About the studio
Ingrid Halvorsen spent nine years in residential interior design watching well-built Portland homes sit on the market behind bad listing photos. In 2014 she started staging them instead.
Plenty of companies will drop furniture in a house. That is not the same as staging it. The work that changes a buyer's mind happens in the decisions — which of your pieces stay, where the sightline should land when someone steps through the front door, what the room looks like through a 24mm lens at ten in the morning.
We are a team of 3 with our own warehouse in North Portland and a crew that has been with us for years. Since 2014 we have staged over four hundred homes across the metro, from 900 square foot condos to estates in the West Hills.
Most of our work comes from listing agents who have used us before. That is the metric we actually care about.
Across 128 listings staged in 2024–2025, against a regional average of 31 days.
From 900 sq ft condos to 5,400 sq ft estates across the Portland metro.
Our own warehouse, so we are never waiting on a rental house to deliver.
Most of our projects come from listing agents we have worked with before.
How we work
Sometimes that is a full stage. Sometimes it is a consultation and a weekend of your own work. We would rather quote you accurately than upsell you into a package that will not change your outcome.
You approve a written scope with a number on it. We do not send surprise invoices for the extra lamp, and we do not start work until you have said yes.
Listing launches are choreography — photographer, copy, MLS, open house. Our crew shows up on the day we promised so the rest of your schedule holds.
Twelve thousand square feet of warehouse in North Portland. Nothing gets delayed because a rental house could not deliver a sofa on time.
The team
Founder & Lead Designer
Ingrid spent nine years in residential interior design before founding Northlight in 2014, after watching too many good houses photograph badly. She still leads every luxury portfolio project personally.
Studio Director
Devon runs the warehouse, the crews, and the install calendar. If your staging arrives on the day it was promised, that is Devon.
Senior Stager
Alethea specialises in occupied staging and has an unusual talent for finding the one piece a homeowner already owns that will anchor the whole room.