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GREENSBORO — Learn how to give your home a dream makeover on a budget during a home tour next month.

For the second consecutive year, organizers of Chic Chateau are decorating a new home off New Garden Road with items found in local consignment, salvage and antiques stores.

Everything in the home will also be for sale for about $15 to several hundred dollars, according to Sherry Sarine, one of the event organizers.

Furnishings for sale will include window treatments, a dining room table from the 1920s that was rescued from a warehouse, and original artwork.

The home is at 3702 Stratton Hills Drive or near the home Chic Chateau used last year.

The tour costs $10. It will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 24-25 and Oct. 1-2 and noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 and Oct. 3.

The home tour is just one of three things Chic Chateau is hosting this year.

Two new events to be held at the house are the Pearls and Purses Fashion Show, which is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 28.

It costs $25 and features hors d’oeuvres courtesy of Pepper Moon Catering.

Lunch and Learn, which includes a box lunch courtesy of Panera Bread, will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 29. Cost is $25.

Topics at Lunch and Learn are container gardening with Becky Berling of New Garden Nursery from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and transforming your thrift and consigned finds with Debbie Hayes of Faux Design Studio from 11:30 a.m. to noon.

If you choose the tour, Pearls and Purses and Lunch and Learn, you’ll pay $50.

Net proceeds will benefit The Barnabas Network, Housing Greensboro, Habitat for Humanity, Ten Thousand Villages and the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina.

Tickets to all the events will be sold at local consignment shops. Get locations and other information at thechicchateau.blogspot.com.

New location for Evy’s

Evy’s Gifts, which is moving in October, has picked its new location.

The gift shop will be in the Jefferson Village shopping center near Target at 1564-D Highwoods Blvd. in Greensboro.

Right now, the shop is at 2925 Battleground Ave. The phone number is 286-6392.

The gift shop is also having a relocation sale at that store and its store in Kernersville (126 S. Main St.; 992-0022).

First Friday events

Check out new art exhibits, painting demonstrations and live music during downtown Greensboro’s First Friday event from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.

First Friday is a self-guided tour of Downtown Greensboro’s shops, galleries and alternative venues on the first Friday of every month.

More information, including a downloadable map, visit downtownfridays.com.

Sidewalk sale

The Extra Ingredient (801-D Friendly Center Road, Friendly Center, Greensboro; 299-9767) is making room for fall merchandise by having its annual pre-Labor Day sidewalk sale on Saturday.

Items for sale include scratched and dented items, buyers’ goofs and sales samples at 40 percent to 75 percent off.

The independently owned and operated kitchen and gourmet store is also celebrating its 25th anniversary in October.

Special events throughout that month are planned, including specials from partnering vendors, celebrity chefs and giveaways.

For more information, visit extraingredient.com.

New clothes at Sylvia’s

A large selection of women’s plus-size clothes has recently arrived at Sylvia’s Outlet (4654 U.S. 29, Greensboro; 621-6466).

Most items are one-of-a-kind from several different designers.

All pants in the store also are on sale for $12.

The housewares department has new sets and styles of Temptations bakeware.

The store also has a new selection of jewelry on display.

Daily Deals

The News & Record’s website will soon be launching a discount shopping program call Daily Deals.

You can get 50 percent to 90 percent off prices at restaurants, spas, events and other offerings.

Here’s how it will work.

After signing up, you’ll get an e-mail each day about a discounted item.

The catch?

A minimum number of people have to buy it to make it active and before the expiration date.

If you like what you see, you’ll be able to share it with friends on Facebook, Twitter or by e-mail.

The launch date has not been set.

But you can register your e-mail address now at news-record.com/bargainsense.

Weekend yard sales

If you’re hunting for bargains at yard sales, check out an online map I create each week to help you plan your route at news-record.com/yardsales.

It’s updated each Friday morning.

Become Web savvy

Check out Bargain Sense at news-record.com/bargainsense for the latest retail news and deals.

Highlights include links to Bargain Sense video, Facebook and Twitter feeds, retail news and a link to subscribe to the Bargain Sense e-newsletter.

Contact Mike Fuchs at 373-3465 or michael.fuchs@news-record.com