids: 3 kids, 8 dogs, 1 cat  (know anybody who wants to buy a puppy?)

Hobbies: PTO President at my daughter's school, reading, scuba diving, snorkeling, laying on the beach, traveling with my family.

Favorite Color: Chocolate brown

Favorite quote: "With great power, comes great responsibility" from Spiderman.

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I love selling and the satisfaction of a job well done.

Me Next,

Name: Betty Haney

Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada

Age: 55 (My birthday is July 24th)  If you look at my picture, my photographer did a great Photo Shop!!!

Specialty: Home staging - Vacants

Education: B. Ed. and CSP (Canadian Staging Professionals)

Experience: 1 year (almost)

Associations (if any): 

Married: Yes (37 years this November to my highschool sweetheart - and that wasn't easy because I went to a girls' school.)

Kids: Two girls, Christie - Student Financial Aid Advisor, Catherine - Nurse in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit

Hobbies: Golfing, Travelling, Reading, and Staging (I consider it a fun hobby - not a job)

Favorite Color: Yellow (more mustard than sunshine)

Favorite quote: Attributed to Barbara Coloroso - I like myself, I can think for myself, There is no problem so big it can't be solved.

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I love working with my sister and seeing how we can change a room.  I also like the look on the client's face.  It is like Christmas.

Name: Charissa Robinett

Loaction: Carl Junction, MO

Age: Not 30 yet!  (29)

Specialty: Budget Decorating, Redesign and Staging

Education: Bible Knowledge Certificate, BSBA in Management with minors in Quality Management and Human Resource Management, Pursuing a Bachelors degree in Family and Consumer Sciences with an Interior Design option

Experience: 10+ years in Human Resources.  I've been decorating for family and friends for many years, but am just now turning my hobby into a career!

Associations (if any): Naked!

Married: Yes (almost 9 years)

Kids: No kids, but we do have a cat that we treat as if he were our child.

Hobbies: Decorating, scrapbooking, travel, church, Chile (I was born there and lived there until my senior year of high school).

Favorite Color: General:  Purple.  Decorating:  I have alot of different shades of green and maroon/pink in my home.

Favorite quote: "The King is enthralled by your beauty..." Psalms 45:11

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: The challenge and the sense of accomplishment when you complete a room successfully.

Christine, What fun this is going to be. I'm ready to jump in this puddle.

Name: Yvonne Root

Loaction: Prescott, AZ area

Age: Pushing on the door which opens up to 56. It seems noisy in there

Specialty: Home staging the best of homes

Education: One and a half years formal study in Interior Design and many more of oops and got its

Experience: and then some

Associations (if any): VGS

Married: Yes (almost 30 years and it is getting better and better)

Kids: 6 of them with only one boy. 3 sons-in-law, 1 daughter-in-law, 8 grandkids and 4 great-grandkids

Hobbies: Fast cooking, reading, playing card and board games, planning

Favorite Color: All of them!

Favorite quote: For this week -- Believing in your dreams demands that you are prepared to receive them.

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I love touching fabric, wood, ceramic, glass and especially leather. I also love solving difficult decorating problems like how to make the postage stamp bathroom look like more than one person could actually fit in there.

Name: Shell Brodnax

Loaction: Stockton, CA

Age: 38 Oct 22 1968

Specialty: Marketing and PR

Education: Licensed Private Investigator,

Experience: Background in management, collections, PI, marketing, sales, PR, staging

Associations (if any): President of RESA, WCR Marketing Chair 2004 Contra Costa and 2007 WCR Marketing Chair Central Valley

Married: Engaged,

Kids: Yep, Sean, almost 18 just moved to Vegas.

Hobbies: Dog rescue, our dogs, and work

Favorite Color: Red for cars, earth tones for make up

Favorite quote: The more people you help become successful the more successful you will be. Zig Ziglar

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc:  I actually don't enjoy doing the actual staging work, I love the marketing, networking and helping others with their businesses.

Shell, who knew you were a P.I.  How cool!  Do tell one of your favorite stories from that line of work.  Yvonne, you and I are pretty much the same age and I've never seen a firefly.  I don't think they live in Calgary.  Christine, this is such a fun post.  Thanks  Betty

Okay  here I go!!

Name:Kimberly Uksik

Location: Ajax, Ontario Canada

Age: 29

Specialty:Home Staging, ReDesign, Colour Consultations, Home Organizing

Education:Diploma in Marketing and Business Management, Home Staging Certificate, Certified Product Consultant (ICI Paints), various decorating courses through College and ongoing

Experience: Over five years in Home Decor

Associations (if any):CSP (Canadian Staging Professionals), RESA (Real Estate Staging Association)

Married: Well, not technically but we have been together for almost 10 years

Kids:No, but I have one very big sucky Rottweiller!!

Hobbies: Staging(?), Home Decor, watching home decor programs, learning everything I can, watching movies

Favorite Color: Red

Favorite quote: Life is what happens when you are busy planning it (not sure who it is by)

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I love being able to take a space and turning it into something wonderful and seeing the homeowners faces.

Okay, I'm not sure you are going to learn anything new about me, but here it is:

Name:Kimberly Susan Wester

Location: Valparaiso, Indiana

Age: 36

Specialty: Home staging, vacant home staging, rehab assistance

Education: Dental Assisting certificate, Expanded Functions DA Certificate, ASP

Experience: 10 years renovation experience, 2 years in home staging

Associations (if any): Quickly becoming naked

Married: 17 years this July

Kids: 2 girls and our boy - Cooper the boxer

Hobbies: I used to have hobbies, now I have a business.  But, I love to read.

Favorite Color: Blue/green

Favorite quote: Don't do something you are not prepared to deal with the rest of your life - my Dad

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: EVERYTHING - except the marketing

Oh, heck, here I go:

Name: Dane Caldwell

Location: GTA, Ontario Canada

Age: gulp! 40 *shiver* 

Specialty:Home Staging, Decorating, ReDesign, Colour Consultations

Education:Studied Design (21 years ago) but incomplete; Computer Science; Now completing my Decorating Cert. and once the kids are in school full time, I hope to complete my design degree.

Experience: Staging: began 6 years ago, by word of mouth in Toronto, then stopped 3 years ago and restarted in March with a full business. I was a stylist in Montreal for photography so I have done lots of 'vignettes'!

Associations (if any): CDECA (Canadian Decorators Association)

Married: Our 7th anniversary is on the 24th of June!

Kids: A 3 year old who will be 4 in July (tons of attitude already!!) and a 2 year old. 2 American Pit Bull Terriors (brother and sister) that are 11. (Their father was a search and rescue dog in Quebec).

Hobbies: Horses, shopping! restaurants, more shopping, renovating, interior design

Favorite Color: green

Favorite quote: 'I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.' - Ayn Rand (Anthem) 

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: Purely selfish, I love to see the clients eyes light up when they see what they could not achieve/express by themselves.

Name: Isabel Gomes

Loaction: London, Ontario

Age: 42 and getting younger

Specialty: Home staging, Redesign

Education:  College education in Business, Ongoing education Diploma in Interior Design

Experience: I have always been the friend that everyone calls when they want the final - go for it.  Grew up in a home of plumbers, electricians and builders.

Associations (if any): IDDP, RESA, Student membership with CDECA

Married: Yes. 21 years hopefully we won't miss it like we did the 20th

Kids: Yes, 4, Boy 16, Girl 14, boy 13, Girl 12.  1 black lab - lexi and 1 Calico Cat - Caley

Hobbies: Full time taxi driver, executive chef at the Gomes Residence and Molly Maid.  That is what I spend most of my time doing.  Love to play sports, especially tennis and soccer. Design our ongoing home projects. Reading. Playing music - guitar.

Favorite Color: My wardrobe is black, black, taupe, white

Favorite quote: Plan for the unplanned.  I have always used this with my kids.  Don't know where it came from or how it got into my head.

Oh I also use the "Be prepared" motto from the Girl guides with my kids a lot.

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I have not staged a house yet, but the clients have followed through with most of the recommendations.  Their surprise at how different a room can look.

Name: Chuck Dellorto

Loaction: Schererville, IN (just outside Chicago)

Age: 53 (and still learning)

Specialty:  Real Estate, New Home Construction

Education: B.S. in Business Administration

Experience: 12 years 

Associations (if any): none

Married: Yes 

Kids: 3 - all have graduated from college.

Hobbies: Sports, collecting baseball cards, antiques.

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite quote: You get by giving.

 My turn!

Name: Penny Schoenbeck

Loaction: Mesa, AZ

Age: 40ish

Specialty: Vacant Home Staging

Education: Staging Certification

Experience: 10+ yrs. visual merchandising (home decor) / 1 1/2yrs. My Staging Business

Associations (if any): R.I.S.E./WCR/SEVRAR/RISA

Married: Yes, 10 yrs.

Kids: Yes, 3 boys and 1 girl (2 dogs & 2 cats)

Hobbies: Shopping, and happy hour with my best friend Jill!

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite quote: "Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it!" 

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: I love staging vacants, it's a blank canvas that I can really use my creativity to make their home a beautiful show place they are proud of!

Name: Teresa Granado

Loaction: Fontana, CA

Age: 50ish

Specialty: Interior Decorating and Home Staging

Education: Lifetime of various unrelated jobs that all taught me valuable skills, some art schooling that I never finished when I was MUCH younger and Interior Decorating classes that I DID finish, now that I'm older and hopefully a little wiser. Books, books and more books on decorating/decorative painting/faux finishing/design/staging for profit/ any show on television that deals with decorating or real estate for the past 10 years & the fabulous world of the internet.

Experience: Life long passion starting with my own room growing up and then my own homes as I grew older (driving the men in my life crazy as they could never walk into a dark room without hurting themselves because I had re arranged everything...AGAIN)........and anyone who would let me do thier room(s) for practice, fun, barter or money. 3 yrs. with my own Design/Staging Business

Associations (if any): Practically naked (except for my overalls with the letters) C.I.D. (Certified Interior Decorator) and entertaining the idea of joining RESA that I just learned of today.

Married: Yes, 24 fantabulous yrs.

Kids: Yes, 1 girl and 2 boys, 2 grandaughters and 2 grandsons (& 3 dogs....2 pure bred Labradors and a mexican jumping bean who weighs 3.5 pounds and bosses thier collective 200 pounds around)

Hobbies: I have faint memories of hobbies......OH...I incorporated them into my business.

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite quote: "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX......OUTSIDE THE BOX!"  Me to my husband at least once a week.  Sometimes we just need to break free of the herd mentality.

What do you love most about staging, decorating...etc: Mine is purely selfish too: The look on the client's faces when the job is done.  The incredible smiles and joy that we "nailed it" when they see what they could not express on thier own.  THAT'S THE BEST PAYOFF IN THE WORLD!!!