Bargain Mansions

While renovating a French chateau, Tamara Day discovers that a recent renovation left the kitchen looking outdated and tacky; Tamara and her father go shopping for a Dutch door, then she restores plantation shutters.

While working on a French chateau, Tamara overhauls a master suite covered in the tackiest wallpaper she's ever ripped out of a home; to preserve a backyard kitchenette and cobblestone pavers, Tamara will be forced to make budget-wrecking decisions.

After a contractor abandons an 1890s Craftsman-style home, Tamara Day steps in to finish its renovation; she repairs structural damage and tears down a load-bearing wall to enlarge the kitchen; an exterior iron staircase presents problems.

Tamara enlarges the master bedroom in the Craftsman-style home and creates a study with a unique light fixture; she cannot salvage enough antique tiles for the bathroom floor but finds a way to reuse the old glass in the master bath.

Tamara seeks to transform a multi-family 1892 brick Craftsman into a single-family dwelling while keeping its original details; she and her father attempt to recover a vintage pocket door trapped inside a wall and update the home's electricity.

Tamara continues working on an 1892 Craftsman and struggles to add a master bathroom; then, she finds a way to reuse floor boards as a porch swing, but her plan to reuse a claw-foot bathtub hits a snag because of a narrow doorway.