Renovation Realities

An accomplished kitchen designer from Spokane, WA, quickly realizes his kitchen is going to be anything but easy after a power outage leads to the only floor plan being used to start a fire.

Vincent Schilling shares a small home in Virginia Beach with his wife, Delores. Delores is out of town for a few days, so Vincent has concocted a plan to renovate their unsightly kitchen as surprise for her when she returns.

The Rich family plans to make their home more livable by tearing down a wall separating the kitchen and dining room.

A mom and daughter buy a dilapidated Victorian home in Georgetown, KY, with plans to renovate and move in as soon as possible. They soon find themselves overwhelmed by dangerous working conditions and intense physical labor.

An ambitious couple plans to completely gut and remodel their outdated kitchen in a week, but the scope and scale of the job becomes painfully obvious as each day brings with it a series of new and unforeseen challenges.

Eli and Heather Cockrum have a laundry room in their garage but they have no way of accessing it from inside their house. So, they've decided to renovate their dining room and create a stairwell leading into the basement.

An Arizona couple needs to gut their dilapidated kitchen down to the studs in their recently purchased rancher. Unforeseen delays threaten to derail the project from day one, but they're determined to finish.

A couple battles injuries, building inspectors and their own construction inexperience while attempting to renovate their tiny master bathroom.

A new homeowner and her boyfriend tackle a nightmare of a master bath. His inexperience, coupled with her volatile temperament, lead to tensions rising and falling with every major trouble and minor success.

When Chris and Monica Hinson purchased their Ranch-style home in 2004 it looked the perfect space to raise a family. Six years and two kids later, they plan to completely remodel their outdated kitchen.

Deep, dark secrets are exposed as a couple tears away at their dilapidated kitchen. Even though they laugh at the pain, the renovation leaves the two wondering if they'll ever get to cook in their own house again.

Scott has one big promise to fulfill before he and Chelse walk down the aisle together: to build a new deck for their home. As the renovation begins, they battle incessant rainfall, fatigue and their own incompetence.

A couple finds surprises galore as they renovate the kitchen of their charming older home, from issues with the wiring to huge load-bearing wall that needs to be torn down and relocated.