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Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen gives Bob a final tour of the ION project house. Architect and town planner Andres Duany shows how th...
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| | Applying a Faux Painting Finish
Bob tours the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner and tries his hand at faux painting.
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| | Architect Project Plans and Door Demolition
Work gets started as Greg Rochlin presents architectural plans and demolition begins, revealing an old pocket door.
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| | Architectural Glass Panels for Pocket Doors
Bob shows the double pocket doors that separate the living and private spaces of the Miami condo. The wall between the living room and bedroom has bee...
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| | Bathroom Plumbing Work and Electrical Wiring the Kitchen
Plumber Kevin Hanley reviews the installation of the new half-bath. A pedistal water basin and an antique toilet are installed. Electrical wiring is r...
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| | Behind the Walls and Pocket Door Installation
Bob looks at what goes behind the walls before putting on the blue board: wiring, light fixtures, heat ducts, water lines and a pocket door frame.
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| | Bob Tours the Almost Completed Plymouth House
Bob tours a basement recreation room that has recently been remodeled. The walls, ceilings, and floors have all be restored. The living room has been ...
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| | Building a Door
Bob meets with Ryley and builds a door jig to and a plank door with beadboards. Ryley oultines the door construction process and build the first of se...
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| | Built-In Closet Storage Installation
Bob and Bob Ryley are working in the master bedroom building two storage units in the walk-in closet. Before they can start, they take a moment to han...
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| | Butcher Block Countertop and Crackle Painting
Bob and Ryley install a butcher-block countertop in the kitchen, and the decorator shows Bob how to make a "crackle" finish.
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| | Cabinet Boxes Installed
Bob confers with carpenter David Ives and Brian Dauphinee as they install cabinet boxes in the curved wall of the Loft Conversion Project in Boston.
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| | California Closet Installation
Bob visits with Shelia Smaltz, an expert from California Closets.
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| | Carpet Installation
Bob visits with Joe Mergo, picks out some carpet and gets some tips on installation.
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| | Child-Safe Blinds
Bob enters the front child's bedroom where Dave Wahtera meets him to discuss blinds. Dave has installed Graber's new Crystal Pleat child-safe blind. B...
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| | Choosing an Historically Appropriate Door
Bob shows the Woodport medium-density fiberboard doors selected for the Manhattan Brownstone. They are historically accurate five-panel doors like tho...
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| | 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.
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| | Completing the Miami Master Bedroom
The finishes put the final touches on the bedroom of the Miami condo. The bed is from Nature's Rest and has a renewable latex technology. Vintage find...
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| | Covering Doors with Plastic Laminate
In this segment Bob Vila meets with architect Greg Rochlin and review techniques for covering a series of doors with plastic laminate.
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| | 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.
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| | Creating the Jambs and Hanging a Door
Bob works with the crew from Thorough Construction as they prepare the Woodport door for hanging on site. The door is stabilized by a horse that holds...
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| | Cutting and Installing Baseboard Trim
In the master bedroom, Bob Ryley is installing the medium density fiberboard baseboard trim. Where two pieces of trim meet in a corner, Ryley's approa...
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| | Cutting and Installing Door Trim
With the door to the master bath installed, Ryley conceals the rough carpentry work with door casings. Three boards make up the door casing — two side...
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| | Decorating the Master Bedroom
Bob and designer Leslie Curtis take a quick tour through the master bedroom. Here Curtis has chosen Autumn Wheat from the Bob Vila Signature collectio...
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| | Decorative Painting Technique: Glazing in the Master Bedroom
Bob meets with faux paint expert Kim Sweet who is applying a gold parchment effect for the master bedroom walls and tries his hand at applying some co...
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| | Decorative Painting Techniques with B. Smith
Bob watches decorator B. Smith paint a lavender stripe pattern in the girl's bedroom of the Habitat for Humanity project.
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| | Discussing the Hallway Walls
Bob shows us the long curved wall in the loft's hallway. The wall serves as a divider between private and public spaces as well as providing a lot of ...
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| | Elm Court Master Bedroom
Sonya Berle meets with Kara Roberts from Smith+Noble and Bob Vila to discuss the designer feel of the master bedroom. Coordinating accent pieces were ...
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| | Entryway and Dining Room Tour
Bob tours the front vestibule, highlighting the beautiful stencil work done by Kim Sweet.
The stencil work replaced moldings in many homes of this n...
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| | Exploring the New Kitchen and Master Bedroom
Bob checks out the kitchen and master bedroom with the designer.
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| | Exterior Tour of the Greystone
Bob tours the finished exterior with contractor Ron Gan, then goes inside to see Christine Smyth's spectacular decorating job.
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| | Faux Finishing an Antique Door
Bob meets with Rick and Martha Snyder to see how they faux-finish an antique entry door to look just like it was originally done.
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| | Faux Finishing the Doors
Bob meets with Josh and Jans to look at the old doors and then gets with Elaine Havaland to do some faux finishing of the doors.
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| | Features of the Personal Valet Clothes Freshening System
Dave Herbert from Whirlpool joins Bob to talk about the new Personal Valet Clothes Vitalizing System that is being installed in the master bedroom clo...
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| | Final Tour of the Completed Interior
Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen gives Bob a final tour of the I'On project house.
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| | Final Tour of the Completed Second Home in the Project
House two of the Elmwood project. Attaching new casings to laundry closet. Permanently installed vanity. Then a final tour of the finished remodel.
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| | Finished Brownstone Bedroom and Patio
Bob and Chris Vila are in the back spaces of the Manhattan Brownstone floor-through apartment to check on finish details. The refurbished bedroom spac...
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| | Finished Coach House Tour with Faux Painters
Bob tours the kitchen and living room of the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner.
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| | Finished Cornice Molding, Flooring, and Fireplace
Bob shows us the completed living room of the Manhattan Brownstone floor-through apartment. The entire space is opened up and is now 22 feet square wi...
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| | Finishing a Wood Floor
Howard Brickman has begun sanding the old growth Eastern white pine floor in the bedroom. Like the sunroom, the fine quality of the millwork from Carl...
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| | Fixing Old Double Hung Windows
Bob meets with Cortney Lofton, the carpenter, and rehabilitates some old double-hung windows with new nylon braided sash cords and new kerf-in thermop...
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| | Framing a Master Closet for a Contemporary Colonial
Bob and Ryley demonstrate step by step how to frame up a 6' x 12' walk-in closet for the master bedroom. The framing crew installed partition backers ...
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| | Grand Tour of the Media Room, Kitchen and Living Room
In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob and our designer, Robyn, take us on a tour of the finished California-Spanish dream house. We look at th...
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| | Hanging a Wood Door in the Basement
Ryley works with door hanger, Steve parks to hang a wood door in the basement of the Blitz-Build Habitat project in Yonkers.
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| | Hanging an Engineered Wood Six-Panel Door
Carpenter Bob Ryley and Jim Daniels of Woodport Interior Doors join Bob on location to hang a new door in the master bathroom. The pre-hung, six-panel...
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| | Hanging Doors and Installing New Door Trim
Bob meets with Ryley on the third floor of the Cambridge House to re-hang the old doors (they've been stripped) and install the new trim.
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| | Hanging Double Doors
Mike Smith and Bob Ryley hang double doors in the residence of the Virginia governor's mansion.
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| | Hip Roof Framing
Bob confers with Joe from the framing crew as they cut and stack the hip roof over the master bedroom of the Malibu Beach House. They are using expos...
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| | Home Two: Bathroom Remodel
House two of the Elmwood project. Homeowners Pat and Roger Simons go over the goals of their bathroom remodel.
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| | Installation of a Floating Vanity Cabinet
Bob Vila takes us from the shower that will also have a toilet and lavatory, through the dressing area with space reserved for a bench and cubby space...
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| | Installing a Mahogany Windowsill
In this episode, Bob and Chris Vila are installing a Mahogany windowsill. It has been precut with a cleat and bevel to make the installation easier. T...
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| | Installing a Pocket Door
At the Florida cottage, Bob meets with contractor Al Stiles, and they change and relocate a swinging door to a pocket door.
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| | Installing Bifold Doors
Bob learns from Ron Gan how to install and adjust a pair of bifold doors.
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| | Installing Custom Closets
Bob enters the master suite to talk with Marcy Weisberg and Brad Bendell who are installing the totally custom California Closets. Marcy explains that...
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| | Installing Handicapped Accessible Door Hardware
Bob meets with Ryley and installs a Schlage interior lever lockset for the accessibility house, because lever locks are easier for differently abled f...
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| | Installing Interior Window Casings and Sill
In this segment, Bob Ryley tackles window trim in the master bedroom of the new Colonial. He begins with the windowsill, which is predrilled through i...
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| | Installing Paneling in the Master Bedroom Closet
Bob joins David Ives who is installing the farm grown mahogany paneling in the master bedroom closet.
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| | Installing Restored Brass Door Hardware and Faux Finishing the Mantelpiece
Bob and Ryley install the restored door hardware. Greg Rochlin (project architect) had the lacquer coated brass hardware intricately removed and numbe...
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| | Installing the White Oak Flooring
Bob meets up with Tim Colgan to look at the Kahrs white oak flooring being installed in the bedroom. Earlier in the week the carpenters put the orient...
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| | Insulation to Conserve Heat and Reduce Noise
Bob joins Buddy Loxley from MAP Insulation to talk installation in the master bedroom. The crew is using R-15 fiberglass insulation from Owens Corning...
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| | Interior Decorating Ideas in the Master Bedroom
In the master bedroom, "Autumn Wheat" from the Bob Vila Signature Series paint line was applied to the walls to provide a transition from the master b...
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| | Interior Paint Selection
Bob chats with painter Rick Snyder in the dining room of a home in Charleston, South Carolina, while Rick experiments with color on intricate wood det...
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| | Interior Tour of Modular Home
Bob begins the final an interior tour of the modular home project in the Berkshire Hills. The interior doors are Woodport MDF panel doors with M-tech ...
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| | Jonathan Adler Discusses Interior Design Ideas
Bob meets with Jonathan Adler and Darren Brown to discuss the penthouse apartment's main living spaces. The two-bedroom apartment is almost a loft wit...
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| | Jonathan Adler Reviews Interior Design Finishes
Bob joins the project's interior designer, Jonathan Adler, in the guest bedroom to discuss the decor. Adler used a Lucite shelf to add storage space w...
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| | Layout of the Walk-in Closet
Bob meets with Bob and Sheila Smaltz from California Closets to review the layout for Bob's walk-in closet.
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| | Making a Plate Display Rack
Bob helps contractor Bob Ryley construct a plate display rack for the split level ranch project in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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| | Making Partitions for the Closet
Bob and Ryley are busy in the garage workshop ripping 4-by-8 sheets of birch plywood for use as partitions in the master bedroom closet. Ryley has cre...
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| | Malibu Master Bedroom Tour
Bob and our designer, Robyn, take us on a tour of the master bedroom and Bath. Starting in Bath Bob points out the simple extravagant Mexican tile pe...
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| | Marine Look Banister
Bob visits with Ron at the Coach House. Ron is installing a railing and newel post on the second floor. He is using 3/8-inch stainless steel marine wi...
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| | Martha’s Vineyard Grand Finale
Starting with the original interior cottage portion of the home, now a guest suite, Bob reviews the furnishing of the house. Borrowing a bit from Vict...
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| | Master Bedroom Interior Design
For the final visit to the new family room and master bedroom suite addition in Newton, Bob takes a look at the master bedroom and talks with the inte...
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| | New Closet System for the Master Bedroom
Bob checks out the elegant mahogany paneled California Closet storage system designed for the master bedroom suite and then looks at a more traditiona...
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| | Original Art and Contemporary Furnishings Embellish the Finished Space
House ten of the Elmwood project. Bob gives the final tour of this unique third floor remodel.
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| | Painting the Bedroom Walls with Rag Rolling
Bob meets Gary Halzel putting the finishing touches on the master bedroom walls. Gary will be rag rolling the wall. He's putting on a coat of oil-bas...
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| | Painting the Floor
Artisan Terry Maiche demonstrates an inexpensive way to dress up a floor with paint: spattering. Once the paint has completely dried, polyurethane wil...
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| | Picture Framing
Interior designer Leslie Curtis shows off another of her decorating ideas in the dining room. She's chosen to frame a sample of an historic wallpaper ...
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| | Plantation Shutters Installation
Bob Ryley installs plantation shutters in a bedroom wall. A wood jam had to be fastened to the wall to allow the shutters to be mounted and adjusted.
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| | Pocket Door Installation
Gilson Novaes from Gilson Interiors uses a bullet-nail gun to install a steel plate directly to the concrete floor for the partition wall that will ho...
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| | Pre-Hung Affordable Doors
Bob points out that one huge aspect of affordability is doors, windows, and trim stock. He is joined by Lou Trottier of Martin Namco at one of the Mas...
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| | Preconstruction Home Tour
Bob tours the interior of the home with homeowner Paul Paresky. Starting in the Master bedroom Bob points out the view of Lake Cochituate from the lar...
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| | Removing and Relocating a Window
Bob and Ryley take a look at the corner of the house where the sidewall has been removed to show the plywood and Douglas fir sheathing. Ryley explains...
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| | Removing the Closet
Bob meets up with Charlie Tomaszewski, the general contractor for the Medford renovation project, in the home's existing master bedroom. While awaitin...
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| | Replacing Windows with French Doors
Bob meets with contractor Al Stiles on the Forida cottage and installs a pair of French doors. First, they have to remove the old pair of jalousie win...
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| | Review of the Colonial Décor in the Parlor
Designer Leslie Curtis of Curtis Designs is back on location for a final tour of the Colonial-themed decor. Curtis points out the wall stencils from M...
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| | Room Tour at Winterthur, Part One
Bob returns to Winterthur in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. Vila and Winterthur's Pauline Eversmann first visit the Tappahannock Room circa 1740. Highl...
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| | Shaker-Style Mural Painting
Bob checks in with artist Polly Forcier from MB Historic Decor to get an update on some of the home's decorative painting. Forcier is working on a Col...
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| | Shaker-Style Mural Painting and Early 19th Century Stenciling
In the sunroom, Bob appraises Polly Forcier's traditional Shaker-style landscape wall mural, giving it high marks for the Colonial-themed home. A fina...
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| | Shimming, Centering, and Hanging an Interior Door
Hanging the master bathroom door continues. After roughing the door into place, Ryley checks to make sure it is centered and temporarily secures it us...
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| | Techniques for Applying Plaster
The plaster crew is hard at work in the master bedroom, applying a coat of USG Diamond Veneer Plaster. Bob gets a demonstration of the plaster applica...
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| | Tour of Middleburgh Plantation
Bob takes us on a tour of historic Middleburgh Plantation, the oldest surviving wooden house in South Carolina.
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| | Tour of Simpson Door Manufacturing Factory
Bob goes to McCleary, WA where Jim Fielder takes him on a tour of the Simpson door manufacturing plant.
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| | Tour of the Chinese Parlor at Winterthur
Bob re-visits The Winterthur Garden and Museum, this time touring the Chinese Parlor with curator Pauline Eversmann. The Parlor is actually a combinat...
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| | Tour of the Completed Greenhouse
The greenhouse addition is completed; Bob and Ryley tour the spectacular finished space. In addition to the greenhouse, a vestibule to the house has b...
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| | Tour of the Completed Interior of an Affordable Home
Bob and Join Druley continue their tour of the finished model built by Quaker Homes in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Druley gives Bob a sense of the finish...
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| | Tour of the Completed Loft Conversion
Bob gives a grand-rounds tour of the finished loft conversion with designer Lisa Shire.
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| | Tour of the Finished Interior Decor with B. Smith
Bob is joined by decorator B. Smith who takes Bob on a tour of the finished interior decor. A new puppy is presented as a special house warming gift t...
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| | Tour of the Governor's Mansion's Ballroom
Bob meets with project architect, John Paul Hanbury to look at the ballroom and then we flash back with Sam Daniels to look at some details including ...
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| | Tour of the Interior Design Upstairs
Bob tours the finished upstairs focusing on the interior design.
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| | Tour of the Master Bedroom
In the master bedroom Bob notes the soothing putty wall color and green-painted nook that houses the bathroom's glass block wall. He shows us the anti...
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| | Tour of the Master Bedroom
Bob tours the master bedroom suite and admires the space, scope and view. Of particular note is the Charles Shackleton mirror framed in carved cherry ...
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| | Tour of the Port Royal Parlor at Winterthur
Bob returns to Winterthur, industrialist Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, which is now a museum, in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. The museum's ...
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| | Tour of the Storage Area and Bathroom
Contractor Bob Ryley puts finishing touches on the loft conversion in Boston. Bob tours storage areas and bathroom of loft with the designer.
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| | Touring the Cabin's Interior Décor
Bob tours the cabin with Robyn Peterson, the interior designer who decorated the cabin. The mantle has been painted with a faux birch bark look and th...
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| | Touring the Landscaping and Meeting Pamela Anderson
In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob take us on a tour of the tiled courtyard with palms and fountain. We get a surprise visit from "Home Imp...
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| | Touring the Master Bedroom in the Modular Home
Bob Vila and Michael Shiels visit the master bedroom section of the modular home. The expanse extends sixteen by forty feet including the master bedro...
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| | Wall Stenciling
Decorator Leslie Curtis joins Bob in the project house's parlor to discuss the room's wall treatments. In lieu of wallpaper, stencils are used to add ...
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| | Wall Stenciling and Decorative Striping
Bob talks with artist Margo Datz about decorative striping and stenciling in the Victorian Cottage master bedroom. She uses a template to insure the l...
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| | Wall Stenciling Continued
Work continues on the parlor's wall stencils. Bob and Ken Forcier are applying the second "layer" of the stencilÑan ochre hue to complement the first ...
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| | Wide-Plank Pine Flooring Installation
Bob and Howard Brickman begin the installation of the old-growth pine plank flooring in a second-floor bedroom of the modern Colonial's sister house. ...
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| | William Gibbes House Tour
Bob is invited into the elegant "rooms" of the gardens at Charleston's William Gibbes House, one of the nation's best examples of Georgian architectur...
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| | Window Treatments and Custom Bedding
Bob is joined by Kara Roberts of Smith & Noble, who shows the newly installed metal blinds and curtains. The blinds have a brushed metal finish to coo...
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