Katrina Maes was born in Sydney, raised in Hobart, Perth and Melbourne. It's fair to say she's used to moving homes and watching her mother packing boxes one day and being in the ‘new' house (and new state) everything unpacked and beautifully perfect before the family were tucked up in bed the next night. Throughout the '70s and '80s Katrina's parents bought houses, upgraded them, then prepared the property for sale. They didn't know it at the time but they were "home staging".