The Observation Deck

The Lakewood Old House Fair will be held on Saturday, April 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Harding Middle School (at Hilliard & Madison). Admission is free.

Exhibitor Door Prizes & Booth Raffle Sampling

$15,000 Joyce Factory Direct Sunroom Imagine the Possibilities Giveaway; $1,000 Racy Custom Woodworks Restoration of residential wood front door; $400 Imperial Home Center Gift certificate towards new kitchen appliance; $200 Lakewood Hardware Rockwell Shop Tool Series Combo Kit; $200 Pet's General Store Hexagon fish aquarium and full set up; $150 Metropolitan Home Design Real estate staging or design consultation; $125 Reliable Construction Aluminum Storm Door; $125 Lakewood Garden Center Free garden consultation, $50 gift card, & garden basket.

Special Features

Free 2011 Madison Ave. Business Directory that includes detailed listing of Old House Fair Exhibitors.

NEW THIS YEAR Cleveland Restoration Society presentations: 1:30 p.m. - Painting Your Old House & 2:30 p.m. - Choosing Colors For Your Old House. See story at http://www.lakewoodobserver.com/read/20 ... sentations for more details.

Bring photos of your house or project for free consultation from the experts.

Business Exhibitors

Absolute Exteriors, Aladins TV (DirecTV/ATT&T), Allure Painting, American Plaster & Drywall, Best Lawn Service, CertaPro Painters, Custom Home Improvement, Cuyahoga Safe & Lock, Dollar Bank, Holstein Cabinetry, HRI (Home Restoration Investments), Imperial Home Center, Joyce Factory Direct (sunrooms & windows), Lakewood Garden Center, Lakewood Hardware, Lakewood Lawncare, Metropolitan Home Design, Nature's Bin Garden Department, NorthEast Plumbing & Mechanical, Pet's General Store, PlanetCare Landscape Services, Premier Landscaping, R Home Inspector, Racy Custom Woodworks, Radcliffe Construction, Reliable Construction, Rockport Woodworks, Scott Electrical Service, Slife Heating & Cooling, The Ohio Educational Credit Union, Window Universe, Delta Computers, Environmental Healing, Gardens By Gaydos, Western Reserve Building, Sherwin Williams, Hudak & Associates.

Nonprofit Organizations & Services Exhibitors

Cleveland Restoration Society, Lakewood Historical Society & Lakewood City Heritage Advisory Board, City of Lakewood: Community Development, Building & Housing Department, Cuyahoga Board of Health/City of Lakewood Health Department, Keep Lakewood Beautiful, LEAF (Lakewood Earth & Food Community), The Lakewood Public Library, LakewoodAlive Housing Outreach, Habitat For Humanity, The Lakewood Observer, MAMA (Madison Avenue Merchant Association), Lakewood Schools & Lakewood Community Recreation & Education Dept.

Plan to have lunch at the Old House Fair!

Tommy's Pizza & Chicken, just opened at 16813 Madison Ave., will be offering special deals on a couple of their lunch fare from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

To read Lakewood Observer's front page story on the upcoming Old House Fair http://www.lakewoodobserver.com/read/20 ... -residents

The Old House Fair comes together smoothly again this year. MAMA puts the organized process in place to gather the exhibitors and event services, Lakewood Schools Community Recreation & Education provides the venue and its resources, and Lakewood Observer with its impact to reach the Lakewood community makes sure the public knows about the event. Then, with all the many additional hands of each of the exhibitors that do their own small part to put on an informative and enjoyable event, an incredible community service is the result.

Last year, Old House Fair greeters were able to get most attendees to tack the map of where their house was located. The Old House Fair served nearly 400 households with information on how to better care for or get more comfort in their old home.

But in addition, each one of those attending likely passed on information to someone they know that didn't attend the event. And that's not all, like last year, all of the Old House Fair exhibitors will be included in the Madison Ave. Business Directory that will be given away to each attendee of the Fair and with 5,000 copies being printed will continue to be distributed free along the Madison Ave. corridor.

I volunteer to chair this event because I know the impact it has on Lakewood. Helping residents care for their home can be appreciated for many different but very interdependent reason - property value, safety, desirability, affordability, quality of life of individual and community, historical preservation, homeowner's sanity/peace of mind, fill in the blank.

Thank you to everyone who will participate in any way from attending, exhibiting, or providing resources to put it on. The event is from 11am to 4pm. A few other local events are going on this Saturday. Make Old House Fair one of your stops this Saturday. It's free and won't take long if you don't want it to.

Regards, Mel Page
owners of 105 year-old four-square house with dutch and arts and crafts accents, with an awesome porch, walk up attic, beautiful woodwork everywhere up, down, and in between.