Yolanda Tillman, Certified Staging Professional

About Tiera Interiors, LLC

Yolanda Tiera Tillman, C.I.D., IDS Affiliate, CSP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        


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. 


CSP International®

In order to serve her clients in the area of real estate staging, she went on to complete the “Staging Diva Home Staging Training Program” in 2009 and completed the Dewey Color Coordinator Training in 2010.  She completed the CSP Certified Color Consultant training in April 2019. Yolanda continued her real estate staging training by successfully completing the extensive training through CSP®. The CSP® designation is recognized globally by real estate professionals, builders, home stagers, decorators and the average home seller for its brand reputation of excellence. It identifies home staging consultants who have earned a certification in the staging industry that include quality training with vigorous testing and hands-on apprenticeship. Yolanda also completed training as an Expert E-Designer with Home Staging Resources in 2024 which she now has expanded into the hospitality industry by offering design services to hosts/investors/property owners at https://www.oasisvacationrentaldesigns.com  Yolanda’s commitment is to offer the highest standard of Interior Decorating Real Estate Staging & now vacation rental design services at an affordable cost. She truly upholds her motto, “going the extra mile with a smile!”

Community Involvement

Tiera Interiors is dedicated to making the local community a better place. One of the ways in accomplishing this goal is by getting involved and especially supporting local as well as national non-profits. Tiera Interiors support American Diabetes Association @ www.diabetes.org. The American Diabetes Association’s mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
 

Tiera Interiors has established partnership with another non-profit organization called “A Wider Circle” www.awidercircle.org who provide basic need items to families transitioning out of Shelters, and furnish over 1,000 homes for children and adults. Tiera Interiors has made contributions to "A Wider Circle" by having her clients and friends donate (new-used) furniture, and clothing to support those in need as a result of crisis such as burnt out homes, or homeless individuals who need a hand up, not a hand down. Upon request, Tiera Interiors is available in providing decorating services to those families in need to make their homes more beautiful in challenging circumstances to others who enter in.

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. 

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CSP International Staging Business Training Academy
Tiera Interiors, LLC is a Screened & Approved HomeAdvisor Pro
Certified Interior Decorators International
CSP Elite Stager
Interior Design Society
CSP International Approved Mentor
CSP International Approved Mentor
Design Society of America
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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.