Vicki reveals easy sewing techniques for slipcovers and covering hatboxes. Sloan builds and decorates wooden steps for her kids; and London designer Annie Sloan helps paint a fresh French finish on Vic's dining room furniture.
FYH offers a great place to learn how to live greener. Get the latest solar energy news from Bob Kingery, in-home air quality info and solutions from David Smith and rain harvesting and storage from Tom VanZeeland.
As they update their 200-year-old North Carolina mountain home, Vicki and Sloan show how to reduce your vacation home's environmental impact. Projects include installing a new Energy Star front door, hardwood flooring, energy saving lighting and ceiling fans and decorative accessories using recycled forest materials.
Learn to weather weather-related gardening challenges. Organic gardening guru Billy Styles shows how to properly plant a tree to withstand drought. Arborist Patrick George helps save large landscape plantings suffering from too little water and poor growing conditions. Then visit Witherspoon Rose Garden and get inspired to grow colorful roses. Sloan shares recycling tips for turning old tree logs into decorative accents.
Instead of moving up, Americans are making over. In the first of two parts, Vicki and Sloan embark on a major kitchen renovation by visiting a custom cabinet shop, beginning demolition and meeting with electricians, carpenters and plumbers. Carpenter Luke Miller replaces an old window with a sparkling, new stained glass panel.
After demolition comes installation. Vicki and Sloan put in new floors and cabinets, appliances, countertops, tile backsplashes and lighting, and then add their own decorative, finishing touches. The thrilled homeowners choice of renovation over relocation proves a real winner!
Vicki and Sloan share some of the most popular and unusual requests of the season including getting an aged finish on outdoor statues or tastefully decorating for your dog. Bruce Johnson solves a viewer's storage problems by refinishing an antique chest and Vicki shows how to arrange roses so they last. Vicki and Sloan even make a house call to turn unused space in an upstairs hallway into a beautifully decorated oasis. As an added bonus, go behind the scenes with the best bloopers of the season!
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