Mayumi Shimizu

Mayumi was born and raised in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Since her move to the U.S. in 1989, she has been residing in the Seattle area. She earned BFA in Graphic Design at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and worked as a graphic designer at a design office until 2004 when she made a career change to follow her passion in all things real estate, such as involving in home buying/selling process, searching for homes, staging homes, learning about building components, investment, and more, and became a real estate agent. Her custom marketing pieces to showcase her listings are created by herself using the graphic design skill.

Mayumi's family consists of her husband Glenn from Hawaii, a college age daughter, Bella (a 4-lbs chorky) who thinks everyone is beneath her (and maybe that is true), and Zephyr (3 year old energetic black miniature poodle).

Mayumi and Glenn both have a background in Arts, so it is natural for them to go to the museums and galleries at least twice a month, and to a theater of all sizes once a month, and their daughter grew up experiencing them thinking that is what most families do on their off days. Aside from collecting art pieces from local artists, Mayumi loves to paint on canvas/board, too. Her favorite medium is acrylic for its ease of care and handling. She can supplement her staged homes with her own paintings as needed, as sometimes it is hard to find a right wall art to compliment the room and she can quickly create just the right one.

Lastly Mayumi passionately loves vintage items, especially the kitchen goods from 1930~1950, and clothing from 1950~1960. She can spend hours strolling through the town of Snohomish looking at the vintage things, but that is another story...