HOME DIY
Scrap Save Create Ottawa’s MOVE 100.3 morning show host Janel Steeper’s creations are to DIY for. BY HOLLIE GRACE JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK HOLLERON
44 ottawaathome.ca FALL 2021
After leaving behind her childhood home just outside the small beach town of Grand Bend, Ontario, along with the family and farm that gave it such life, Janel Steeper would carry with her the magic of how a simple DIY can transform someone else’s trash into her very own priceless treasure. After bouncing around various locations in the Territories, Northern Ontario and the East Coast, Janel has settled nicely into her current role in the trio hosting The Morning Show on MOVE 100.3, alongside veterans Stuntman Stu and Angie Poirier. With the job comes many free afternoons and so Janel is dipping into her pool of memories to retrieve DIY skills cultivated long ago, and the creativity that fuels them. She credits this rags-to-what-looks-like-riches mentality to her parents. Explains Janel, “I think it was probably a product of [my mom’s] own upbringing. Her parents were immigrants from Holland and she had 12 brothers and sisters. [DIY] is probably how her family got by and she probably picked it up along the way. And I would say the same kind of thing about my dad. Farming isn’t necessarily the easiest kind of job, so you’ve got to be resourceful.”
