
About Tiera Interiors, LLC
Yolanda Tiera Tillman, C.I.D., IDS Affiliate, CSP
- Certified Interior Decorator International, C.I.D. www.cidinternational.org
- Graduate of Staging Diva www.stagingdiva.com
- Member of Interior Design Society www.interiordesignsociety.org
- Member of Designer Society of America www.dsasociety.org
- Member of the WashingtonDC Design Center designcenterdc.com
- Member of Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) www.realestatestagingassociation.com
- Member of Model55 www.model55.com
- Member of Women's Council of Realtors www.wcr.org
- Certified Staging Professional, CSP www.stagingtraining.com
Inspired by family and friends to see beauty and décor in the home, Yolanda’s belief is that the home environment should be warm and inviting to yourself and those who enter in. Her middle name “Tiera” which the Washington, DC home based interior decorating business is named after, means “Earth”. Therefore, Tiera Interiors possesses a deep love and compassion for homeland. The goal of Tiera Interiors is to offer unique design solutions to meet client’s lifestyle requirements and budgets. In 2002, with a desire to offer her clients a higher level of service with professionalism, she obtained her business license through the Government District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. She has over 40 years of experience in design styling, decorated residential and commercial properties, and provided service to church renovation planning. Yolanda enrolled as a student with the Penn Foster Career School (formerly Thomson Education Direct) Interior Decorating Program. She passed the entrance exam to Certified Interior Decorator International in 2003, and was immediately accepted as a Certified Interior Decorator.
Yolanda is a retired Federal Government employee who served 35 years with the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and Department of Homeland Security serving in the capacities as an Acquisition & Contract Specialist, and Management & Program Analyst. She is the only certified real estate stager within the Washington, D.C. metro area who holds the CSP Elite Stager, CSP Residential Staging Expert, CSP Residential Transition Specialist, CSP Residential Decorating Consultant, CSP Vacation Rental Design Specialist, and CSP Approved Mentor designations. Through the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) Yolanda served as Vice-President of Membership for 2019 & currently serve as New Member Liaison for RESA's Greater Capital Area Chapter where she received Chapter Membership Award for increasing the membership to new and uprising stagers which was the highest percentage of increase within 1 year. Yolanda also served as Co-Chair of RESA's 2019 annual conference overseeing 40 volunteers, which was the largest at previous conventions. Currently, she oversees the RESA Volunteer Conference Program and Chair, of the RESA National Board of Directors where she has maintained 5 years in a row as 100 Top Most Influential People in Real Estate Staging Industry among other achievements. She is the 2024 recipient of RESA's Kathy Nielsen Spirit Award. This high honor demonstrated a special person who believed in mentorship to the RESA members. Yolanda has surely demonstrated that through her action of helping her peers by providing guidance and encouragement to soar to the next level within the real estate industry and beyond. Her nickname in the RESA family is known as "Yo"
Yolanda also holds an Associate, Bachelor, and Master Degree in Business Administration from Strayer University. She is very active with her Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, located in Clinton, Maryland by participating in the choir, women's ministry, and impact grant program which awards area schools grants for student continuing learning tools. Yolanda's hobbies are spending time with family and friends, traveling to her 2nd home in Aruba, cooking various dishes, serving as a mentor to CSP graduates and other upcoming stagers who are interested in getting into the real estate industry. She is also a dedicated active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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Our Affiliations & Designations
Tiera Interiors is pleased to be a member of these organizations, adhering to their stringent guidelines and requirements to provide you with the utmost in real estate staging and interior decorating services.

I am pleased to announce the Greater Capital Area Chapter of which I was Vice-President in 2019, received the Real Estate Staging Association Chapter of the Year Award for 2020. I was also quite pleased and humbled to accept the Chapter Member Award.