Emerging backyard trends are set to be a key focus at the 2009 Herald Sun Home Show & Garden Expo. To be held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 August, the Herald Sun Home Show & Garden Expo will deliver the latest in building, renovation, home improvement and outdoor solutions for the home.
Visitors will be able to see, try and buy all the latest products and services for kitchens, bathrooms, building, renovation, and outdoor living with a particular focus on garden and landscaping solutions.
The following attractions will be on offer to inspire building, renovations and home makeovers:
Against the lush backdrop of a vertical garden, by Fytowall, the Garden Stage becomes the discussion hub for emerging backyard trends in green rooftop gardens, vertical gardens, home grown veggie patches, eco gardens, edible gardens and outdoor living. Some visitors who bring in their garden plans, will be lucky enough to have Ian Barker, international awarding winning landscape designer, sketch their dream designs, live on stage.
The new feature ‘Water for Life’ by M2 Raintanks, delivers choice for visitors with every water storage solution, grey water recycling, solar hot water and more.
The new Interior Café will give visitors a license to experiment with different colour combinations and finishes, while sipping a coffee. The colourful wall of paint swatches, fixtures and fittings will also offer take home samples.
At the ‘Wine & Dine’ stage visitors can take part in food and wine matching sessions, and cheese tastings. The four finalists from the ‘Celebrity Chef for a Day’ competition will also be in attendance.
Clive Peeters presents ‘Bathrooms on View’ featuring one full scale bathroom and three bathroom fixtures and fittings showcases.
There’s plenty more for the home renovator at the Property Know How stage, and there’s a newly dedicated zone for the first home buyers.