WATERLOO | It's a good time to be selling home heaters and insulation.

Another dose of snow and frigid temperatures may have hurt attendance at the Eastern Iowa Home and Landscaping Show on Saturday in the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center. But Eric Weber was keeping warm in front of a row of toasty fireplaces at the Fireplace Creations booth.

"It seems like (attendance) is down a little bit," Weber said. "I don't know if that's due to the weather or something else. It's been steady though."

In the next booth, Dennis Kayser also said the unusually cold winter wasn't hurting his business, Arctic Seal Urethane Insulation Systems of Jesup.

"The colder it gets the more business we do," said Kayser, who insulates quite a few exterior home foundations to keep out the cold. "It warms the basement up so the pipes don't freeze and the wind doesn't blow through it."

About 175 vendors focused on home construction, remodeling, landscaping and related businesses filled the convention center for the annual event, which started Friday and concludes today.

"It was a little slow (Saturday) morning because of the weather," said Barbara Miller, of Iowa Show Productions Inc. "It's picked up this afternoon."

Vendors weren't the only attraction.

DIY Network star Paul Ryan, also known as "The Kitchen Magician," held seminars providing tips on home remodeling projects from hanging drywall to plumbing and tiling.

"Let's talk about the bane of my existence," Ryan told the crowd. "Plumping can be one of the most frustrating things you can do or one of the most rewarding if it's done right."

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NEW ULM - Are you an artist or creative type with a need for additional space? If your answer is yes, New Ulm has the perfect place for you. The historic Grand Hotel at 210 N. Minnesota St. hosted a grand opening Friday night to show off its renovation. Renamed as the Grand Center for Arts and Culture (GCAC), it will now serve as studio space for local artists.

Open house guests were given a guided tour of the various studio spaces created from old hotel rooms, along with a history lesson about the building which covered topics such its use as a hospital during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The process of converting the GCAC into an arts center was nearly three years in the making and required substantial fundraising. A portion of the reconstruction was funded through historical grants. To receive grants, the building needed to meet certain criteria. As one tour guide put it, "You can't just replace every window."

Building architect Andy Engan was present during the open house and explained that fixing the floors was a huge challenge. According to Engan, both the second and third-floor boards were beginning to sag. Engan compared the floor to walking on a diving board. While floor repairs were necessary to qualify for historic grants, the replacement floor needed to resemble the original. In addition, all door frames to the studio are originals, including the transoms. In fact, to preserve the historic look of the building, the building features a couple of doors that go nowhere. Those doors and door frames simply serve as a reminder of the building's past.

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Anne Makepeace, instrumental in the renovation and a descendant of the man who built the hotel, tours the basement, which she hopes will some day house a ceramics studio.

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Many of the old hotel rooms at the Grand Center for Arts and Culture have been converted into studio spaces for local artists.

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Local artist Jenny Fitzen makes herself at home in one of the The Grand studio spaces.

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Twenty children, including five infants, were evacuated from a daycare Monday after smoke started filling the building.

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SALT LAKE CITY Twenty children, including five infants, were evacuated from a day care Monday after smoke started to fill the building.

Just before 1 p.m., smoke was reported at 1760 S. 1100 East, which houses five to six businesses, said Salt Lake City fire spokesman Jasen Asay. By the time fire crews arrived, many of the businesses, including the day care, were already in the process of evacuating.

The children were moved to a nearby vacant business to stay warm. No injuries were reported.

The smoke, Asay said, was coming from the basement area where the day care was located. Initially, crews believed it was a small fire in either a wall or a crawl space.

After more than an hour of investigating, crews determined the smoke was being produced by a faulty furnace, Asay said.

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Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) January 31, 2014

Arcbazar announces a creative service to bring the gym inside doors.

Extra rooms, basements or attics are ideal places to create small working out spaces or rebalancing yoga studios. With creativity, these "home gyms" can be fitted in private corners and flow with the surrounding rooms. Arcbazar, a Cambridge-based start-up company, offers an easy, affordable and convenient way to create beautiful and functional exercise rooms and helps homeowners make the best of small spaces.

Arcbazar addresses this home challenge by crowdsourcing architectural design. Every project is launched online and designers worldwide compete and submit solutions for the space. Homeowners around the globe are using Arcbazar for successful home remodeling, commercial and interior design projects. We are bringing affordable but competitive high-quality design to small-scale home remodeling projects. Clients have used our website for renovating kitchens, bathrooms, basements, living paces, or just redoing hardscape and landscape, says Imdat As, CEO of Arcbazar.com."We want our clients to be able to create their dream spaces in an easy, affordable and fun way.

Brad G, a homeowner from Indiana, needed to create a a multifunctional office & gym space in the basement of his house, while still keep using it as a cozy living space. He initiated a competition on Arcbazar and received seven design proposals, ultimately opting for a concept from Nemanja Kovacevic, a designer from Russia. To see Nemanja's concept and other great design solutions, learn more, or to launch your own home project, visit http://www.arcbazar.com.

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By STEVE KAUFMANContributing Writer

Its difficult to talk about the roles of men and women when it comes to home decorating without risking a 25-years-to-life sentence for political incorrectness.

Many men are the chefs in the family and want the kitchen designed to accommodate their wants. Many wives are the entrepreneurs in the family and need a personalized office for their business activities or financial management.

Men can be the gardeners, women can be the do-it-yourselfers. Or maybe shes the one who clears the decks and shuts everyone else up when a Kentucky basketball game is on TV.

Happens all the time.

But when home builder and designer Rob Osborne was asked to discuss What Men Want in terms of home redesign and remodeling, it was necessary to make some assumptions and give in to generalizations for which well almost certainly be criticized.

Osborne runs Details Consulting Group (www.detailsconsultinggroup.com), and has been a custom home builder for more than 20 years. He has worked with hundreds of thousands of customers and has seen trends cycle in and out. What he has found is todays men want to be involved in more of the decision making, and certainly the budget, of the project.

But hes also getting more involved in some of the design details, Osborne says, and that can include decisions about the kitchen, master bathroom, exterior of the house and still, and always the finished basement.

Most of the men Ive worked with dont care too much about the color plan, he says. They may, he says, take an interest in architectural details like, say, the crown moldings but mostly they defer to the woman on those decisions.

However, the kitchen is increasingly falling into the male realm. Most of todays home designs include a wide open floor plan with the kitchen integrated into the great room, Osborne says. Its more than just preparing Tuesday night dinner for the family. Its part of the entertaining process.

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