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WATliRl.()()(IHl0NI(Iw 'Weduesdayi April to. 2014 - I7 Things we found in the fire , Q . Heer s Paint and Décor reopens its Waterloo store closed by a fall fire . BYBOBVIIMNAC it“ "QM" the change in the store with Chmnide Sid/f exposed ceilings and different paint schemes and designs What would t's the phone call that every , you expect from a store full of I business owner dreads â€" designers? there's been a fire. Heer-Maue said it gave them a it was the call that Michelle chance to display some of the ele~ lleer-Maue got on Sept. 29Iastyear . a. merits they think are central to when she heard there was a fire at . "436 " A . _ ‘ good design. things like colour. i lleer's Paint and Decor at 583 King f iâ€" - . ' “We hope that people like the St. N..inWater100. . ”a? f‘ x _ visual now, because it's different," “It was the call you didn't want ”at . 7, All a . “"'5 . __ said Meet-Mane. “it's about luxury. to get and you just worry that "Q4" it“ " ~5 and that's whatwesell. everybody is safe," she said. l; . “As far as changing things. hillx' l There were no injuries, but the a A s. t“. fully it's agood change." l fire caused more than $300,000 in In addition to freshening it up damage. “The place was gutted." "1 and making it appear different , said lleer~Mauet ,. » A they've added to the lighting and to lleer's Paint and Decor is a fami- if “e the selection to reflect the latest ‘ ly business that has been around w“; (Ends. sinu- NBS when her grandfather , is; . "That’s where the inspiration (ilarent't- lleer opened a store on . . came from â€" the change." said helinont Avenue in Kitchener. It \ \ ( lleer-Maue, "In our business you had since expanded to locations in . have to change whether it he Waterloo and Guelph, and she is v . ‘ through the displays or our front the third generation of ”('(‘IS . , Windows. you have to lump pimple involved iii running the hustnt'ss, . ~ ‘ inspired as general manager, while her dad. f% “M “We're si~llttig ( haiigt- so it s Robert, is President and (Ill) u \ ~. ? important " Waterloo was an important ' .- ‘ ,"':..__i [he one thing that remained retail (mine for the Benjamin ThemffarebodatHeer‘sPaimandDecofswnerloolocationafteraSeptemberfiredosedthc-store.Readyto (onstant through it all was tln~ Moon- paint dealer and design help new and returning customers after its recent grand reopening are manager Dnamond McMastet, left (tout insistence rill ( arrying (Ill-ll!” prod experts who advised many local Wise, interior decorator Gillian Wardlaw, Frank Baumann, who has been With the company to! 40 years, colour Ut is starting Willi the lit-ritaiiiiri (’llt'nlh about paint and decorating consultant Deb Hamilton and interior decorator Ashley Goesrlohnson mow-um mm, Moore paint llllt' ri‘nowni-d {or its choices. t uality. they intended to reopen at the Fortunately. they had good That loyalty was also extended (tistomers So you'll still find l-runk I The ston- also in( tirptiratr-s same north Waterloo location that records and solid inventory con to the stall who are very much the Baumaiin at the store after more some modern displays that we] customers had become accus trols at their other locations that face of the business and had built than 40 years working Wllh the come interaction. especially in the tomt-d to but first had to deal with helped them account for almost those strong Cuslflmtl relations Meets. the design and manager Hunter thighs display of Window the insurance claims and all the everything lost. llcerAMaue said they were merit team Is also back with man will? other obstacles that come with More importantly. that mani- proud that nobodywas out of work tiger Diamond McMaster leading "It should be touchy lively.“ said mum-oz mayor fire. tomers somewhere eke to go and during the recovery and that they theway. Heer~Maue "Everything has to “We've never gone through continuetherelatiomhip that has wereaNetosharethetrcxpem'sr-in Thacalongwiththenmrrhtlnt Monmmutanran something like this before. and it become central to the mum â€"â€" media-store; they had. helped them keep the am certainly makes you rethink how loyalty. 'We didn’t have to lay anybody continuity going for Iota-time out The More mm to do herr- a you're goingtodothinpasfnras 'Wehndthelumrythntwehod ofi.'said HeerrMaue 'We tried to mom iwmmanduupimynu documenmlonolevervthingyou mherkxztiorulnduntoma:had milizethematallofomotherkxa Theston'hadasoftopemngon ingohomeandmnkcyouwanito have withln each location become another place to go as for a our tlom" February 17 but in recent weeks walk through that front door and it “I! down to the pen,‘ said Meet (rage Street location or Vlctoria.’ And whatever was lost in the fire hm had rts official grand limpet-ring make other! walk through it too ' Maura 'lt wasvrrytimf consuming, said Meet Mane. “There was places was replaced by a common goal of the week of March 27 in time for For more about ller'r's PM”! and difficult putting a dollar value for customers to go and get the rebuilding better than ever and the busy spnngdeomnting “on and Decor Waterloo stori' \ mt to it all too ' pmdud during the interim ' strengthening those connections to long time customers will notice www beerspalnt tom l /” . .. , \; \ ,/ //,,',-ll/,,, 2/5” ‘) l\‘ <,;lx\‘\l '.,(.\t i, \