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A History of Elm Court
A History of Elm Court
Bob Vila meets with Bob Berle at Elm Court in the Berkshire Hills. Berle‘s great-great grandparents, Vanderbilt-Sloanes, had the home built in ...
A Visit to Central Park
A Visit to Central Park
Bob continues to link New York's past and present with a visit to Central Park. Once just a swamp with rocky outcoppings and indigent shanty ...
Adamson Estate Museum Tour
Adamson Estate Museum Tour
Bob tours the Adamson Estate Museum, a classic Spanish colonial revival, to inspire the architect in the Malibu Beach project. Including recessed ...
Adapting New Technology to Historic Properties
Adapting New Technology to Historic Properties
Bob Berle shows Bob Vila the bowels of the home and points out the decay that was prevalent but currently under repair. The 35,000 square foot ...
Aiken-Rhett House Tour
Aiken-Rhett House Tour
Bob takes a field trip with a different slant at Charleston's historical Aiken-Rhett House. He sees stables, kitchen houses, slave quarters, ...
Altering Stock Home Plans
Altering Stock Home Plans
Stock plans are a great, affordable option for new home design. These plans can be customized and altered, but only in accordance with copyright law.
An Architectural Tour of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach
An Architectural Tour of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach
Bob Vila discusses and visits Lincoln Road, with architectural historian Allan Shulman. Carl Fisher, “Mr. Miami Beach”, imagined Lincoln Road as a ...
Andres Duany Explains Home Expansion Principles of LifeSpan Concept
Andres Duany Explains Home Expansion Principles of LifeSpan Concept
Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen gives Bob a final tour of the ION project house. Architect and town planner Andres Duany shows ...
Architect Tour of the Home
Architect Tour of the Home
Bob meets with architects Mark and Geoffrey who are making a follow up visit to the project. Every two weeks they come by to check the progress in ...
Architectural Design of the Connection Between the Home and the Barn
Architectural Design of the Connection Between the Home and the Barn
Walking behind the house, Bob makes a few observations about the design. He points out that the house and old barn were not exactly parallel to ...
Architectural Details and Framing
Architectural Details and Framing
Bob and Linda, our homeowner, take a look at the new addition. Linda points out the corner notches that add architectural interest to the ...
Architectural History of the Brooklyn Warehouse
Architectural History of the Brooklyn Warehouse
Bob meets with Bill Higgins of Higgins and Quasebarth Restoration to discuss the project building's history. Higgins utilizes historical records, ...
Architectural Possibilties in a Modern Cape
Architectural Possibilties in a Modern Cape
Dick Wills takes Bob on a tour of the interior of his Cape-style home. The house is much larger than Bob expected with a library, master suite, a ...
Architectural Tour of Harvard Square
Architectural Tour of Harvard Square
Bob explores Harvard Square with architectural historian Brian Pfeiffer, vice president of building conservation for the Society for the ...
Bob Celebrates Highlights of Home Renovation
Bob Celebrates Highlights of Home Renovation
As America's favorite home improvement expert Bob Vila has cleared the way for modern Do-It-Yourself and Do-it-For-Me television. In this clip Bob ...
Bob Completes His Search For a Home on Martha's Vineyard
Bob Completes His Search For a Home on Martha's Vineyard
Bob ends his tour on laid back East Chop with a 300 square foot home on a large piece of wooded land. The home was moved from the Methodist ...
Bob Tours Homes on Martha's Vineyard
Bob Tours Homes on Martha's Vineyard
Bob and Alan visit a 1930s shingle-style Victorian just outside of Vineyard Haven with a 1500-square-foot porch and a boathouse with a fireplace. ...
Bob Visits Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard
Bob Visits Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard
Bob takes the ferry to the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and tours Oak Bluffs to recollect the town's Victorian history at the old ...
Boston's Leather District Tour
Boston's Leather District Tour
Bob takes a walking tour of some of Boston's best-preserved antique commercial buildings in the Leather District with architectural historian ...
Brick Facade Restoration
Brick Facade Restoration
Bob meets with Allan Cox from Nawkaw Corporation, on the front of the New York restoration project to discuss the bricks. The bricks were aged and ...
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