Meet Anne Jousou - General Partner
Professional Home Stager, Interior Decorator, Trainer/Instructor

Professional Affiliations:

  • General Partner – Tampa Bay Home Stagers, LLC

  • Professional Home Staging Trainer

  • Co-Founder - the Home Staging Society

  • Member – The Color Association of America

  • Member - Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Institute

  • Member – The Design & Décor Association

  • Member – The Interior Redesign Directory

  • Vice President of International Relations - Emerald Consulting Group

  • Senior Consultant - Mentor Training and Consulting, Dubai, UAE

  • Read my Blog on Active Rain

Anne Jousou received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1989 in Mass Communications with a concentration in Journalism and Public Speaking.  She is a certified Interior Decorator in the state of Florida.  Ms. Jousou is also certified as a Software Engineer and Web Designer.

Ms. Jousou has been decorating client’s homes since 1995 throughout the Boston and Tampa Bay area. 

Ms. Jousou started her professional Interior Decorating career after selling her very successful Internet Consulting firm in Natick, MA.  Since moving to Tampa in 2001 she and her partners have been successfully working with homeowners in the Tampa Bay Area under the trade name of Tampa Interiors

With over eleven years of experience in Interior Decorating, she has incorporated the concept of Home Staging into her professional life after intense research and study on this style of decorating.  She has attended numerous trade shows and seminars relating to this field and has written countless articles for publication on the art of Home Staging.

As the need for Home Staging continued to grow, the focus of her business changed.  Thus, Tampa Bay Home Stagers was created as a division of the corporate structure Decorating The Real World, LLC.

Over the past few years, Home Staging has been the main focus of her business services.  After receiving high accolades as a well-known and respected Home Staging professional, she was urged to create a training program geared toward the art of Staging Florida-Style homes and the particular needs of our Florida lifestyles.

In the fall of 2006, Home Staging Training for Florida Living was incorporated into the business objectives.  As one of the founders of the Home Staging Society, Ms. Jousou has been experiencing tremendous success with her training programs.  Working with her business partners, each possessing critical expertise in a broad area of key business skills, this training program has developed into an offering unlike any other in the entire country. In early 2007 the corporate name was officially changed to Tampa Bay Home Stagers, LLC, thus reflecting her commitment to this one goal of helping people sell their homes faster and for more money.

Ms. Jousou still consults with homeowners, sellers and Realtors on Interior Decorating, Staging and Re-Design projects.  She is also called upon by Real Estate Agents and other groups to speak about the art of Home Staging.  Please contact Ms. Jousou for more information on her availability for speaking engagements.

  • Interior Decorator
  • Interior Redesign Specialist
  • Professional Home Stager
  • Professional Organizer
  • Procurer of Middle-Eastern and Turkish Textiles and Artisan Accessories
  • Event Planner
  • Web Designer
  • Software Engineer
  • Photographer

Ms. Jousou also maintains a career path in parallel to her Home Staging company.  She also holds the title of Vice President of International Relations for Emerald Consulting Group based in Tampa, Florida.  She has recently partnered with Mentor Training & Consulting, Dubai UAE.  For more information on her current consulting projects, you may visit: http://www.Emerald-Consulting.com

 

Ms. Jousou spoke to a "standing-room" only crowd of Realtors

The event was sponsored by Morrison Homes new program called Realtor University.  Ms. Jousou was the first in a series of "key-note" speakers. After giving a presentation on Home Staging, the Realtors were invited to tour a home in the same sub-division that had been Staged by her company. 

Along with Karen Cuervo, Ms. Jousou explained how and why each room was Staged to sell.  The Realtors then returned to the vacant presentation home and watched as Ms. Jousou and Ms. Cuervo Staged a kitchen.  It was a very exciting and informative day for everyone.  We are so thrilled that the turn out was so tremendous.  This is just one more bit of proof that Staging is making its way into mainstream Real Estate in the Tampa Bay Area.

"The Team" is available for speaking engagements and Q&A sessions along with demonstrations.  If you are a builder or Real Estate Office and would like to have Ms. Jousou and Ms. Cuervo present to your audience, please contact Ms. Jousou by email: Anne@TampaBayHomeStagers.com

The Training Team at Tampa Bay Home Stagers offers three separate training programs:

  • Home Staging Training - Train for a career in Home Staging (Six Days)
  • Home Staging For Realtors - Learn key strategies for enhancing your marketing campaign by offering Home Staging advice to Sellers (Two Days)
  • Home Staging FSBO/Do-it-yourself: A two-day Seminar teaching Sellers how to Stage their own home by actually working with what they have - collaborating with instructors on how to carry out their plan of action, and following through on their plan with instructor mentoring (Three Days)

In addition to the Training Programs, we also offer breakfast and lunch presentations for Home-Builders and Real Estate Agencies.  Please contact us for details and Speaker availability.

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