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Children’s Charity House 190 Turner Way, Laconia, NH

1 Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association Children's Charity House 190 Turner Way, Hayward & Company Laconia, NH

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Four Seasons Home

Hayward Company 672Terrace Hill& Road, Gilford, NH Four Seasons Home 67 Terrace Hill Road, Gilford, NH

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Cargill Construction Company Company Endless Views Endless Views 41 Copple Crown Road, Road, 41 Copple Crown NewNew Durham, NH NH Durham,

4 Sippican Partners 4 Construction, LLC Discovery House Sippican Construction, LLC LeavittPartners Road, Ashland, NH Discovery House

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Leavitt Road,Construction, Ashland, NH 5 Alan Mann LLC Nature's View Eastern Corners Road, Campton, NH

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6 Bonnette, PageView & Stone Nature’s Winnipesaukee Playhouse Eastern Corners Road, Campton, NH 50 Reservoir Road Meredith, NH

6 7 Abode Builders of New England Bonnette, Page & Stone Green Peak Adirondack Home Winnipesaukee Playhouse 9 Devereaux Way, 50 Reservoir NH WatervilleRoad, Valley,Meredith, NH 8 Abode Builders of New England 7 Snows Mountain Home 106 Boulder Pathof Road, Abode Builders New England Waterville Valley, NH Home Green Peak Adirondack

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Living Living In In A A Barn Barn Photos and Story By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper

Is A Passion For the Sharps Family

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pend an afternoon with Steve and Leigh Sharps at their Ashland property and you will come away with a dizzying array of inspirational decorating ideas, a good dash of history, a new knowledge of all sorts of wood … and an in-depth look at how an extended family lives together, with an emphasis on barn-to-home conversions.

Leigh and Steve transformed an old barn into a home some years ago. It is located just off Route 3 near the Holderness-Ashland town line, which means many people have seen it when driving that road. Steve and other family

members run Sharps Lumber, which provides lumber, unique custom furniture, and wood flooring.

Leigh and Steve seem to do it all with the help of their three adult children: Jamie, who is a filmmaker (www.sharpsfilms.com) and often helps Steve in the logging business; Kara, whose husband, Sean O’Leary, runs a sawmill on the property; and Kelly, who lives just a few miles away and is converting an old house.

Over the years, the family property has evolved. The first barn the family lived in is now Jamie’s home. A second barn built by Steve to house farm animals was converted into a home when daughter Kara married and started a family. Steve and Leigh had a lot of room to build themselves a new home, with about 100 acres of property from which to choose. Before moving out of the original converted barn that had been their home for many years, Leigh and Steve began to build a new home on their extensive property. The home just happens to be situated at the top of a mountain, with great views.

“This house started as a hobby project for Jamie and me,” Steve explains while pointing to the huge stones that line the basement foundation of the Adirondack-style home he shares with Leigh. “We did the stonework over the course of two years. We used the resources available on the property so we would not have a lot of expense.”

The first level and basement was built with timber cut by chainsaw.

Steve’s original intention was to build a house that would showcase the various types of wood Sharp’s Lumber sells. It would also be a place to 34 North Main St. P.O. Box 2180 Wolfeboro, NH 03894 603-569-4488

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offer examples of fine finished furniture made with Sharps’ various types of wood. As with everything else Steve and Leigh set out to do, they rolled with it and embraced a new lifestyle as the house evolved.

The porch offers incredible views of neighboring mountains and, at various times of the year, Squam Lake at the foot of the property. Leigh has used her creative skills to put in a vegetable garden and beautiful flowerbeds around the home.

Entering the house, the first floor is open-concept with a spacious kitchen/ dining room area on one side and a living room on the other. It’s difficult to know where to look first: To the left, the kitchen draws one in with the beautiful examples of cabinetry, chairs, and table and the various examples of wood floors underfoot, or the highlight of the kitchen, the handmade cabinets. “The kitchen was built by ScribeRight, owned by our friend Dan Ciarleglio,” Steve says.

One unique feature among many in the home is the moose antler banister.

“It is made of antlers and also of a large piece of wood. We were logging a property and I noticed a great piece of wood with unique burls. I was drawn to it and thought it would make a great banister. The antlers were gathered on our snowmobiling trips in northern New Hampshire,” Steve explains.

The banister featuers the moose antlers, interwoven to create a solid structure using the giant piece of wood with mammoth burls. It is a beautiful conversation piece and certainly not something one would see in just any house.

The home is a conglomeration of unique construction and styles with contributions from family and business associates and friends. The floors are made of various woods and serve as examples of the lumber available at Sharps Lumber. Bird’s Eye Maple, Pine, Black Walnut, and others were all sawn, dried, and milled on the property.

“I guess you could say I am addicted to wood. As a kid I cut lumber with my Dad using a crosscut saw,” Steve adds.

Leigh laughs and nods in agreement. But she, too, is a more-than-willing partner in Steve’s many projects. Each room in their unique home has its

own story, such as the huge stone fireplace in the living room crafted by local mason Ed Corrigan and the Rattlesnake Island/lake mural on a nearby wall painted by local artist Eliza King.

When it came to purchasing lighting and doors for the home, Leigh’s passion for antiques and repurposing old things came into play. “We got most of the home’s lighting fixtures at Alexandria Lamp Shop,” she says. “We always liked antique lighting and it works well in this house.”

Interior doors are repurposed and many came from a salvage company.

The doors are another conversation piece, featuring such fun touches as stained glass. One even has an old doorbell still attached.

The construction of the unique home is but part of the story of the Sharps family. Barns have played a big part in the lives of the entire family for many

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years. Walking the property, which includes a number of historic structures, Leigh explains, “I always wanted to turn a barn into a house. It was a dream of mine years ago. I also wanted to live by a lake.”

When their children were little, Leigh and Steve were living on an old farm in Sanbornton. It was a good life but the property was remotely located.

With a growing family, the couple wanted easier access to the school system, knowing their children would be involved in after-school activities in the years ahead.

Leigh, a writer for a local newspaper, was driving the finished pages to the printer in Plymouth and saw a for sale sign by an old barn in Ashland.

Ironically, Steve saw the same listing in a real estate magazine the same day.

Intrigued, the family set off to tour the property on a snowy winter’s day.

What they saw would have discouraged less visionary potential buyers. The

fields that now surround the property were not there; instead, it was densely forested. Further discouraging was the circa 1870s barn in extremely poor condition. The roof was caving in and it would not have been long before the entire structure tumbled in if not for its amazing rescue by the Sharps family.

Friends and family told Leigh and Steve they were crazy to buy such a place but Steve wanted to the land for its virgin timber, which he could sell. Leigh was on board because of her plans to finally turn a barn into a livable home.

“We worked on the barn 16 hours a day from April through June and then we moved in,” she recalls. They also hired a company to help sheetrock, which was no small task in an old barn with soaring walls that meet a very tall ceiling. A Russian fireplace is the only heat in the house and, while others expressed doubt that it would heat the lofty barn space, it indeed keeps the place very warm all winter long. Both Steve and Leigh say they miss the toasty warmth from the Russian fireplace, although their new home also has good heat.

Unique home features seem to be what Leigh and Steve love, and they got it all in the barn. Leigh points to a huge wooden wheel suspended from the barn’s ceiling. It is known as a slaughter wheel and was once used in the barn when a long-ago farmer butchered cattle.

Today, son Jamie lives in the barn home while daughter Kara and her husband reside right up the hill (all on the Sharps’ property) in a pretty barn that also was converted into a home.

The original purpose of Kara’s barn home was as a place for farm animals.

Having turned one barn into a home, Steve and Leigh knew they could convert the second barn into a home for Kara when she married. Today, the newer barn home sports a charming cupola and has the repurposed charm of all others structures on the Sharps’ property.

The sawmill sits directly across from Kara’s barn home and makes for a very quick commute for her husband, Sean, who runs the mill. (Steve says that many New Hampshire sawmills are no longer in operation and it seemed advantageous to put in their own sawmill for cutting timber.)

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of the Sharps’ business and family compound is the split rail fence and the huge burl (Leigh laughingly says the burl looks like a wooden sculpture of a certain part of the human body!). Near the fence, a charming, tall old building houses lumber and is used for drying wood. The structure was once a church/old meetinghouse on Squam Lake and was relocated to the Sharps property and retains its circa 1700s charm.

A large barn sits nearby and was part of the original Batchelder House, once an inn for wealthy summer tourists. Today it is a shop for the Sharps’ wood business.

With the lumber business providing high-quality woods at affordable prices, as well as unique custom furniture and top notch wood flooring, all from their Ashland family location, it would seem all of their goals have been met. (Leigh, by the way, got her wish of living by a lake because they own and spend a lot of time at their lakefront area right across the road.)

When asked what their future plans are, Leigh again laughs. “I wanted to live in a barn. We did it. I wanted to live by the lake.

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we might want to fix up.…” Her voice trails off as she thinks of the many houses they could build or remodel and all the possibilities out there.

Steve will continue with the family’s logging business that he has run for more than 30 years.

Leigh remains a willing partner in whatever project her husband may dream up. Time and the passing of years have not stopped their energetic creativity and their entrepreneurial spirits.

“My son, Jamie, is a local filmmaker. He and I are starting a new project called ‘Haunted New England’,” Leigh says with a gleam in her eye. “And there are all my other projects.”

She is referring, of course, to her passion for collecting antiques and her love for turning old objects into unique and new things, such as the old coffee pot that now hangs from her porch and serves as a wind chime, complete with old silverware as chimes.

Having her children and grandchildren living so close by is a pleasure for Steve and Leigh.

With projects to dream up and grandchildren to spoil, there is no stopping the couple that is always busy with something new.

And to think, it all started when Leigh saw a for sale sign and fell in love with an old barn.

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No View Tax For This Home Those searching for a home with a view may well overlook one option that is within reach: life on a houseboat.

“Houseboats are a hidden treasure,” affirms Terry Thomason who, with his wife, Nancy, have spent portions of many a summer living on the water. Standing on the upper helm of their 47-foot houseboat, T House, Terry indicates the panoramic view of the lake and mountains from their slip at Mountain View Yacht Club in Gilford. “You couldn’t pay for this view,” he says admiringly.

Nancy, seated in the large salon they had custom-built for this, their fifth houseboat, agrees with her husband when he says one’s blood pressure goes down when stepping aboard. “This is easy living,” she says. “When you come out here, there’s something about being on the water that causes all cares to fall away.”

The T House is being offered for sale because, now in their eighties, the Thomasons find they are not making use of the boat as much as they used to. That is largely due to their enthusiasm for the Meredith Bay Colony Club, where they reside when not on the boat. Meredith Bay offers all the amenities — including a dining room — that they could ask for, and they enjoy the time spent there almost as much as being on the water.

The other consideration is Terry’s bad heart. He said that, although the

houseboat has an electric winch to raise the heavy anchor, he doesn’t venture out on the lake unless there are younger people aboard, just in case there is a power failure. “I could never lift that anchor myself today,” Terry said.

“Someone who’s 45 or 50 wouldn’t have a problem; I didn’t have a problem when I was younger.”

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Terry noted that the generator enables them to anchor out on the water and still have air conditioning and power to cook a meal.

The last three houseboats they owned have been Gibsons and the T House, which they purchased new in the fall of 2002, was customized for their tastes after having owned four previous houseboats.

In addition to the larger salon, which is about 18 feet long, they ordered the electric winch with which they can raise the anchor without leaving the helm.

The sofa in the salon is a pull-out, able to sleep two. With the stateroom and its island bed, as well as another cabin with two double beds, the houseboat sleeps eight in comfort.

The boat also has two heads, each with a shower.

The galley features lots of storage compartments as well as a three-burner stove with oven and a sink, and there also is a microwave for quick heating.

Beneath the salon is an extensive crawl space for storage, extending all the way from the galley to the lower cabin.

There is a flying bridge with bench and individual seats, and a three-level deck at the back of the boat, providing plenty of space for party guests. And,

Nancy and Terry Thomason enjoy life aboard their 47-foot houseboat.

Terry notes, they have been able to hold business meetings with eight to 10 people in the salon.

In fact, he said, while working on institutional investments in Connecticut, he persuaded his boss to allow him to live in New Hampshire and he equipped his houseboat so he could

sit at anchor and conduct business while on the water.

As Terry tells it, he “met New Hampshire via Winnipesaukee” in 1961 when he came to the lake from Massachusetts and stayed at the former Chanticleer Inn Cabins off Route 11. Many young families spent time at those cabins and Terry recalls thinking that the lake would be a perfect place for a houseboat.

That led to their buying their first, a 24-foot camper-cruiser.

Once they owned one houseboat, they were hooked, later exchanging their 24-footer for a 34-foot Chris-Craft. When a storage facility at the former Fagan’s Marine collapsed in 1982, their 34-footer was among the casualties, and they bought their first Gibson, a 36-footer. That was replaced by a 44-footer, then their current houseboat.

“We went to Goodletsville, which was next to Memphis, where they built this boat,” Terry recalled.

As “confirmed houseboaters” the Thomasons did not have any trouble spending two entire summers on the water when they were between houses on land. They have found the Mountain View Yacht Club to be the perfect location, providing them with cable connections for television and computers, pump-out facilities, and other amenities.

“It’s great for entertaining,” Nancy says. “You can have people on several levels, so it doesn’t feel crowded.” And, she added, there is plenty of storage space for additional gear.

Terry noted that, unlike many boats, a houseboat does not require acrobatics or mountain-climbing skills to get around. There is a walkway with rail around the entire boat and stairs for easy access between levels.

Speaking of maneuverability and fuel economy, Terry says both are surprisingly good. “If there are 20-knot winds, you don’t pull out,” he said, “but, normally, you can turn this around on a dime.”

After three houseboats with single engines, they graduated to models with twin engines which Terry says are “infinitely more easy to operate”. Although he expected higher fuel bills with the twin engines, he has found that not to be the case, due to more economical use of power and to more efficient engines.

“What has continued to surprise me is the relatively small amount of fuel it uses,” he says.

Although they have owned the houseboat for 11 years, it has recorded only 117 hours of running time, as they do not do a lot of cruising. “My idea of a perfect day is to anchor it, play cards, and swim. That’s near perfection,” Terry says.

“We have lived in finger docks, but this is the best location,” said Nancy of their current slip at B1. It provides easy access and the other people there are very respectful of each other, Terry added.

In putting their houseboat up for sale, they are offering to include “the best slip in the best yacht club on Lake Winnipesaukee” — or to sell the houseboat alone, if the buyer intends to dock it elsewhere.

Originally listing the houseboat for sale in the fall of 2011, at the height of the recession, they have dropped the price over the years to a bargain level, noting that, to replace it today, with all it has on it, would cost a half-million dollars.

But, Terry acknowledges, “Houseboats are an unknown factor. It wouldn’t break my heart if we still have it at the end of the year.”

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Mural Of The Big Lake Transforms Back Bay Home

By Thomas P. Caldwell Converting a kitchen into a dining room as part of a home renovation project, Linda and Dick DaBica found themselves with a dilemma: They had deprived themselves of a wonderful lake view.

It was shortly after the DaBicas purchased their home on Bay Street, Wolfeboro — in part because it gave them a place from whence they could launch their boat for access to Rattlesnake Island, where they have had a cottage for 22 years — they built an addition to make the home more comfortable. In expanding the house, however, they created a solid wall between the old and the new portions of the home.

“It made this a room without windows,” said Linda of the dining room.

Then she had an inspiration. As a director of the NH Boat Museum, Linda had become familiar with the works of artist Peter Ferber who, since 1994 has painted the official poster for the New England Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society’s annual show. Peter also had directed the restoration of the mural on the front of the boat museum. The original mural, probably dating from the 1950s, had faded and Peter enlisted volunteers to freshen it up, offering advice and direction to those taking part in the restoration.

The DaBicas hired Peter to paint a 15-foot mural (with a 17-inch extension to the right of the door to the adjoining room) that would give them back their lake view. The 46-inch-high mural provides a sweeping view of Lake Winnipesaukee — including Rattlesnake Island — as seen from South Wolfeboro.

Peter, who typically works with watercolor, said taking on the mural “definitely got me to take up oil painting”. He previously had worked with oils only in a single oil painting course he took while attending Principia College in St. Louis MO. “In teaching myself, I did a number of practice paintings and a few small ones that sold first, before doing the mural,” Peter recalls.

Linda notes that Peter would collect samples of moss and tree bark and bring them to the house while working on the mural, in order to accurately match the colors and textures of the scenery. She brought out a piece of bark that she had saved from those sessions, holding it up against a tree on the right side of the mural to show how successfully Peter had reproduced its features.

“He came one day a week, sometimes more, spending the whole day at work on the mural,” Linda recalls.

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colors at the left of the mural, highlighting the other objects in the painting. For the DaBicas, it is a scene that puts them back into the island frame of mind — and provides a treat for their dinner guests.

“This was done about 10 years ago,” Linda says as she admires the painting. “It’s lovely, just wonderful. And we use the dining room a lot, so it’s not like it doesn’t get appreciated.”

Other homeowners also appreciate the paintings of Peter Ferber, which add a touch of tranquility to the walls of their homes. Most of his works are watercolors, but he does do oils and acrylics, now that he has created works such as the Bay Street mural.

“For Peter, it allowed him to stretch a little, and he did a beautiful job,” Linda said. “For us, it got us going on collecting White Mountain paintings which we have throughout our house.”

She added that she and her husband have derived “an awful lot of pleasure” out of the mural. “I love the sun setting there.”

Linda says they will miss the mural when they eventually move out of the house. “It stays with the house,” she said.

However, when the time comes, they will have something else to take away. Peter also painted a Wolfeboro scene on a small, wooden stool that the DaBicas had. It features a view from the Back Bay to the Big Lake, with prominent buildings like Brewster Academy plainly visible.

A piece of bark propped at the edge of Peter Ferber’s mural shows how closely the artist came in his illustration of the tree in the foreground.

Ferber had bark and moss on hand as he created the mural to aid him in capturing the scene he was painting.

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Peter admits that he likes to experiment, and he has created some threedimensional works using paper cut-outs. He glues the paper together as a relief on a painted background.

Still, it is his watercolors that prove to be the most popular, especially at the art shows he puts on twice a year at the Art Place in downtown Wolfeboro. (His most recent show opened Labor Day Weekend, running through Sept. 13.) The Art Place also offers limited-edition prints of his paintings, and many of them have found their way into homes across the country.

For those who have spent time at the lake, perhaps having come to the Lakes Region every summer since their youths, a painting by Peter Ferber helps to preserve the memories, or enhance the experience with a view through the artist’s eyes, or simply to convey a peaceful feeling and a calm attitude. The qualities of a summer vacation can reside forever in a painting, whether muralsized or small, original or print. Peter Ferber has memorialized the feeling.

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Charity House To Benefit Children’s Auction Story and Photos By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper This year, a number of Lakes Region builders and volunteers will have Santa’s nod of approval when a very special project is completed. Indeed, Santa himself could not have used his Christmas magic to conjure up a more beautiful home than the one nearing completion in Laconia. That house is known as the 2013 Children’s Charity House.

The home, when completed, will be listed on the popular Oct. 12-14 Parade of Homes event on Columbus Day Weekend. Those looking to buy a home or get home décor ideas are definitely in for a treat.

The Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association (known as the LRBRA) is one of nine New Hampshire builder trade groups within the statewide Home Builders and Remodelers Association (HBRANH). Each year, the LRBRA organizes the New Hampshire Parade of Homes, featuring houses located throughout the state’s lakes and mountain regions, built by some of the best Lakes Region builders in the industry. Each house has some of the newest features and products, not to mention that all are decorated beautifully.

This year, contractors, painters, decorators, and others are working long hours to complete the Children’s Charity House in time for the Parade of Homes to capture the widest real estate audience possible. Proceeds from the house, when sold, will go to benefit the 98.3 WLNH Children’s Auction.

As many know, the auction takes place each year and is broadcast for a number of days on WLNH and Lakes Region Public Access Television with support from Metrocast Cablevision. Last year’s auction raised a staggering $416,500 through the sale of items and through donations. Proceeds support children in need in the area in a number of ways.

Located at Windemere Ridge, 190 Turner Way in Laconia, the Children’s Charity House is a dramatic, 2,200 sq. ft. Craftsman-style bungalow home that

will be finished with the very finest materials and workmanship. Bedecked with color, flooring, artwork, and furniture by local professional interior decorators, the beautiful wooded property with mountain views will be skillfully landscaped

by Belknap Landscape Co. Says lead interior decorator for the project Patti Phelps of All In The Details Interior Design, “The home is a modern interpretation of a Craftsman-style bungalow. It will have a lot of handmade woodwork and hardwood flooring.”

Patti has clearly fallen in love with the home and the project. She is joined by three other Lakes Region decorator companies: Decorative Interiors, Sandra Curtis Designs, and Home Beautiful.

“The home will be completed and fully staged for the Parade of Homes,” Patti explains. “Harris Furniture is generously providing the furniture for the staging. The designers chose a room they wanted to decorate and, as lead designer, I am taking the remaining rooms so that the entire house will be staged to give Parade of Home guests the full effect of the beautiful home for sale.”

Custom-milled hardwood flooring by Hampshire Hardwoods will set the home apart, as will appliances from Baron’s Major Brands Appliances.

Taking on such a project was no small task. The LRBRA has a history of giving to the Children’s Auction. Going back a few years to 2011, the Children’s Auction was celebrating its 30th anniversary and LRBRA accepted the challenge of creating a functional, custom-crafted TV production set with custom furniture for the auction. LRBRA member companies joined together to design, build, and deliver the furniture at no cost to the auction. LRBRA members in 2012 created a matching TV production set “surround” or backdrop.

The LRBRA’s most intensive project to date for the Children’s Auction, the Children’s Charity House, is being designed, built, landscaped, and decorated

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prices or altogether donated by various LRBRA supplier-members.

Mike Hayward of Hayward and Co. Log & Timber Homes volunteered to serve as the general contractor on the project and has already donated more than a week’s worth of framing with his entire crew.

“The crews have been working so hard,” Patti continues. “ReMax/Bayside is the realty company and their agent, Chris Kelley, is the listing agent. The price for the home will be set before the Parade of Homes and, when sold, the final sale price will be kept a secret until the Children’s Auction. Announcing the amount that will be donated to the auction from the Charity House sale will certainly be exciting!”

Belknap Landscape Company will design and handle all outside grounds landscaping. Says Dale Squires, marketing manager at Belknap Landscape Co., “We will definitely come up with a great landscape design to fit the property.

It will be a suitable outdoor living space for the family choosing to purchase this home.”

Soon the home will be offered for sale by RE/Max Bayside Realty and presented to the public with workmanship representative of LRBRA membercompany skills.

According to Squires, many member businesses and their employees have donated time and skills to complete the Children’s Charity House project in time for the Parade of Homes. “These people have given so much for this great cause.”

The land the home sits on was obtained because the developer gave the LRBRA a fabulous deal. The home is in a quiet, rural spot with desirable views of the surrounding hills.

The many skilled contractors, designers, landscapers, and members of the public who have volunteered to see the Charity House through to completion should get a pat on the back from Santa this year. When the house is sold and proceeds donated to the WLNH Children’s Auction in December, many needy children in the Lakes Region will benefit.

For more information on the Children’s Charity House project, visit www. hbranh.net or www.baysidenh.net.

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Landscapes for Living Fall Is for Planting ...Trees, Shrubs, Lawns & Bulbs!

Homeowners and commercial property managers are discovering a new gardening season: Autumn.

Native plantings thrive through harsh winters and provide subtle, four season landscape interest.

Belknap Landscape offers property owners alternative choices for landcare, providing naturalized plantings and organic materials, all at the best time of the year for planting....

Fall is, THE BEST TIME for planting!

Plantings from September through late October in northern areas are treated to a less stressful environment with moderate temperatures, sufficient rains, and mild days followed by cool nights.

Soil temperatures are optimal for root growth and will continue to grow even after plants drop their foliage (deciduous plants) well into November and later before the ground

freezes. You'll see fewer plant losses attributed to lack of acclimation to the cold than a landscape installed in the spring, when plantings run a higher risk of loss due to the summer's heat and dryness.

Professional gardeners and landscapers have always valued fall for planting trees and shrubs, seeding lawns and setting out spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips and daffodils. Lakes Region residents are never more aware of trees than in autumn, when leaves turn brilliant shades of red, gold and orange and it is the perfect time to ask Belknap Landscape for assistance in selecting colorful trees for dramatic effect in your landscape next year.

Call BLC Sales Manager Tim Lefebvre, at 603-528-2798, or contact him at: tlefebvre@belknaplandscape.com

Unique Holiday Lighting Displays

BLC Outdoor Decor specializes in Commercial Christmas Decorating, Holiday Light Displays, Banners, & Flags. Our most prominent client, Tanger Outlet Mall - Tilton is also our most dramatic example of tasteful, effective decorations. We are the area's leader in commercial holiday decorations, lighting and "custom made products." If you need a custom made display - call us!

Our suppliers can custom-build anything you have in mind.

We also provide residential holiday and special event lighting and decorating products, installation, maintenance, take down and storage. With Belknap Landscape, you can choose from a wide variety of beautiful and creative designs for holiday or any special event.

Design Consultation Our professional design consultants will meet with you to determine your lighting needs. We can assist in designing a display, discuss and expand on your ideas, and offer advice as to the best type of lighting for your project.

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you know that it can be time consuming as well as dangerous. Wouldn’t it be nice to have it all installed for you?

Service and Maintenance How many times have you unpacked lights to find bulbs broken, missing or malfunctioning? Our service technicians will replace bulbs, repair damage and do any necessary wiring to insure a safe and lasting display.

Take Down and Storage The task that everyone dreads...taking down the holiday light displays. We wrap and safely package your lights for storage.

We are the Festive Lighting Experts!

Belknap Landscape is your local holiday lighting specialist.

We are proud to offer our holiday decorating services to the Greater Lakes Region. Our professional design consultants will meet with you to determine what will best suit your design needs. You may contact us directly to schedule your free, no obligation consultation.

Call BLC Sales Manager Tim Lefebvre at 603-528-2798, or contact him at: tlefebvre@belknaplandscape.com

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We're Planting Wildflowers This Fall!

Considering planting meadows or wooded areas with wildflowers? Fall is, in fact, the optimal time for wildflower planting.

On the other hand planting a successful fields of wildflowers requires skill. While a daunting task without the correct training, Belknap Landscape's crews & tools make it easy to accomplish terrific wildflower planting results. Belknap Landscape's equipment fleet includes a Brillion agricultural seeding machine, operated by skilled BLC employees. Not many NH Landscape Design-Build companies can say that, if any. Utilizing the right equipment ensures good soil-to-seed contact for improved germination, critical for such landcare improvement investments.

Belknap Landscape provides services to many Lakes Region high profile property owners. We choose the very best

wildflower seed supplier in New England - Vermont Wildflower Farm in Charlotte, Vermont. Chris and Diana at Vermont Wildflower only offer exclusive, hand packed proven mixtures and premium wildflower seed. In turn, they recommend Belknap Landscape whenever a New Hampshire resident calls for a landscape contractor.

How does the process work?

Belknap focuses on soil testing to guide us through the correct seed mix selection, optimum seeder machine settings and the subsequent fertilizations.

For site work reviews and quotes on planting this fall, contact: Tim Lefebvre, Sales Manager at: tlefebvre@belknaplandscape.com or call 603-528-2798.

Preserve Your Trees! - Belknap Landscape has the tools and skills...

Belknap Landscape Company's Arboriculture Division is dedicated to preserving the health and vigor of one of most valued landscape features of your property.

BLC Tree Care Specialists provide the following services: large tree pruning, large tree removal - with crane or by hand, cabling/bracing of weak limbs or crotches, vista pruning, and complete health care packages.

We also offer waterfront tree surveys in compliance with the revised DES Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act. Make Sure Your Treecare Provider Has The Right Equipment Make sure your tree care provider has access to the latest equipment, technologies and training Our Altec 26-ton crane has a reach of over 140 feet. In addition to tree work, our skilled operators will set construction materials, large signs and assist in any other project where the use of a crane will speed completion in a timely and efficient manner.

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Choose a TCIA Safety Certified Professional, a certified NH Aborist such as Belknap Landscape Company.

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Industry Association (TCIA). Belknap Landscape maintains employees with the TCIA Certified Treecare Safety Professionals credential (CTSP), providing municipalities, institutions, and the public a means of discerning between BLC and our competition when gathering estimates for projects.

Complementing that is a NH Arborist Certification. This provides the discerning consumer with a means of finding a reputable tree care company.

TCIA also has the nation's only Accreditation program that helps consumers find tree care companies that have been inspected and accredited based on adherence to industry standards for quality and safety, maintenance of trained, professional staff and dedication to ethics and quality in business practices.

The New Hampshire Arborists Association tests and certifies New Hampshire arborists. The NH Arborist Certification establishes a meaningful standard of quality in arboricultural work, improves the knowledge and skills of practicing arborists, and provides the public with criteria for choosing a tree care professional.

Compelling Reasons to choose BLC! Dial (603) 528-2798 for a no-obligation quote.

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Fertilize In The Fall?

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is the best time to ask us about Fall fertilizing and to arrange for BLC's 2014 turf, plant and tree healthcare programs. This allows BLC property management experts to assess your property's needs before the snow arrives.

After a stressful, dry and hot Lakes Region summer, considering Fall fertilization for your turf, planting beds and large trees is a smart decision. BLC offers fertilization programs to help expedite this recovery. Not only will your turf and plants respond more rapidly, our programs will help them get a jump on Spring by coming out of winter dormancy as healthy as ever! One of the best times to fertilize your plants and grow a lawn is in the Fall.

Why Is Fall Fertilizing Important?

Taking time to fertilize in the Fall will strengthen the root systems on lawns, plants and trees, giving them a strong base on which to thrive next spring. Belknap's Turf care division knows cool season NH grasses recover from summer stresses like drought, heat, and disease in the Fall with proper fertilization...

If the lawn has been properly fertilized in the late summer, grass can store carbohydrate reserves in the stems, rhizomes, and stolons. Carbohydrate reserves help grass resist winter injury and disease, and serve as a source of energy for root and shoot growth the following spring. A BLC late fall fertilization will also provide better winter color, enhanced spring green up, and increased rooting.

BLC Technicians apply a balanced, complete Fall fertilizer and a broadleaf weed control, followed by lime, the latter if a BLC soil test deems it necessary.

Soil test samples may be taken from several locations in your lawn to determine the nutrient profile and pH level of your soil. We will send you a copy of the results and any recommendations to modify your soil chemistry, if needed.

Belknap Technicians will insure optimum turf health conditions!

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located in turf areas where they compete for nutrients. The balance are usually in mulch beds that use up nitrogen as the mulch decomposes. We stand ready to take care of proper fertilizations in your planting beds and to execute deep root feeding for your most valuable landscape investment - your trees.

Trees should be fed just like your vegetable-producing and ornamental plants, and Fall - early winter is the time to do this. Some argue that most trees appear to do very well in the forest, although they obviously are not fed by anyone. Trees growing in your landscape are growing in an artificial environment, competing for nutrients. There’s no turf or grass in the forest, only the forest floor, rich in decayed leaves and organic litter.

Lawn Insect, Disease and Crabgrass Control Our trained technicians will inspect lawn areas on each visit for indications of pest problems and advise of such problems. If such problems arise, optional lawn care services we provide include: Lawn insect & grub control - identify and control of surface insects such as chinch bugs, sod webworms, or subsurface insects (i.e., grubs) will be made only in the event that we find a problem.

Lawn fungus control helps control fungal pathogens in the turf grass.

A post emergent application of crabgrass control reduces growth of crabgrass once it has germinated.

Aerate For Best Results..

The experts at Belknap Landscape Company's Turf Management Division want you to enjoy the pleasure provided by a thicker, greener, healthier lawn. Well-maintained turf grass will provide a comfortable, safe setting for your leisure activities, games and sports.

Core aeration - this mechanical process is designed to reduce soil compaction. The reduction in soil compaction increases the ability of turf-grass roots to absorb oxygen, nutrients, and water leading to a healthier, thicker lawn.

For advice and consultation with planting and fertilizing, please contact us at (603)528-2798.

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Belknap Landscape Builds Local Display Inside Major Retail Showroom In an unparalleled collaborative effort between a prominent distributor, a respected retailer and a local landscape contractor, Lakes Region residents now have a spectacular place to shop for outdoor living products. Together, Barons Major Brands Appliances, Hadco, a distributor of Alfresco Outdoor Culinary and Belknap Landscape Company designed and built an outdoor kitchen area featuring Alfresco Culinary units within the Major Brands Belmont showroom.

Stop at Barons Major Brands Appliance in Belmont to discuss the outdoor kitchen of your dreams!

This functional display area represents a lakefront outdoor kitchen. The counter top from a single, massive slab of Bluestone; the pergola sealed & stained a cedar color, dramatic

against the blues & grays of the stonework. BLC low voltage lighting complements the display, illuminates the food preparation areas and the Alfresco open air Culinary Appliances, showing the public that Belknap Landscape offers every imaginable landcare service all under one roof.

To learn more about creating outdoor living spaces, visit Major Brands in Belmont or check out the configurations in the BLC Outdoor Kitchen photo portfolio.

Set up a no-obligation landscape review. Call BLC Sales Manager Tim Lefevbre at 603-528-2798 and he will meet you on site to discuss the Outdoor Kitchen options, with no obligation whatsoever....

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Taking The Temperature Of Lakes Region Real Estate

By Roy Sanborn Because I am a Realtor®, people often ask my opinion on where I would like to live in the Lakes Region. I reply, “That would be on Maui.” They usually stare blankly back and ask, “How’s the real estate market doing?” The answer to that is, “It’s okay, things are moving, but.”

Some homeowners that are considering listing their property for sale are excited, as they have heard the news that the real estate market is heating up, prices are rising, and buyers are bidding for homes. The truth is that’s not happening around here. Real estate is a very local phenomenon and, while some markets are surging and prices are rising, that’s not the case in the Lakes

Region … yet.

You have to remember that the numbers you hear on the news are usually national statistics. There are parts of the country that were far harder-hit in the housing collapse than we were. It is easy to have a big percentage increase in property values when homes were truly worth next to nothing in some parts of the country.

The following charts will give you a comparison of average sales prices and the total number of sales for single-family residential homes over the 12 months ending July 31, 2013, compared to the same 12 months the year before.

Belknap County Rolling 12 Month Residential Homes Sales Comparison

Carroll County Rolling 12 Month Residential Homes Sales Comparison

Alton Barnstead Belmont Center Harbor Gilford Gilmanton Laconia Meredith New Hampton Sanbornton Tilton Average

Avg Sales Price 8/1/12 8/1/11 to to 7/31/13 7/31/12 $416,315 $139,439 $138,528 $356,741 $335,383 $204,837 $206,932 $467,451 $216,300 $244,902 $135,917 $264,839

$304,114 $127,739 $148,612 $304,723 $361,213 $152,254 $211,661 $408,965 $220,941 $218,791 $131,098 $247,556

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Change 37% 9% -7% 17% -7% 35% -2% 14% -2% 12% 4% 7%

Number of sales 8/1/12 8/1/11 to to % Change 7/31/13 7/31/12 97 91 94 19 112 59 190 96 26 47 29 860

98 75 51 13 96 59 183 90 31 37 31 764

-1% 21% 84% 46% 17% 0% 4% 7% -16% 27% -6% 13%

Albany Bartlett Brookfield Chatham Conway Eaton Effingham Freedom Hales Location Harts Location Jackson Madison Moultonborough Ossipee Sandwich Tamworth Tuftonboro Wakefield Wolfeboro Average

Avg Sales Price 8/1/12 8/1/11 to to 7/31/12 7/31/13 $170,271 $224,007 $222,513 $165,000 $186,191 $202,006 $103,460 $217,075 $542,500

$381,032 $206,266 $534,409 $160,274 $339,992 $155,972 $435,846 $182,254 $400,555 $278,289

$107,667 $245,691 $318,257 $271,458 $176,032 $800,000 $123,562 $220,192 $459,250 $1,453,750 $277,941 $176,295 $576,821 $189,301 $259,789 $170,223 $314,816 $212,849 $428,259 $288,060

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Number of Sales 8/1/12 8/1/11 % to to Change 7/31/13 7/31/12 Change

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6 52 7 6 129 1 21 38 4 2 29 64 104 69 19 30 44 103 107 835

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If anything, the good news is that the total sales are up in both Belknap and Carroll counties for this time frame. Actually, that’s great news! We need to whittle down what is considered a very high inventory level of 15 months’ worth of homes to sell in Belknap County and 18 months’ worth in Carroll. A good, healthy housing market would be around six months’ supply. Prices are never going to rebound to any degree as long as there is an oversupply of homes on the market. That is supply-and-demand economics, plain and simple. As the charts show, must communities experienced more sales over the previous 12-month period, some stayed the same, and a handful had fewer sales; but, overall, there were solid 11 percent and 12 percent gains.

In Belknap County, the chart shows that the average sale price rose from $247,556 to $264,839, an increase of seven percent. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your house is suddenly worth $20,000 more this year than last. I kind of wish it were so. But, remember those good old days? Do you remember what happened after seven or eight years of continually rising home values? I thought so….

The average sales prices shown reflects more of what is selling rather than a sudden increase in property values. It’s pretty easy to see that, when you look at the numbers for the individual communities, there are some pretty wild fluctuations. A look inside the numbers will show that 53 percent of the sales in Belknap County were under the $200,000 price point over the past 12-month period, compared to 60 percent for the period ending 7/31/12. On the other end of the scale, there were 20 sales over $1 million (three of which were over $3 million) for the period ending 7/31/13, compared to 15 sales over $1 million for the period ending 7/31/12. So the combination of fewer lowerpriced homes and more high-priced homes selling caused the sales average to come in a bit higher.

Over in Carroll County, the average sales price dropped just a little, from $288,060 to $278,289 for the recent 12-month period. In Carroll County, the number of sales under $200,000 increased from 458 to 520 and the number of homes over $1 million dropped slightly, from 30 to 29. That explains the slight drop in average home sale prices.

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So what’s this all mean? To me, it appears that, while home prices are not increasing, they do appear to be stabilizing. And they will probably remain stability for a while longer. It is going to take a while to reduce the glut of homes in the market. The increase in total home sales indicates that people might just be feeling a little more positive, confident, or optimistic. They want to purchase homes and they will, as long as they see value in what they buy.

So the answer to the question of how the real estate market is doing is, “It’s okay, things are moving, but sellers have to be realistic on their asking price and buyers have to be realistic on their offers.” It’s just that simple: Be real and you’ll have a deal.

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“We started the business in 1979. Before this, we had a place called Heritage Village on Route 3 in the Meredith-Weirs area,” says owner Bob Hood. “We ran the village in the 1960s into the 1970s. When we sold Heritage Village, we were looking for a new location that would allow us to run the business in our home.”

Heritage Village focused on selling colonial-style items such as lighting and furniture from the early days of America. At that time — the early 1970s — Colonial décor was becoming quite popular, most likely due to the nation’s celebration of its bicentennial. Much focus was placed on colonial America, from Revolutionary heroes to the way early Americans lived and decorated their homes.

It all seemed to come together when Bob and his wife, Marilyn, discovered eight beautiful acres of property on College Road. They built a New England center-chimney saltbox home and moved in with their children.

“We opened R. Hood in our home in 1979,” Bob said.

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One enters R. Hood by a small breezeway attaching a large garage to the main house. From there, one enters the huge, beautiful kitchen with colonial décor.

A large counter island space gives plenty of room for meal preparation and the kitchen opens onto the dining area with reproduction dining table and chairs from D. R. Dimes Furniture.

A fireplace board (or fireboard) covers the fire opening and is decoratively painted in the Early American style. Many items such as the fireboard are for sale.

“On the first floor, our personal items are mixed in with items for sale. People can see the furnishings in a home décor,” Bob says.

How does a customer tell what is for sale and what isn’t? Bob laughs and says customers often ask to buy the Hood family’s personal antiques and other items, and that is why an attractive podium-style sign lists each item that is for

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From the dining room picture window, customers are treated to a view of the mountains that is spectacular and must be particularly breathtaking in the foliage season. A mammoth lawn slopes down the hill and is surrounded by a stonewall that Bob has been working on for some years.

“I started it the same day as 9/11 and I am over half-way finished. It’s quite a job!” he adds.

The living room is a comfortable space with beautiful paintings and fine furniture. A small office nearby is a quiet spot for Bob to read and relax.

On the upper level, two of the home’s bedrooms are decorated in a period style and offer reproduction antique furniture, carpets, and accessories.

Although the height of popularity for the Colonial Williamsburg style of furnishings was in the 1980s, R. Hood continues to meet a need for the specialty market of customers who just love 18th and 19th century décor. “Cultural changes have definitely occurred,” Bob says. “Today the younger customers shop in a different manner, such as online. Ikea and modern décor stores are popular, but we do have loyal customers who prefer the colonial style.”

Part of R. Hood’s appeal is the fact that customers can see what the furniture, carpets, curtains, and other objects will look like in actual rooms. Also, the fact that the furniture is all reproductions and solidly made is very appealing.

“We have customers who plan a stop at R. Hood as part of their vacation trip.

Many of our customers are from outside New Hampshire and other countries as well.”

Clearly, there is still a desire for high-quality reproductions that are styled in the periods of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The lower level of the home is where the R. Hood showrooms are located.

Off a large showroom with a consultation table and many period pieces is the lighting room with specialty lighting of all sorts. Both interior and exterior lighting is available from the Woodwright Co., Brubaker Metalcrafters, Lt. Moses Willard, Northeast Lantern Ltd., Country Traditions, and Hubbardton Forge. R. Hood also is a licensee to Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Deerfield, and Old Sturbridge Village.

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Furniture companies offering reproduction pieces at R. Hood include D. R. Dimes Furniture, LeFort Furniture, McGuire Furniture, and Mark T. Emizian.

Clocks and period hardware are offered, as well as fine rugs and fabrics.

To show customers what a beautiful canopy bed decked out in fine period fabrics can look like, another showroom off the main room features the best in period colors and fabrics. In another room known as the rug room, rugs by Karastan, Nourison Rug, and Woodard Weave, as well as braided rugs by Capel and Early American floorcloths, are on display in a wide variety of textures, colors, and patterns.

Should someone want to decorate with period reproduction furniture, where is the best place to start? “I suggest to customers that they research the market for prices and makers. Look for quality, because it’s worth it in the long run,” advises Bob. No one knows more about the colonial-era furnishings than Bob and Marilyn.

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With that massive stonewall to complete and acres of lawn to mow, does Bob ever tire of having his home serve as a showroom for customers to stroll through and shop? (After all, most of us like to make a mess now and then and that isn’t an option when a customer might walk in the door when you are open!)

Laughing again, Bob says, “I’m a person who doesn’t like clutter. Even if we didn’t have the business, the house would still be neat.”

Although times and tastes in home décor change, there is still a desire for colonial reproductions. The good news is that, like the legends of George Washington and other early Americans that started it all, R. Hood & Co. will be around for those who want durable and beautiful period furniture and the lifestyle that goes with it.

R. Hood & Co. is open year-round, Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; other times by chance or appointment. The shop is located at 93 College Road, Center Harbor. For more information, call 603-279-8607 or visit www. rhoodco.com.

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The three ReStores currently located in New Hampshire are in Newington, Nashua, and Holderness. The Pemi-Valley Habitat for Humanity, which originally opened a ReStore in Ashland four years ago, recently relocated to a larger building in Holderness at the junction of routes 3 and 175. The building is leased for a nominal fee from local businessman and restaurateur Alex Ray of the Common Man Family of Restaurants, who is well-known for his support of charitable and community projects.

I stopped in recently to check out the new store and one thing that I noticed

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Volunteer Patricia Wells, who was in charge of the counter, says that the new building gives Pemi-Valley Habitat a larger space for inventory and greater visibility. “We are already getting more street traffic,” she notes, adding that the new ReStore has also seen an increase the number of hours and days that it is open for business.

Executive Director Brian McCarthy agrees. “We’ve only been open here for a couple of weeks, but we’ve already noticed a very strong increase in traffic and, in particular, in donations.”

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One added benefit of donating to a Habitat ReStore is that the organization can pick up items for you at your home if you are unable to bring them to the ReStore location. Each ReStore has its own policies about pick-ups, so it is best to check first.

“It really depends on what it is,” says Brian. “We prefer that people bring their donations to the store but, depending on what it is, we will go in our truck to pick up donations, especially bigger items and things that are really in demand or high-quality.”

Pemi-Valley Habitat for Humanity formed in 1985 and, since that time, volunteers have built 27 new homes throughout the greater Plymouth-Bristol region. The Pemi-Valley volunteers tend to work on an average of two homes per year. Of course, additional volunteers are always welcome, both at the construction sites and at the ReStore.

“We’re close to completing our 28th home,” notes Brian. “We will frame and roof the final two homes in the four-home Hedstrom Way project [in Bristol] starting with our Women Build Weekend, Oct. 5 and 6. We will resume working on those homes in the spring.”

The Women Build-a-Thon is a fundraising effort that seeks to involve women who want to volunteer to help build Habitat homes. The two days of construction in Ocrtober will run from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Breakfasts, lunches, and on-the-job training are included, and organizers also plan to invite several local and state women politicians and government officials to attend and lend a helping hand. No previous construction experience is necessary to participate; register by calling 603-536-1333 or by emailing pr@pemivalleyhabitat.org.

The Holderness ReStore, located at the junction of routes 175 and 3, is open year-round on Wednesdays through Fridays from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.; Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.; and Sundays (through Columbus Day Weekend) from noon until 3 p.m.

For more information about the ReStore or the Pemi-Valley Habitat for Humanity, or to donate materials, call 536-1333 or 968-7100, or log on to www.pemivalleyhabitat.org. All donations are tax-deductable.

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