Meet Fresh Moves

Fresh Moves was founded in January 2011, a passion project and dream come true for owner Jessica Hagel (Jessa). That’s me!

  • Our Realtors have said we’ve helped them take their businesses to the next level.
  • Our homeowner clients have said we’ve helped them to see their homes and collections in a new light.
  • We see ourselves as gentle catalysts for your transformation, whatever you perceive that to be. A change of home, style, phase of life, or even identity.

 

We’ve streamlined service offerings to meet the needs of our unique clients.

Our sweet spots:

  • Market-Ready Planning Packages when preparing to sell;
  • Redesign Consults to make the most of your home, be it rented or owned;
  • Furniture Layouts and Interior Planning;
  • Materials Selections for renovations and new builds (paint, flooring, cabinets, countertops, lighting, hardware, casings);
  • Downsizing Support and Curating Collections.

 

Meet Jessa

Hello! Thanks for taking the time to get to know me. I’m Jessica Hagel. I usually go by Jess or Jessa.

If I were to write about myself in the third person, about what I bring to client experiences, it might sound like:

Exploring timelessness in design, Jessa synthesizes a wealth of information and generates a fleet of ideas specific to your goals. Home design is her passion as well as her work, and she is a lifelong learner. Jessa draws inspiration and education from design traditions as well as current trends in Lighting, Colour, Feng Shui, Luxe, and Small Space Design.

Jessa balances her inner dreamer with a practical hands-on style. She is driven by the idea that small changes in trajectory lead to radically different outcomes. She loves to creatively reuse and reinvent whenever possible.

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Phew. That’s enough 3rd person. In sum: I appreciate great design from any era – love art in all its forms – am exceedingly fond of Nature – can bake a decent muffin – and enjoy testing out some very silly fresh moves on the dance floor, given the slightest opportunity.

Since the age of 9, when I first discovered home plan magazines, I’ve been obsessed with all things house and home. To this day, one of my fave hobbies is redrafting house plans to increase functionality and passive solar opportunities.

As the Owner, Principal Stager, and Redesign Lead at Fresh Moves, I’ve been incredibly privileged to live out my childhood dreams. Like many dreams, this one has been liberating, surreal, demanding, enriching, and enlivening.

A few years into my career, I was honoured as a RESA® Top Ten Rising Star Home Stager of the Year for North America. I’ve trained with Certified Staging Professionals and through the U of C’s Interior Design Certificate program. Self-study is big for me.

 

Fun Facts:

  1. James McKevitt Road in Calgary’s SW is named for my great-great-grandfather, who homesteaded in the area in the 1880s.
  2. I hold a B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the U of C, with a concentration in Indigenous North America.
  3. My first career was in Floral Design.
  4. One of my fave jobs of all time was with Calgary Public Library’s Story Van, taking books, story, and off-key singing to the children of YYC.

 

Please Contact Fresh Moves today for a consultation or quote. I’d love to get to know you better too.