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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hometime crew installs large-format limestone flooring.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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