MASON CITY | Eugene and Linda Knecht of Algona didn’t know about the Home and Landscaping Show at the North Iowa Events Center when they drove to Mason City Saturday.
They were just planning to get out and do some shopping after being “cooped up” for so long this winter, Linda said.
They saw the sign advertising the home show when they got to town.
“We decided to pull in for landscaping ideas,” Linda said.
The couple just put in a new garage at their acreage this fall, and want to do some landscaping around it.
“This is right up our alley,” Eugene said.
The home show was crowded on Saturday as other North Iowans looked for ideas for sprucing up their homes and yards.
Bryan and Alicia Navarette, of Mason City, came to the home show because they want to build a new patio.
They brought their three children with them.
“I saw a patio that I really liked,” said Romey Navarrette, 8. “It had a waterfall coming out of it.”
She said the waterfall had lighting in it that changed colors.
“It was really pretty,” Romey said.
The patio also had a brick oven that could be used to bake pizzas, she said.
Romey and her brother, Peter, 5, and sister Riley, 6, got a lot of freebies at the show, including pencils and plastic construction hats.
Gary Stemmerman, of Mason City, was looking at sun rooms for his mother’s house in Hampton.
He stood inside a model of a four-season room from Midwest Construction.
“It’s kind of nice,” he said. “You feel like you’re right out in the open.”
Sarah Banchs, of Lu Verne, came to the home show to “get out of the house and get some ideas.”
Banchs, who used to live in Mason City, also enjoyed talking to others at the show.
“I’ve seen quite a few people I know and met some new people,” she said.
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