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| Title: Date with Design |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2003 |
Host: Richard Yearwood |
| Summary:
"Date with Design" features one bachelor or bachelorette who tours the
places of three other eligible singles - without them in it - and picks
the place they'd like to makeover the most. Then, after working with a
designer to make it even better, boy meets girl for the first time when
the makeover is revealed! Will the makeover be a success? Will they like
each other? It's the only show where you design and decorate on a blind
date! Host: |
| Web Links:
Date with Design |
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| Title: Debbis Travis' Facelift |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2003 |
Host: Debbie Travis, designer. |
| Summary:
"Debbis Travis' Facelift" secretly works with a relative of an
unsuspecting homeowner to make over a space that needs help. With the
family member as an accomplice, hidden cameras record the homeowners'
complaints about the room. And while the homeowner is away, Travis, the
Facelift crew and family member/accomplice goes in, renovates, redecorates
and reinvents the room in a day, a weekend or a week. The show's finale is
the dramatic unveiling of the makeover and the cameras capture the
homeowners' live response. |
| Web Links:
Debbie Travis' Facelift |
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| Title: Debbie Travis' Painted House |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1996 |
Host: Debbie Travis |
| Summary:
"Debbie Travis' Painted House" comes face to face with every style of home
and every type of homeowner as she travels the country decorating people's
homes. From bachelor pads to RVs, family rooms to
penthouses - no project is too small, no job too big. The Painted House
takes decorating to an all new level as Debbie delivers humor and home
decorating in one uproarious package. |
| Web Links:
Debbie Travis' Painted
House |
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| Title: Decorating and Design |
Network: Do It Yourself (DIY) |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Nancy Golden |
| Summary:
"Decorating and Design" is packed with creative solutions, product tips
and great advice to help beautify any room! How to instructions and
terrific ideas make it easy for viewers to how to to transform their home
into a showplace. Learn to make stenciled draperies, window frame mirrors,
how to paint tile, even get tips on the basics of flea market decorating
in this 65 episode series. |
| Web Links:
Decorating and Design |
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| Title: Decorating Cents |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1997 |
Host: Joan Steffend |
| Summary:
"Decorating Cents" is for homeowners who care about and want variety in
home decor, but are trying to stay within an affordable budget -- using
inexpensive objects and their own ingenuity to decorate. In each episode,
the host and guest designers provide room makeovers costing less
than $500, ways to turn trash into treasures, and tips on making a room
feel and look fresh just by rearranging furniture and adding a few
inexpensive accessories. |
| Web Links:
Decorating Cents |
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| Title: Decorating with Style |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1996-2002 |
Host: Cindy Piccoli |
| Summary:
"Decorating with Style" provides the step-by-step instructions and tips
for creating stylish do-it-yourself decorating projects. Decorating
demonstrations include such topics as textured walls, no-sew window
treatments, decorative cushions, beaded lampshades, creative cabinets
knobs and faux finishing techniques. |
| Web Links:
Decorating with Style |
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| Title: design inc. |
Network: |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Sarah Richardson |
| Summary:
"design inc." takes you through the real elements of the interior design
process—from the trials to the tribulations, to the triumphs. Whether it’s
a décor overhaul or a home renovation project, design inc. brings you the
realistic story from beginning to end. It’s hip, it’s happening, and it’s
high-energy! Experience the inner workings of a busy interior design firm
as Sarah Richardson and her collaborative team of young, astute designers
solve problems and implement smart, customized solutions for their
clients. Host: |
| Web Links:
design
inc.; For more info:
Visit their Website |
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| Title: Design Invasion |
Network: (Banyon Productions) |
| Year: 2004-2005 |
Hosts: Kevin Burns, Bryce Cooper,
Jennifer Hyde, and
Libby Langdon |
| Summary: "Design Invasion"
follows mad cap designer-hosts who invade the homes of the
unsuspecting and, with the help of willing accomplices, renovate a
room gone wrong. Produced by Banyon Productions, the series was
distributed by Twentieth Television. |
| Web Links:
Design Invasion |
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| Title: Design Remix |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Karen McAloon |
| Summary:
"Design Remix" shows how easy it can be to add dramatic style to a room
for next to nothing. First the contents of the room to be redone are
dumped-albeit gingerly-onto the front lawn. Next, a designer, work crew
and the homeowners themselves remake the same room using some of the
discarded pieces plus surprises from other parts of the house. But when
the dust settles and the magical transformation is revealed at the end,
something else becomes clear. And that's the beauty of teamwork. It's
amazing what a difference a fresh coat of paint-plus some good
old-fashioned critical thinking-can make. |
| Web Links:
Design Remix |
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| Title: Design on a Dime |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2001 |
Hosts: Sam Kivett, Lee Snijders
and Kristan Cunningham |
| Summary:
"Design on a Dime" makes over a space for design-conscious home dwellers
who want lots of style but may not have lots of money for the project.
With a budget of just $1,000, a design team tackles a problem area such as
a boring bedroom, lackluster living room, cluttered dining room or
outdated office space. Together the team transforms the ordinary into the
awesome. Hosts: Sam Kivett, Lee Snijders and Kristan
Cunningham; Design Team Members: Charles Burbridge, Summer Baltzer,
Dave Sheinkopf and Spencer Anderson. |
| Web Links:
Design on a Dime |
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| Title: Design Rivals |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: N/A |
Hosts: Steven Sabados, Chris
Hyndman. |
| Summary: "Design Rivals"
shows that expressing your true personality through home decor is no
easy task, but when you have two of televisions’ hottest decorators
willing to duke it out it in the name of distinctive design—anything
is possible. Each episode the hosts befriend their client by
joining them for a favorite pastime in a place or space that reflects
their passions and then begin to formulate their own specific take on
the homeowner—who they are and how their space can express their
individuality. And so begins the rivalry! Hosts: |
| Web Links:
Design
Rivals |
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| Title: Designed to Sell |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2004 |
Hosts:
Clive Pearse, Lisa LaPort |
| Summary:
"Designed to Sell" shows how to turn a tired house into a showpiece by
giving sellers a $2,000 budget and a team of experts to transform their
house into the hottest property on the block. Find out if all the hard
work pays off with the ultimate goal--a bigger bottom line. Hosts: |
| Web Links:
Designed to Sell |
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| Title: Designer Finals |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2004 |
Host: Penn
Holderness. |
| Summary:
"Designer Finals" showcase top design students as they face their final
test—a real-life makeover with a minimal budget, a handful of helpers and
advice from a mentor. In each episode, a student gets their chance to "go
pro" and redo a room in a real family's house. The student gets real-world
experience while the family gains a great new room! |
| Web Links:
Designer Finals |
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| Title: Designer Guys |
Network: Discover Channel |
| Year: N/A |
Hosts: Steven Sabados, Chris Hyndman. |
| Summary:
"Designer Guys" present a fun-loving, twist on design shows — two talented
and imaginative designers who just can't seem to agree on all the details!
As they plan and work their way through each decorating project, the
audience gets a load of great ideas and practical tips that they can use
in their own homes. |
| Web Links:
Designer Guys |
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| Title: Designers' Challenge |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1998 |
Host: Chris Harrison |
| Summary:
"Designer's Challenge" follows one homeowner per episode through the
exhilarating decision-making process of selecting from among three
designers' room renovation plans, created just for the homeowner. Viewers
watch as the chosen designer brings about a fabulous new look for the
room. |
| Web Links:
Designers' Challenge |
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| Title: Designing for the Sexes |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1998 |
Host: Michael Payne, Susan Hunt |
| Summary:
"Designing for the Sexes" helps a different couple each week resolve
conflicts as they tackle a home- or room-renovation project. The program
follows the couple in design trouble and witnesses an interior designer's
creative approach (including encouraging compromise) to bring their
fabulous project to completion. |
| Web Links:
Designing for the Sexes |
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| Title: Divine Design |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Candice Olson |
| Summary: "Divine Design"
tackles challenging home design dilemmas. Host Candice Olson, Canada's
leading interior designer, and her clever cast of characters—a
carpenter, an electrician, a painter and a design assistant—all team
up to redesign a space that's sophisticated and stylish. A sparse loft
living room becomes warm and inviting, a family room with dated
furniture comes together, and a cluttered basement becomes Mom's
getaway space. |
| Web Links:
Divine Design |
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| Title: DIY SOS |
Network: BBC (Great Britain) |
| Year: 1999 |
Hosts: Brigid Calderhead, Nick Knowles,
Kate McIntyre and Lowri
Turner |
| Summary:
"DIY SOS" asks "Are you living in a DIY disaster zone?" The team has
all the answers to help you complete the home of your dreams. The series
airs on the BBC. |
| Web Links:
DIY
SOS |
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| Title: DIY to the Rescue |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 2003 |
Host:
Amy Devers, Karl Champley |
| Summary:
"DIY to the Rescue" helps brings in a team of experts to help real
homeowners finish a problem project in around 48 hours. |
| Web Links:
DIY to the Rescue |
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| Title: Do It Yourself |
Network: NBC (Situation Comedy) |
| Year: 1955 |
Host: Dave Willock and
Cliff Arquette (aka "Charley
Weaver") |
| Summary: "Do It Yourself" is a light-hearted home repair series.
CoHosts: Willock and Weaver had previously
appeared in the fifteen-minute 1952 NBC comedy series "Dave and Charley".
Note: Do It Yourself was also the name of an 1957 series
starring Barry Bucknell who hosted a home improvement series in Great
Britain. |
| Web Links: N/A |
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| Title: Double Agents |
Network: Discovery Channel |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Jillian Hamilton |
| Summary: "Double Agents" is a
fly-on-the-wall program that gives you a front-row seat on the
emotional roller coaster of buying a home. In each show we'll meet a
new buyer and give them the advantage over the competition by putting
not one, but two agents on the case. We'll learn their different
tricks of the trade, get their tips for buyers, and see inside some
great houses along the way. |
| Web Links:
Double Agents |
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| Title: Double Vision |
Network: Discovery Channel |
| Year: N/A |
Hosts: Jayne and Joan Michaels |
| Summary: "Double Vision" is half-hour design show, starring identical twin interior designers
Jayne and Joan Michaels. At the beginning of each episode, our twin hosts
are paired with individual homeowners and neighbors who share the
challenge of designing an empty, identical room in each of their homes.
Each twin designer joins forces with their homeowner /partner to tackle
the exciting design challenge of transforming identical spaces into
incredibly different and unique rooms. |
| Web Links:
Double Vision |
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| Title:
Dr. Fix-Um |
Network: ABC |
| Year: 1949-50 |
Host: Arthur Youngquist |
Summary:
"Dr. Fix-UM" is a home repair show hosted by Arthur Youngquist (aka
"Dr. Fix-um"). This program was the precursor of such home
improvement gurus as:
- THAT'S O'TOOLE/ABC/1949 with Arthur Peterson as
handyman Tinker O'Toole;
- Norman Brokenshire, an ex-radio announcer from
THE BETTER HOME SHOW (ABC) 1951-52;
- HANDYMAN (SYN) 1955, a program for
home-workshop addicts;
- Bob Vila from THIS OLD HOUSE (PBS) 1979+;
- HOMETIME
(PBS) 1987+
with Dean Johnson (and assorted female assistants);
- HOME AGAIN WITH BOB
VILA (SYN) 1990+;
- HOME IMPROVEMENT (ABC) 1991-99 starring comedian Tim Allen
as klutzy TV Fix-It Show host Tim
"The Tool Man" Taylor.
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| Web Links:
Dr. Fix-um |
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| Title: Dream Drives |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Tia Marlier |
| Summary:
"Dream Drives" explores the architectural and design elements of some of
America's most treasured neighborhoods. Each episode features three
intriguing homes and includes interviews with homeowners, historians,
preservationists and restoration architects. Locations vary, from elegant
and hip to historical and trendy. Examples include Canyon Road in Santa
Fe, St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans and Boston's Commonwealth Avenue.
Host: |
| Web Links:
Dream Drives |
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| Title: Dream House |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: N/A |
Host: Jose Marrero |
| Summary: "Dream House"
chronicles the joys and dramas of one couple as they build the house
of their dreams. From the foundation to the final touches, watch and
learn as the couple meets with builders, architects and interior
designers. |
| Web Links:
Dream
House |
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| Title: Dream Builders |
Network: Home & Garden Television (HGTV) |
| Year: 1997 |
Host: Scott Morgan |
| Summary:
"Dream Builders" produced in association with the National Association of
Home Builders, profiles innovative builders in the construction and home
design industries. Each episode provides in-depth information about all
aspects of home design and construction, from planned communities to
affordable housing. The series travels across the country to see the
latest trends, styles and techniques. |
| Web Links:
Dream Builders |
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