TV ShowReturning Series

Hometime

6.0 / 10
1986
5 seasons
130 episodes

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.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Digging Out the Yard

    07-02-200930m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Urban Terraces

    14-02-200930m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.Caretaker's Home

    21-02-200930m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.Entrance Plaza

    07-03-200930m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.Betsy-Tacy Home: Decoration

    04-04-200930m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Eat-In-Kitchen: Demolition

    11-04-200930m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.Eat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets

    18-04-200930m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Eat-In-Kitchen: Wrap Up

    25-04-200930m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Sculpture Studio: Framing

    02-05-200930m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Sculpture Studio: Finishing

    09-05-200930m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Great Room Hardwood Floor

    05-09-200930m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Travertine Floor

    12-09-200930m

    The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.

  • Ep 13

    13.Seven-Year Plan

    19-09-200930m

    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.

  • Ep 14

    14.Kitchen Facelift

    26-09-200930m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Great Room Update

    03-10-200930m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Linoleum Flooring

    10-10-200930m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.Cabin Kitchen Upgrade

    17-10-200930m

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Vacation Home Laundry Room

    24-10-200930m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Historic Summer Home -- Structural Upgrades

    31-10-200930m

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.Historic Summer Home -- Kitchen

    07-11-200930m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Barrel Vault Basement

    14-11-200930m

    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.

  • Ep 22

    22.Party Kitchen

    21-11-200930m

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

  • Ep 23

    23.Arched Wood Panels

    28-11-200930m

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

  • Ep 24

    24.Attic Trusses

    05-12-200930m

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

  • Ep 25

    25.Standalone Garage

    12-12-200930m

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

  • Ep 26

    26.Yoga Studio

    19-12-200930m

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

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