About Us

Sharon Charboneau

Sharon Charboneau, owner of UPSTAGE;
Re-Design & Home Staging Specialist;
Founder of UPSTAGING YOUR HOMES

“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley

Sharon is the owner of UPSTAGE, complementing her existing home staging and re-design services begun in 2009.
Sharon has bought and sold houses at a significant profit on four occasions over the past 16 years on the Lower Mainland and on the Coast, as a direct result of the renovation and re-design projects completed by Sharon, her husband Dane, and various contractors on their homes. After a lengthy career in human resources and labour relations in Ontario, Alberta and BC, Sharon re-located to the Sunshine Coast with her husband in 2002.
Sharon started her company in 2009 with the goal of assisting homeowners on the Coast to sell their homes more quickly in an increasingly competitive real estate market. Her goal with UPSTAGE is similar in that she is bringing unique and reasonably priced home decor to the Sunshine Coast.
Prior to completing her professional staging and re-design training, Sharon was a self-taught stager and re-designer for herself, her family and friends over the years. Her lifelong love of colour and design, renovations projects and gardening led her to the profession of Home Staging, which began in the United States in 1970s and evolved into Canada in 2002.
Sharon enjoys using her creative, hands-on expertise and professional training to "create irresistable rooms for selling or living" for her staging and re-design clients, as well her customers at her retail business, "UPSTAGE" at 5652 Cowrie Street in Sechelt.
UPSTAGING YOUR HOMES and "UPSTAGE" have partnerships with vendors, contractors, wholesalers and other staging professionals and offer special orders to UPSTAGE customers, as well as designer discounts to clients of UPSTAGING YOUR HOMES.
Sharon is the only Canadian chosen to be a guest expert by Staging Training by Design, a home staging training company in the Hamptons, New York.

Sharon on the water
Sharon in outrigger canoe with her Gibsons Paddling Club colleagues