Trading Spaces - Creative Home Decor with Designer Doug Wilson

Trading Spaces - Creative Home Decor with Designer Doug Wilson Review

Four friends. Two designers. One Carpenter. It's TRADING SPACES, where two sets of neighbors have just 48 hours to completely redecorate one room in each other's house. In this fun-filled celebration of his greatest home makeovers, superstar interior designer, Doug Wilson ("Moving Up") brings his creative genius to five average American households, where with just 00 worth of paint, plaster, and found objects, he magically transforms ordinary kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms into innovative showplaces of inspired imagination. This fabulous DVD collection features five complete episodes from the highest-rated show on The Learning Channel.

I'll Be Home for Christmas

I'll Be Home for Christmas Review

I'll Be Home for Christmas Feature

• In the spirit of the season, Disney presents the hilarious comedy adventure that celebrates the believer in all of us. Jake Wilkinson (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), a self-centered college student, has one thing on his mind -- get home for Christmas dinner or forfeit the vintage Porsche his father promised him. Just days before his deadline, Jake awakens in the California desert -- stranded and pennile

Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars as Jake, a shallow huckster attending college in Los Angeles who finds troubles aplenty and, eventually, redemption on a road trip home in this youth-oriented Christmas vehicle. The action begins with Jake dumped in the desert dressed in full Kris Kringle regalia as payback for a scheme gone wrong, making Taylor Thomas the second Home Improvement cast member to don a Santa suit for film. (The first, of course, was his TV dad Tim Allen in The Santa Clause, for those of you who snoozed through recent Christmases.) With Jake stuck in the dunes, his stranded girlfriend (Jessica Biel from TV's Seventh Heaven) accepts a ride from his rival and thus begin the cross-country shenanigans that lead to a Christmas sleigh ride in their shared New York hometown. Look for Gary Cole (a.k.a. Mike Brady in the movie version of The Brady Bunch) playing another wise father. Although it may be hard for adults to buy the diminutive Taylor Thomas as a college student (and what's with the high school lockers at the so-called college?), Taylor Thomas and Biel have plenty of swoon appeal for young fans 10 and up. --Kimberly Heinrichs In the spirit of the season, Disney presents the hilarious comedy adventure that celebrates the believer in all of us. Jake Wilkinson (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), a self-centered college student, has one thing on his mind -- get home for Christmas dinner or forfeit the vintage Porsche his father promised him. Just days before his deadline, Jake awakens in the California desert -- stranded and penniless, wearing a Santa suit and white beard! Desperate to claim his gift, he flies, crawls, cons, races, bullies, and even sleighs his way east. But his nonstop mission turns into a nonstop comedy of errors as a multitude of colorful and offbeat strangers look to "Santa" for help and kindness. The closer Jake gets to home, the closer he gets to the true meaning of Christmas and the importance of family. I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a trip your entire family will enjoy taking all year long!

Interior Wood Refinishing (Home Improvement Videos, Hands-On Series)

Interior Wood Refinishing (Home Improvement Videos, Hands-On Series) Review

INTERIOR WOOD REFINISHING VIDEO: : Stripping, sanding, staining and refinishing interior wood trim. Includes: How to plan, dismantle trim, and strip with paste and liquid strippers. Reassembling, staining and finishing trim. Length: 30 min. From Do It Yourself, Inc., producing quality instructional, woodworking, home improvement and how-to videos since 1984. HIGHEST 10 STAR RATING- VIDEO CHOICE MAGAZINE HIGHEST 5 STAR RATING-LIBRARIAN VIDEO REVIEW "HIGH IMPROVEMENT VIDEO OF THE YEAR" - AMERICAM FILM INSTITUTE "BEST HOW-TO VIDEOS WE'VE SEEN YET"-HOW-TO BOOK CLUB

Trading Spaces: Specials

Trading Spaces: Specials Review

For the first time on one DVD, four incredible specials from Trading Spaces – Castles (in Scotland!), Home Improv (where our designers are the only ones not in on the joke!), Town and Country (where a white collar couple trades spaces with a farming couple!) and Through the Roof (where all 10 designers and 3 carpenters come together in one episode to completely redecorate two homes!)

Buying and Selling Your Home: Real Estate DVD

Buying and Selling Your Home: Real Estate DVD Review

Studio: Victor Multimedia-05 Release Date: 11/22/2005 Run time: 60 minutes

Home Improvement: Season Three

Home Improvement: Season Three Review

In its third season, Home Improvement settled into a comfortable and hugely popular groove. Tim Taylor (Tim Allen, The Santa Clause, the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story) banters fondly with his wife Jill (Patricia Richardson, Ulee's Gold) at home, snipes at his assistant Al (Richard Karn, Sex and the Teenage Mind) on his TV show Tool Time, and discusses manly troubles with his philosophical neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman), while his three sons (Taran Noah Smith, Zachary Ty Bryan, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who was the voice of the young Simba in The Lion King) run amok. In just about every episode Tim garbles Wilson's Iron John-esque advice; in just about every episode he mocks Al for being a lonely oversensitive guy, even after Al finds a girlfriend; in just about every episode Tim and Jill tiff over the differences between the sexes...and yet the cast, though sheer warmth and enthusiasm, makes it feel consistently fresh--or if not fresh, cozy.

Not that the season was without a few new faces: Debbe Dunning replaces Pamela Anderson as the Tool Time girl; Al gets a girlfriend, Ilene (Sherry Hursey); several episodes features some new neighbors (Mariangela Pino and Robert Picardo, later the Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager); the great M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple) appears as Jill's father; and a number of sports figures, shuttle astronauts, and former President Jimmy Carter make guest appearances as themselves. This is solid sitcom comfort food; dependable and satisfying, familiar but still lively. If you're not a fan of Allen's humor, this season won't change your mind, but many couples will see a little of themselves in Tim and Jill's relationship, and that's not a bad thing. More power! --Bret Fetzer

Simple Steps to a Greener Home

Simple Steps to a Greener Home Review

Simple Steps to a Greener Home Feature

• Green living can be gorgeous! From flooring to restoring, remodeling to recycling, find smart and stylish ideas for turning your home into an earth-friendly oasis. Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo shares creative decorating tips and stylish ideas for living green. 69 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: INSTRUCTIONAL Rating: NR Age: 018713539830 UPC: 018713539830

SIMPLES STEPS TO A GREENER HOME - DVD Movie

Organizing From the Inside Out

Organizing From the Inside Out Review

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/20/2005

Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD

Basic Home Repair: Home Improvement DVD Review

Studio: Victor Multimedia-05 Release Date: 11/22/2005 Run time: 120 minutes

Boy Meets World: The Complete Seventh and Final Season

Boy Meets World: The Complete Seventh and Final Season Review

The "Boy Meets World" gang is back for the last of their adventures in the seventh and final season. Join Cory (Ben Savage) and the gang as they adapt to college and, even more so, life as adults. Cory and Topanga finally tie the knot and learn that living on their own isn’t as easy as they thought, Shawn and Angela get back together as a couple, Eric and Jack take on jobs in the real world, and the Matthews welcome a new addition to the family. Just when they think they’ve got it all figured out, unexpected surprises and newfound opportunities catch them off guard. Enjoy all 23 original episodes of Season 7 and relive the most endearing moments as Cory says good-bye in the final season.

Home Improvement: Home Repairs Vol. 1

Home Improvement: Home Repairs Vol. 1 Review

Home Improvement: Home Repairs Vol. 1 Feature

• 44 page booklet included
• Step by Step Instructions
• Money and Time Saving Tips
• Most Common Mistakes / Frequent Problems

Includes: Replacing a Faucet, Replacing a Toilet, Sweating Copper Pipe, Unclogging Drains, Replacing Light Switches, Replacing Light Fixtures, Repairing Lamps, Repairing Broken Tiles, Caulking a Tub, Repairing Running Toilets, Replacing a Shower Head, Repairing a Leaky Faucet.

Home Improvement - The Complete Second Season

Home Improvement - The Complete Second Season Review

Home Improvement - The Complete Second Season Feature

• Plug in the power drill and break out the socket wrenches! Tim Allen hammers home the laughs as Tim "The Toolman" Taylor in HOME IMPROVEMENT'S hilarious second season. Tim and his levelheaded wife, Jill, undertake the challenge of raising three young, mischievous boys. It's a tough project, but with insightful advice from his wise (and only partially seen) next door neighbor, Wilson, they&

Someday someone's going to write an academic thesis titled, "The Guy Behind the Fence: Home Improvement and Tim Allen's Deconstruction of Manliness." You wouldn't think masculinity was a rich enough topic to provide fodder for 25 episodes of a sitcom--let alone eight years of one--yet in almost every episode Wilson (Earl Hindman), the never-fully-seen neighbor of TV host Tim Taylor (Allen), spins out some new bit of earthy wisdom (fondly parodying the homilies of Iron John author Robert Bly), which gives Tim some skewed perspective on his latest domestic muddle.

The second season of Home Improvement had a few recurring plotlines (Tim's show, Tool Time, gets a female producer, played by a pre-News Radio Vicki Lewis), but most episodes follow the classic sitcom format of introducing a problem and resolving it in twenty minutes, with plenty of punchlines along the way. Tim's wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) gets annoyed because Tim can't keep from glancing at other women (in this case, future Tool Time babe Debbe Dunning); Tim wants his youngest son Mark (Taran Noah Smith) to take karate classes because other boys keep pushing Mark around; when Jill gets a job at a women's magazine, she creates a spouse-compatibility quiz that inspires Tim to create a quiz of his own. The competitive urge--be it with his long-suffering assistant Al (Richard Karn) or over neighborhood Christmas lights--constantly gets Tim into trouble, culminating in a riding lawn mower race with real-life home improvement guru Bob Vila. Like most sitcoms, Home Improvement offers comfort food comedy; despite minor conflicts, the Taylors' family life is dependably functional and warm. Fortunately, Allen's humor has just enough sting to keep from sinking into treacly sentimentality. The cast also includes Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Zachery Ty Bryan as Tim's older sons and Pamela Anderson, who left after this season to become an international sex symbol on Baywatch. --Bret Fetzer

Plug in the power drill and break out the socket wrenches! Tim Allen hammers home the laughs as Tim "The Toolman" Taylor in HOME IMPROVEMENT'S hilarious second season. Tim and his level-headed wife, Jill, undertake the challenge of raising three young, mischievous boys. It's a tough project, but with insightful advice from his wise (and only partially seen) next door neighbor, Wilson, they're able to get the job done. Now you can own all 25 episodes of the show's second season in this comprehensive 3-Disc DVD set. And with exclusive bonus features, it's a must-have for any HOME IMPROVEMENT collection.

Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season

Boy Meets World: The Complete Fourth Season Review

Cory is your average guy. He has a best friend from the other side of the tracks, a teacher that constantly keeps him on his toes, and a friend named Topanga whom he has trouble understanding. With the support of his parents and his brother Eric, Cory learns to cope with the roller coaster called growing up.

How to Repair Old Windows [VHS]

How to Repair Old Windows [VHS] Review

This how-to video shows you how to repair those broken ropes in double hung windows. This video can save you the cost of expensive replacement windows which might look out of place on your historic home. The Greenwich Window Doctor will show you how to quickly replace those broken ropes with chains to preserve the character of your home and save money!

Kitchen Remodeling: Home Improvement DVD

Kitchen Remodeling: Home Improvement DVD Review

Studio: Victor Multimedia-05 Release Date: 11/22/2005 Run time: 75 minutes

Biography: The Home Depot

Biography: The Home Depot Review

Biography: The Home Depot Feature

• Before they came along, a weekend project might start with trips to the paint store, the hardware store, the plumbing supply store, the lighting store, the flooring store, the carpet emporium, the kitchen boutique and the lumber yard. But Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus turned that idea upside down when they opened the first Home Depot in 1979. From the first Atlanta store to today's multi-n

Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006

Home Improvement - The Complete Fourth Season

Home Improvement - The Complete Fourth Season Review

Home Improvement - The Complete Fourth Season Feature

• Power up for season four of the Emmy(R) Award-winning hit comedy HOME IMPROVEMENT! Tim Allen is back as Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, a loving husband and father who spends his days as the accident-prone host of the popular television show "Tool Time." The fourth season fires on all cylinders, earning five Emmy(R) Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in

In the fourth season of Home Improvement, the Taylor family faces some important milestones. Tim (Tim Allen) turns 40. Jill (Patricia Richardson) is laid off from work and pursues her master's degree. And youngest son Mark (Taran Noah Smith) slowly begins to outgrow precocious middle brother Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). (Oldest sibling Brad, played by Zachery Ty Bryan, remains pretty much the same confident kid he always was.) As for their inner circle, Tim's Tool Time buddy Al (Richard Karn) gets an ego boost when he's named one of Detroit's hottest bachelors, and little seen but often heard neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman) goes on his first date in two decades. Add Debbe Dunning, who replaces Pamela Anderson as the new Tool Time girl, and you've got the makings of another solid season. When the ABC sitcom aired during the 1994-1995 TV season, it did well enough to place in the Top 5 for the fourth consecutive year. And aside from some pop culture giveaways (Jill's clothes; Randy's use of a floppy disc to backup his computer), the warmth and humor exuded in this 25-episode, 3-disc set hold up remarkably well.

Like Everybody Loves Raymond minus the screeching mother-in-law, Home Improvement is driven by the classic combination of a sensible wife married to a silly man-child husband who thinks about himself first, even when he doesn't intend to. When Jill wants to go back to school so she can become a therapist, Tim isn't supportive. At first it appears he just doesn't want any changes. But he later confesses he's worried she'll lose interest in him if she returns to school. After she reassures him that this would never be the case, he says, "If your dream is to work with nuts, you should go back to the world of macadamia." Look for an appearance from a very young Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Dawson's Creek), guest starring as Brad's makeup-savvy girlfriend who advises him on how to cover up his pimple. As for Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels, Ally McBeal), her blink-and-you'll-miss-her spot as a woman interested in Al is little more than a glorified cameo. --Jae-Ha Kim Power up for season four of the Emmy(R) Award-winning hit comedy HOME IMPROVEMENT! Tim Allen is back as Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, a loving husband and father who spends his days as the accident-prone host of the popular television show "Tool Time." The fourth season fires on all cylinders, earning five Emmy(R) Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Patricia Richardson). The laughs are hammered home for all 26 episodes of this hilarious collection. Season Four contains some of the most memorable moments ever as Jill returns to college, Al is named one of Detroit's Most Eligible Bachelors, and Wilson goes on his first date in 20 years! Featuring guest appearances by Dave Chappelle, Michelle Williams, and Lucy Liu, plus new, never-before-seen bloopers, this collection is an absolute must own for any HOME IMPROVEMENT fan.