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Bob is at the Mashpee site with Joann Borges of CertaPro Painters, a national painting company with 220 franchises throughout North America. She expla...
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| | Applying a Faux Painting Finish
Bob tours the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner and tries his hand at faux painting.
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| | Bob Tours the Almost Completed Plymouth House
Bob tours a basement recreation room that has recently been remodeled. The walls, ceilings, and floors have all be restored. The living room has been ...
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| | Brownstone Facade Details and Windows
Bob is outside the Manhattan Brownstone to show off the refurbished façade of the building. The Brownstone carvings have been cleaned of excess paint ...
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| | Butcher Block Countertop and Crackle Painting
Bob and Ryley install a butcher-block countertop in the kitchen, and the decorator shows Bob how to make a "crackle" finish.
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| | Caulking and Painting Clapboard Siding
The clapboard siding on the modern Colonial is being prepped and primed with Bob Vila Signature Collection paints. Bob is on hand as painter Jon Fish ...
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| | Choosing Interior Paint Colors
Interior designer Leslie Curtis joins Bob to discuss her paint plan for the interior of house. In the great room, she's chosen Seedling Tint from the ...
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| | Creating a Swag Window Treatment
Finally, we tour the kitchen and dining area of the finished house with the designer. And she teaches Bob how to create a swag for a window treatment.
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| | Decorating the Master Bedroom
Bob and designer Leslie Curtis take a quick tour through the master bedroom. Here Curtis has chosen Autumn Wheat from the Bob Vila Signature collectio...
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| | Decorative Painting Technique: Glazing in the Master Bedroom
Bob meets with faux paint expert Kim Sweet who is applying a gold parchment effect for the master bedroom walls and tries his hand at applying some co...
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| | Decorative Painting Techniques with B. Smith
Bob watches decorator B. Smith paint a lavender stripe pattern in the girl's bedroom of the Habitat for Humanity project.
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| | Decorative Woodwork Restoration
Bob and Patty Hettich strip paint from decorative woodwork, then make rubber molds to create new detail in a Federal style home in Charleston, South C...
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| | Discussing Interior Painting Techniques
Bob is joined by Joann Borges of CertaPro Painters, who goes over techniques and selected paints for covering new walls and trim efficiently and evenl...
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| | Discussing Painting Techniques
Painting contractor Matt Green gives painting shortcuts as he paints the window trim.
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| | Discussing the Hallway Walls
Bob shows us the long curved wall in the loft's hallway. The wall serves as a divider between private and public spaces as well as providing a lot of ...
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| | Elm Court Dining Room
Sonya and Bob Berle lead Bob Vila through a tour of one of the Vanderbilt’s most elegant dining rooms. The Berles have restored the ornate plasterwork...
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| | Elm Court Stair Hall
Bob Vila meets with Bob and Sonya Berle on one of the many staircases at the Elm Court in Lenox, Massachusetts. This stair hall, with views of the gar...
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| | Elm Court's Library and Architectural Detailing
Bob Vila meets with Sonya and Bob Berle in the library of Elm Court to discuss the interior design and preservation of this magnificent example of tur...
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| | Encapsulating Lead Paint
Cole Stanton from Fiberlock joins Bob to talk about Child Guard, his company's encapsulating coating for lead-based paint. Lead encapsulating is an al...
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| | Entryway and Dining Room Tour
Bob tours the front vestibule, highlighting the beautiful stencil work done by Kim Sweet.
The stencil work replaced moldings in many homes of this n...
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| | Exterior Paint Colors for Siding and Trim
Color specialist Peggy VanAllen meets with Bob to discuss exterior color choices for the Modern Colonial project. In choosing a palette for a home, co...
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| | Exterior Paint Stripping and Priming
Bob examines the exterior of the home where several layers of paint are being removed. Cortney describes the procedures and tools used to restore the ...
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| | Exterior Tour of the Greystone
Bob tours the finished exterior with contractor Ron Gan, then goes inside to see Christine Smyth's spectacular decorating job.
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| | Faux Finishing an Antique Door
Bob meets with Rick and Martha Snyder to see how they faux-finish an antique entry door to look just like it was originally done.
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| | Faux Finishing the Doors
Bob meets with Josh and Jans to look at the old doors and then gets with Elaine Havaland to do some faux finishing of the doors.
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| | Final Tour of the Federal-Style Home
For our final visit to the Charleston project, we take a grand tour of the elegant, restored Federal-style mansion, focusing on the portico and back f...
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| | Finished Coach House Exterior Tour
Bob takes a look at the exterior of the coach house, as well as the exterior garden area. He reviews the first time he saw the dilapidated cottage and...
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| | Finished Coach House Tour with Faux Painters
Bob tours the kitchen and living room of the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner.
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| | Finishing a Wood Floor
Howard Brickman has begun sanding the old growth Eastern white pine floor in the bedroom. Like the sunroom, the fine quality of the millwork from Carl...
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| | Governor's Mansion Tour
Bob joins Roxane Gilmore, Virginia's first lady, to tour the governor's mansion, and meets preservationist Fred Ecker who is removing a mantel for res...
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| | Grand Tour of the Media Room, Kitchen and Living Room
In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob and our designer, Robyn, take us on a tour of the finished California-Spanish dream house. We look at th...
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| | Hanging New Shutters on a Modern Colonial
Bob Ryley is on hand to help hang some new Withers Industries shutters on the front of the center-entry Colonial. The shutters are made from Southern ...
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| | House Prep and Exterior Painting
Bob talks with Al Roberta who is painting the Medford house. The house needed a lot of prep work before painting. The home's original wood shingles ha...
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| | Installing Restored Brass Door Hardware and Faux Finishing the Mantelpiece
Bob and Ryley install the restored door hardware. Greg Rochlin (project architect) had the lacquer coated brass hardware intricately removed and numbe...
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| | Interior Decorating Ideas in the Master Bedroom
In the master bedroom, "Autumn Wheat" from the Bob Vila Signature Series paint line was applied to the walls to provide a transition from the master b...
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| | Interior Paint Selection
Bob chats with painter Rick Snyder in the dining room of a home in Charleston, South Carolina, while Rick experiments with color on intricate wood det...
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| | Interior Painting Preparation
Painter John Fish is beginning work on the home's interior. Fish begins by filling all the nail holes in the trim with an oil-based putty. Next, he li...
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| | Jonathan Adler Reviews Interior Design Finishes
Bob joins the project's interior designer, Jonathan Adler, in the guest bedroom to discuss the decor. Adler used a Lucite shelf to add storage space w...
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| | Making a Plate Display Rack
Bob helps contractor Bob Ryley construct a plate display rack for the split level ranch project in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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| | Marine Look Banister
Bob visits with Ron at the Coach House. Ron is installing a railing and newel post on the second floor. He is using 3/8-inch stainless steel marine wi...
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| | Martha’s Vineyard Grand Finale
Starting with the original interior cottage portion of the home, now a guest suite, Bob reviews the furnishing of the house. Borrowing a bit from Vict...
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| | Modular Home Front Porch
Bob Vila takes a quick look at the sustainable mahogany front porch and deck. The decking, secured by stainless steel fasteners, can be stained or sim...
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| | Online Paint Selection Tool
Bob takes a final moment to give a quick demonstration of the BobVila.com Paint Designer. Available exclusively at BobVila.com, the paint designer all...
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| | Original Art and Contemporary Furnishings Embellish the Finished Space
House ten of the Elmwood project. Bob gives the final tour of this unique third floor remodel.
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| | Paint Manufacturing at the Sherwin-Williams Plant Tour
Bob tours the Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing plant in Winter Haven, Florida, and sees how paint is made with plant manager J.A. Samples.
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| | Painting Cedar Shingles and Yellow Pine Shutters; Landscaping and Hardscaping
House nine of the Elmwood project. The finishing touches are done on the front porch with a Sherwin Williams latex paint on the exterior and new yello...
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| | Painting the Bedroom Walls with Rag Rolling
Bob meets Gary Halzel putting the finishing touches on the master bedroom walls. Gary will be rag rolling the wall. He's putting on a coat of oil-bas...
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| | Painting the Exterior With an Airless Sprayer
Kevin The Barge and his crew have begun painting the home's exterior with latex house paint. They are using an airless sprayer, which uses pressure to...
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| | Painting the Floor
Artisan Terry Maiche demonstrates an inexpensive way to dress up a floor with paint: spattering. Once the paint has completely dried, polyurethane wil...
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| | Painting the Victorian's Exterior
Bob checks out painter Mike Suarez spraying water-based stain on the exterior. In a counter intuitive approach Mike starts out low and works his way u...
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| | Painting Walls with High Gloss Paint
Bob goes into the bathroom where painter Dirk VanKoughnett is painting the walls. VanKoughnett is using a high gloss paint, a surface that is enjoying...
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| | Painting with Historically Accurate Colors
Bob meets with Brian Powell, an architectural conservator from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Brian helps Bob determine ...
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| | Painting with Low VOC Paint
Bob checks out the paint job on a Habitat for Humanity Blitz Build project, where he finds out about exterior paint that can be applied at temperature...
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| | Picture Framing
Interior designer Leslie Curtis shows off another of her decorating ideas in the dining room. She's chosen to frame a sample of an historic wallpaper ...
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| | Power Washing the Exterior
Bob watches painter Kip Wanamaker power wash the exterior of the house in Naples, Florida.
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| | Preparing the Damaged Wood Siding for Paint
Bob meets painting contractor Brian Giblin at the Florida cottage and discusses prep options on the badly weathered exterior wood siding.
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| | Preparing the Window Trim for Painting
The window trim is prepped for painting. Nail holes are filled with latex interior wood putty and the gaps near the edges of the woodwork are filled w...
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| | Prepping the Home's Exterior
Bob tours a home in Charleston, South Carolina, with restoration specialist Richard Marks and watches painter David Snyder scrape and sand old wood si...
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| | Pressure Washing the House and Prepping for Painting
Bob looks at a large exterior color sample on his home in Cambridge, Mass., and watches the paint crew pressure wash the house. Bob describes the tool...
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| | Removing Lead Paint from Exterior Surfaces
House seven of the Elmwood project. Bob investigates the methods used to remove lead paint from the porch columns.
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| | Restoring the Brownstone Facade and Working on the Wrought Iron
Bob focuses on the exterior of the Manhattan Brownstone, where paint has built up over the last 100 years and now obscures the details and carvings on...
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| | Restoring the Guest Cottage
Bob checks progress in the basement and attic of the governor's mansion before going on to the guest cottage where he meets Luis Knuckles and Mike Wes...
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| | Restoring the Mantel
Ryley takes a look at how the mantel from the ballroom is being restored and visits with Greg at Tidewater Restoration's shop to see how he removes th...
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| | Review of the Colonial Décor in the Parlor
Designer Leslie Curtis of Curtis Designs is back on location for a final tour of the Colonial-themed decor. Curtis points out the wall stencils from M...
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| | Review of the Interior Decorating in the Kitchen and Sunroom
In the kitchen, a neutral paint palette allows for striking contrasts. Bob looks at the mix of stainless steel and black Kenmore Elite Energy Star app...
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| | Reviewing the Apartment's Paint Colors, Finishes, and Roof Deck
Bob is back in the penthouse apartment, this time in the main hallway that has the Marmorino wall finish that flows into the lavatory, which features ...
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| | Room Tour at Winterthur, Part One
Bob returns to Winterthur in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. Vila and Winterthur's Pauline Eversmann first visit the Tappahannock Room circa 1740. Highl...
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| | Selecting Paint and Painting the Exterior Stucco Walls
Bob meets with Pat Estevez to discuss exterior paint selection and application techniques. Several paint colors are being used to accent the kitchen a...
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| | Shaker-Style Mural Painting
Bob checks in with artist Polly Forcier from MB Historic Decor to get an update on some of the home's decorative painting. Forcier is working on a Col...
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| | Shaker-Style Mural Painting and Early 19th Century Stenciling
In the sunroom, Bob appraises Polly Forcier's traditional Shaker-style landscape wall mural, giving it high marks for the Colonial-themed home. A fina...
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| | Staining the Interior
Bob and painting contractor Milo Moran roll solid stain inside the boat barn on the yellow pine plywood walls. While stain is not usually used on insi...
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| | Stripping Old Paint
Bob chats with Boston loft developer Neal Gold about stripping old paint.
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| | Stripping Paint
Bob meets paint-stripping expert Bob Sharon and looks over his air filtration system. He also observes the Dumond Chemical's patented, environmentall...
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| | Stripping Paint off an Antique Cabinet
Bob works with the homeowners who are stripping old paint off an antique cabinet. They discuss the chemicals used to loosen the existing paint and not...
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| | The Finishing Touches of Interior Design
Inside, the finishing touches in interior design have come together for an original, romantic, and very functional effect within such a small space.
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| | Top Quality Paint and Primer for New Colonial
Bob discusses the basics of quality paint with Ron Hudas, product manager for the Bob Vila Signature Collection paint line. The paint being applied ha...
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| | Tour of Middleburgh Plantation
Bob takes us on a tour of historic Middleburgh Plantation, the oldest surviving wooden house in South Carolina.
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| | Tour of the Chinese Parlor at Winterthur
Bob re-visits The Winterthur Garden and Museum, this time touring the Chinese Parlor with curator Pauline Eversmann. The Parlor is actually a combinat...
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| | Tour of the Governor's Mansion's Ballroom
Bob meets with project architect, John Paul Hanbury to look at the ballroom and then we flash back with Sam Daniels to look at some details including ...
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| | Tour of the Home's Exterior
In this segment, Bob tours the exterior of the completed farmhouse, pointing out the contemporary green color scheme and breezeway connecting the old ...
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| | Tour of the Home's Remodeled Exterior
Bob takes a tour of the homes' exterior noting the attention to detail. The crowned gates are complete and a locking latch has been added to secure th...
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| | Tour of the Port Royal Parlor at Winterthur
Bob returns to Winterthur, industrialist Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, which is now a museum, in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. The museum's ...
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| | Tour of the Wickham House
Bob continues his historic house tour with a look at Wickham House, a high-style museum designed by Alexander Parris, the architect of the Virginia go...
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| | Touring the Cabin's Interior Décor
Bob tours the cabin with Robyn Peterson, the interior designer who decorated the cabin. The mantle has been painted with a faux birch bark look and th...
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| | Touring the Landscaping and Meeting Pamela Anderson
In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob take us on a tour of the tiled courtyard with palms and fountain. We get a surprise visit from "Home Imp...
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| | Wall Stenciling
Decorator Leslie Curtis joins Bob in the project house's parlor to discuss the room's wall treatments. In lieu of wallpaper, stencils are used to add ...
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| | Wall Stenciling and Decorative Striping
Bob talks with artist Margo Datz about decorative striping and stenciling in the Victorian Cottage master bedroom. She uses a template to insure the l...
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| | Wall Stenciling Continued
Work continues on the parlor's wall stencils. Bob and Ken Forcier are applying the second "layer" of the stencilÑan ochre hue to complement the first ...
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| | Weaving Cedar Shingles and Prepping Damaged Wood Trim for Painting
House nine of the Elmwood project. The front porch project continues with new red cedar shingles and a paint job.
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| | William Gibbes House Tour
Bob is invited into the elegant "rooms" of the gardens at Charleston's William Gibbes House, one of the nation's best examples of Georgian architectur...
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