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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(DALLAS, Texas, October 9, 2006) – D Home announced the inaugural Designers’ Choice Home Tour on Oct. 21, 2006 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. benefiting Genesis Women’s Shelter. The tour will showcase five homes in the Turtle Creek, Park Cities, and Preston Hollow areas handpicked by Dallas’ most respected designers, John Gregory, Nancy Leib, Cheri Etchelecu Martin, Joseph Minton, and Julio Quinones.

The tour will kick off at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church (Meadowbrook parking lot) at 9200 Inwood Rd. At the tent, tour attendees will enjoy entertainment, a cooking demonstration from Chef Scotty Campbell from The Viking Cooking School at Milestone Culinary Arts Center on a Viking grill and retail product demonstrations. Air-conditioned shuttle buses will depart every 20 minutes on two available routes. Last tour begins at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the event. Tickets are available at genesisshelter.org and all Dallas-Fort Worth area Tom Thumb stores. All ticket proceeds benefit Genesis Women’s Shelter.

D Home is the sister publication of D Magazine and is a beautiful and authoritative source for decorating, remodeling services, furniture, accessories, gardening, landscaping, entertaining, cooking, art, and antiques, as well as health, fitness, and beauty. The 6-year-old bimonthly is the first regional home and garden magazine to win the Gold Medal for General Excellence from the City and Regional Magazine Association.

Since its founding in 1985, Genesis Women’s Shelter has been committed to providing quality safety and shelter to battered women and their children through crisis intervention and short term crisis therapeutics and to reducing the occurrence of violence against women and children in the greater Dallas area. Genesis Women’s Shelter also is committed to raising the level of community awareness regarding the pervasiveness and effects of domestic violence. The organization serves more than 700 residential clients and 2,500 non-resident clients each year.