ROOM REDO Four finalists for fifth edition of Room Redo BY JEFF KIESSEL ASST. MANAGING EDITOR
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his year, which is the fifth for the Ludington Daily News Room Redo, is once again offering the expertise of the Cottage Works team.
The application process more than tripled from last year, with some of those applications coming from as far away as New Era. The crew from Cottage Works, which works to design and renovate the space (with help from the homeowner), teams
with the Ludington Daily News to select finalists to tour, then has the difficult task of choosing a winner. The four finalists for 2019 — shown below — are Kim Weinert, Kathy Andersen, Nicholas Buckner and Shawn Slimmen.
After tours of all four locations on Wednesday, Feb. 13, the team determined the winner. The crew now has a $2,000 budget to transform the space. See page 2 to learn this year’s winner of the Room Redo!
The Weinert home is one of four Room Redo finalists. Kim Weinert applied for a renovation of the family’s living room located at 6645 W. Sugar Grove Road in Ludington. The living room at the home of Gary and Kathy Andersen was also selceted as a finalist for the Ludington Daily News Room Redo. The Andersens live at 1726 W. Chilberg Road in Scottville.
Shawn Slimmen and his famiy were also selected as finalists this year. Slimmen, who lives at 163 N. Amber Road in Scottville, was looking for some help in the family’s living room area.
Nicholas Buckner was looking for the team to transform the children’s play area into a retreat for his wife at their 1551 Ivanhoe Road home in Ludington.