About Us
Love My Place, (LMP) is the first female-oriented online resource to give readers the tools they need to meet the practical and financial challenges of home ownership, renovation, maintenance, and design/décor decisions.
What we offer
LMP provides readers with current, accessible and no-nonsense information and advice through its online presence and monthly e-newsletter, which will include concise, exciting content on renovation, décor, finance, real estate, as well as:
- Hot new product alerts
- Information about next-generation appliances
- Design, décor and colour trends
- DIY tips and projects
- Concise, useful information about home financing issues
- Information about décor and renovation services
- Tool, construction and architectural terms glossaries
- Reno and how-to book reviews links
- Listings of trade and home shows
- Contests
- Reader surveys
Who we are
Beverly Allen — Publisher
Beverly Allen is Director of Sales and Marketing for Love My Place. For over a decade, Ms Allen has been instrumental in the growth of the Hardlines Information network, North America's leading source for news and analysis of the retail hardware and home improvement industry.
Contributing Columnists
Greg Labbe
Greg Labbe jumped from being a chemist with a big multinational, to rolling in dirt and insulation with the small non-profit Green Saver. As Operations Manager, he oversees both the Energy Evaluators and the Retrofits Crews. Greg lives in a 1920s house with his wife and three kids in the Junction area of Toronto and can be found riding his bike to work.
Read Greg's posts (3)
Jennifer Hart
As the owner of Handyma’am, a home contracting company, Jennifer Hart does everything from electrical and plumbing repair to complete bathroom renos. She also runs the wildly-successfull Women and Power Tools seminar at Lee Valley Tools in Toronto. When she’s not working, Jennifer escapes to a 50-acre farm where she can be found honing her rough carpentry skills.
Read Jennifer's posts (4)
Steve Brannan
LMP’s very own Appliance Oracle, Steve Brannan, has been repairing appliances in Toronto for the last 26 years. Steve has been a regular on CFRB radio and is still heard regularly on CBC Radio’s “Ontario Today Phone In”.
Read Steve's posts (4)
Francesca Scalzo
Francesca Scalzo is Toronto-based writer and editor. After several disappointing experiences at her local purveyor of home improvement products, she has begun to dream of opening an all-female hardware store. The store's motto will be "no question too stupid."
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Estelle Gee
Estelle Gee is the director of Orderly Lives, a Toronto-based life organizing and concierge service that provides organizational coaching to residential and small business clients. Featured on HGTV, in Chatelaine magazine and over thirty other publication, Estelle is also the Organizing Expert on StyleatHome.com. She can be reached at 416-461-8018
(www.orderlylives.net).
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