Lori Kim Polk is owner and marketing manager of Premiere Home Staging. She is internationally recognized as a Home Staging Expert and Staging Coach. Drawing from her background in art, as well as experience and training in Home Staging, Lori has been successfully Staging for homeowners, Realtors, builders and investors throughout the Roseville and Sacramento area since 2005.
Lori is an active member of the Real Estate Staging Association and was President of California from 2007 to 2010. She frequently does educational presentations for Realtors and homeowners. Her sharing and giving spirit is evident through her blogs, her job shadowing program for beginning stagers and her coaching with the Staging Career Center. She has been instrumental in the promotion of several new concepts for the Staging Industry including the Real Estate Staging Association, StagersLIST.com, and education through Staging Expos.
In 2008, Lori was nominated for RESA Professional Stager of the Year and in 2009 Staging Innovator of the Year. She is a Home Staging industry leader and has worked tirelessly to advance the concept of Staging as a viable industry in California and the United States. She has been recently nominated again by her peers for 2010 Professional Stager of the Year. Lori Kim, as her friends affectionately call her, has lived in Granite Bay and the Roseville area for over 45 years. While she has always been interested in the arts, home staging has become her niche and her passion. She has a unique way of turning an average home into a show stopper. An artist, designer, and potter at heart, Lori incorporates many hand-made pieces of artwork into her designs for Staging. She is a graduate of Sacramento State University with a California Teaching Credential, Minors in Art and Psychology, and has 29 years of service in education. She was also nominated for Rio Linda School District Teacher of the Year.Her love of children and animals is commendable. She has been involved with rescuing animals in disasters since 1995. She has helped with many national rescues through the services of Noah's Wish, United Animal Nations, Emergency Animal Rescue Service, World Wild Life Fund, Best Friends, Placer County Veterinary, and the SPCA. Her last deployment was September 2011 for the Lincoln Rail Car Fire evacuation where she spent several days and caring for animals displaced from the disaster.