Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your PRES® Home Staging & Redesign Instructor - Dana J. Smithers

Dana J. Smithers has taught over 700 students in an Interior Decorating Diploma program and her professional Home Staging and Redesign course over the last 4 years. Thousands of her students and patrons have attended her seminars, workshops and library talks!

"Dana's course should be the industry standard. I am so excited about the new direction in my life. I have found my purpose and I love it!"

Dana is actively involved in the hands-on work and her role plays in the client's homes have been exceptionally beneficial to her students. She has appeared on City TV - Breakfast TV, Shaw TV and on numerous occasions and interviewed as the House Staging Guru on CBC Radio Vancouver and Victoria. She is published in many industry-related magazines and websites.

She has been a presenter and speaker for the BC Home + Garden Show and Re/Max Western Canada Conference.

Dana J. Smithers is the founder and President of PRES® Staging Resource Centre and owner of her own successful decorating, redesign and home staging business Sun On My Back Redesigns.

Her personal mission statement is:

To educate and empower women to use their talents to create successful businesses for themselves by creating more beauty and harmony in homes for living, and houses for selling."

Students taking Dana's program also benefit from her vast knowledge and expertise as an Interior Decorator. She taught for 5 years with the Lower Mainland Continuing Education Interior Decorating Program. She has taught Basics of Design, Colour and Fibers to Fabrics.

She has completed the Vancouver School Board's Instructor Training Program. She has worked in a fabric, furniture and home design store prior to becoming a professional staging and redesign instructor.