About this season
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.
Episodes (26)
1. Digging Out the Yard
Aired 7 February 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew re-grades a sloping back yard, installs a drainage system, and begins building a series of paver patios.
2. Urban Terraces
Aired 14 February 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew weaves several retaining walls, steps, and patios into a small, sloped back yard.
3. Caretaker's Home
Aired 21 February 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew restores the porch of what was once the caretaker’s home on a 40-acre, turn-of-the-century lakeside estate.
4. Entrance Plaza
Aired 7 March 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew renovates a church courtyard with a textured concrete walkway, custom wood benches, and a raised planting bed.
5. Betsy-Tacy Home: Decoration
Aired 4 April 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew makes its last visit to this historic home to create a sidewalk outside and to finish painting and wallpapering the interior.
6. Eat-In-Kitchen: Demolition
Aired 11 April 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew takes a small kitchen and starts work to improve storage and functionality.
7. Eat-In-Kitchen: Cabinets
Aired 18 April 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew installs new kitchen cabinets, a new sliding door and new floor tile.
8. Eat-In-Kitchen: Wrap Up
Aired 25 April 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew installs countertops and appliances, as well as a new wood floor for the adjacent living room.
9. Sculpture Studio: Framing
Aired 2 May 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew converts an unused, tuck-under garage into a metal-working studio with a new heater and a downsized garage door.
10. Sculpture Studio: Finishing
Aired 9 May 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew wraps up the workshop with doors, windows and welding equipment.
11. Great Room Hardwood Floor
Aired 5 September 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew installs a super-hard, prefinished wood floor.
12. Travertine Floor
Aired 12 September 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.
13. Seven-Year Plan
Aired 19 September 2009 • 30 min
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.
14. Kitchen Facelift
Aired 26 September 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew transforms a kitchen with re-faced cabinets along with new counters, tile, appliances and lighting.
15. Great Room Update
Aired 3 October 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew uses new trim, wood flooring, lighting, paint and furniture to transform a dated, 1970s living room and dining room.
16. Linoleum Flooring
Aired 10 October 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew installs sheet and tile linoleum on the Hometime log cabin basement floor.
17. Cabin Kitchen Upgrade
Aired 17 October 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew modifies and upgrades cabinets, appliances, countertops and plumbing fixtures.
18. Vacation Home Laundry Room
Aired 24 October 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew adds new cabinets and plumbing fixtures to a log cabin lower level.
19. Historic Summer Home -- Structural Upgrades
Aired 31 October 2009 • 30 min
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.
20. Historic Summer Home -- Kitchen
Aired 7 November 2009 • 30 min
Dean, Miriam and the Hometime crew rebuild old cabinets and install historically sensitive countertops, flooring, fixtures and appliances remodeling this 100-year-old kitchen.
21. Barrel Vault Basement
Aired 14 November 2009 • 30 min
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.
22. Party Kitchen
Aired 21 November 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew puts in doors, tile and cabinets for the basement wet bar and peninsula.
23. Arched Wood Panels
Aired 28 November 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew puts in granite countertops and a trendy shower door then wrap up the custom wood paneling around a basement fireplace.
24. Attic Trusses
Aired 5 December 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew shores up the block walls then uses attic trusses to create a room over a flat-roofed, detached garage.
25. Standalone Garage
Aired 12 December 2009 • 30 min
The Hometime crew seals up the exterior of the garage and the new studio above it.
26. Yoga Studio
Aired 19 December 2009 • 30 min
The upstairs studio gets paint, flooring, and lighting. The downstairs garage gets flooring and cabinets.