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Style at Home: Mixing Textures

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Mixing textures in your spaces can create the right mood.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you find yours.

 

Find amazing pieces for your dining room at Beds N Dreams, Bedshed, Forty Winks, Freedom, PillowTalk, Recline Furniture, Sheridan Factory Outlet, Sleeping Giant and Snooze – all now open at Aspley Homemaker City. Visit us today.

 

Nordic style apartment dining room

 

Get the Look: Bedroom Tones

Bedroom Tones

Bedrooms should really be your own calm sanctuary, so try and decorate with calm, neutral tones.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you discover your sanctuary.

 

 

Find amazing pieces for your dining room at Beds N Dreams, Bedshed, Forty Winks, Freedom, PillowTalk, Recline Furniture, Sheridan Factory Outlet, Sleeping Giant and Snooze – all at Aspley Homemaker City.

 

 

 

Get the Look: Bringing it all together

When you’re decorating, have fun with proportions and the size of pieces you choose.

Bring your dining area together with the right dining table. We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you find out how.

 

 

Find amazing pieces for your dining room at Nick Scali, Freedom, Howards Storage World, PillowTalk, Andrews Light Up, DecoRug and Provincial Home Living – at Aspley Shopping Centre.

 

 

 

Get the Look: Feature Appliances

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Are you wondering how to bring your kitchen to life and bring in your own style?

There is such an amazing range of appliances for the kitchen these days, that you can treat key pieces like a piece of furniture in your home.

We’ve partnered with Stylist Briar Stanley, to help you find out how.

 

 

Find amazing pieces for your kitchen at Freedom, Howards Storage World, Kitchen Connection and PillowTalk – all now open at Aspley Homemaker City. Visit us today.

 

Retailer Comms: Spring Launch

Following on from our email to you about our Spring Campaign, we’re ready to launch next week (wc 2 Sept).

The campaign will include:

  • Catalogue: Spring Bedding catalogue
  • Bedding customer competition
  • Spring Carnival Event in centre on Saturday 21st September
  • Bus back Advertising
  • Spring Mid Season Sales support
  • Digital + social media support
  • In centre collateral

Below you’ll find everything you need to know and how you can get involved.

Catalogue – BEDDER THAN THE REST! 

Welcome to the Spring Mid Season Sale catalogue.

Featuring our bedding retailers in the centre, this catalogue is packed with great customer offers and is a showcase of what our centre can offer.

This catalogue is being distributed to 113,000 households in the local area, particularly to these postcodes:bedder than the rest spring sale promotion

  • 4034 – Aspley
  • 4053 – Brookside Centre
  • 4035 – Albany Creek
  • 4500 – Bray Park
  • 4017 – Bracken Ridge
  • 4032 – Chermside
  • 4055 – Bunya
  • 4012 – Nundah
  • 4014 – Banyo
  • 4520 – Armstrong Creek
  • 4031 – Gordon Park
  • 4037 – Eatons Hill
  • 4018 – Fitzgibbon
  • 4051 – Alderley
  • 4503 – Dakabin
  • 4054 – Arana Hills

The distribution dates are 3rd + 4th September and it will be in market until the end of October.

You’ll also receive copies to your store.

Bedding Competition  

Customers who shop in centre can enter into the draw to win a $100 gift card, each week for 8 weeks. Win 1 of 8 cards promotion banner

To enter, they simply purchase any product (no minimum spend) in any store, visit our website: www.aspleyhomemakercity.com.au and enter their details.

The draw dates and retailers are 3pm on the following dates:

  1. 9th September 2019 – Beds N Dreams
  2. 16th September 2019 – BedShed
  3. 23rd September 2019 – Bedding Furniture Outlet
  4. 30th September 2019 – Forty Winks
  5. 7th October 2019 – Recline Furniture
  6. 14th October 2019 – Sleeping Giant
  7. 21st October 2019 – Snooze
  8. 28th October 2019 – Freedom

We’ll promote this competition in the catalogue, on our social channels and on the website. Please help us share this competition out through your own social channels.

Spring Carnival – Saturday 21 Septemberspring carnival small promo banner

We’re celebrating the season and throwing open the doors to celebrate!

On Saturday 21st September from 10am – 2pm we’ll be hosting a Spring Carnival onsite. We’ll host this in the carpark which will mean altered traffic flow and parking for a few hours, but we’ll be filling that space with fun family rides, activities and lots of people!

The rides will be all FREE and include:

  • (1) Mega Dodgem Cars
  • (2) Super Slide
  • (3) Cup & Saucer ride
  • (4) Caveman Capers inflatable Obstacle Course
  • (5) Whirlwind ride

The location of this event is marked in Orange on the map below:

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Free icecream from Twisted Icecreams for the first 150 customers.

Free Gift Bags (until stocks last) for customers attending this event.

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Spring Mid Season Sale Support 

Thank you to those that have shared your Spring Mid Season Sales with us.mid-season sale on now promo banner

If you have not yet done so, please email us the details. (marketing@arkadia.com.au).

We’ll promote these specials on our website and to our customer VIP Club.

Bus Back Advertising 

To capitalise on our great centre location and to ensure we capture as much traffic as possible in our trade area, we are advertising this Spring Catalogue on the back of busses.

aspley bus mapThe details are:

  • Dates:  2nd September for 4 weeks
  • 10 metro bus backs operating out of the Virginia Depot and focusing on the north side and in our catchment area.
  • A map of the bus routes can be found here.

 

 

 

 

Digital Support 

With a new Digital Agency on board, our ‘Always On’ campaigns are now active.

We’ll also be filming and launching video content in the next fortnight, and will be sharing this across the Spring quarter.

This will bring more traffic to the centre – Stay tuned for more details…

In centre collateral 

Brian will be delivering to you shortly:

  • Copies of the Spring Catalogue for your POS
  • A Strut card for your POS to promote the competition
  • Spring Fair giveaway bags. Theses bags contain a Reno Survivial Kit and centre flyers. Feel free to include anything else you like in these giveaway bags. These will be delivered to your store to hand out to customers yourselves. Feel free to do this at the front of your store or at the POS.

You’ll also see the poster near the exit driveway updated and a temporary sign at the front of the centre to remind locals of the Spring Carnival event.

Get on board!

Please support our Spring Campaign. Be sure to let us know if you have any other ideas on working with you – we’d love to hear from you!

Also, check out the Retailer Comms Spring Campaign and the Retailer Comms: 2019/2020 Marketing Plan! And, for more informations you can see our Catalogue.

Jillian Christie and Karlene Orpin.
Centre Management
Aspley Homemaker City

 

Benefits of building your own home

Building your own home from scratch may be a bit daunting, but there are certainly plenty of benefits to it, from the joy of having creative control over your vision to the money you could actually save.

Here are 7 reasons why you should start creating your dream home now.

7 Reasons to create your dream home

Savings and reductions

If you build your own home, you will only need to pay stamp duty on the land, not the house. You may also be eligible for stamp duty concessions if you buy off the plan.

If you’re a first home buyer, you may also be eligible for the First Home Owners Grant.

Visit firsthome.gov.au for more information.

Lower energy bills

New homes have higher energy efficiency standards and are made from new materials with new appliances, so you may be able to save money on energy bills.

This is especially the case if you decide to build a home using ‘passive design’ techniques that take advantage of the sun, insulation, energy-efficient glazing and more.

Any defects are covered under warranty

Phew! If anything goes wrong in your new home, you can breathe a sigh of relief and know that it will be fixed by the builder – all new Australian homes are covered by a minimum structural warranty between five and seven years on completed work. Some builders even offer extended structural warranties for even longer periods of time.

This is in contrast to buying an already established home, where it’s up to you to pay for any structural issues.

Greater creative control

Instead of inheriting less than ideal elements from an old house and compromising on the kind of home that you’d actually like to live in, building one of your own means you’re in control. While it can be a stressful process, it can also be quite rewarding.

Perhaps you’d like a generous kitchen island and marble benchtop with a sunroof above. Or maybe you’ve been yearning for a large backyard with space for the kids to play in. Now’s your chance to make that happen.

Less competition looking for land

Want to avoid spending endless weekends going to inspections, not to mention the emotional rollercoaster that comes with attending countless auctions? Build your own home.

Shiny new appliances

Older homes may have charm and appeal, but they often come with outdated appliances. If you build your own home, you can have it fitted with all the modern conveniences that you wish, from the latest dishwasher to a brand new stove.

Buying off the plan? It could be cheaper

While it may have its risks, buying off the plan often means you can buy a brand new home at a cheaper price.

Developers often need to sell a certain number of properties to sell off the plan in order to meet their finance and begin construction, so if you get in early, you could snag yourself a bargain.