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 All
Terrain Cabin (ATC)
Right now,
sitting in a warehouse in greater Vancouver, is an amazing
structure designed as a travelling exhibition of Canadian
design. It is called the All Terrain Cabin (ATC), and it was
designed and built by BARK, a not-for-profit design
collective based in Vancouver.
This structure
has already appeared in Calgary and
Vancouver last fall at their respective Home & Interior
Design Shows. It was a huge hit with visitors to these
shows. It is a cabin for the 21st century built of aluminum,
wood, and glass.
For the fist time on
Vancouver Island - the ATC visits Victoria. It will be on
display all weekend at the Canadian Home Builders'
Association Home Design & Remodelling Show at the
Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
It travels
around looking just like a standard shipping container. When
in arrives, the walls unfold to triple the useable space and
to reveal an ultra contemporary dwelling totally outfitted
with the best of Canadian design.
The ATC is
designed to travel by train, truck, ship, plane, or
helicopter. It can literally go anywhere--and it is self
contained: a generator running on biodiesel is included and
an "inverter" changes DC into AC. The ATC operates off the
grid. Plumbing is similarly environmentally
friendly--filtering and re-use of grey water, composting
toilet, tanks of fresh water, rain collection, etc.
It's
beautiful, it's smart, it can support a family of 4, and
it's all Canadian. Both private money (from the Home Show
advisors) and Federal Government money have helped fund the
building of this one of a kind cabin.
More
information at
www.barkbark.ca
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 Shell Busey
The HouseSmart Guy
Shell
Busey, host of the HouseSmart and Home Discovery Shows, is
one of Canada’s leading experts on home improvement. With
more than 40 years of experience under his belt, he
continues to deliver the how to, what to, where to, why to,
when to, and who to of home improvement. Shell also leads
the HouseSmart Referral Network, a service he created to
help homeowners find qualified and reliable tradespeople and
suppliers for their home improvement projects. This year
will mark 25 years that he has been providing home
improvement advice to listeners across the country through
his open line talk show. The HouseSmart and Home Discovery
Shows can be heard Saturdays from 5:00 until 8:00AM on CFAX
1070AM, and throughout Western Canada on the Corus Radio
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Jane
Lockhart
B.A.A.I.D.
Designer, spokesperson,
author and television
personality, Jane Lockhart
is an
expert in the world of
colour & design.
Currently, as host of the
successful Colour
Confidential on
W Network
and Get Color! on HGTV US
(reaching over 89
million viewers across North
America), each week Jane brings a breathtaking
sense of
colour into viewers’ homes. Her dazzling
design talent and
great sense of humour make her
an audience favourite.
Previously she co-hosted
the popular HGTV Canada
interior design series One House Two
Looks, which
aired for six seasons. She has also made
numerous
television and radio appearances, as well as
frequently being quoted in newspapers and
magazines across
Canada and USA.
With over 15 years
experience as a designer, her
design firm, Jane Lockhart
Design Communications
Inc., specializes in projects that
range in scope from
residential designs to corporate brand
building.
For the past 10 years,
Jane has traveled across
Canada and the United States
presenting her two-
hour Colour Seminar to hundreds of
consumers and
has established a strong relationship with her
audience, as well as promoting the use of design and
colour
for leading paint manufacturer, Benjamin
Moore. During this
time she collaborated in the
production of the best selling
project design book
Paint a Great Impression.
Jane's latest book Room
Recipes: Cooking Up Style
With Colour demonstrates how
anyone can create a
personal style from the materials of
their lives - not
just paint, but fabrics, textures,
furnishings, light
and prized belongings.
Jane has been involved
with the Canadian Home
Shows for the past 10 years, and
broke into the
American Home Shows three years ago. The list
of
shows span from Kelowna, B.C. to Yellowknife to
Regina to
Nova Scotia, and almost every Canadian
city in between
(specifically, she has appeared at
the National Home Show in
Toronto, Ontario,
Vancouver Home Show in British Columbia
and the
Regina Home Show in Saskatchewan). Some
American
cities of note include St. Louis, Missouri,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota and Phoenix, Arizona.
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Additional presentations will include a First Time Home
Buyers Seminar, Seasonal Transitions, Closet
Organizing & Clearing Clutter, and other Home Design topics.
The First Time Home Buyers Seminar will provide
information to prospective home purchasers in a variety of
areas including new home construction, inspections,
mortgages and insurance.
Check
page 8 of the Home Design & Remodelling Show supplement in
the Thursday, September 20th Times Colonist for the Main
Stage Schedule. |
