Fairhaven Services commissioned to build for Better Homes and Gardens
TEAM members from Fairhaven Services at Point Clare will be counting the days until September 16 when the Better Homes and Gardens Live Show features their DIY designs.
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TEAM members from Fairhaven Services at Point Clare will be counting the days until September 16 when the Better Homes and Gardens Live Show features their DIY designs.
Australia’s longest running and most viewed lifestyle program has commissioned the disability support service to build a custom entrance feature from wooden pallets for the live show’s Sydney leg, to be held at Homebush.
Leanne Lonergan of Fairhaven Services was thrilled to have been given the opportunity.
“For the morale of the guys involved it is absolutely fabulous,” she said.
“It gives them things along the lines of deadlines for their projects which are really important as far as being employed, and it gives them the excitement of knowing they are going to have something out there in the big wide world.”
Landscaper and Better Homes presenter Jason Hodges was on site to take a sneak peek at the work-in-progress on Wednesday.
“This is a great thing for us, coming up here today and meeting them,” he said.
After over 20 years on the air, Hodges feels Better Homes and Gardens has had a significant impact on the way many Australians live.
“We do things that you can do on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon with the kids and it’s not an investment of money — it’s a lifestyle.”
Hodges said the live show allowed the public to see the presenters in a real situation without the staging of prerecorded TV.
“Last year I was making pizza boards ... and they had the wrong blade in the jigsaw, and it was so fat that it wouldn’t turn,” he said.
“And so I was trying to make a gentle circle and the jigsaw’s just going straight ahead.”
The live show runs from September 16-18 at Sydney Olympic Park.
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