About Nairn Friemann

Nairn Friemann, MBA, is a Certified Staging Professional™ and trainer. As president of Ingenuity & Pizzazz, Inc., one of New York City's top home staging companies, she has collaborated with brokers and homeowners on the staging and marketing of over $500 million of real estate.

Nairn is an internationally recognized home staging expert.

  • Credentials
  • Media Coverage
  • Industry Leadership Roles
  • Associations
  • Diverse home staging experience and expertise
  • Both the CSP™ and ASP™ staging certifications
  • Trainer for Certified Staging Professionals in North America
  • International media coverage
  • Featured speaker and panelist at numerous conferences and workshops for real estate agents and stagers in the U.S. and Canada, including RESA, CSP, IAHSP, REBNY, MANAR, New York Real Estate Academy
  • Floral design specialty: Certification in Floral Design from the prestigious New York Botanical Garden and several years floral design event staging experience with one of NYC's top florists
  • Award-winning university teaching experience
  • Education: MBA, BA
  • Former Director of a NYC East Side co-op
  • Home Staging Training Classes

Business Week featured Nairn's staging of a White Plains townhouse for the "Staged to Sell" segment of their internationally-broadcasted Sunday morning news show (ABC, April 2, 2006).  Nairn's transformation of a home in Greenwich, Connecticut was featured on the CBS Early Show (October 18, 2004). In June 2005, Nairn appeared on CNN's "Open House" in a segment on curb appeal and she was the featured stager on Dow Jones' internationally-viewed, Market Watch, "Staged for Success", on February 6, 2005.

Press

Nairn's work has also been featured in the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News (which was also published in national syndication), the Stamford Advocate, the Greenwich Time, the Norwalk Advocate, Staging for Dummies, and in New York Spaces, New York Home, Manhattan Living and The Staging Standard magazines.

Radio

  • WGCH 1490 Greenwich: Weekly Real Estate Program with Bill Andruss and Russ Pruner
    Topic: The importance and benefits of staging in a tough real estate market.
  • "Diva in the House" with Gina McNew, LPAM, Atlanta.
    Topic: The Certified Staging Professionals training program.
  • CNN Positive Choice Radio
    Topic: The importance of flowers and plants to real estate staging and well being in general.
  • Former Director and Regional Vice-President of RESA (the Real Estate Staging Association)
  • As a trainer for Certified Staging Professionals, actively involved in training development for professional stagers
  • Former President of the New York City Chapter of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals
  • RESA, The Real Estate Staging Association
  • RESA Manhattan Chapter
  • MANAR, Manhattan Association of Realtors
  • SAF, The Society of American Florists
  • The Canadian Association of New York
  • The Canadian Women's Club of New York