Episodes (53)
1. Outrageous Living: Outlandish Styles
Aired 15 July 2002 • 60 min
We're going to extremes. Extremes of décor, that is. It's about opening your mind to new creative experiences.
2. Industrial Magic
Aired 16 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore industrial design in the home space. This show debunks the myth that industrial design is cold and sterile.
3. You Did It Awards (2)
Aired 17 July 2002 • 60 min
It's all about celebrating the viewer for the Second Annual ""You Did It!"" Awards. The show rewards the talent and creativity of viewers who were inspired enough by the show to make changes in their homes and lives.
4. Potpourri
Aired 18 July 2002 • 60 min
It's a potpourri of different design ideas in this show. All the segments were ones Christopher loved, but didn't fit into one of the more traditionally themed shows.
5. Shifting Into Neutral: Road Show Clips
Aired 19 July 2002 • 60 min
It's Christopher's Seven Layers of Design, with a twist: This time it's about redoing the layers with the furniture and accessories that you already have. Christopher starts with a room furnished with a hodgepodge of mismatched furniture, old upholstery, various accessories, framed pictures hung haphazardly, etc.
6. Unique Digs/Rooms
Aired 22 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore unusual living spaces, those one of a kind homes that don't look like homes, across the United States.
8. A River Runs Through It
Aired 24 July 2002 • 60 min
It's all about re-arranging furniture to make the most out of our floor plans, maximize versatility, comfort and style in rooms.
9. Primal Schemes: Rustic/Regal
Aired 25 July 2002 • 60 min
Go ape and follow your primal instincts. It's decorating back to the basics.
10. Monochromatic
Aired 26 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore all aspects and styles of monochromatic design. It's all about color and how a variation on a subtle palette of simple color provides a textural layering of hue compatible shades in a single theme setting.
11. Big Little Spaces
Aired 29 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore big ideas for small spaces. Small spaces can present big challenges, but as Christopher tells us, we need to use ""the less is more"" principle.
12. Country Reinterpreted
Aired 30 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore country design that's sophisticated, not rural. Christopher explains that the country look is less bumpkin and more updated, fresher, newer and global.
13. Casting Couch: Layer 3
Aired 31 July 2002 • 60 min
Explore upholstered furniture — Layer #3 of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design. Remember, upholstered furniture includes anything you can sit down on. These are the pieces that define our rooms and allow you to linger.
14. Bodacious Bidets: Bathrooms
Aired 1 August 2002 • 60 min
Today, we skip to the loo. It's all about great bathroom design, transforming your water closet from a functional space to a spa.
15. Out on a Whim
Aired 2 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore fanciful interiors with just a touch of whimsy.
16. Eclectic Design
Aired 5 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore new creative elements. No cookie cutter designs here.
17. The Whole 9 Yards: Layer 4: Accent Fabric
Aired 6 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about accent fabrics, Layer #4 of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design. Since fabric can transform the mood of rooms and how you feel about them, this show is all about learning how to utilize them.
18. Zen Master Christopher
Aired 7 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about restoring peace and calm to home décor and creating areas that inspire stress-free living.
19. Guest Stars: Guest Bedrooms
Aired 8 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about taking the stress out of visits by guests.
20. The Time Machine: Retro
Aired 9 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about digging up the past and throwing it into the future. That is, retro classics celebrating the past with designs that transcend time.
21. Indoor Alfresco
Aired 12 August 2002 • 60 min
How do you create harmonious homes from the outside in? Christopher shows us how, by bringing the spirit of the outdoors in.
22. Over the Rainbow
Aired 13 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore color and its power to transform the mood and style of our rooms.
23. Bachelor Pad
Aired 14 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore interiors with a masculine touch.
24. Dreamscape
Aired 15 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about giving yourself permission to dream, discovering your inner self, and creating a physical environment that reflects those beliefs.
25. Guilty Pleasures: Smell the Rose
Aired 16 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about extravagance and indulgence.
26. Walk Into the Light
Aired 19 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about Layer Seven of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design. That is, plants and lighting and how they make a great tag team to create shadow and texture for our rooms.
27. Lofty Living
Aired 20 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore living in a loft and face the design challenges in dividing up the space.
28. Enduring Traditions
Aired 21 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore timeless design.
29. Thanks For Sharing
Aired 22 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about learning to share spaces, whether you're a spouse, a sibling, or a roommate. It's also learning to combine both masculine and feminine elements.
30. Horse Sense: Layer 5: Non-Upholstered Furniture
Aired 23 August 2002 • 60 min
Explore the workhorses of home furnishing: non-upholstored furniture, the fifth layer of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design.
31. Partee Show
Aired 26 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about entertaining and opening your home to family and friends.
32. Sleight of Hand: Art of Disguise
Aired 27 August 2002 • 60 min
Learn a few tricks at home to disguise problems around the house. It's about using what you have to transform things in your home that you're not quite happy with.
33. Old World Techniques
Aired 28 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about embracing the rich traditions of old world design.
34. Wizard of Odds and Ends
Aired 29 August 2002 • 60 min
If flea market shopping is up your alley, this is the episode for you. It's all about creating cozy lived-in interiors by turning trash into treasures.
35. Living Design/Eco: Environmental Consciousness
Aired 30 August 2002 • 60 min
It's all about eco-friendly design!
36. Sixth Sense
Aired 3 September 2002 • 60 min
It's Layer Six of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design, all about accessories.
37. I Do. I Do.: Entertaining Budgets
Aired 4 September 2002 • 60 min
How do you make your wedding day a day to remember forever? Christopher has some great ideas. It's all about the joy of marriage and taking the stress away.
38. Double Duty Rooms
Aired 5 September 2002 • 60 min
It's all about making the most out of every available space, and making your spaces work overtime.
39. Around the World in 80 Days
Aired 6 September 2002 • 60 min
Explore design ideas from around the world.
40. Transformation: Creativity
Aired 9 September 2002 • 60 min
It's about raising your creative awareness, putting aside fears, and embracing the creative process.
41. Who Knew?: The Art of Being Clever
Aired 10 September 2002 • 60 min
It's time to be clever with materials and furniture, working with what you've got and recognizing the potential in something.
42. Calm-adations
Aired 12 September 2002 • 60 min
It's all about the fine art of relaxing, letting go of stress and creating a sense of calm and tranquility.
43. Maximized Spaces: Utility Rooms, Attics, Basements
Aired 13 September 2002 • 60 min
How to maximize your attic, basement, and garage.
44. Cinema Magic
Aired 30 September 2002 • 60 min
It's all about bringing the magic and glamour of Hollywood influence into your home.
45. First Impressions
Aired 1 October 2002 • 60 min
It's all about entryways to your home and how they create a first impression.
46. Touchy Feely
Aired 2 October 2002 • 60 min
It's all about textures and surfaces.
47. Greatest Room on Earth
Aired 3 October 2002 • 60 min
It's all about seeing the world through a child's eyes as you decorate a child's room.
48. Shore Chic
Aired 4 October 2002 • 60 min
Explore coastal living. It's all about bringing calm into your home using shore chic.
49. The Seven Layers
Aired 7 October 2002 • 60 min
It's decorating made easy by doing it one layer at a time. Christopher breaks down the decorating process into manageable steps.
50. Slumberjack
Aired 8 October 2002 • 60 min
Explore ways to theme a bedroom using color, transparency and textured fabric. Christopher creates a wonderful bedroom out of an awkward space by finding exactly where to place the bed.
51. Someone's in the Kitchen
Aired 9 October 2002 • 60 min
Cook up some great ideas for your kitchen.
52. Pretty in Paint
Aired 10 October 2002 • 60 min
Learn about layers one and two of Christopher's Seven Layers of Design. It's paint, architecture and flooring and how they provide the backdrop for everything in your home.
53. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Home Office)
Aired 11 October 2002 • 60 min
Those who work at home will appreciate these new design approaches for your home office.
54. Holiday Show
Aired 18 December 2002 • 60 min
Decorating with garland; matching Christmas tree colors with a home's interior; candlesticks; a woman with one million ornaments.