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For accompanying brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, acclimation up houses and affairs them started back they were 17-year-olds in Canada. Now Drew (the absolute acreage agent) and Jonathan (the accountant contractor) exercise their abilities as the stars of "Property Brothers" and several added HGTV shows — but at a cost.
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------------FOR THE RECORD:Home appearance hosts: In the Saturday area on Sept. 6, an commodity about hosts on home advance television afield referred to Tom Silva as the host of "This Old House." Kevin O'Connor is the host and Silva is the accepted architect on the show. —------------
As the home advance television bazaar grows, appearance hosts generally become brief TV successes, creating abrupt issues in their claimed businesses — authoritative or breaking the actual affair that led to success in the aboriginal place.
There are abutting to 180 shows in development currently, and abounding are hiring hosts, according to Allison Page, accepted administrator of HGTV and DIY Network. "We are attractive for that absolute aggregate of aspirational and attainable," she explained. "The host has to be relatable."
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When "This Old House" premiered on the Boston PBS base WGBH in 1979, few could accept predicted it would spawn an absolutely new television genre: the home-improvement show. The alternation that fabricated Bob Vila a domiciliary brilliant and aggressive the top-rated ball "Home Improvement" additionally sparked a seemingly...
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The Rendezvous Point: Whatever Happened To: The Cast of "Home ... | Oldest Brother On Home ImprovementWhen "This Old House" premiered on the Boston PBS base WGBH in 1979, few could accept predicted it would spawn an absolutely new television genre: the home-improvement show. The alternation that fabricated Bob Vila a domiciliary brilliant and aggressive the top-rated ball "Home Improvement" additionally sparked a seemingly... (Meredith Blake)
And, she said: "It can be life-changing for people."
Every host is different. Some administer to authority on to their absolute acreage brokerages or architecture companies. Others, like the Scotts (who were both complex in the ball industry, as able-bodied as absolute estate, afore HGTV came along), abandon their own businesses because cutting schedules get in the way.
For the Scott brothers, television commitments beggarly 52 renovations a year, and they appoint architecture crews in anniversary city. "We don't accept time for our own business anymore, but we try to addition others with the success of ours," Jonathan Scott said. "We appoint bounded businesses that are absorbed in architecture as a career, not aloof actuality on TV. It's area I anticipate we accept the best impact."
Moontower Design Build in Austin, Texas, was assassin to abetment the "Property Brothers" on one of their renovations. Jeff Munoz, a accomplice in the architecture company, said that as anon as the adventure aired, they were airtight with business. "We had no abstraction what to expect, and this far exceeded our expectations," he said. "It put us on the map."
For added hosts, such as Nicole Curtis of "Rehab Addict," television hasn't afflicted much.
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Screen Junkies | Oldest Brother On Home ImprovementA 20-year architecture business adept in Detroit and Minneapolis, Curtis has a affection for extenuative old houses. "We go on with the day-to-day, appearance or no show," she said. "It's my business and my money — there aloof happens to be a guy with a camera afterward me around."
She acclaimed that the acceptance of the affairs has accustomed her an bend in agreement of extenuative old homes. "Because bodies apperceive me, I can animate a lot of bodies to accelerate emails to save endangered houses," she said. "We've comatose a lot of servers," she said proudly.
Tom Silva, accepted architect of PBS' "This Old House," accepted that befitting his ancestors architecture business (Silva Brothers Construction) activity and filming the appearance has been a bamboozlement act. "Of advance actuality on the appearance has helped our business," he said. "But I never capital to accord my own business up. It was my father's afore me, and it's meaningful. The appearance is aloof an adjunct of what I adulation to do in my life."
For his aide Kevin O'Connor, who hosts "Ask This Old House," it was a altered story. He was in accounts back he beatific a advance catechism to "This Old House" about a bifold he and his wife were alive on, accepting no abstraction there was a new appearance in the works. "They beatific a blur aggregation out forth with Tom Silva, and I was absolute away," he said. "When they alleged and capital to allocution with me personally, not my wife, I was assertive they capital to get me to advance or get banking advice. I couldn't accept it back they asked me to host the new show." He gave up his job in accounts immediately.
For "Fixer Upper" stars Chip and Joanna Gaines and their four kids, television has been game-changing. Located in Waco, Texas, their company, Magnolia Homes, combines absolute acreage sales, a advance business and a retail boutique that specializes in home décor. They were "discovered" through Joanna's decorating and affairs blog.
"We were abashed and not absolutely abiding if we were activity to assignment on camera with our four kids," Joanna Gaines said.
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Home Improvement: Where Are They Now? Photos - ABC News | Oldest Brother On Home Improvement"I was abhorrent and the kids were acting crazy the day they came to shoot us," Chip Gaines added.
The appearance follows the Gaines ancestors through the advance action and about incorporates all of their skills, such as allowance a applicant acquisition a home to buy, renovating the acreage and decorating. They accept a approved aggregation that assists them.
But the appearance has become so accepted that they accept accustomed up the advance allotment of their business to focus on the added aspects.
"We still advertise absolute estate, although a lot of our accompany didn't ask us to advertise their homes because they anticipation with the show, we weren't accomplishing that any longer, but the best hasty about-face has been our shop," Joanna Gaines said. "We accept been inundated with business and can't accumulate up."
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