I’m Allison Clouser, and I founded Allison Clouser Interiors (ACI) in the spring of 2018 because after several years as a designer, I recognized how transforming a space can truly connect to emotion … a feeling of comfort, beauty and function is something everyone wants! I had worked on several personal projects, and my husband and I had put some major “sweat equity” into our homes. After completing our own home renovations and improvements, we had great success on the investment side of buying/selling our homes, and discovered that how they were furnished and styled made a huge impact – but I didn’t fully understand that yet! 

All of a sudden, I had friends asking for help with their projects – and it wasn’t until we sold our fourth home in Portland that our realtor said, “Why aren’t you doing this for a living?” We sold that home at a record price per square foot for Washington County in Oregon. It was then that I decided to make it official and offer interior design services. Shortly after ACI launched, we made a major change in our lives – we left Portland and moved to Bend, Oregon, a city we had always loved and enjoyed.

I continued to run my interior design business while commuting to Portland and slowly expanding into the Bend community. But because of the move, I found myself with an amazing inventory of beautiful, cool furniture pieces and decor and I didn’t know what to do with them! I won’t lie; to say that I saw staging as a viable business in Bend is an understatement. With this inventory and my experience, staging homes for sale became a very interesting business expansion possibility for ACI.

I got a call from our realtor in Portland about a house she was selling, and she said “Allison, your interior style is what makes these houses sell! Can you stage this for me?” It was then that I began utilizing my own pieces to stage and style homes in Portland. We sold the home in under 90 days after it had been sitting on the market for over a year! We have now grown that inventory to be able to offer the same high quality look in Portland and Bend and all throughout Central Oregon!