Calgary Fall Home Show: Great ideas to better your home

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Autumn is a season of bountiful ideas for home improvement and decor, all waiting to be discovered at the 2024 Calgary Fall Home Show, running Sept. 27 to 29 at the BMO Centre, Stampede Park.

From the latest paint colours, flooring materials and renovation trends to celebrity appearances and free advice from professional designers, the three-day Fall Home Show is loaded with value and entertainment from start to finish.

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In addition to the 200-plus exhibitors who will bring their wares and inspiration to the show are Main Stage guests such as Toronto designer and founding editor of Style at Home Magazine, Karl Lohnes; organization experts and sister/owners of Tidy Matters, Pam Gilbert and Angie Smith; confidence coach and owner of Let Me Introduce Yourself, Alyssa McMasters; home staging expert with Staged by Tara, Tara Melhus and the television celebrity/home handyman that home show crowds can’t ever see enough of, Bryan Baeumler.

Baeumler hosts several programs on Canadian streaming channel Stack TV, which feature makeovers of homes, resort properties and businesses. His home show appearances this fall feature a quick tease about another reality show coming in 2025 but for the most part will address topics of concern to Canadian homeowners.

“People always want to know about where they should spend their money to put value into their homes. This is even more important given the direction that the housing market and real estate is going. It’s a particularly challenging financial environment. There are impacts you can make for less money and that’s what people have to focus on,” he says.

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His presentation on Saturday, and again on Sunday, will be less about cosmetic renovations and more about investing in sustainable infrastructure that affects how the home performs.

“The key is to make financial decisions that are viable. If everyone had a ton of money, you could invest in the latest and greatest, but there’s a way to do it on a budget as well,” Baeumler says.

This summer was spent filming a new program called Building Baeumler, a reality show about the making of his reality shows. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at his projects in Canada, the Bahamas and now, in the Florida Keys.

“It’s a look at a busy family with four kids and multiple businesses in multiple countries and the chaos around it. We’re going to get a bit more raw and real and show what it takes to take an idea right through to fruition. There are things people will be surprised to see. It’s not as easy as it looks after it’s all edited,” he says. “Like a duck sitting calm but its feet are moving at 90 mph under the water.”

Brittany McNab of Fifteen Twelve Home Co. in Calgary is another Main Stage guest at the Fall Home Show. Her presentation will cover interior home design that honours the environment, culture and history of where you live.

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Back from a remarkably successful installation at the Spring Home and Garden Show is artist and mural specialist Rachel Lyon who will again lead the Paint with Purpose feature. Lyon will mentor several budding artists in the creation of eight-by-eight-foot murals that will be painted and donated to local non-profit organizations.

“The artists will choose an organization that’s important to them and paint the mural for their office or location. It’s their job to reach out and explain it to them, so it’s a bit of mural outreach. They’ll have to explain the style they work in and see if it’s a fit,” she says.

The artists have a palette of 10 autumn-oriented colours and will be painting the murals in real time at the home show. The previous Paint with Purpose event captured the imagination of show visitors, Lyon says.

“Art brings people together. People asked if we could paint a mural at their house. One person wanted us to paint their RV. It got the wheels turning,” she says. “The pricing is comparable to wallpaper. It can be affordable, depending on different factors.”

The Paint with Purpose artists are Karla-Maria Campbell (@karlamariacreativo), Carmen Yuen (@thunderloftpaper), Nathalie Bechard (@fetch_and_fauna), Kara Bussey (@glimpseglass), and Jenny Morrison (@jennymorrison.art) and Krystelle Celestino Wurtz @krystelle.creations.

THE DETAILS

WHAT: The 2024 Calgary Fall Home Show.

WHERE: BMO Centre, Stampede Park

HOURS: Sept. 27 and 28 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

TICKETS: $12 full day/$6 half day for ages 13-plus; $10 for ages 60-plus; free for children 12 and under. Save $2 per ticket by purchasing online.

INFORMATION: calgaryfallhomeshow.com

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