Hometime

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Hometime is a PBS home improvement television show produced by Hometime Video Publishing, Chaska, Minnesota, in association with WHYY-TV Philadelphia/Wilmington, Delaware, and broadcast on public television and in syndication. It first aired in 1986. In the 1990s, Hometime aired on TLC. Hometime demonstrates both do-it-yourself- and contractor-performed projects, ranging from simple weekend projects to complete homes. Hometime episodes have covered many aspects of home construction and maintenance.

Seasons

26 Episodes • Premiered 2009

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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.

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2. Urban Terraces

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

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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.

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4. Entrance Plaza

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

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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.

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6. Eat-In-Kitchen: Demolition

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

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7. Eat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets

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

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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.

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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.

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10. Sculpture Studio: Finishing

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

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11. Great Room Hardwood Floor

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

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12. Travertine Floor

The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.

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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.

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14. Kitchen Facelift

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

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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.

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16. Linoleum Flooring

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

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17. Cabin Kitchen Upgrade

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

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18. Vacation Home Laundry Room

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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22. Party Kitchen

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

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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.

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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.

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25. Standalone Garage

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

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26. Yoga Studio

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

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