Top Tips to Make Your Home Show Experience Last Year Round

The Seattle Home & Garden show may be over, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until the next show to start planning some home improvement projects or getting ideas for everything that has to do with the home and garden.  Here are some tips on how to make your home show experience last year round.

• Did you get a lot of information from exhibitors when you visited the show?  If so, start organizing that information into what your top 5 projects or ideas for the home will be.  

• Research those companies online and/or in person to see if they are a good fit for you.  

• Finally, if you decide to reach out, let them know you saw them at the Seattle Home & Garden Show!

  
  

Check out a complete list of exhibitors that were at this year’s show by clicking here.

Inside a Tiny Home

FOX13 was at the Seattle Home & Garden Show showcasing the inside of a tiny home. Check out the video below and then head on down this weekend and see them in person!  

Final Weekend

There are only a few days left of the 2023 Seattle Home & Garden Show!  If you haven’t made it over to Lumen Field Event Center or want to visit again, now is your chance.  This weekend’s features include Ciscoe Morris (Saturday only); Swim/Bike/Run for Habitat for Humanity, on onsite fundraiser for affordable housing; a tiny home village featuring the latest ideas for affordable housing; a human sized billiards game where players kick soccer balls into the table pockets; daily home improvement seminars, and more.

Will Thomas Designs Launches the Cool Room Concept, a New Building Design Service for Dealing with Weather Extremes

Certified building designer and show exhibitor Will Thomas of Will Thomas Designs is known for older home design services and his seamless additions that look like they are original to the home. At the Seattle Home & Garden Show, he is introducing a new design service to help homeowners deal with weather extremes:  the Cool Room Concept.  Emphasizing low-cost ways on how to deal more effectively with extreme weather, the Cool Room Concept focuses on everything from insulation and passive heating/cooling (such as adding porch overhangs), to transforming basements – often the part of the home least affected by temperature outside - into living spaces that can comfortable handle extreme hot or cold weather.  

The Cool Room Concept can be successively applied to almost any home - each according to the existing configuration of the structure. Sometimes the concept works better as part of a larger addition/remodel project, sometimes it works fine with an existing house layout, with very minor changes inside.

For more information on Will Thomas Designs, please click here.

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Behind the Scenes: In the King5 Studio with Dr. Lori

As many of you probably saw, Dr. Lori was here last weekend at the Seattle Home & Garden Show and she also appeared on the morning edition of the King5 news!  Here is a behind the scenes photo taken in the King5 studio.  In case you missed her live on-air appearance, please enjoy the video below!

Tiny Homes are Big at the Seattle Home & Garden Show 2023

A tiny home village built by Carriage House Northwest highlighting the latest trends in affordable housing, includes tiny homes that can be used in a variety of ways - from creating additional living spaces, accommodating aging parents or simply as affordable primary residences to help alleviate the region’s affordable housing crisis.

Detached accessory dwelling units (DADUs) are increasing in popularity, especially as homeowners look at ways to do more with their current properties rather than moving, due to high housing costs and mortgage interest rates.  Modular DADUs, which can be built offsite in a factory and then delivered to a site and placed on permanent foundation, also are increasing in popularity and adoption.

All the homes in the exhibit focus on affordable housing, whether it is for use as primary residences (including expanding living space) or recreational housing.  Among the tiny homes on display are the Yucatan, a 26 foot tiny home on wheels with a loft and kitchen; and the Iliad, a 16 foot tiny house on wheels for under $50,000.

Top 5 Trends for the Home in 2023

At this years Seattle Home & Garden Show, the top trends for the home will be on display giving showgoers the opportunity to spruce up their current homes with bold, modern colors and textiles for the kitchen, adding a tiny home addition as a secondary residence or rental unit, to installing an alternative energy source solution such as a complete offgrid solar system for extreme weather conditions.

Here are the top 5 trends for the home in 2023 to look for when visiting the show:

● Multigenerational living. With the high cost of housing combined with high interest rates, Northwesterners increasingly are turning towards multigenerational living, whether it is grown children moving back with their parents or aging parents moving in with their grown children.

● Aging in place. Includes creating living space for caretakers in the home as well as adding features to make the home more accessible, including a universal design tub to shower conversion that improves bathing safety without demolishing the old tub.

● Tiny homes for affordable housing, whether they are primary residences, additions to an existing property or houses for recreational property.

● Alternative energy, from a complete offgrid solar system to solutions for extreme weather conditions. Includes whole house fan systems that both cool the home’s inside temperature faster than air conditioning and purify the air at the same time from allergens and pathogens such as COVID, as well as cool room concepts for unique ways to weatherize your home for heat domes and other weather extremes.

● Staying in place, including remodeling rather than moving.

Award-Winning TV Personality and Ph.d Antiques Appraiser Dr. Lori to Appear on Opening Weekend of the Seattle Home & Garden Show

Have you ever wanted to know if you have trash or treasure?  Now is your chance to find out, as TV personality and Ph.D antiques appraiser Dr. Lori will be conducting free appraisals of show goers art, family heirlooms and garage sale finds today, Sunday February 26 at Lumen Field Event Center.

Each appearance at 1pm and 3pm will include informative talks with insights into the world of collecting, followed by appraisals of items brought in by the audience, who can bring in one item per each of her shows.

Star antiques appraiser on the History channel’s The Curse of Oak Island and Pawn Stars, Discovery channel’s Auction Kings who also appears on FOX Business Network’s Strange Inheritance, Dr. Lori is one of the busiest appraisers today.  She reviews approximately 20,000 items a year at more than 150 events every year and conducts home appraisal visits as well. In addition, she is an internationally syndicated columnist and an author with 30 books to her credit.

Open House

The doors have opened for the 2023 Seattle Home & Garden Show.  Everyone is welcomed to visit Lumen Field Event Center for the next 9 days to see all the latest for the home and garden. 

Tiny homes will be big, energy savings will be hot and ideas for multigenerational living will be in abundance.  A tiny home display featuring the latest designs in backyard cottages, a full offgrid solar power system that can power your home year round and solutions for keeping your home comfortable during weather extremes are just some of the products and services on display at this year’s show.  Get your tickets in advance by clicking here!

Other features at this year’s Seattle Home & Garden Show include:

● LANFest, an onsite computer gaming event for gamers of all ages

● A 20 x 80 square foot game room exhibit featuring the latest in in game room equipment

● Swim/Bike/Run for Habitat, an onsite fundraiser for affordable housing with proceeds

donated to Habitat for Humanity (the public is invited to sign up to compete)

● Art and antiques appraisals by Ph.D antiques appraiser Dr. Lori (February 25 & 26 only)

● Daily “Meet the Experts” seminars on all things for exterior and interior home improvement

Behind the Scenes: FOX13 Live Remote

Before the Seattle Home & Garden Show officially opens tomorrow, FOX13 viewers got a special sneak peek this morning on Good Day Seattle. 

One of the features FOX13 showcased was how game rooms have gone outdoors.  Creating game rooms has been a longtime trend and now there is a new twist; going outdoors!  At this year's show, Northwesterners can see how to take their favorite indoor games such as pool and billiards and turn them into an integral part of their outdoor living spaces too!

The Seattle Home & Garden Show Opens in 5 Days

The exhibitors are hard at work setting up their booths and displays and getting ready to open the doors for the Seattle Home & Garden Show at Lumen Field Event Center, this Saturday February 25th at 10am.

The show will have something for everyone from tiny homes for affordable housing, remodeling for multigenerational living, innovative solutions to help your home stay comfortable during weather extremes, from heat domes to extreme cold and so much more to see in person so start planning your home show visit now! 

Additional information about purchasing tickets, parking and more, can be found here.