About Maria

Maria has had a passion for design and decorating all her life. She studied interior decorating at George Brown College and interior design at Ryerson University.

With 10 years experience in the field of human resources, she also has exceptional people skills. She is a keen listener and able to develop a strong rapport with people to truly understand their needs. These skills, combined with her creative talents, allow her to provide staging and re-design solutions that balance the homeowner’s needs, budget and other constraints with design schemes that appeal to the desires of homebuyers and facilitate an emotional connection to the home.

Your home is a reflection of you and it can be difficult to allow a stranger with a critical eye to tell you all the things that need to be changed to help it sell. Maria approaches each staging assignment with sensitivity and understands that the process of separating yourself from your home can cause a great deal of stress and anxiety. She will help you transform your home into a beautiful show place and ease you through the transition.

Many of our staging clients have often said, “If I knew my home could look this good after staging, I may have chosen not to sell it.”

Not ready to sell your home, but ready for a change without the big price tag? It’s not always necessary to hire a pricey professional interior designer to do a complete overhaul on your home. Sometimes, with a little guidance and direction, all that’s required is some tweaking, re-arranging or re-purposing of your existing things to give your home a fresh new look.

Whether you’re on a tight budget or inclined toward being environmentally conscious, it is possible to give your home a makeover without discarding everything and starting from scratch. Maria will use her trained eye and creative talents to transform your home or space into something beautiful and functional using mostly your existing furniture and décor items (with some injections of new items where appropriate). Maria’s re-design solutions offer you the opportunity to make a big difference on a small budget!

Maria is a graduate of the Staging Diva® Home Staging Business Training Program, created by internationally known home staging expert Debra Gould of Six Elements Inc.