BACKGROUND:
Monique Shaw is a qualified Interior Designer, Canadian Certified Staging Professional Home Stager and interior design mentor in the Calgary Metro region. Monique earned her interior design qualification while living for many years in London, England. Monique has always been passionate about interiors, food and travel and loves to incorporate her love of all three into her designs, inspired by her time living in England and her trips to British Columbia, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, and California. She is a serial entrepreneur and has in the past run her own restaurant, designed her own babywear line for sick kids and currently owns a public relations company.
DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT CREATION, PUBLIC EVENTS COLLABORATIONS AND INFLUENCING
Monique is known within the Calgary Metro area for her numerous collaborations and public relations campaigns with small, medium and large businesses for p.r., brand awareness, influencing and more. She is a lifestyle and interior design digital media content creator and regularly organises B2B or B2C promotions or giveaways with companies, creating cross-promotions on a local and national level. She has been a collaborator with companies such as Urban Barn/Style in the City tv show, the Hudson’s Bay/Style in the City show, Crate and Barrel/The Concorde Group, Ghost Lake Properties, Cobbs Bread, Burwood Distillery, Blue Grass Nursery, Start From Scratch, Adesso Man and others in the lifestyle and interiors sectors as a micro-influencer. Monique has qualifications in Strategic Social Media and Marketing from Mount Royal University, Influencer Marketing from Rutgers University, Public Relations and Communications from Mount Royal University and Crisis Communications from Cornell University and more.
PRINT:
Monique Shaw was featured in 2017 as ‘One of 150 Canadians To Follow’ for Canada 150, in Standout Publications Magazine, and was the first Canadian interior designer to be featured in the KNOW Book, an annual publication of innovators, leaders and trendsetters in Canada and America. Monique is also a featured professional home stager in the book ‘Staging the World’ by Barb Schwarz.
AUTHOR:
Monique is an interior design expert and mentor and is the published design author of the book ‘How to Style or Stage Your Home For More Beauty or Profit’. You can click here to buy the book here now.
TELEVISION:
Monique has been a featured interior designer/home stager/segment presenter on television numerous times. She demonstrated how to style and stage your home on CTV, Global and City networks on their television shows Homes And Lifestyles and Style In The City. She has also been a featured Calgary interior designer and speaker on EMTV, an internet show broadcast from Calgary.
PODCASTS:
Monique was interviewed by Homes & Lifestyles host Kim Hayden to discuss trends in interiors and staging for her podcast in 2019.
CHARITIES, SUPPORT LOCAL, THE ENVIRONMENT:
Monique’s company, Monique Shaw Lux Interiors supports various charities for Calgarians, including Making Changes, Women In Need, My Best Friend’s Closet, The Veteran’s Association Food Bank and SafeHaven.
We also encourage our clients to support Habitat For Humanity and to recycle/donate, reuse, repurpose items wherever possible, instead of using landfills. We also put our clients in contact with local companies/small businesses to support the employment of our fellow Calgarians. In 2019, she created a charity food drive for the Calgary Veteran’s Association Food Bank, in collaboration with Silk Plant Warehouse and The Grand Theatre. Countless boxes of food were donated for Calgary veterans at Maple Leaf storage locations, the Grand Theatre, as well as at the Christmas Know Book event.
Monique is always happy to do interior design or home staging demonstrations, or, speaking engagements for workshops, in-store events, collaborations, public relations campaigns, television or podcasts in Calgary.
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