Schedule
Please note that the HomeStyles show for 2020 has been postponed. We are hoping to maintain a similar program once the show is rescheduled.
Friday
1:00pm
RenoMark Launch
Main Stage
1:30pm
How to Hire the Right Way and Avoid Problems
Main Stage
Nick Sackville will help you understand the critical steps involved in embarking on a minor or major renovation project including how to plan, choosing a contractor and making sure you’re protected in the event issues do arise.
2:30pm
How to Create Comfortable, Zero-Energy Homes
Main Stage
Michael Nemeth will walk you through the fundamental principles and benefits behind Passive House, the world’s leading high-performance building standard.
3:30pm
Incorporating organization into your renovation plans
Main Stage
Professional Organizer, Natasha Solvason will discuss incorporating organizational systems into your home that are specific to your family during renovations.
4:30pm
Debunking Common Feng Shui Myths and Misconceptions
Main Stage
Feng Shui Expert Bridget Saraka takes the woo woo out of many of the Feng Shui myths and misconceptions you’ve heard and read about. Her practical approach will inspire you to view design differently.
5:30pm
Reinvent your Home – Steps to Make your Home New Again
Main Stage
Darl Bradley
6:00pm
Bourbon Tasting
Kitchen Stage
6:30pm
Ask the Expert
Main Stage
Zak’s Building Group
6:30pm
BBQ Brian of House of Q reboots a classic Japanese steak dish Beef Negimaki
Kitchen Stage
7:30pm
Ask the Expert
Main Stage
Pyram Builders
7:30pm
Wine Tasting
Kitchen Stage
Saturday
10:30am
How to Hire the Right Way and Avoid Problems
Main Stage
Nick Sackville will help you understand the critical steps involved in embarking on a minor or major renovation project including how to plan, choosing a contractor and making sure you’re protected in the event issues do arise.
11:30am
Building your new home to maximize organization
Main Stage
Plan your new home build to optimize organization by incorporating organizing systems that work for your lifestyle.
12:30pm
Acreage Building 101
Main Stage
Dan Yungwirth will take you trough the unique challenges and opportunities of building an acreage. From site selection, utilities, water and septic services, to maintenance, there are a lot of potential pitfalls. Dan will help you through the process of planning and provide valuable tips for along the way.
1:30pm
The Economics of Sustainable Home Building
Main Stage
Ian Loughran
2:30pm
Why Feng Shui? Build, Buy, Remodel
Main Stage
Feng Shui Expert Bridget Saraka will share practical Feng Shui Design tips on what to keep in mind when you build, buy and remodel your home.
3:30pm
Top Kitchen Trends of 2020
Main Stage
Join the kitchen design experts from Superior Cabinets, where they’ll discuss what’s hot and what’s not for kitchen trends in 2020. If you are renovating your kitchen this year, you won’t want to miss this presentation.
4:30pm
5:30pm
Accessible Bathroom Trends
Main Stage
Accessible bathrooms are needed in many homes. Lori Pelletier is here to help lay out what plumbing and lighting fixtures will create a bathroom space that is inviting to everyone and meets individual needs.
6:00pm
Bourbon Tasting
Kitchen Stage
6:30pm
Ask the Expert
Main Stage
North Ridge Development Corporation
6:30pm
BBQ Brian of House of Q reboots a classic Japanese steak dish Beef Negimaki
Kitchen Stage
7:30pm
Ask the Expert
Main Stage
Centennial Kitchen & Bath
7:30pm
Wine Tasting
Kitchen Stage
Sunday
10:30am
How to Hire the Right Way and Avoid Problems
Main Stage
Nick Sackville will help you understand the critical steps involved in embarking on a minor or major renovation project including how to plan, choosing a contractor and making sure you’re protected in the event issues do arise.
11:00am
Cookie Monster & Elmo
For the Kids
Meet & Greet
11:00am
Kids in the Kitchen Activities
For the Kids, Kitchen Stage
11:00am – 3:00pm
11:30am
How to Create Comfortable, Zero-Energy Homes
Main Stage
Michael Nemeth will walk you through the fundamental principles and benefits behind Passive House, the world’s leading high-performance building standard.
12:30pm
Reinvent your Home – Steps to Make your Home New Again
Main Stage
Darl Bradley
1:30pm
Is Your Smart Home Actually Smart? 7 Tips to Be Sure
Main Stage
Join Tom Redhead as he talks all about how innovative technology can connect you to your home, and make life safer, more comfortable, more convenient.
2:30pm
3:30pm
The Economics of Sustainable Home Building
Main Stage
Ian Loughran
Brian Misko
House of Q is an award-winning competition BBQ team based in Surrey, B.C. Since starting to cook competitively in 2005, the team has accumulated awards locally and across North America. House of Q attended the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 2009 and twice has gone to the Best of the Best Competition at the National BBQ Festival in Douglas, Georgia. In 2014, the team was honoured as the Team of the Year for Canada. BBQ Brian was a guest chef at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
BBQ Brian’s first cookbook titled Grilling with House of Q will be released in the spring of 2015 across the US and Canada. House of Q launched its BBQ sauce and spice line in 2007, and its signature Apple Butter BBQ Sauce has won awards including third-best barbecue sauce in North America at the National BBQ Festival in Douglas, Georgia. In 2012 and 2013, the Slow Smoke Gold BBQ Sauce and Slather was awarded second-best sauce at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue in Kansas City. House of Q products have a loyal following and are bestsellers at speciality retailers across the country.
Lori Pelletier
Lori Pelletier has a BSHEc in Interior Design and 27 years in the industry has taught her that she loves design. She has been a furniture designer, cabinet designer and plumbing fixture and lighting expert. Lori has been with Kitchen & Bath Classics a Wolseley company for 18 years and has a team of staff that are also creative experts in the industry in our interactive Saskatoon showroom.
Tom Redhead
Tom Redhead is a veteran of the Smart Home industry. Since 1999 he has worked with every major technology from the VCR to AppleTV and from X-10 to IoT. In 2009, he and Sean Sullivan co-founded SuRe InnoVations, a premier provider of Electrical and Technology Solutions. Their design centered approach and innovative edge have placed them at the forefront of this industry in Saskatoon and surrounding area.
In the past 20 years, Tom has worked countless projects including some of the largest and most complex in Canada, including one which, at the time, was the largest residential lighting control system in North America. He is a CEDIA Certified Designer with experience in all major Smart Home platforms, including Control4, Savant, Crestron, RTI, Elan, and AMX. Always looking towards “what’s next”, he is keeping a close eye on how modern technologies such as voice control, AI, machine learning, and cloud services are changing the industry landscape.
Lisa Black and Marina Arthur
Dan Yungwirth
Dan received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He was then hired by Federated Co-operatives, where he spent several years in Manitoba in the Petroleum Marketing Department. Following that, he struck out on his own as owner-operator of Co-op gas bars in Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba. An opportunity in commercial banking presented itself, where he joined Sunova Credit Union as a Commercial/Ag lender. After a short time in that position, he was promoted to Managing Partner of a new branch in Oakbank, MB.
An opportunity to enter the construction field as General Manager and part owner of Miller Contracting Ltd. presented itself in 2012, leading Dan to return to his roots in Prince Albert. Miller Contracting is diversified in the construction industry, being involved in commercial, residential, and multi-family projects since 1972. In the home-building field, the company is a 2018 Bridges Award winner, Holmes Approved Homes Builder, as well as a winner of several additional industry awards.
Dan has been a Director of the Prince Albert Construction Association since 2013. He was also a member of the Saskatoon Region Home Builders Association BIL Committee and past Provincial Rep for CHBA’s Technical Research Committee. He has been a Board member of the Prince Albert Habitat for Humanity chapter as well. Dan lives in Prince Albert with his amazing wife Jeneen and their three daughters.
Natasha Solvason
Natasha Solvason is a trained Professional Organizer through the Professional Organizers in Canada. She has been working with her company, Home Free Organizing Solutions in Saskatoon for over 10 years. She specializes in working with seniors who are downsizing and young families who have become overwhelmed by all their possessions. Her core business practices include: non-judgement, understanding and confidentiality. Her greatest achievement in the past 10 years have been the connections she has made with her clients.
Bridget Saraka
I am Bridget Saraka, Canadian Feng Shui Expert and Intuitive Practitioner, specializing in onsite and distant Feng Shui Design, Environmental Dowsing, Space and Personal Clearings for Clients across the globe. My diverse clients enjoy the benefits of my Services by way of onsite consultations or virtually from the comfort of their own homes remotely from as far away as Tel Aviv Israel, Australia, Bali, throughout the United States and Canada.
It’s my mission to spread the love of Feng Shui while demystifying the confusion and fear Shui myths while offering practical explanations and solutions without all the woo-woo. Well, maybe just a little. I believe Feng Shui is most powerful when it is integrated seamlessly into one’s personal design style.
If you have been curious about Feng Shui and find yourself more confused by the more you read, call me. Let’s talk. I’ll help you create a lifestyle to support how you most desire to feel by aligning your Body, Soul, Spirit and Home to your heartfelt desires.
Michael Nemeth
Michael Nemeth is a mechanical consulting engineer living in Saskatoon. In 2013, Michael started Bright Buildings to help others build homes to the Passive House standard, an international low energy building standard leading to 90 per cent space heating energy savings.
Michael and his wife Shannon Dyck are co-founders of Radiance Cohousing, a collaborative, eight-unit housing development designed to Passive House standards. Michael has been active on volunteer committees, serving as president of the ASHRAE Saskatoon Chapter for the 2014-2015 year. Michael is currently a board member of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society Solar Co-operative.
Michael delivers Passive House training to building professionals in western Canada as an instructor with Passive House Canada.
In 2015, Michael was named by Corporate Knights magazine as one of Canada’s top sustainability leaders under 30.
Brian Bachewich
North Ridge Renovations
Senior Designer
40 years in custom home design and residential or commercial renovations.
Nick Sackville
Saskatoon & Region Home Builders’ Association
Member and Industry Relations Associate
Nick Sackville was born in Saskatoon, grew up in Red Deer, and then moved back to Saskatoon in 2010 to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He fell in love with Saskatoon all over again and decided to stay after convocating from the Edwards School of Business in 2013. He has worked as a recruiter for an industrial electrical company, but discovered his true passion for working in the non-profit sphere in 2014 and has worked in non-profits ever since.
As Member and Industry Relations Associate with the Saskatoon & Region Home Builder Association, he keeps his finger on the pulse of the industry which gives him a unique perspective as the Association works to protect the affordability of homes in our region. He stays informed and active on political issues, has a passion for vegetable gardening, and loves dogs.