Hometime (1986)
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Judd Nelson as
Episodes 104
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.
Read MoreUrban Terraces
The Hometime crew weaves several retaining walls, steps, and patios into a small, sloped back yard.
Read MoreCaretaker'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.
Read MoreEntrance Plaza
The Hometime crew renovates a church courtyard with a textured concrete walkway, custom wood benches, and a raised planting bed.
Read MoreBetsy-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.
Read MoreEat-In-Kitchen: Demolition
The Hometime crew takes a small kitchen and starts work to improve storage and functionality.
Read MoreEat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets
The Hometime crew installs new kitchen cabinets, a new sliding door and new floor tile.
Read MoreEat-In-Kitchen: Wrap Up
The Hometime crew installs countertops and appliances, as well as a new wood floor for the adjacent living room.
Read MoreSculpture 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.
Read MoreSculpture Studio: Finishing
The Hometime crew wraps up the workshop with doors, windows and welding equipment.
Read MoreGreat Room Hardwood Floor
The Hometime crew installs a super-hard, prefinished wood floor.
Read MoreTravertine Floor
The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.
Read MoreSeven-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.
Read MoreKitchen Facelift
The Hometime crew transforms a kitchen with re-faced cabinets along with new counters, tile, appliances and lighting.
Read MoreGreat Room Update
The Hometime crew uses new trim, wood flooring, lighting, paint and furniture to transform a dated, 1970s living room and dining room.
Read MoreLinoleum Flooring
The Hometime crew installs sheet and tile linoleum on the Hometime log cabin basement floor.
Read MoreCabin Kitchen Upgrade
The Hometime crew modifies and upgrades cabinets, appliances, countertops and plumbing fixtures.
Read MoreVacation Home Laundry Room
The Hometime crew adds new cabinets and plumbing fixtures to a log cabin lower level.
Read MoreHistoric 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.
Read MoreHistoric 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.
Read MoreBarrel 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.
Read MoreParty Kitchen
The Hometime crew puts in doors, tile and cabinets for the basement wet bar and peninsula.
Read MoreArched 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.
Read MoreAttic Trusses
The Hometime crew shores up the block walls then uses attic trusses to create a room over a flat-roofed, detached garage.
Read MoreStandalone Garage
The Hometime crew seals up the exterior of the garage and the new studio above it.
Read MoreYoga Studio
The upstairs studio gets paint, flooring, and lighting. The downstairs garage gets flooring and cabinets.
Read MoreSculpture Studio Extension - Floor
The Hometime crew uses pavers and retaining walls to capture space under a second-story deck.
Read MoreSculpture Studio Extension - Walls
The Hometime crew frames and insulates curtain walls to enclose the space under a second-story deck.
Read MoreSculpture Studio Extension - Wrap Up
The Hometime crew finishes the space under a second-story deck to expand a workshop used to create metal sculpture.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Cul-De-Sac Prep
The Hometime crew works with surveyors, graders and architects to prepare a building site. Episode one of a thirty part series focusing on this well-designed, state-of-the-art home.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Concrete & Foam
The Hometime crew works with a contractor to excavate for the new house and use poured-in-place insulating concrete forms for the basement walls.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Instant House
The Hometime crew helps out as the floors and walls of the house are pre-built in a nearby factory and then quickly assembled at the job site on top of the foundation.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Roofscape
The Hometime crew watches as the intricate roof framing components for the house are pre-built off-site, assembled on the ground, and finally hoisted into place.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Windows
The Hometime crew supervises the design, construction and installation of the windows for the home, and explains the natural slate roofing system.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Concrete Floors
The Hometime crew prepares for and supervises the installation of the basement, garage and porch floors.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Inner Workings
The Hometime crew manages the installation of the ductwork, recessed lighting, and central vacuum while also helping out with the driveway, stonework and siding.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Insulation
The Hometime crew installs cables for lighting control, audio, video and security and helps out with several types of insulation.
Read MoreStone Cottage – Geothermal
The Hometime crew helps out installing the radiant floor heating system and the geothermal heating and cooling equipment.
Read MoreHis and Her Garage
The Hometime crew wraps up a project with a second floor yoga studio for “her” and a garage-level workshop for "him."
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Interior Walls
After some last-minute preparation crews install four different types of wall board for the interior walls and ceilings.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Vaulted Ceilings
The project house gets sheathing for the floors, extra-tough primer on the walls, and a stained-cedar vaulted ceiling in three high-profile rooms.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Millwork
Wooden beams are built outside for the porches. Inside, hardwood trim wainscoting is installed.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Exterior Doors
The Hometime crews scopes out how the custom matching garage and entry doors are made, and helps out leveling the floors for tiling.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Tile
The Hometime crew helps out as craftsmen install ceramic and natural stone tile in the bathrooms, natural stone on the fireplace, and natural stone for the retaining walls.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Driveway
The Hometime crew installs the paver driveway, as well as the master bathroom cabinets.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Interior Doors
The Hometime crew works on the interior doors, kitchen cabinets, wainscoting, and exterior columns.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Laundry Room
The Hometime crew installs custom cabinets for the laundry room and starts the home’s wood flooring.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Office
The home office begins to take shape, as the custom staircase work begins.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Countertops
The stone countertops are fabricated and installed.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Fixtures and Appliances
The Hometime crew installs cabinets, countertops and landscaping.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Retractable Screens
The covered porch gets motorized screens, the garage floor gets an epoxy coating, and the last few cabinets are installed.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Sod and Stone
The custom handrail is built, granite countertops are installed, the drip irrigation is wrapped up, and the yard gets sod.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Finishing the Trim
Varnishing the cherry millwork, applying stone on the basement fireplace and wrapping up the irrigation.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Porch Railing
The metal railing gets built, sandblasted, powder coated and installed while the garage walls and ceiling are paneled.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Lighting
The recessed lights, hanging lights, and surface-mounted fixtures are installed.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Kitchen & Baths
Installation of state-of-the-art lighting controls, undercabinet lights, and mirrors finishes off the kitchen and bathrooms.
Read MoreRecycled Fence
Taking down a tall cedar privacy fence and re-milling the lumber to create a “new” picket fence.
Read MoreGranite Bar Top
Expanding a basement entertainment area with a new island and hand-blown lamp shades.
Read MorePorch and Rail
A plain vanilla covered porch gets upgraded with hardwood decking and a PVC railing system.
Read MoreCircular Beds
A front yard is redesigned with a circle theme in the planting beds, the patios and the driveway.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Lower Level
Finishing the gas fireplace, wet bar tile and workshop walls and ceiling.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Storage
Installing cabinets and hanging storage for the garage and the workshop.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Carpet
Preparing and installing area rugs, stair runners and wall-to-wall carpet and testing out the new central vacuum.
Read MoreStone Cottage -- Electronics
Installing and operating the home theater, the lighting control system, and the whole-house audio.
Read MoreCloset Organizers
Hometime explores the storage options for closets and installs a discrete fireplace screen.
Read MoreWine Cellar
Hometime builds a sophisticated wine cellar racking system and installs a climate control unit.
Read MoreSide Porch
Hometime builds massive decorative wood brackets and gives a new kitchen a test run with a local celebrity chef.
Read MoreHome Theater
The latest in TV technology and automated controls for entertainment equipment.
Read MoreOutdoor Kitchen Island
Hometime builds an outdoor cooking island and anchors an outdoor lamp post.
Read MoreBuilt-in Grill
Hometime sets an outdoor grill into a stone and granite island.
Read MoreMailbox & Flower Box
Thoughtful design and careful carpentry tie mailboxes and a flower box to the architectural style of a home.
Read MoreCottage Style Expressions
Building full extension drawers, attaching snow guards and exploring a home’s cottage style.
Read MoreMicroscapes 1
Hometime helps two neighbors design and begin installing coordinated landscaping on smaller adjacent lots.
Read MoreMicroscapes 2
The Hometime team pitches in to help neighbors finish two smaller, coordinated landscapes.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Windows
Hometime explores the blending of exterior elements in new home constructions with a focus on windows as well as the installation of a landscape bridge.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Roofing
Dean and Miriam frame and deck the new landscape bridge as the home’s roof gets covered with copper and synthetic slate.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Siding
The new landscape bridge is ready for railings and a beautiful set of steps as the new home gets a complete system of siding, soffits, fascia and trim.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Doors and Stone
The new home’s architecture is enhanced with continuity of garage doors, entry doors and shutters as the foundation is covered with natural thin veneer stone.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Driveway and Walkway
Dean, Miriam, Dan and Bucky pitch in to install a paver driveway, walkway and step veneer.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 1
Dean, Miriam, and the Hometime crew begin updating the 1970’s remodel of a 1911 kitchen with new windows and a new patio door in the bumpout.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 2
Double hung windows are updated with new inserts as Hometime guts the kitchen and reframes the powder room for a pocket door.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 3
Dean and Miriam finish up rough-ins, insulation, drywall and priming to get ready for new cabinets.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 4
Dean and Miriam show how to blend two different finishes as they install new cabinets.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 5
Dean and Miriam get the kitchen, mud room and powder room areas ready for new flooring and countertops.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 6
It’s time for finishing touches as Dean and Miriam trim out the kitchen, mud room and powder room.
Read MoreKitchen and Mud Room Remodel 7
Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew fire up the fixtures and appliances as they wrap up the project.
Read MoreFront Entry Curb Appeal
Dean and Miriam look at roofing, stone, garage doors and stamped concrete from the curb appeal perspective as a new home is built.
Read MoreScreen Porch Highlights
Dean and Miriam talk about roofing, railings and a realistic gas fireplace during the construction of a screen porch.
Read MoreHomes for a Home Show
Dean and Miriam document the construction of two new homes, built inside a home and garden show.
Read MoreQuartz Kitchen Remodel
Dean, Miriam and the crew demo some old kitchen countertops and install new quartz surfaces.
Read MoreExterior Harmony: Landscape Wrap
Finishing a hilly back yard with landscape steps and tile, a fire ring, plants and sprinklers.
Read MoreNorth Woods Trees
Planting site-appropriate trees after a storm and building a crib for firewood cut and split from the damaged timber.
Read MoreTimber Shed Wall Framing
Pre-building timber frame walls inside and re-building on a new slab near Hometime Log Cabin.
Read MoreTimber Shed Roof Framing
Pre-building timber frame style roof trusses inside and re-assembling those on site as shed construction continues.
Read MoreStamped Concrete Patio Demo
Taking out old concrete to repair, reframe and reseal the patio over a storage area.
Read MoreStamped Concrete Patio Re-Poured
Re-pouring and re-stamping the concrete patio while fixing up the storage area below.
Read MoreBuilt-In Gas Grill
Resetting an outdoor natural stone island, covering it with granite and setting a new built-in gas grill.
Read MoreIsland Kitchen 2.0: Cabinets
Updating an island kitchen with new cabinets includes visits with the designer and the manufacturer.
Read MoreIsland Kitchen 2.0: Countertops
Finishing up the new cabinets for the island kitchen and covering those with new countertops.
Read MoreIsland Kitchen 2.0: Appliances
Installing lights, plumbing fixtures and appliances.
Read MoreTimber Shed Doors
Installing custom carriage house doors and laying a system of tailored pavers.
Read MoreTimber Shed Roof and Stone
Installing clay tile roofing and natural stone cladding for the walls.
Read MoreTimber Shed Finishing Touches
Finishing up the exterior and getting the new shed ready for winter.
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