The Hometime crew re-grades a sloping back yard, installs a drainage system, and begins building a series of paver patios.

Digging Out the Yard

The Hometime crew weaves several retaining walls, steps, and patios into a small, sloped back yard.

Urban Terraces

The Hometime crew restores the porch of what was once the caretaker’s home on a 40-acre, turn-of-the-century lakeside estate.

Caretaker's Home

The Hometime crew renovates a church courtyard with a textured concrete walkway, custom wood benches, and a raised planting bed.

Entrance Plaza

The Hometime crew makes its last visit to this historic home to create a sidewalk outside and to finish painting and wallpapering the interior.

Betsy-Tacy Home: Decoration

The Hometime crew takes a small kitchen and starts work to improve storage and functionality.

Eat-In-Kitchen: Demolition

The Hometime crew installs new kitchen cabinets, a new sliding door and new floor tile.

Eat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets

The Hometime crew installs countertops and appliances, as well as a new wood floor for the adjacent living room.

Eat-In-Kitchen: Wrap Up

The Hometime crew converts an unused, tuck-under garage into a metal-working studio with a new heater and a downsized garage door.

Sculpture Studio: Framing

The Hometime crew wraps up the workshop with doors, windows and welding equipment.

Sculpture Studio: Finishing

The Hometime crew installs a super-hard, prefinished wood floor.

Great Room Hardwood Floor

The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.

Travertine Floor

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.

Seven-Year Plan

The Hometime crew transforms a kitchen with re-faced cabinets along with new counters, tile, appliances and lighting.

Kitchen Facelift

The Hometime crew uses new trim, wood flooring, lighting, paint and furniture to transform a dated, 1970s living room and dining room.

Great Room Update

The Hometime crew installs sheet and tile linoleum on the Hometime log cabin basement floor.

Linoleum Flooring

The Hometime crew modifies and upgrades cabinets, appliances, countertops and plumbing fixtures.

Cabin Kitchen Upgrade

The Hometime crew adds new cabinets and plumbing fixtures to a log cabin lower level.

Vacation Home Laundry Room

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.

Historic Summer Home -- Structural Upgrades

Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew rebuild old cabinets and install historically sensitive countertops, flooring, fixtures and appliances remodeling this 100-year-old kitchen.

Historic Summer Home -- 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.

Barrel Vault Basement

The Hometime crew puts in doors, tile and cabinets for the basement wet bar and peninsula.

Party Kitchen

The Hometime crew puts in granite countertops and a trendy shower door then wrap up the custom wood paneling around a basement fireplace.

Arched Wood Panels

The Hometime crew shores up the block walls then uses attic trusses to create a room over a flat-roofed, detached garage.

Attic Trusses

The Hometime crew seals up the exterior of the garage and the new studio above it.

Standalone Garage

The upstairs studio gets paint, flooring, and lighting.  The downstairs garage gets flooring and cabinets.

Yoga Studio

The Hometime crew uses pavers and retaining walls to capture space under a second-story deck.

Sculpture Studio Extension - Floor

The Hometime crew frames and insulates curtain walls to enclose the space under a second-story deck.

Sculpture Studio Extension - Walls

The Hometime crew finishes the space under a second-story deck to expand a workshop used to create metal sculpture.

Sculpture Studio Extension - Wrap Up

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.

Stone Cottage – Cul-De-Sac Prep

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.

Stone Cottage – Concrete & Foam

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.

Stone Cottage – Instant House

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.

Stone Cottage – Roofscape

The Hometime crew supervises the design, construction and installation of the windows for the home, and explains the natural slate roofing system.

Stone Cottage – Windows

The Hometime crew prepares for and supervises the installation of the basement, garage and porch floors.

Stone Cottage – Concrete 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.

Stone Cottage – Inner Workings

The Hometime crew installs cables for lighting control, audio, video and security and helps out with several types of insulation.

Stone Cottage – Insulation

The Hometime crew helps out installing the radiant floor heating system and the geothermal heating and cooling equipment.

Stone Cottage – Geothermal

The Hometime crew wraps up a project with a second floor yoga studio for “her” and a garage-level workshop for "him."

His and Her Garage

After some last-minute preparation crews install four different types of wall board for the interior walls and ceilings.

Stone Cottage -- Interior Walls

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.

Stone Cottage -- Vaulted Ceilings

Wooden beams are built outside for the porches.  Inside, hardwood trim wainscoting is installed.

Stone Cottage -- Millwork

The Hometime crews scopes out how the custom matching garage and entry doors are made, and helps out leveling the floors for tiling.

Stone Cottage -- Exterior Doors

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.

Stone Cottage -- Tile

The Hometime crew installs the paver driveway, as well as the master bathroom cabinets.

Stone Cottage -- Driveway

The Hometime crew works on the interior doors, kitchen cabinets, wainscoting, and exterior columns.

Stone Cottage -- Interior Doors

The Hometime crew installs custom cabinets for the laundry room and starts the home’s wood flooring.

Stone Cottage -- Laundry Room

The home office begins to take shape, as the custom staircase work begins.

Stone Cottage -- Office

The stone countertops are fabricated and installed.

Stone Cottage -- Countertops

The Hometime crew installs cabinets, countertops and landscaping.

Stone Cottage -- Fixtures and Appliances

The covered porch gets motorized screens, the garage floor gets an epoxy coating, and the last few cabinets are installed.

Stone Cottage -- Retractable Screens

The custom handrail is built, granite countertops are installed, the drip irrigation is wrapped up, and the yard gets sod.

Stone Cottage -- Sod and Stone

Varnishing the cherry millwork, applying stone on the basement fireplace and wrapping up the irrigation.

Stone Cottage -- Finishing the Trim

The metal railing gets built, sandblasted, powder coated and installed while the garage walls and ceiling are paneled.

Stone Cottage -- Porch Railing

The recessed lights, hanging lights, and surface-mounted fixtures are installed.

Stone Cottage -- Lighting

Installation of state-of-the-art lighting controls, undercabinet lights, and mirrors finishes off the kitchen and bathrooms.

Stone Cottage -- Kitchen & Baths

Taking down a tall cedar privacy fence and re-milling the lumber to create a “new” picket fence.

Recycled Fence

Expanding a basement entertainment area with a new island and hand-blown lamp shades.

Granite Bar Top

A plain vanilla covered porch gets upgraded with hardwood decking and a PVC railing system.

Porch and Rail

A front yard is redesigned with a circle theme in the planting beds, the patios and the driveway.

Circular Beds

Finishing the gas fireplace, wet bar tile and workshop walls and ceiling.

Stone Cottage -- Lower Level

Installing cabinets and hanging storage for the garage and the workshop.

Stone Cottage -- Storage

Preparing and installing area rugs, stair runners and wall-to-wall carpet and testing out the new central vacuum.

Stone Cottage -- Carpet

Installing and operating the home theater, the lighting control system, and the whole-house audio.

Stone Cottage -- Electronics

Hometime explores the storage options for closets and installs a discrete fireplace screen.

Closet Organizers

Hometime builds a sophisticated wine cellar racking system and installs a climate control unit.

Wine Cellar

Hometime builds massive decorative wood brackets and gives a new kitchen a test run with a local celebrity chef.

Side Porch

Sophisticated tool storage systems and a custom workbench.

Workshop

The latest in TV technology and automated controls for entertainment equipment.

Home Theater

Hometime builds an outdoor cooking island and anchors an outdoor lamp post.

Outdoor Kitchen Island

Hometime sets an outdoor grill into a stone and granite island.

Built-in Grill

Thoughtful design and careful carpentry tie mailboxes and a flower box to the architectural style of a home.

Mailbox & Flower Box

Building full extension drawers, attaching snow guards and exploring a home’s cottage style.

Cottage Style Expressions

Hometime helps two neighbors design and begin installing coordinated landscaping on smaller adjacent lots.

Microscapes 1

The Hometime team pitches in to help neighbors finish two smaller, coordinated landscapes.

Microscapes 2

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.

Exterior Harmony: Windows

Dean and Miriam frame and deck the new landscape bridge as the home’s roof gets covered with copper and synthetic slate.

Exterior Harmony: Roofing

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.

Exterior Harmony: Siding

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.

Exterior Harmony: Doors and Stone

Dean, Miriam, Dan and Bucky pitch in to install a paver driveway, walkway and step veneer.

Exterior Harmony: Driveway and Walkway

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.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 1

Double hung windows are updated with new inserts as Hometime guts the kitchen and reframes the powder room for a pocket door.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 2

Dean and Miriam finish up rough-ins, insulation, drywall and priming to get ready for new cabinets.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 3

Dean and Miriam show how to blend two different finishes as they install new cabinets.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 4

Dean and Miriam get the kitchen, mud room and powder room areas ready for new flooring and countertops.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 5

It’s time for finishing touches as Dean and Miriam trim out the kitchen, mud room and powder room.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 6

Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew fire up the fixtures and appliances as they wrap up the project.

Kitchen and Mud Room Remodel 7

Dean and Miriam look at roofing, stone, garage doors and stamped concrete from the curb appeal perspective as a new home is built.

Front Entry Curb Appeal

Dean and Miriam talk about roofing, railings and a realistic gas fireplace during the construction of a screen porch.

Screen Porch Highlights

Dean and Miriam document the construction of two new homes, built inside a home and garden show.

Homes for a Home Show

Dean, Miriam and the crew demo some old kitchen countertops and install new quartz surfaces.

Quartz Kitchen Remodel

Finishing a hilly back yard with landscape steps and tile, a fire ring, plants and sprinklers.

Exterior Harmony: Landscape Wrap

Planting site-appropriate trees after a storm and building a crib for firewood cut and split from the damaged timber.

North Woods Trees

Pre-building timber frame walls inside and re-building on a new slab near Hometime Log Cabin.

Timber Shed Wall Framing

Pre-building timber frame style roof trusses inside and re-assembling those on site as shed construction continues.

Timber Shed Roof Framing

Taking out old concrete to repair, reframe and reseal the patio over a storage area.

Stamped Concrete Patio Demo

Re-pouring and re-stamping the concrete patio while fixing up the storage area below.

Stamped Concrete Patio Re-Poured

Resetting an outdoor natural stone island, covering it with granite and setting a new built-in gas grill.

Built-In Gas Grill

Updating an island kitchen with new cabinets includes visits with the designer and the manufacturer.

Island Kitchen 2.0: Cabinets

Finishing up the new cabinets for the island kitchen and covering those with new countertops.

Island Kitchen 2.0: Countertops

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.

All Episodes of Hometime

Season 1