Hometime Season 23, Episode 19: Historic Summer Home -- Structural Upgrades

1

Digging Out the Yard

The Hometime crew re-grades a sloping back yard, installs a drainage system, and begins building a series of paver patios.

30 min

2

Urban Terraces

The Hometime crew weaves several retaining walls, steps, and patios into a small, sloped back yard.

30 min

3

Caretaker's Home

The Hometime crew restores the porch of what was once the caretaker’s home on a 40-acre, turn-of-the-century lakeside estate.

30 min

4

Entrance Plaza

The Hometime crew renovates a church courtyard with a textured concrete walkway, custom wood benches, and a raised planting bed.

30 min

5

Betsy-Tacy Home: Decoration

The Hometime crew makes its last visit to this historic home to create a sidewalk outside and to finish painting and wallpapering the interior.

30 min

6

Eat-In-Kitchen: Demolition

The Hometime crew takes a small kitchen and starts work to improve storage and functionality.

30 min

7

Eat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets

The Hometime crew installs new kitchen cabinets, a new sliding door and new floor tile.

30 min

8

Eat-In-Kitchen: Wrap Up

The Hometime crew installs countertops and appliances, as well as a new wood floor for the adjacent living room.

30 min

9

Sculpture Studio: Framing

The Hometime crew converts an unused, tuck-under garage into a metal-working studio with a new heater and a downsized garage door.

30 min

10

Sculpture Studio: Finishing

The Hometime crew wraps up the workshop with doors, windows and welding equipment.

30 min

11

Great Room Hardwood Floor

The Hometime crew installs a super-hard, prefinished wood floor.

30 min

12

Travertine Floor

The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.

30 min

13

Seven-Year Plan

The Hometime crew works with a designer to identify and prioritize a house-wide makeover. Then they begin with the first phase: tearing apart the living room and dining room.

30 min

14

Kitchen Facelift

The Hometime crew transforms a kitchen with re-faced cabinets along with new counters, tile, appliances and lighting.

30 min

15

Great Room Update

The Hometime crew uses new trim, wood flooring, lighting, paint and furniture to transform a dated, 1970s living room and dining room.

30 min

16

Linoleum Flooring

The Hometime crew installs sheet and tile linoleum on the Hometime log cabin basement floor.

30 min

17

Cabin Kitchen Upgrade

The Hometime crew modifies and upgrades cabinets, appliances, countertops and plumbing fixtures.

30 min

18

Vacation Home Laundry Room

The Hometime crew adds new cabinets and plumbing fixtures to a log cabin lower level.

30 min

19

Historic Summer Home -- Structural Upgrades

Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew remove cabinets, asbestos flooring and a concrete slab then ingeniously reinforce sagging walls and pour a new concrete kitchen floor.

30 min

20

Historic Summer Home -- Kitchen

Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew rebuild old cabinets and install historically sensitive countertops, flooring, fixtures and appliances remodeling this 100-year-old kitchen.

30 min

21

Barrel Vault Basement

The Hometime crew transforms a bland, unfinished basement by juggling doors and windows, repairing humps and cracks in the floor, and creating an arched ceiling.

30 min

22

Party Kitchen

The Hometime crew puts in doors, tile and cabinets for the basement wet bar and peninsula.

30 min

23

Arched Wood Panels

The Hometime crew puts in granite countertops and a trendy shower door then wrap up the custom wood paneling around a basement fireplace.

30 min

24

Attic Trusses

The Hometime crew shores up the block walls then uses attic trusses to create a room over a flat-roofed, detached garage.

30 min

25

Standalone Garage

The Hometime crew seals up the exterior of the garage and the new studio above it.

30 min

26

Yoga Studio

The upstairs studio gets paint, flooring, and lighting. The downstairs garage gets flooring and cabinets.

30 min