Room full of ideas this weekend at the Building, Home & Remodeling Show

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Less than three hours before the 515-plus exhibits for the Building, Home & Remodeling Show are supposed to be finished, there are still people working to beat the deadline.

There are people still installing tile, people still putting the final touches on model kitchens and bathrooms, among other things. The deadline was noon Thursday, hours before the crowds start filing in for a sneak-preview show.

The annual show, sponsored by the Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association, officially begins today from noon-8 p.m. in the South Hall of the Von Braun Center. It continues Saturday and Sunday. Times are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $7 for adults; senior citizens (60 and older) are $6; and children under 12 are free.

"It's one of the best-looking shows - if not the best - we've ever had," said Lynn Kilgore, executive director of the Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association. "A lot of companies will be getting a year's work off of this."

Here's an example: Sandi Cantrell, president of Designer Granite & Marble, says she recently had two customers whom she met at last year's show.

"We get customers a year later," she said.

At the front of the South Hall, she and several workers were still working Thursday morning, trying to finish Designer Granite & Marble's exhibit.

"We started at 8 Monday morning," Cantrell said. "We were one of the first ones here."

Since then, she and eight to 12 workers have been in the South Hall 12-15 hours a day, by her estimate.

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Room full of ideas this weekend at the Building, Home & Remodeling Show