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Jun 26, 2013
EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT
You won't want to miss Twin Cities Siding Professionals at our 2014 Minneapolis Home & Garden Show (Feb. 26 - Mar. 2).
You won't want to miss Twin Cities Siding Professionals at our 2014 Minneapolis Home & Garden Show (Feb. 26 - Mar. 2).
We recently interviewed this fabulous exhibitor to learn a little more about them, check it out below!
- How did your company get started (founders, early ideas, developments, etc.)?
- Twin Cities Siding Professionals was founded as a residential exterior painting company in 1995, and began installing James Hardie siding market in 1999. We earned our James Hardie Preferred Remodeler status in 2001, and have focused on being the best James Hardie installer in the region.
- What are your products/services?
- We are a full service exterior remodeler. We specialize in James Hardie siding, but also install new windows, doors, roofing, and decks.
- What is your company’s mantra
- Improve our customers’ lives by providing the highest quality building materials installed by highly skilled, professionally trained employees with the highest level of customer service.
- What’s the best advice (creative or business-related) that you've ever been given?
- Always focus on quality and customer service.
- What are your home and garden pet peeves?
- Poor work by those in our industry reflects badly on all of us. We strive to do the best work and to set the bar high for everyone.
- What are your top 3 home and garden tips for this season?
- Inspect your home carefully and don’t neglect problems that could become worse.
- Request an energy analysis of your home from your local utility.
- Plant some trees. They are good for the environment, and the shade they provide can help reduce cooling costs.
- What is your featured item this season?
- We love James Hardie siding products.
- How many years have you been involved in our home show?
- 17 years
- What is your favorite part about the home show?
- Seeing past clients that are still thrilled with their choice of contractors.
- What is the weirdest client request you have ever received?
- A person who lived on a busy street wanted US to pay HIM to paint his house because of the “great advertising”.
- Any embarrassing company moments you are willing to share?
- Once at a home show in 2002, our new siding display fell over on me as I was setting it up. I needed several of my home show neighbors to help pull it off of me.
Don't miss Twin Cities Siding Professionals at our 2014 Minneapolis Home & Garden Show
(Feb. 26 - Mar. 2) at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Jun 20, 2013
EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT
We're excited to have Traeger Grills at BOTH our Oklahoma City Home & Garden Show (Jan. 17-19) and our Minneapolis Home& Garden Show (Feb. 26 - Mar. 2)!
For years, Traeger Grills were offered in limited quantities, and select geographic areas. However, as people began to taste the food cooked on a Traeger, word and demand has spread about the unique flavors only Traeger natural wood pellets can provide.
We're excited to have Traeger Grills at BOTH our Oklahoma City Home & Garden Show (Jan. 17-19) and our Minneapolis Home& Garden Show (Feb. 26 - Mar. 2)!
For years, Traeger Grills were offered in limited quantities, and select geographic areas. However, as people began to taste the food cooked on a Traeger, word and demand has spread about the unique flavors only Traeger natural wood pellets can provide.
Check out our interview with them below!
Check out our interview with this fabulous exhibitor below!
- How did your company get started?
- Since its humble start by the TRAEGER family in Oregon in the 1990's, Traeger Wood Pellet Grills have been the outdoor cooking choice of food enthusiasts.
- What is your company’s mantra?
- A quality grill that is easy to use.
- A commitment to superior workmanship.
- To mill and sell only natural and food-safe wood pellets, which provide amazing and rich flavors.
- One grill that has six uses: a grill that can be used daily to grill, bake, smoke, slow cook, braise, and barbecue. Great taste, every time!
- No matter what type of food, no matter the quality of cut, a Traeger makes it delicious...That's why we always say, "Stop grilling, START TRAEGER'ing!"
- Describe the process of using Traeger Grills.
- The Traeger Wood Pellet Grill is simple and safe to operate. When a Traeger is turned on, the igniter rod is activated, the auger begins to feed pellets into the firepot, and the draft induction fan feeds air into the firepot. The igniter rod glows red hot for the first four minutes of operation - just long enough to ignite the pellets in the firepot.
- What is the best business advice you've ever been given?
- Maintain a quality product at an exceptional value.
- How many years have you been involved with the show?
- Due to high demand for our product, Traeger Grills has been quickly growing and expanding into new territories such as Minnesota and Oklahoma.
3-2-1 RIBS by Traeger
Click here to check out MORE amazing video recipes, and see for yourself how easy it is to cook on the Traeger.
To start Traeger’ing as soon as possible visit one of their friendly Traeger Store locations located in Malls across the nation. You can find Traeger at Penn Square Mall or you can also buy online by visiting http://www.traegergrills.com/shop/grills.
Don't miss Traeger Grills at BOTH our Oklahoma City Home & Garden Show (Jan. 17-19) and our Minneapolis Home& Garden Show (Feb. 26 - Mar. 2)!
Feb 27, 2013
The theme of the 2013 Minneapolis Home + Garden Show's Feature Gardens is Classic TV!
Come down to the Minneapolis Convention Center to check out the following:
- “Leave it to Beaver” by Bever Landscaping – A quintessential American family landscape with evergreens, ornamental grasses, tulips, hyacinth, daffodils, cyclamen, and other fragrant flowers.
- “I Dream of Jeannie” by NRD Landscape Design + Build – Jeannie’s bold color palette comes to life with a rose pink flowering crab apple tree, a purple flowering magnolia, fuchsia rhododendrons, and colorful annuals.
- “Gilligan’s Island” by Natural Landscape Minnesota, Inc. – A sandy beach, lush greenery, exotic tropical plants, and the sound of water.
- “Miami Vice” by Mickman Brothers, Inc. – A cabana surrounded by lush plantings of palms, philodendrons, hibiscus, tropical grasses, and more.
- “Green Acres” by Landscape Design & Construction – A “place to be” for entertaining, with two custom arbors and spring plantings including river birch, specialty spruce, lilacs, and a weeping pussy willow.
- “Gunsmoke” by Stonewall, Inc. – A Western inspired garden with evergreens, aspens, grasses, masses of tulips and hyacinths, and a rustic bar with bar stools made from old saddles.
- “Fantasy Island” by OFLORA Gardens – Two very different fantasy environments—an Old West–style mountain house and a Far East–style Japanese garden— hosted by Mr. Roarke and Tattoo
- “Cheers” by Linder’s Greenhouses, Inc. – A welcoming outdoor space where “everybody knows your name” with an array of brightly colored tropicals and other annuals.
- “Home Improvement” by Holm & Olson Landscape & Design Construction – An outdoor living area with a pergola and plenty of room for preparing food, grilling, dining, and relaxing around the fire pit—and Wilson, the neighbor, of course.
A panel of judges determined the top three gardens LIVE at the show!
Feb 25, 2013
Rachel Kate Hunt of HGTV’s Design Star will collaborate with HOM Furniture to present an interior design plan that incorporates today’s trends with a feminine touch and will give you plenty of ideas to bring to your own home. Performance Pool and Spa will also be creating a backyard oasis featuring an inground AND above ground pool with fountains, spas with cabanas, and an outdoor kitchen.
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The Minneapolis Home + Garden Show runs February 27 – March 3.
Design Star Rachel Kate on TCL giving a quick a sneak peek!
Feb 23, 2013
Are you ready to take a stroll down Innovation Avenue with Sasha Andreev?
See the newest products in home, décor, kitchen & bath, outdoor living and more at the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show, February 27 – March 3. HGTV’s Sasha Andreev, our New Products Expert, will be on hand throughout the show to present this year’s selections during “Innovation Avenue LIVE!” at the Lifestyle Stage.
UPDATE: All innovations have already been selected
This year's Innovation Avenue is all about automation, connectivity and convenience, with a bit of style thrown in. Indoors, products like the Samsung Wi-Fi washer/dryer pair from Warners' Stellian and the iGrill smartphone-based cooking thermometer keep you connected to your household tasks, without keeping you tied down. Outdoors, homeowners will be able to set it and forget it with the LawnBott automatic mower and the Juice Plus self-watering aeroponic Tower Garden, not to mention the One Ap one-time lawn fertilizer. One of my favorites, however, is more about ingenuity than technology - Stone Rolling Pins crafted from drilled granite cores left over from boulder fountains - beautiful, sustainable, and local. But these are just a few of the solutions at this year's Innovation Avenue, so you'll have to come down and pay me a visit at the show to see them all.
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Sasha Andreev will be appearing on the Lifestyle Stage at the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show Wednesday, February 27; Friday, March 1; Saturday, March 2; and Sunday, March 3.
For 2-for-1 tickets to the show click HERE.
Feb 9, 2013
HGTV junkies know Todd Davis from his high-energy turn as a finalist on "Design Star" as well as his adventurous design style from “Room Crashers,” namely, his transformations of dull bland rooms into stunning eye-popping showpieces. Todd describes himself as "smart, hyper-creative, dynamic and very opinionated" and says he can "build anything from chicken wire and lint in a timely fashion.""...smart, hyper-creative, dynamic and very opinionated..."
In addition to being an athlete and surfer, Todd Davis also owns a design business in San Francisco, Epic Spaces, that specializes in unique spaces--both indoor and outdoor--that reflect a Northern California sense of refined relaxation, adventure, and fun. With Todd’s direction, Epic Spaces offers leading edge design with an intelligent interactive twist.
Need project ideas for that room of your home that needs some serious crashing?
Todd knows just where to begin and how to create a plan that won’t turn your household upside down in the process. He'll give you budget-friendly answers on how to take that unseemly living space and create a room that will soon become your favorite.
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Todd Davis will be appearing on the Lifestyle Stage at the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show March 1 & 2, on the LIFESTYLE STAGE!
Feb 5, 2013
Meet our Home + Garden Show Design Expert Rachel Kate! Most recently a top design finalist on HGTV’s Season 7 of Design Star, Rachel always had an eye for fashion and interiors. You can catch Rachel at our Minneapolis Home + Garden Show (Feb 27 - Mar 3).
We recently caught up with Rachel and had her answer a quick Q&A, check it out below!
12 Questions:
1. What three items do you always keep with you in your pockets?
Measuring tape, lipstick and Altoids2. How did your first job go?
I learned how to measure 20’ windows for draperies, and design an s-shaped 2-sided sofa for a client down in Florida. It was definitely interesting3. How were you discovered?
I walked into an Interior Design Furnishing Manufacturing Company in Boca Raton, FL and asked for a job, with no Interior Design experience at the time. I went to school for fashion but could draw well so they hired me to design everything from custom upholstery and draperies to wall units and custom area rugs. Quit an experience, and that was 13 years ago!4. What is your most memorable career moment to date?
Winning the White Room Challenge on HGTV’s Design Star - Winning room below! (Image via HGTV)
5. Describe your design style in five words or less:
My personal style is: Natural, simplistic and rustic6. What design trend or item are you coveting this season?
A lot of grey finishes, soothing neutral tones, and natural materials7. What’s your favorite room in your house and why?
My living room, that’s where all the action is.8. The last item you bought or crafted for your own home?
Fabric for draperies that I want to make9. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
Put it on a spreadsheet, see if the numbers will work – Always my dad’s advice to me his creative artist daughter10. What are your design pet peeves?
Poorly designed built-ins that “need to stay”11. Are you on Pinterest?
Yes of course! RachelKateHunt on Pinterest12. Describe the Home Show in one word.
Fun!
Don't miss Rachel Kate on state at our Minneapolis Home + Garden Show (Feb 27 - Mar 3).
For 2-for-1 tickets to the show click here!
Dec 18, 2012
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Rachel Kate, of HGTV's Design Star will be appearing at the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show Feb. 27 - Mar. 3!
Dec 4, 2012
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What more delicious recipes & cooking advice?
Catch Chef Chris at the Salt Lake Home Show, The Great Big Home & Garden Show (Cleveland), the Birmingham Home & Garden Show, & the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show.
See you all there!
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