Gui De Souza Rocha from Regina is the creator of Card Tactics. “I’ve been dabbling into creating games since I was a teenager. And I’ve been playing tabletop games for a very long time.” The game involves using cards representing health, power, or super heroes to combat various adventures, events or enemies. De Souza Rocha says his game is based video games such as Darkest Dungeon and Dark Souls. “I tried to find a way of making something that would work kind of like a video game, but in an analog, like a board game scenario.” He says he began creating the game while he was living in Brazil five years ago. He eventually moved to Regina, and noticed there was a contest where entrants could submit a game design that can only be played by one or two players.
Instead, customers are doubling down, switching to more expensive materials as the cost difference with wood shrinks, adding extra elements to their projects and pre-ordering lumber to lock in price and ensure supply. If their plan was to build a pressure-treated deck in their backyard, then a lot of people are now saying, You know what? For about the same price, I can get a hardwood deck or a composite deck or a heat-treated lumber deck, said Brad Swanson of Swanson s Home Hardware Building Centre in Kitchener, Ont., a family owned operation since 1982. They re a little bit more (expensive) but they re within people s budgets. If they re going to spend $5,000 on a pressure-treated deck and a composite deck is only $5,500, or maybe $6,000, they re thinking, That s not a bad investment.
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CALGARY - Canadian consumers have many ways to save money on home renovations despite a pandemic-driven surge in demand that has jolted lumber and construction panel prices to all-time highs.
Brad Swanson, Dealer-Owner of Swansons Home Hardware Building Centre, in Kitchener, Ont., poses for a photo at his yard on Monday, May 3, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins
CALGARY - Canadian consumers have many ways to save money on home renovations despite a pandemic-driven surge in demand that has jolted lumber and construction panel prices to all-time highs.
Dan Healing
Brad Swanson, Dealer-Owner of Swansons Home Hardware Building Centre, in Kitchener, Ont., poses for a photo at his yard on Monday, May 3, 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins May 07, 2021 - 12:27 PM
CALGARY - Canadian consumers have many ways to save money on home renovations despite a pandemic-driven surge in demand that has jolted lumber and construction panel prices to all-time highs.
However, such advice usually falls on deaf ears, experts say.
Instead, customers are doubling down, switching to more expensive materials as the cost difference with wood shrinks, adding extra elements to their projects and pre-ordering lumber to lock in price and ensure supply.