Original title
Hometime
Released
11/1/1986
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
130
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.
The Hometime crew re-grades a sloping back yard, installs a drainage system, and begins building a series of paver patios.
The Hometime crew weaves several retaining walls, steps, and patios into a small, sloped back yard.
The Hometime crew restores the porch of what was once the caretaker’s home on a 40-acre, turn-of-the-century lakeside estate.
The Hometime crew renovates a church courtyard with a textured concrete walkway, custom wood benches, and a raised planting bed.
The Hometime crew makes its last visit to this historic home to create a sidewalk outside and to finish painting and wallpapering the interior.
The Hometime crew takes a small kitchen and starts work to improve storage and functionality.
The Hometime crew installs new kitchen cabinets, a new sliding door and new floor tile.
The Hometime crew installs countertops and appliances, as well as a new wood floor for the adjacent living room.
The Hometime crew converts an unused, tuck-under garage into a metal-working studio with a new heater and a downsized garage door.
The Hometime crew wraps up the workshop with doors, windows and welding equipment.
The Hometime crew installs a super-hard, prefinished wood floor.
The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.
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.
The Hometime crew transforms a kitchen with re-faced cabinets along with new counters, tile, appliances and lighting.
The Hometime crew uses new trim, wood flooring, lighting, paint and furniture to transform a dated, 1970s living room and dining room.
The Hometime crew installs sheet and tile linoleum on the Hometime log cabin basement floor.
The Hometime crew modifies and upgrades cabinets, appliances, countertops and plumbing fixtures.
The Hometime crew adds new cabinets and plumbing fixtures to a log cabin lower level.
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.
Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew rebuild old cabinets and install historically sensitive countertops, flooring, fixtures and appliances remodeling this 100-year-old kitchen.
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.
The Hometime crew puts in doors, tile and cabinets for the basement wet bar and peninsula.
The Hometime crew puts in granite countertops and a trendy shower door then wrap up the custom wood paneling around a basement fireplace.
The Hometime crew shores up the block walls then uses attic trusses to create a room over a flat-roofed, detached garage.
The Hometime crew seals up the exterior of the garage and the new studio above it.
The upstairs studio gets paint, flooring, and lighting. The downstairs garage gets flooring and cabinets.
The Hometime crew uses pavers and retaining walls to capture space under a second-story deck.
The Hometime crew frames and insulates curtain walls to enclose the space under a second-story deck.
The Hometime crew finishes the space under a second-story deck to expand a workshop used to create metal sculpture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hometime crew supervises the design, construction and installation of the windows for the home, and explains the natural slate roofing system.
The Hometime crew prepares for and supervises the installation of the basement, garage and porch floors.
The Hometime crew manages the installation of the ductwork, recessed lighting, and central vacuum while also helping out with the driveway, stonework and siding.
The Hometime crew installs cables for lighting control, audio, video and security and helps out with several types of insulation.
The Hometime crew helps out installing the radiant floor heating system and the geothermal heating and cooling equipment.
The Hometime crew wraps up a project with a second floor yoga studio for “her” and a garage-level workshop for "him."
After some last-minute preparation crews install four different types of wall board for the interior walls and 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.
Wooden beams are built outside for the porches. Inside, hardwood trim wainscoting is installed.
The Hometime crews scopes out how the custom matching garage and entry doors are made, and helps out leveling the floors for tiling.
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.
The Hometime crew installs the paver driveway, as well as the master bathroom cabinets.
The Hometime crew works on the interior doors, kitchen cabinets, wainscoting, and exterior columns.
The Hometime crew installs custom cabinets for the laundry room and starts the home’s wood flooring.
The home office begins to take shape, as the custom staircase work begins.
The stone countertops are fabricated and installed.
The Hometime crew installs cabinets, countertops and landscaping.
The covered porch gets motorized screens, the garage floor gets an epoxy coating, and the last few cabinets are installed.
The custom handrail is built, granite countertops are installed, the drip irrigation is wrapped up, and the yard gets sod.
Varnishing the cherry millwork, applying stone on the basement fireplace and wrapping up the irrigation.
The metal railing gets built, sandblasted, powder coated and installed while the garage walls and ceiling are paneled.
The recessed lights, hanging lights, and surface-mounted fixtures are installed.
Installation of state-of-the-art lighting controls, undercabinet lights, and mirrors finishes off the kitchen and bathrooms.
Taking down a tall cedar privacy fence and re-milling the lumber to create a “new” picket fence.
Expanding a basement entertainment area with a new island and hand-blown lamp shades.
A plain vanilla covered porch gets upgraded with hardwood decking and a PVC railing system.
A front yard is redesigned with a circle theme in the planting beds, the patios and the driveway.
Finishing the gas fireplace, wet bar tile and workshop walls and ceiling.
Installing cabinets and hanging storage for the garage and the workshop.
Preparing and installing area rugs, stair runners and wall-to-wall carpet and testing out the new central vacuum.
Installing and operating the home theater, the lighting control system, and the whole-house audio.
Hometime explores the storage options for closets and installs a discrete fireplace screen.
Hometime builds a sophisticated wine cellar racking system and installs a climate control unit.
Hometime builds massive decorative wood brackets and gives a new kitchen a test run with a local celebrity chef.
Sophisticated tool storage systems and a custom workbench.
The latest in TV technology and automated controls for entertainment equipment.
Hometime builds an outdoor cooking island and anchors an outdoor lamp post.
Hometime sets an outdoor grill into a stone and granite island.
Thoughtful design and careful carpentry tie mailboxes and a flower box to the architectural style of a home.
Building full extension drawers, attaching snow guards and exploring a home’s cottage style.
Hometime helps two neighbors design and begin installing coordinated landscaping on smaller adjacent lots.
The Hometime team pitches in to help neighbors finish two smaller, coordinated landscapes.
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.
Dean and Miriam frame and deck the new landscape bridge as the home’s roof gets covered with copper and synthetic slate.
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.
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.
Dean, Miriam, Dan and Bucky pitch in to install a paver driveway, walkway and step veneer.
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.
Double hung windows are updated with new inserts as Hometime guts the kitchen and reframes the powder room for a pocket door.
Dean and Miriam finish up rough-ins, insulation, drywall and priming to get ready for new cabinets.
Dean and Miriam show how to blend two different finishes as they install new cabinets.
Dean and Miriam get the kitchen, mud room and powder room areas ready for new flooring and countertops.
It’s time for finishing touches as Dean and Miriam trim out the kitchen, mud room and powder room.
Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew fire up the fixtures and appliances as they wrap up the project.
Dean and Miriam look at roofing, stone, garage doors and stamped concrete from the curb appeal perspective as a new home is built.
Dean and Miriam talk about roofing, railings and a realistic gas fireplace during the construction of a screen porch.
Dean and Miriam document the construction of two new homes, built inside a home and garden show.
Dean, Miriam and the crew demo some old kitchen countertops and install new quartz surfaces.
Finishing a hilly back yard with landscape steps and tile, a fire ring, plants and sprinklers.
Planting site-appropriate trees after a storm and building a crib for firewood cut and split from the damaged timber.
Pre-building timber frame walls inside and re-building on a new slab near Hometime Log Cabin.
Pre-building timber frame style roof trusses inside and re-assembling those on site as shed construction continues.
Taking out old concrete to repair, reframe and reseal the patio over a storage area.
Re-pouring and re-stamping the concrete patio while fixing up the storage area below.
Resetting an outdoor natural stone island, covering it with granite and setting a new built-in gas grill.
Updating an island kitchen with new cabinets includes visits with the designer and the manufacturer.
Finishing up the new cabinets for the island kitchen and covering those with new countertops.
Installing lights, plumbing fixtures and appliances.
Installing custom carriage house doors and laying a system of tailored pavers.
Installing clay tile roofing and natural stone cladding for the walls.
Finishing up the exterior and getting the new shed ready for winter.
Updating critical vacation home systems with state of the art filtration and microbe inoculation.
Wireless home security components, anti-scald, thermostatic bath valves and lead-safe remodeling practices.
Getting ready for new home construction with coverage of plans, foundation materials and proper silt fence techniques ...
Setting pre-cast hollow core panels, laying drainage pipe around the foundation and framing the basement.
Setting first floor trusses and walls on site while previewing the reclaimed lumber to be used for the home's decorative timber frame trusses.
Setting the second floor trusses and walls as plans for the roof framing are finalized.
Installing trusses and sheathing; timber framers.
Hanging timber frame trusses over the great room.
Drying in the home; installing windows properly.
Staining and applying shingle siding.
PVC fittings; plastic plumbing supplies; solving drainage issues in new home construction.
Making a basement floor water-tight and warm.
Last steps needed to get things dried in.
Keeping a new garage well-drained and warm.
New doors, finished millwork and a ceiling fan increase efficiency and freshen up an aging sunroom.
Saving energy with a new home's mechanical systems.
Find out how multiple elements are blended together to create harmonious exteriors.
Discover ways to cover floors, walls and ceilings as the new home project continues.
See how stone, pavers and plants complement the new home exterior.
Explore new ways to complement a home's architecture with interior finishes.
Planning, selecting and installing cabinets.
The back deck is finished, the driveway begins and the manufacture of plumbing fixtures is highlighted as the Creekside Home project continues.
Finishing the driveway at the Creekside Home, exploring bathroom options and visiting a kitchen transformation.
The siding gets as far as possible before roofing, the garages doors are under construction and it's a good time to re-visit some past projects for inspiration on furnishing the Creekside Home.
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