About Us
Stage A Space takes the guess work out of preparing your home for sale. If you’re planning to list your home or it’s been sitting on the market while you wait for the right offer, Stage A Space can attract the right buyer, drive top offers and help sell your home fast! Our approach is always the same… fresh decor, seamless execution and ultimate customer service.
Our philosophy is simple: we stage with style!
Meet the Team
Lisa Middleton
Interior Designer
Lisa has focused her entire career on design. Prior to joining Stage A Space as an Interior Decorator, Lisa spent years refining her design skills at a prominent Manhasset, NY interior design firm. Lisa began her artistic design career as a leading knitwear designer. Her clothing lines have been featured in Bloomingdale’s and Barneys. She also served as a design consultant for several notable companies including Sanctuary and Marrakesh.
Lisa has traveled extensively around the world honing her innate skills to blend eclectic tastes with minimalism in order to deliver desired results. Lisa loves the challenge of taking a home from it is living phase to it is selling phase with one important objective: to enhance a home’s potential for a faster more profitable sale.
Monica Zenobio
Project Coordinator
Monica’s love of design hails from her fashion industry experience as a Designer Buyer for Mercantile Stores/Maison Blanche and Ross Stores. Relying on her many years of planning and executing large scale community projects, Monica applies her skills to every home installation. As Project Coordinator, Monica oversees Stage A Space’s three warehouses of carefully curated inventory of furniture, rugs, lighting, artwork, and accessories.
Monica's systematic approach combined with her aesthetic style ensures that our design team is able to seamlessly implement every detail of our clients' projects.
Jackie Popper
Principal
Stage A Space bridges my life’s passion for design from the fashion industry to home staging. Throughout my 20+ years in styling and merchandising for Ann Taylor, J.McLaughlin, Bill Burns and Carol Cohen, I consistently worked with a common objective – simplicity, elegance, timelessness and approachability.
Interior design and fashion share many similarities. Both create wonderful aesthetics utilizing style and harmony to entice today’s demanding customers. Stage A Space enhances your home's appeal with one main goal – to create a home that buyers will fall in love with.
Today’s buyers want a clean, simple, modern approach. These are the qualities that I bring to home staging. We create beautiful and balanced spaces. Let us Stage A Space for you!
Destiny Bates
Creative Director
Destiny is the Creative Director of Stage A Space having earned her credentials as an award- winning designer: She earned First Place in the RDI Iron Design Challenge and in The Decorators Club competition. She was also a finalist in the Donghia Foundation Scholarship competition. Additionally, Destiny has served as President of the Interior Design Club at NYIT and was a liaison for the Retail Design Institute, NY Chapter.
Throughout her career, Destiny has developed her own design style and philosophy which she has carried over to her work on behalf of Stage A Space's clients. Destiny strives to create interiors with visual moments that tell a powerful story and believes in using minimal elements to create beautiful and compelling settings.
Mary Beth Griffin
Home Stylist
Mary Beth, a NYIT Interior Design Program trained specialist, has joined the Stage A Space team as a Home Stylist. Mary Beth’s professional background in higher education administration honed her ability to balance creativity with her excellent organizational skills. Her passion for interior design is enhanced by her attention to details. Her strengths and talents help Stage A Space exceed our client’s expectations.
In her spare time, Mary Beth enjoys spending time with her family, volunteering in her community, exploring New York City’s cultural scene, and traveling for inspiration.