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Home Show
The 2010 Ocean County Home and Remodeling Show will be held on February 5th, 6th and 7th in Toms River, New Jersey. Here’s a press release from the 2009 show:
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Homeowners can test their ideas and find new ones with the help of some central New Jersey’s top home improvement companies and some tips from Learning Channel decorator Doug Wilson when the MAC Events 5th Annual Ocean County Home & Remodeling Show opens February 5th at the Ritacco Center.
The Ocean County Home & Remodeling Show features more than 150 of the area’s top craftspeople and home improvement retailers as well as Wilson of TLC’s Trading Places and Moving Up.
Located at 1245 Old Freehold Road, the Ritacco Center is convenient to Routes 37, 70 and the Garden State Parkway and offers plenty of free parking.
“This show draws a lot of companies from Ocean and Monmouth counties and it’s a great opportunity to find craftspeople and home improvement experts that work where you live,” said show director James McLaughlin, president of Spring Lake-based MAC Events. “This is a good time to nail down the contractors you will need to complete home improvement projects that you want to finish in time to enjoy this summer.”
Ocean County Home & Remodeling Show guests have a chance to pick up design tips from Wilson, one of House Beautiful Magazine’s Top 100 American interior decorators.
Wilson will do two appearances on Sunday Feb. 10.
“Doug’s show, Moving Up will return to TLC for its 4th season in April and he always is a big hit at MAC Events’ home shows,” McLaughlin said. “We are very pleased to have him back because he’s busy as a featured designer again in the new season of Trading Spaces that premieres on TLC Saturday, January 26.”
While his talents are diverse, Wilson probably is best known for the daring, high-impact rooms he has created on Trading Spaces.
A modern day Renaissance man, Wilson grew up five miles outside of Broadlands, Illinois, population 350, to become a design-phenomenon known for melding the elements of his childhood home into fresh, sophisticated designs that are inherently American.
A master of using intricate wall treatments and decorative painting techniques to create bold and powerful 21st Century designs, his projects run the gamut; from a table suspended in midair in an elegant yellow and black dining room to an exact replica of a Pullman car.
“Doug contributes to the Home Show’s variety. His talks demonstrate how a good imagination contributes to successful home-improvement projects,” McLaughlin said.
The Home & Remodeling Show covers a broad range of home improvement specialties and products from many of the area’s most innovative manufacturers and sellers of home furnishings, window treatments, kitchen cabinetry, appliances, security systems, air conditioning and heating systems, indoor and outdoor furniture, pools and spas and cooking products. Specialists in architecture and space planning, interior and landscape design and healthy cooking will share their expertise.
Long-established area companies such as Siperstein’s Paint & Decorating Centers, with six stores in Ocean and Monmouth counties, will offer expertise throughout the three-day show.
Siperstein’s home decorating displays feature the latest Hunter Douglas window treatments, window toppers and draperies as well as a new peel-and-stick chalkboard for kids’ rooms that doesn’t harm the paint on the walls and comes in four colors.
Members of Siperstein’s professional decorating staff offer free demonstrations of wallpapering and painting techniques including faux finishing throughout the show.
As designed outdoor space has become more popular in recent years, the Ocean County Home & Remodeling Show exhibitors’ list has come to include a greater variety of outdoor home improvement specialists.
DeckBuilder, a Barnegat-based company, will demonstrate how homeowners can put advances in lighting to work in creating comfortable outdoor living spaces.
“At our booth we’ll show how low-voltage lighting can be used tastefully to add a new dimension to outdoor space with accents that don’t overwhelm your guests or attract bugs,” said owner Gary J. Daley.
DeckBuilder also will exhibit TimberTech’s new composite decking that contains no wood and is both low-maintenance and durable.
“They have taken all of the wood out of the their new ELM board and created a foamed, cellular product. Wood absorbs stains but this does not,” Daley said. “It doesn’t expand and contract as much and because it’s cellular with air bubbles inside it remains cooler in the sun than other materials.”
Innovative local contractors exhibiting at the show include ODL Nolan Construction Co. and Tubular Skylights of in Toms River.
Nolan will display ODL Solar Skylights made highly polished aluminum tubes that are UV resistant and maintenance free, take hours to install, but do an extremely efficient job of maximizing natural light.
The 10-inch diameter model will light 150 square feet and the 14-inch kit will cover 300 square feet, according company president Bill Nolan.
The tubular skylights rely on a patented solar-lens dome to collect ambient light on the exterior coupled with a prismatic light diffuser in the ceiling end of the tube that spreads the light throughout the room. They are Energy Star-rated and come with seamless carbon fiber flashing.
New windows are a great way to add value to a home as well as improve its livability and reduce energy costs and the Home & Remodeling Show will offer exhibitors including Pella Windows and Andersen Windows as well as Art’s Windows, a Lakewood company that will decorate those new windows.
“We offer a full line of draperies, plantation shutters and any type of window treatment. We have a factory showroom in Lakewood, where we produce vertical blinds,” said plant manager Jeno Czabafy, who noted that wood blinds also are very popular and draperies have had a definite resurgence.
“Whatever your decorating and home improvement needs, the Home & Remodeling Show will save you shopping time and provide a good testing ground for your ideas,” said McLaughlin, the show director.
The 5th Annual MAC Events Ocean County Home & Remodeling Show will be open Friday, Feb. 8, from 4:00-to-9:00 pm, on Saturday, Feb. 9, 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, and on Sunday, Feb. 10, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Admission is $6.00 for adults and $4.00 for children 12 through 17. Children 11 and under are admitted free. Seniors can take advantage of a Friday special admission price of $4.00 and adults can take advantage of two-for-one date night admission after 6:00 pm on Saturday.
The 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, Pennsylvania and Virginia and is a source of market research for the recreational vehicle, boating and home improvement industries.
For additional information about the show, please contact MAC Events at (800) 332-3976 or visit the company’s website, www.macevents.com.
