Meet the Staff

Ann Anderson, Director

As founder and Director of the School of Interior Redesign, Ann has taken her twenty years' experience in the corporate world as a trainer and professional speaker and combined them with her experience as owner of Rooms Reborn to create programs to help you succeed in your own design-related business.   Ann has worked closely with the Connecticut Department of Higher Education to ensure the training offered by the School of Interior Redesign meets their exacting standards of quality education at its best. Ann is a designer, stager, speaker and author.  She is co-founder of the Association of Design Education and the co-creator of the Ready2Sellin30Days system.  Annn has been featured in numerous newspapers around the country, as well as a guest on several television programs.  She also has her own show, Rooms Reborn, on public access television. Ann is an Education Affiliate with the Association of Design Education. Ann is also a long-time member of IDS, The Interior Design Society.   To contact Ann directly, email ann@schoolofinteriorredesign.com

Sharon Beardsley , Instructor

Sharon Beardsley is the owner of By ReArrangement.  ByReArrangement assists clients with their Interior Decorating, Interior Redesign, Real Estate Staging and Senior Life Transitions.

Sharon, a Registered Nurse licensed in the State of Connecticut, helps her senior clients move from one phase of their lives to another.  As a nurse she worked with seniors in long and short term care facilities.  Sharon is also a member of the National Association of Senior Move Mangers.  All of this experience inspired Sharon to design, develop and now to deliver the Senior Life Transition Professional™ Workshop.

Sharon is an Interior Decorator.  She is an alumnus of the School of Interior Redesign and a member of the Interior Redesign Industry Specialist organization.

As a Real Estate Stager, Sharon, a licensed Realtor, is the only Accredited Staging Professional, Master level in Connecticut.  Her work has been featured in House to Home magazine and the Newtown Bee. 

Sharon Beardsley, RN, Realtor, ASPM, IRIS has been seen on the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, PA and quoted in the Washington Post.

To contact Sharon directly, email sharon@schoolofinteriorredesign.com

Christine Conway, Instructor

Christine has been studying feng shui for more than a decade.  As part of corporate America for more than 25 years, Christine spent much of that time training her peers.  Today, she is living her dream and utilizing many of her corporate skills to teach feng shui in a unique, clear and exceptionally logical way.

When Christine first heard of feng shui, she was very skeptical that it would actually work.  But after applying the principles of feng shui in her home...she quickly realized how amazing this process was.  Christine is the owner of Feng Shui for Life and has made it her mission to teach people how to use their home décor to make their home 'feel' great and change their lives.

Christine studied with the creator of Black Hat Feng Shui, Grandmaster Professor Lin Yun at Harvard University .  She holds a professional certification in both, Feng Shui Studies and Feng Shui Stager Program.

Check out more feng shui with Christine's videos:

• Feng Shui for Life
• Feng Shui with Christine Conway

To contact Christine directly, email christine@schoolofinteriorredesign.com

Mary Beth Haggerty , Instructor

With 22 years experience in Interior Design, Redesign, Model Home Merchandising, and Staging Mary Beth Haggerty has continually sought to achieve the goal of designing dynamic interiors and creating solutions for the desired lifestyles of her clients. 

Working with the savvy homeowner, Realtor, or builder who is educated in trends, quality and sound investments in their homes and collaborating as a team has been the foundation of The Drawing Room Interior Design, a design firm with a specialty in Vacant Model Home Staging.

Mary Beth is currently a member of the U.S. Green Building Council-Rhode Island Chapter, Builders Association of Greater Boston, 50+ Council of New England, Multi-Family Council New England, Sales and Marketing Council and ASID while pursuing a Masters in Interior Design at Suffolk University.  Mary Beth resides on the North Shore with her husband Tim and Children Ashley and Bobby.

To contact Mary Beth directly, email marybeth@schoolofinteriorredesign.com

Jennifer Hofmann, Instructor

For years, Jennifer Hofmann has been the person her friends call to help choose paint colors and get advice on rearranging their furniture.   This free public service turned into a business when she started Simplicity Staging and Redesign.

Jennifer believes that a well-designed home is one where there is space for loved ones to connect meaningfully and retreat from the hustle of the world.  Her goal is to create designs that work for her clients in every possible way - practically, aesthetically, and comfortably.  She is thrilled to be using her "token" 4-year teaching degree, instructing staging classes in collaboration with Ann Anderson at the School of Interior Redesign.

In her free time, Jennifer likes to hike, bird watch and be an active member of her community.  Simplicity donates time and resources to charities including Habitat for Humanity.  She is The World's Proudest Aunt of two perfect nieces and "mom" to Sassafras, a feline angel from the local Humane Society.

To contact Jennifer directly, email jennifer@schoolofinteriorredesign.com

Kimberly Merritt , Instructor

Kimberly Merritt has been making spaces beautiful for eighteen years.  She is a designer, educator and writer whose words and work have been featured regionally and nationally in New Hampshire Magazine, New England Home Magazine and HGTV.

Kim teaches the art of interior decorating, interior redesign, home staging and color from her southern New Hampshire design studio. 

She is the creator of the Certified Decorating Professional® programs and offers both certified and certificate courses as well as decorating workshops and classes.

To contact Kim directly, email kim@schoolofinteriorredesign.com