Saturday, January 1, 2011

HGTV Dream Home

New Year's Day offers ramps HGTV programming with commercial-free broadcast of the 122nd Tournament of Roses, and for the first time, home and garden network sponsors a float - a replica of their dream home 2011th
Designed and built by Phoenix Decorating based in Pasadena, emulated float mountain modern youth hostel in Stowe, Vermont, giving away the network in mid-February as the top prize in a drawing for $ 2,000,000.
Phoenix furniture designer Dave Pittman was the creation of the float for months, with the inspiration of the architectural plans for the Dream Home Planner Jack Thomasson. Pittman believes that the house is covered with flowers tenth the size of the ski trip of 3,400 square meters real Vermont. Complete with columns, beams, eaves and a house covered with copper (bronze Perpetua, lentils, cinnamon and, in fact), the hostel on a Vignette platform 17 by 55 feet is set up base with a landmark Vermont landscape.
"If you come, maybe it's built in support, but uses some traditional styles, such as a house," said Pittman.
The structure is ready for decorating drought in early December. He was then director Lyn Floral Decor Phoenix had Lofthouse cover employees and volunteers, the surface with a mixture of cocoa powder and flour, cereals -. "To get light brown eyes," he said Redwood crust flax seed and describes the window frame and statice, blue and lavender, finely chopped white rice are used to configure the panel. Textures small seeds of lettuce from the base rock beat and poppy dark grout.
These materials are hand-built section by section, with a sponge and glue. "You do not want the petals of flowers at home, because it would be sweet," said Lofthouse.
Fresh cut flowers and flower petals were this week. The roof is covered with snow-white lilies and lavender. found roses, carnations, daisies, orchids Cattleya, eucalyptus, streams iris, gladioli and Spanish moss in the garden, forming a landscape of forests and mountains.
HGTV's Dream Home is one of 22 Rose Parade floats float, created this year, decorate Phoenix. Lofthouse origin of thousands of plants worldwide, although she says she tried for the country. "The flowers are straw San Diego, and chrysanthemums are a farmer in northern California, he said. More details on the lineup New Year's Day, pictures of the HGTV Dream House and current information on the observed parade of floats in person ...
HGTV programming is planned for Saturday with "Countdown" Rose Parade, at 7:30 PST clock The Rose Parade is broadcast to follow at 8 clock, then the "Special HGTV Dream Home 2011" is scheduled for 10 hours HGTV site, but the lists sometimes contradictory West Coast, so check your local ads. (The Vermont house is shown above and below.)
You can use the fleet in person Clock 1-5 Saturday and from 9.00 bis 05.00 Sonntagsblick clock on the end of the parade route on Sierra Madre Boulevard in Pasadena. Tickets are $ 10, children under 5 years free. Ticket sales end 15 hours, the place closes by 5 clock Tournament of Roses Web site for more details.

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