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The fifteenth season of Bob Vila's Home Again opens with a Miami Beach Condo renewal. Bob and the crew show how use of space, color, and finishes make a small space a large success. The kitchen is opened up and converted to make elegant dining space that looks onto the living area. A closet is converted to make an inset bar with recessed lighting and glass shelves. The small bath becomes an oasis with luminous glass tile in the shower, a wash of color, and sleek new fixtures. Pocket doors of antique-look glass are installed to separate living and sleeping spaces, the kitchen is completely remodeled, and furniture is selected to reflect Miami's unique personality. Home Again finishes on the terrace where outdoor space overlooking Biscayne Bay is made comfortable and practical.
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In the second half of Season 15, Bob Vila’s Home Again takes on two projects that focus on very different notions of home. Bob begins on New York’s Upper West Side where an 1890s Brownstone is revitalized through high-quality craftsmanship and sensitive design. New York’s past meets its present as the entire floor is recaptured and refurbished as a spacious urban apartment on the doorstep of Central Park. At the same time, Bob works with a Cape Cod developer to apply Massachusetts’ land use statute 40B to create affordable housing and a neighborhood of homes in Mashpee, Massachusetts. These Energy Star certified homes show how quality building practices and reasonable asking prices can work together to provide livable, affordable homes and neighborhoods to those who work in our communities.
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Additional Bob Vila Showrooms• Renovation Experts - Put your home in good hands. Get FREE estimates on your project.
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• Bellacor.com - The Online Leader for Quality Lighting and more.
• TOTO USA - Elegant, technologically-advanced plumbing fixtures that perform!
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK! Bob Vila’s Home Again heads to Brooklyn, New York’s DUMBO neighborhood for the show’s next project. There's a lot of work to be done on this abandoned mid-19th century four-story brick front building "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass." This is a Brooklyn riverfront neighborhood of warehouses and factory buildings that is re-emerging as a vital new community of urban lofts and studios. Our little building, a mere twenty feet wide, last saw duty as a small pepper factory, but it's been empty and unused since the mid-1950's. Our adaptive reuse will yield three ultra-hip new apartments and commercial space at street level.
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Beautifully sited on wooded acreage with breathtaking views of some of the most beautiful countryside in New England, this Arts and Crafts style bungalow certainly doesn't look factory-built. You'd never know it was a modular home unless Bob took you to the Pennsylvania factory where it was built, almost from start to finish. We'll follow the house down the assembly line from framing, through wiring and plumbing, all the way to the installation of flooring and priming for paint. We'll truck the house to its pre-fabricated foundations on the lot, and start all the finishing touches that will prove that a modular house doesn't have to be a cookie-cutter affair.
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Bob takes a special time out to celebrate the kickoff of the fifteenth season of Home Again and his twenty-fifth year as America's favorite home improvement expert. He looks back at where the show has taken us in fourteen years of programming: the more than thirty projects, dozens of great field trips, celebrities, craftspeople, design ideas, and terrific how-to advice that have made Bob Vila's Home Again one of the most popular and longest-lasting series in its genre.
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This year's project focuses on the construction of a Colonial-style home built with both history and the future in mind. While this 4-bedroom, 4-bath home will have a traditional exterior and interior detailing, the plan will suit the needs of a modern family, including easy-maintenance fireplaces, a great room, master suite, sun room, 3-car garage, and a large walk-out basement with plenty of room for recreation and indoor/outdoor living.
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A quaint town and covered bridges provides the perfect backdrop for building a traditional Vermont style farmhouse. Bob builds a residence that hearkens back to the past yet is fitted out for the needs of the family in the new millennium.
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Located just five miles from downtown Boston, Bob's scouts discovered a Victorian-era house in a neighborhood of family homes on tree-lined streets that was past due for a full-scale renovation. The home's new owners, a work-at-home family, have set goals to modernize the home's floor plan, update the building's mechanical and electrical systems, and add home office and work spaces for two busy professionals.
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Bob heads to the Low Country: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Steeped in tradition, this historic suburb of Charleston is the scene not only of a remarkable new home, but of a remarkable transformation in suburban living at the newly-developing community of I'On.
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The theme of community building in the historic Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island is the focus of this project. Rather than tackling one house, Bob is helping eleven neighbors tackle smaller projects like porches, kitchens, bathrooms, and even a third-floor artist's studio.
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Bob introduces the latest in sustainable materials and efficient building techniques on a Habitat for Humanity "blitz build". The project documents a five days that transform an empty lot into a snug, comfortable, and sustainable home.
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In Richmond, Virginia, the oldest continuously occupied governor's mansion in America is in need of serious repairs, and the Home Again team is there to help. Projects include the complete overhaul and modernization of the basement to include a state-of-the-art caterer's kitchen for official functions, all new mechanical systems, and updates for handicapped accessibility.
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The Roxbury project is an urban renewal story, on a more grass-roots, affordable housing scale. The season previews nine new three-bedroom homes along the avenue, including one unit with accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Bob offers viewers a unique look at the latest trend in stylish city living. This apartment's getting a top-of-the-line treatment: cutting edge design, custom-made furniture and casework, sleek modern fixtures and state of the art appliances.
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This project centers around the remodel of a Studio City bungalow in Los Angeles, California. It's a vintage kit house, purchased from a Sears & Roebuck catalog in 1923 and built in Hollywood.
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This innovative and functional post-and-beam barn structure is designed to provide space to store and work on boats and cars. The story centers around creating a state of the art, ergonomically efficient, well-lit, and safe environment.
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This project centers on the remodel of Bob's own gracious Shingle Style home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carpentry and restoration projects abound. Details from the built-in hutch in the dining room are used to create a wall of elegant mahogany bookshelves in the library. The kitchen is updated with modern appliances, and original details are restored.
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This project features the remodeling and expansion of the kitchen and family room of a 15 year old suburban Miami tract house. Innovative and fun projects include walls built using insulated concrete forms, stucco application, and glass block walls.
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A master bedroom suite in a compact 1930s Colonial Revival home in suburban Newton, Massachusetts, gets a makeover. Bob details the process of building the foundation from forming, and cement pouring to inspection, still work, and backfilling. Also see how the interior baseboard molding and window trim is milled to match the rest of the house.
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Bob tackles the revitalization of an exquisite Federal-style home, built in the early 1800s, which survived the Civil War but barely survived Hurricane Hugo. Projects include the painstaking process of restoring the original plaster ornamentation and woodwork to their original detail.
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Bob takes the viewers to Cape Cod, Mass. in the dead of winter to build a custom, high tech greenhouse. Design and construction of a new addition to the front of an existing house creates a greenhouse/conservatory as well as an elegant new front entry pavilion with a mahogany pergola supported by limestone columns.
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Bob explores the concept of sustainable design by putting resource management theories into practice for everyday living. Projects include a pre-cast foundation system, earth-friendly septic system, energy-efficient appliances, recycling bins, mulching pile and more.
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Vila takes on the expansion of a 35-year old ranch house in Wayland, Massachusetts. With an eye on the budget, projects include European kitchen cabinets, a state of the art closet system for the master bedroom, custom built-in bookshelves, an eye-catching fan detail applied to the front facade, and a private deck off the master bedroom.
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Bob tackles a remodeling and construction project on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard with the expansion of a tiny vacation cabin into a spacious family retreat with an authentic Vineyard Victorian look.
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Bob takes on a worn out California ranch house on stilts on Malibu Beach and converts it into an elegant Spanish-style villa worthy of its glamorous location. Projects include an elegant winder staircase, a state of the art sprinkler system, environmentally friendly blown-in cellulose insulation, and seismic code compliance.
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A worn, seventeen year-old raised ranch with problems familiar to many homeowners get a new look. The facade is resided and repainted, windows replaced, and a new entry built. Inside, a new bath and kitchen are project highlights.
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Bob rejuvenates a modest but classic Florida house, focusing on light, ventilation, and outdoor living. Projects include opening walls, improving air conditioning and ventilation, blowing in some insulation, and installation of a new French door entry and ceiling fan.
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This Cape Cod-style home was Bob's first project for Bob Vila's Home Again. From architect's plans and foundation digging to framing, cedar shingling, installing a heating system, landscaping, and using artists' paint techniques on the interior?it's all here!
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A two-family greystone in Chicago's Wicker Park is refreshed and updated. The project documents a low-budget renovation of the two apartments and concludes with a decorator's tour showcasing the eye-catching results.
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A Coach House in Chicago is reborn! This project includes gutting and rebuilding the interior structure, finishing the basement, and adding a roof dormer. Finally, local artists show Bob how to give the newly renovated home some panache with a creative, Chicago-style decorating approach and faux-finish painting techniques.
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