Proud to Launch New Web Video Series for Ottawa Home Buyers

Posted by admin | August 20th, 2010
Buying a new home, Corvinelli Homes, ENERGY STAR certified homes, Energy-efficient homes, New Home Alert, ottawa home buyers, Ottawa new homes, ottawa real estate, Reality Homes, Web Video Series | No Comments »

Hi!  Gen Tremblay here, President of New Home Alert.  I’m really excited to share with you our very first pilot episode of ‘New Home Ed’ - launched today!  Ed is New Home Alert’s newest personality, with a mandate to find local experts to educate Ottawa home buyers. The web video series focuses on what comes before, during and after the purchase of a new home.   Ok, so why am I so excited, you might ask, when everybody else and his dog are creating videos and posting them on YouTube?

If everybody else and there dog are posting videos on YouTube, they’re also watching them.  Over 1,000,000,000 videos are downloaded everyday on the web.  When you combine a camera and an expert, you can get pretty interesting results! We believe that seeing is believing…so we’re bringing you current, engaging, entertaining and educational topics in the form of video.    The series is far from being TV material (but kudos to our videographer Chris from Reality Homes for producing quality HD episodes).   While fully researched prior to shooting, each episode is unscripted, exclusively local, and brings a human elemant to perhaps dry subjects.   It’s real!

Episode 1:  Buying an Energy-Efficient Home

The first ‘New Home Ed’ episode is about buying an energy-efficient home. Expert John Corvinelli of Corvinelli Homes takes us through an energy-efficient home, describing the important features and showing us what to look for. He’s excited to be able to share his knowledge and passion with future home buyers. He says ”energy-efficient homes and ‘green’ homes are just buzz words. My goal is to make sure home buyers don’t just use the words, but know exactly what they mean so they make informed decisions when buying a home.”

John was the perfect candidate to shoot our first episode, being so experienced and well-versed in the subject.  He’s an honest man who truly cares. We hope this is what you will appreciate from all of our episodes.

Enjoy the first one!

Buying a new home brings out the designer in you!

Posted by admin | July 12th, 2010
Buying a new home, buying a new home ottawa, buying new homes, choosing finishes, Custom Home Interiors, interior decorating, interior decorator, interior decorators Ottawa, interior design, interior designers Ottawa, New Home Alert | 1 Comment »

Hi - Seb here (CEO of New Home Alert).  One of the most exciting things about buying a new home is being able to personalize the core design elements of your home: the exterior finishes, the kitchen cabinets, the floors, the bathroom tiles, and so on. With all of the TV shows and magazines dedicated to interior design, most of us are inspired to become amateur interior designers, right?

My business partner Gen is building a custom home in Ottawa, and she’s in the process of choosing the finishes with her home builder. Yesterday at our business meeting, we spent the first hour exchanging ideas on the design of her new kitchen. We probably could have spent another 3 hours on the topic, going through the dozens of magazines she had on kitchen design ideas, but duty called!

Every future home buyer will have to go through this process of choosing finishes, and we know the list of finishes and options can be quite daunting. Because of this, New Home Alert is very excited to introduce a web video series dedicated to educating future home buyers with tips and advice for choosing the finishes of your new home. Our interior design series will feature a young and dynamic Ottawa company - Custom Home Interiors (CHI), who has in fact become a resource of choice for Gen in her new home buying process.

Custom Home Interiors is the ideal resource to help us create these web episodes, since they already work with Ottawa home builders and understand the new home buying process. You can look for episodes to start airing soon on www.newhomealert.ca, or follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook Fan page, where our episodes will be posted as we release them.

I look forward to presenting to all of you the great team at Custom Home Interiors and to get your feedback and suggestions on topics you’d like us to explore.

Oh, and one last thing. I hope this blog posting inspires Gen to start blogging about her own home building experience… What are you waiting for Gen?