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DISCOVER AFFORDABLE HOME IMPROVEMENT SOLUTIONS AT MAC EVENTS JERSEY SHORE HOME SHOW

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

LINCROFT, NJ – The 18th Annual MAC Events Jersey Shore Home Show features exhibitors that will help homeowners make affordable improvements they can begin enjoying immediately when it opens January 11, 2008, for a three-day run at Brookdale Community College.

“If you every wonder why so many people go to home shows, the Jersey Shore Home Show demonstrates how easy and inexpensive it can be to make a big difference in how you enjoy your home,” said show director James McLaughlin, president of MAC Events.

“This has become a very popular show and vendors keep coming back because it’s a good buying show,” McLaughlin said. “We attribute that to the fact that, in addition to being able to find everything from in-ground swimming pools to complete home renovation companies, there are so many exhibitors demonstrating unique, simple and inexpensive ways to make your home more upscale or to make it better match your lifestyle.”

The Jersey Shore Home Show features more than 125 of the region’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, cookware, pools and spas, and landscaping companies.

Consumers can test their remodeling and redecorating ideas with experts like those staffing the displays of Siperstein’s Paint & Decorating Centers. One of the major exhibitors at the show, Siperstein’s home decorating displays feature the latest window treatments, window toppers and draperies.

“We also have displays featuring new wall covering designs for 2008 that just recently have been released,” said Todd Katz, president of Long Branch-based Siperstein’s, which has six stores in Monmouth and Ocean counties and stocks more than 30,000 home decorating products. Its professional decorating staff offers free demonstrations of wallpapering and painting techniques including faux finishing throughout the show.

“We also will be showing the new color pallets for 2008 from Pittsburgh Paints along with new wall covers that coordinate with them,” Katz said.

Siperstein’s will feature a new peal-and-stick chalkboard for kids’ rooms that doesn’t harm the paint on the walls and comes in four different colors. The company, which recently relocated its Long Branch store to Route 36 across from Monmouth Park Racetrack, will show full line of window treatments featuring Hunter Douglas, as well as ready-made window toppers that are available as part of its shop-at-home decorating service.

Winter is a good time to focus on indoor projects and the Home Show is a good place to get some direction.

“The holidays are over. People find they have a little more time and they start concentrating on renovations,” said Chris Cooper, president of KRFC Kitchen and Bath Design, in Lakewood. “A kitchen can take a couple of weeks to plan properly. It’s not a split second decision to get everything in it that you want. Planning up front makes a happy customer in the end.”

Improving baths and kitchens is a great way to enhance a home’s value as well as offer a more upscale quality of life you will enjoy every day. And, while KRFC does complete kitchen and bath renovations, there are many ways to upgrade without incurring the cost of full remodeling.

“Glazes on the cabinets are popular because they give the cabinets a little more detail. Maintenance-free solid surfaces are popular. Manmade quartz is a good example. It’s not porous and while it’s usually a little more expensive, it’s very easy to take care of. Granite is real popular because of its price point and its natural characteristics. But there are a lot of alternate solutions for countertops anymore.”

The winter also is time to find craftspeople you will need to do spring outdoor projects that you want to finish in time to enjoy this summer. The Jersey Shore Home Show features a variety of outdoor home improvement experts, including landscapers as well as pool and spa companies.

“We have a number of landscaping companies and nurseries at the show that are located and work in central New Jersey,” said McLaughlin. “We also have some of the area’s most well established pool and spa companies on our list of exhibitors. There are companies that specialize in pavers and retaining walls and others that will build you a deck or add a sunroom that extends your summer living into the outdoors.”

Outdoor specialists exhibiting at the show include landscaper designers Groundskeeper inc. of Old Bridge; Robert James Landscape, Brick; NaturalLawn of America, Morganville; Blue Haven Pools of Pennsylvania; Star Dust Pools of East Brunswick, and Four Seasons Remodeling, a Greenbrook company specializing in sunrooms.

The Jersey Shore Home Show features many exhibitors such as Fine Creations Works in Wood that will help you add touches to change the ambiance of your living spaces. The Point Pleasant company will display its architectural millwork and fine custom furniture, which it often makes from recycled woods.

“Whether your home improvement projects are as simple as sprucing up a child’s bedroom with a fresh coat of paint or adding a line of spruce trees along the driveway to give your home the feeling of an estate, you will have a choice of established craftspeople and products to choose from at the Home Show,” McLaughlin said. “Plus, you can cover more ground in a few hours at the Home Show than you could in a few days of driving from one store to another.”

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 couples 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, Pennsylvania and Virginia and is a source of market research for the recreational vehicle, boating and home improvement industries.

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