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NJ Home Show
The Jersey Shore Home Show will be held January 15th, 16th and 17th in Lincroft, New Jersey at Brookdale Community College. Here’s some information from the 2009 show.
If you are starting the New Year with that backyard project kicking around in your head but dreading the hours of driving around in the cold to visit all of the companies it will take to make it happen, the MAC Events 18th Annual Jersey Shore Home Show may be able to ease your anxiety.
Winter is the time to plan gardens and landscape improvements, decks and outdoor kitchens, swimming pools and the other amenities you hope to enjoy by summer.
“People who come to winter home shows often are looking for ideas for outdoor projects when the weather breaks,” said show director James McLaughlin, president of MAC Events. “They come away with a better sense of how to accomplish them, often at a cost that is less than they expected.”
The Jersey Shore Home Show will feature a variety of exhibitors specializing in the outside of the home during its January 11-through-January 13 run at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft.
For big projects, in-ground swimming pools and landscaping, finding a company now to do the job can be the difference between enjoying your outdoor space this summer and avoiding it.
“There are a lot of reasons to come to a home show, but one of the best is the time saved in finding the companies, craftspeople and the products you need for outdoor projects,” McLaughlin said.
The show features more than 125 exhibits by the region’s most innovative manufacturers and service companies, including a range of outdoor specialists that will install swimming pools with elaborate grottos and waterfalls, create terraced gardens, design outdoor kitchens and pretty much everything else you can do to extend your living space into the natural environment around your home.
“There are companies that specialize in pavers and retaining walls and others that will build you a deck or add a sunroom,” the show director said. “The landscaping companies and nurseries at the show are located and work in central New Jersey,” said McLaughlin. “The pool and spa companies displaying at the show are well established in the area.”
“The trend our design people are seeing is that people are looking for an entertaining environment with planting materials, fire pits and outdoor kitchens,” said Alyssa Shropshire, point of sale administrator at Colonial Nursery, in Lincroft. “This absolutely is a good time of
year to plan outdoor improvements so you have a good idea of what you’re going to do and can get started in the spring.”
Jay Eriv of GROUNDS KEEPER Inc. in Matawan is putting together a garden for the Jersey Shore Home Show to demonstrate some of the options consumers have.
“Ultimately it’s outdoor living space and entertaining space,” Eriv said. “Hopefully, it’s the favorite room of someone’s home. Multi-tiered spaces are in vogue. Multiple levels make a space more inventive.”
Eriv works with natural materials, sometimes using boulders to create retaining areas and nooks in a garden. For the home show he will have sleek upright speakers in the garden and demonstrate other ways of developing outdoor spaces.
“Typically, we use various materials and pillars at entrance way, a small patio space and a real garden, with blooms and lights that accents our picture board,” he said.
The Jersey Shore Home Show features companies that will design a full outdoor kitchen or a pool house with a bar that can double entertaining space.
People looking to extend their indoor space to take advantage of the outdoors might want to stop by the exhibit by Four Seasons Sunrooms, a Green Brook company that can turn a patio into a cathedral-ceiling great room of glass. Sunrooms are less expensive than 2-by-4 framed additions and increasingly are serving as breakfast nooks, family rooms, spa enclosures and recreational rooms.
The pool and spa companies exhibiting at the show include Blue Haven Pools of Colnar, PA, one of the largest builders of custom in-ground pools in the country. Blue Haven Pools will show photos of its elaborate work in creating water features – waterfalls and grottos – and special effects with lighting and fog coming up around the pool.
Other outdoor specialists exhibiting at the show include landscape designer Robert James Landscape, Brick; NaturalLawn of America, Morganville; Star Dust Pools of East Brunswick; Paradise Projects of Oceanport; E Z Living Spas of Pearl River, NY, and Seaside Materials Inc. of Long Branch.
The 18th Annual MAC Events Jersey Shore Home Show will be open Friday, Jan. 11, from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Saturday, Jan. 12, from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, and on Sunday, Jan. 13, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Admission is $7.00 for adults and $5.00 for children 12 through 17. Children 11 and under are admitted free. Seniors can take advantage of a Friday special admission price of $5.00 and all adults can take advantage of two-for-one date-night admission after 6:00 pm on Friday and Saturday.
The Jersey Shore Home Show is produced by MAC Events, a nationally recognized producer of high-quality business-to-consumer trade shows in a variety of industries and markets since 1968. The Spring Lake, NJ-based family-owned company produces approximately 20 recreational vehicle, home, boat and flower & garden shows a year throughout New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia and is a source of market research for the recreational vehicle, boating and home improvement industries. Contact MAC Events at (800) 332-3976 or visit the company’s website, www.macevents.com
