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Design Your Home magazine is a Brandon, MB based company created to promote and feature all the great trades in our local area. With the limited amount of media in the Brandon and area, this magazine will assist you and your company with great exposure.Design Your Home magazine will help local companies feature their business and the special work they do.Design Your Home magazine will focus on the home and property. Each issue will have articles on Home and Building, Real Estate, Design and Decorating, Gardening, and a special featured Home and Business.TRANSCRIPT
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Brandon and Area
Choosing the Right Wood fl oor
Keeping Your Pet Calm during yourHoliday Celebrations
FireplaceEffi ciency
Is your Home Safe while your on Vacation?
Winter 2012Free F I R S T E D I T I O N
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Brandon and Area
Design Your Home magazine is a Brandon, MB based company created to promote and feature all the great trades in our local area. With the limited amount of media in the Brandon and area, this magazine will assist you and your company with great exposure.
Design Your Home magazine will help local companies feature their business and the special work they do.
Design Your Home magazine will focus on the home and property. Each issue will have ar ticles on Home and Building, Real Estate, Design and Decorating, Gardening, and a special featured Home and Business.
Why feature in Design Your Home:• The only Local Home Magazine.
• Over 15,000 magazines published
• 3 readers per issue, equals to 45,000 points of exposure.
• Timeless, often kept and referred to again and again.
• Published 4x per year: August, November, February & May
• Located in very high traffic areas. Delivered to a target audience.
• We have articles that feature tips and advice from Home owners and experts.
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Welcome to the First issue of Design Your Home! A Brandon, Manitoba based magazine, serving Brandon and area. My name is Stewart Dyck, I reside in Brandon, Manitoba and found a need for a local
Design and Style magazine. After moving back to Brandon and into our new home, I
found it diffi cult at times to fi nd the right people and products for my home. My wife
and I ended up doing extensive research and talking to others to fi nd what we were
looking for, and sometimes, not fi nding it!
I have brought together a team of local individuals and businesses to bring you this
magazine. Jaime-Lynn Dyck, Marketing and Sales Manager, Scott Kasprick of Reaxion
Graphics, Leech Printing and many other local freelance writers and photographers.
My goal is to use local talent to bring our readers this FREE publication in order to
help them with their home, cottage, apar tment or condo needs.
Each issue will bring with it articles about home, cottage, apartment or condo living from
the interior to the exterior. We also hope it will help you fi nd local ideas, products and
companies that will help you make your living space your home!
- Stewart Dyck
Letter from the Editor
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Brighten Your Home For Sales ProspectsOne way to shine in a competitive
housing market is to create a good
first impression.
A ccording to home-selling
experts, some quick tips for
speeding up this process
include burning candles during open
houses, filling the home with the
aroma of fresh-baked cookies and
hanging a wreath on the front door.
Home-improvement experts say
that investing several thousand
dollars in new kitchen counter tops
or a bathroom remodel will give the
home a whole new look and that you
will most likely recoup your entire
investment, if not more.
A quick fix can make a significant
difference but you don’t have to
spend a for tune, say experts. An
inexpensive yet effective way to
increase a home’s curb appeal while
adding value for its next owner : Add
dimmers in key rooms of the home.
Priced from just $10, dimmers can
completely change the look and
feel of a room while adding ambiance
and creating moods, not to mention
saving energy and increasing the life of
your light bulbs. Plus, your listing can
include a mention of your dimmers,
to differentiate it from the rest.
Dimmers can improve the mood in
large and small homes. Cramped for
space? A dimmer turns a family room
into a home theater, a homework
station and a workout room, while an
eat-in kitchen can be transformed into
a romantic dinner-for-two paradise,
just by adjusting the lights.
Want to really be a standout in your
market? Add a wireless, whole-home
lighting control system that lets you
turn lights on and off from the car,
your bed, the patio or any room of the
home. This type of system significantly
increases home value while providing
added safety benefits, such as tying in
with a security system.
Adding dimmers is truly a quick
fix, requiring less than 15 minutes
for installation time. If you run into
trouble, call your local electrician.
Dimmers are available nationwide
at home improvement centers and
lighting showrooms. DYH
“A quick fix can make a significant
difference but you don’t have
to spend a for tune...”
Robertson Real EstateCall: Jane Smith (204) 555-1234
Contact today!
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installed at the top of the chimney. The top sealing damper has a seal that acts like a storm door keeping the expensive conditioned air inside the house and the outside air – outside. This principle works year round, whether you’re heating or cooling your house. This product can be purchased online and is easily installed by either a homeowner or a handyman.
2. A fireback is a cast iron plate that is placed at the back of your fireplace. Its purpose is to protect the back wall from fire damage and it usually
features a design that adds to the homes decor. The fireback improves the fireplaces efficiency by absorbing the heat from the fire and radiating the heat back into the room.
3. A Fireplace Heater pulls fresh air from the room, circulates it through a chamber that is heated by the fire and then blows the heated air back into the room. These heaters are closed systems so no smoke from the fireplace is invading the home. Depending on which kind you
Fireplace Effi ciencyReduce your energy costs by transforming your ine� cient � replace into an energy saver.
T he fireplace has long been the favorite spot to gather in the Canadian home. A
place for warmth, the fireplace adds ambience, sparking memories that are to be treasured.
With soaring energy costs, the chief negative of having a fireplace has to be its inefficiency. When there is a fire burning, the fireplace does indeed radiate warmth in its general vicinity, but it also creates a convection current that can actually pull conditioned air out of the room and up the chimney causing your furnace to work over time. When the fire is not burning, the fireplace has a damper which is supposed to block inside air from escaping and outside air from invading. The problem is that the damper is usually made of metal (this type of damper technology hasn’t changed in over 100 years!) and has no seal, which means that the damper is incredibly inefficient.
Your home has a dir ty little secret – the fireplace that is designed to warm your house is actually doing the opposite and costing you hundreds of dollars in energy costs. Don’t fret – with a little investment of time and money, you can turn that inefficient fireplace into a powerhouse heater that will reduce your energy bills and add even more charm to your existing fireplace.
The following is a list of 4 things that you can do yourself to drastically reduce the heating costs associated with the inefficiency of your fireplace.
1. Top Sealing Dampers replace the fireplace throat damper and are
purchase, these heaters can make a significant difference in your homes temperature, even heating a full room on its own. Specific fireplace heaters can be installed with fireplace glass doors which will kick your cost savings up another notch.
4. Fireplace Glass Doors will likely carry the largest investment, but you can reduce some of that cost by doing some of the work yourself. There are a number of fireplace doors that can be purchased online and come with easy to install instructions. The fireplace glass door creates a barrier between the living space and the chimney, thus reducing the area that your furnace will have to heat. This alone is a good reason to install these doors, but it’s not the only reason. Fireplace glass doors offer another level of safety for the home by protecting children and pets from the fire. If you have a wood burning fireplace you will want to purchase the screen mesh that is designed to go with the fireplace glass doors. This will allow you to have the doors open while the fire is burning and still have your home protected from sparks and embers. Fireplace glass doors are now being manufactured with modern designs and really add beauty and charm to the fireplace.
If you’re handy, all of these suggestions are easy to accomplish, but call your local heating or fireplace representative. If you’re concerned about high energy costs but you want to keep your fireplace, then it’s time to plug up the holes in your monthly energy budget by plugging up the holes in your fireplace. DYH
Located on 1st & Main - 204 555-1234
Inferno’s Fireplace
Contact today!
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Keeping Your Home Secure While On VacationImagine returning from your holiday to � nd your windows broken, your cars and possessions stolen or even your pets gone. Your space has been violated.
Relax, because with the
proper preparation you can
discourage intruders and
have a carefree vacation.
Depending on how long you will be
gone, there are a few common sense
things you can do for your home, pets
and possessions.
Discourage thieves by getting a house
sitter. This is the best way to ward off
trouble. If you know someone who
will regularly stop by your house -
water your plants and turn on the
lights you are lucky. If you have animals
you might want to think about hiring
a house sitter for while you are away.
This way your pets are properly cared
for and your home is safer. Peace of
mind is worth some extra money. If
you are going to hire a house sitter
- make sure you use reliable and
trustworthy service. Ask around and
get references.
If you can’t get a house sitter, the goal
is to make your house look lived in. It’s
a good idea to have a trusted neighbor
to look after your home. Someone
who can keep an eye on your property
and who has a contact number for you
should anything go wrong.
Use light timers to make it seem like
there are people in your house. Light
timers and radio timers can be very
effective in deterring criminals and are
easy to install.
Think about the state of your lawn
before you leave. Overgrown grass
is a loud signal that there is nobody
home. If a neighbour or someone
you know can’t maintain your yard
(cutting your grass or shoveling snow),
consider hiring a local company that
specializing in this.
If you are going to be gone long
enough for your mail to pile up, make
an arrangement with a neighbor to
pick it up - a pile of unopened mail
is an obvious signal to criminals that
nobody is home or have your mail
held at the post office.
Even if you aren’t going away for a
long time there are some things that
you need to do every time you leave
the house.
- Always lock your door and leave a
key with someone to check on your
home while you are gone.
- Turn on the radio/TV and leave
some lights on
- Do not leave your spare key under the doormat or in any of the equally obvious hiding places. Rather give a copy to someone else and don’t have a spare key anywhere in your garden while you are home. If you MUST hide your key on the property be creative!
Develop a reciprocal relationship with your neighbors. Watch their houses when they are away; keep your eyes and ears open for strange happenings and ask them to do the same for you. Group together and form a neighborhood watch of some sort.
If you follow these tips you can be sure your chances are good that you will return to a secure house. DYN
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