About Todd McAllister

Founder | OnStage

Todd got started in home staging by accident, and the accident has turned out pretty good for all involved. Now 17 years later, OnStage has an AMAZING staff, multiple locations, and Todd is very proud to say that they offer our employees health and retirement benefits. Todd believes much of their success is not giving up in the beginning, empowering your team to make decisions, taking risks and continuing to change and evolve in how you run the business and how you do things. This has been a learning journey, and the learning continues every day.

Before home staging, Todd had an interesting work background. He first worked for a comic book publisher where I would actually color each page using custom software and a color chart telling me what percentage of color and fading to use. Todd then transitioned over to starting the production coordinator position, where his job grew into managing the production of over 300 books and the components of each book. After about 9 years, Todd then transitioned into visual merchandising for Nordstrom. Todd’s job consisted of floor changes, where he would clear off an entire department and reset every fixture, and rearrange the merchandise, dressing mannequins, re-working the merchandise and holiday sets where his team would install Christmas the night before thanksgiving. Todd was also on the team that would travel around to store openings and help set up the entire store before the grand opening. It was grueling work, but he had so much fun. Todd felt as though this job is what really got him thinking about how important visual presentation is, which later translated into home staging.

Like many other stagers, Todd has literally staged thousands of properties. Many times, the furniture was nicer than the house it was going into, but it was his job to make the home look it’s very best. Todd has met many interesting people over the years and seen a lot of crazy things, but he think it’s been the crazy that has kept him going.