Bargain Mansions

Tamara gets the opportunity to renovate a French chateau she's wanted to tackle for years. A recent makeover left the kitchen looking outdated and tacky, but she's determined to create a home full of authentic details.

Tamara Day continues to overhaul a French chateau, but to preserve a backyard kitchenette and cobblestone pavers, she will be forced to make decisions that may wreck her budget.

A contractor ripped an 1890s home down to the studs before abandoning it, and Tamara Day is stepping in to finish the renovation. She repairs structural damage and creates exact replicas to replace missing staircase spindles.

Renovations continue on Tamara Day's 1890s Craftsman home, as she enlarges the master bedroom and creates a unique light fixture. But she runs into a hiccup when she can't salvage enough antique tiles for the bathroom floor.

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.