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Completed Porch, Swimming Pool, and House Tour
Completed Porch, Swimming Pool, and House Tour
Finally, we take a look at the finished porch and pool, and review the beautiful finished project with the architect to close the series.
Concrete Pool Decks
Concrete Pool Decks
A concrete pool deck must be safe, slip-resistant, and easy on the feet. Creating a deck that will last is another issue. Textures and coatings ...
Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room
Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room
Bob helps Ryley create an elaborate five-piece cornice molding in the dining room. Ryley has created a raised working environment and begun ...
Creating a Swag Window Treatment
Creating a Swag Window Treatment
Finally, we tour the kitchen and dining area of the finished house with the designer. And she teaches Bob how to create a swag for a window treatment.
Creating the Built in Cabinets and Doors
Creating the Built in Cabinets and Doors
Bob meets with Ryley to discuss the site-built, built-in cabinets of ¾” Birch plywood. The cabinets were all precut in the shop before being ...
Creating Your Ideal Home Theater
Creating Your Ideal Home Theater
Think a home theater system is more fantasy than reality? Check out these expert tips to find out what to do if you’re dreaming about your own ...
Creative Kids’ Spaces
Creative Kids’ Spaces
A designated space for kids inspires their creativity, evokes their imagination and lets them be themselves. These tips and ideas for designing a ...
Custom Built-in Bookshelf Unit
Custom Built-in Bookshelf Unit
Bob helps Ryley assemble and install bookshelves for the den at the ranch house remodel on Lake Cochituate. Ryley shows bob how to scribe the trim ...
Decorating the Family Room
Decorating the Family Room
Bob visits the home's airy, light-filled basement family room. The house, which is built on a sloping lot, allows the basement level to open ...
Demolition in Action: Taking Down a Wall
Demolition in Action: Taking Down a Wall
The demolition crew has removed all the old cabinets, fixtures, and electrical boxes in the kitchen before knocking down the divider wall to make ...
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Brent Hull, of Hull Historical Millwork, is on location to help with the installation of the dining room's crown molding. The WindsorONE millwork ...
Direct-Vent Fireplace Installation
Direct-Vent Fireplace Installation
Jack Murdock from RMI and Craig Ryans from Vermont Castings of Mississauga, Ontario, demonstrate how simple it is to have gas appliances and heat ...
Discussing Architectural Ideas for the Miami Condo
Discussing Architectural Ideas for the Miami Condo
Bob Vila and project architect Michael Pierce brainstorm ideas for this small condo with a great view of Biscayne Bay. The condo, a collection of ...
Discussing Swimming Pool Design
Discussing Swimming Pool Design
Bob discusses the swimming pool with the architect.
Elm Court Dining Room
Elm Court Dining Room
Sonya and Bob Berle lead Bob Vila through a tour of one of the Vanderbilt’s most elegant dining rooms. The Berles have restored the ornate ...
Elm Court's Grand Parlor
Elm Court's Grand Parlor
Bob Vila joins Sonya and Bob Berle, owners of Elm Court for a tour of the ornate grand parlor. When the Berles arrived at Elm Court the parlor was ...
Fabricating and Installing Colonial-Style Wood Wall Panels
Fabricating and Installing Colonial-Style Wood Wall Panels
Carpenter Bob Ryley is on location to begin work on a reproduction wood-paneled wall in the project home's formal dining area. The wall panels, ...
Fall Chimney Check
Fall Chimney Check
Final Tour of the Completed Interior
Final Tour of the Completed Interior
Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen gives Bob a final tour of the I'On project house.
Final Tour of the Tropical Themed Home
Final Tour of the Tropical Themed Home
For the final show here in the Miami suburb of Kendall, Bob gives us the grand tour of the new kitchen with the happy homeowner. We see how the ...
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