Welcome Home
Bill Rogers, Executive Producer
The biggest investment you'll ever make is your home and Welcome Home gathers resources from around the nation each week to help protect and beautify your investment. From Victorian Rennovations to Home Furnishings and Home Decor to improvements to the exterior and the interior of your home.
At no time during the history of home-dwelling families has the home become the most stable part of the development of our children than it has today. Home is where we learn, where we seek shelter, where we take our meals and where we connect with others in our tribe. Home is where we learn and prepare to make a contribution to the world we live in, to become shepherds over our planet and raise a family of our own.
Welcome Home is proud to annouce that True Value Hardware will be a 2012 sponsor on the show. Headquartered in Chicago, True Value Company is one of the world's largest retailer-owned hardware cooperatives. With more than 5,000 independent retailers and an exciting new store format, they've created a compelling shopping experience for consumers, a winning opportunity for entrepreneur-retailers and a rewarding environment for those seeking a career with a company committed to its customers and growth.
"We're very excited to have such an icon on our show," comments Bill Rogers, Executive Producer for Welcome Home." True Value Hardware is synonymous with American heritage and quality brands."
True Value's cooperatives serve 54 countries through their 12 regional distribution centers and 3,000 associates. Many of the True Value retailers enjoy a rich history spanning generations in their local communities.
Welcome Home celebrates it's 10th birthday in 2011 and is doing so as the recognized leader and dominant #1 television show focused around your home and your family. Our Home Library Series empowers you to find the 
right products and solutions to help you complete a project yourself or shows you how to find a contractor to help you do so. Check out some of our in-depth how-to segments from past videos. Throughout 2011 the Welcome Home Crew will be on-location across the U.S. to bring you the latest on Home Improvements. From coast to coast we'll be covering the best in Staying Cool, Keeping Warm, Saving Money, Gardening, DIY, Lawn and Garden and Completing Your Home Projects. We'll also be attending some of the home improvement expos around the nation to provide you with the latest information on high-tech and low-tech tools. Got questions? We got answers or we know where to find them. We would also like to welcome hhgregg to our show who will be able to help you with all of your electronic needs.
Welcome Home Breaths New Life into Victorian Home
It's true, they don't build them like they use to. An old Victorian Home has so much charm, the oak paneling will make make your heart skip a beat, the turrets, alcoves, and odd-shaped rooms are interesting and so 
inviting. Then there's the scratch of the record needle and it's back to reality, time for restoration. Older homes may be beautiful, but they aren't designed for modern living. The floor plan of a Victorian house can seem cluttered and convoluted. Instead of open spaces, you may find a series of small rooms connected by a maze of hallways and doors. And then there's the bathroom. Although indoor plumbing was available at the turn of the century, the bathrooms (called water closets in Victorian days) were usually cramped by today's standards. Many interior walls in older homes are load-bearing. That is, they are necessary to support the weight of the upper floors. Builders in Victorian days did not have the capacity to easily span large spaces, so the numerous walls really were essential. If these walls are removed, the floors above will begin to sag. Fortunately, there are ways to update an older home while preserving its structure and maintaining its ambiance. Come along with Welcome Home in it's Home Library Series as it updates and rennovates a classic Victorian. Saturdays at 1:00 pm.
Welcome Home - "Viewer's Choice Award"
for Home Improvement and New Construction.
THE HISTORY BEHIND YOUR FURNITURE
Even the basic requirements of furniture design are complex, for appearance has always been as important as function, and the general tendency has been to design furniture to complement architectural interiors. Indeed, some furniture forms were conceived architecturally, with legs designed as columns; others were at least in part anthropomorphic, with legs in animal forms. Furniture design ranges from simple to elaborate, depending on the pieces’ intended use rather than on the period in which they were made.
The earliest records, such as ancient Mesopotamian inventories, describe richly decorated interiors with gold cloth and gilded furniture. Some surviving ancient Egyptian examples are elaborate and were originally sheathed in gold, but many very plain pieces were also made in ancient times. In the history of furniture, however, the elegant work takes precedence because in general it has been the best preserved. In addition, elaborate designs reveal the most about a period because high style changes more frequently than other styles to reflect new ideas. The simplest work, made for the farmer or laborer, tends to be more purely functional and timeless; tables and chairs used by working people in 1800 bc are surprisingly like tables and chairs in farmhouses of ad 1800. Dutch genre paintings of the 1600s and early 19th-century American paintings depict rural interiors that often look remarkably similar.
Your furniture may look quite different than yesteryear's furniture but it serves the same purpose: form and function.
Welcome Home Receives Project Kitchen Award
In January 2011, Welcome Home received recognition from the Kitchen Design Challenge for our series on 
Countertop Templating. In case you missed any part of that three part series you can click here to view it now. With CAD, Computer Aided Design, even the fraction of inches can be utilized and look Oh, so Beautiful. There's lots of decisions to make: counter tops, backsplash ideas, tile design, bathroom counter top, outdoor kitchen, granite care, marble, travertine, limestone, Silestone, Corian . . . and much more.Grab a pencil and a note pad, take some notes and write down your questions. 
Welcome Home Makes a Big Splash and Receives Award
November 2011
Welcome Home was the recipient of the "Best Television Coverage" at the International Pool & Spa Expo in Las Vegas. The honor was bestowed by Tim Brown of the Industrial Video Alliance for Excellence at their Friday morning awards breakfast on November 10th. The Water Tech segment, shot at the International Pool & Spa Expo on November 3rd and produced by Welcome Home, was entered in the Events Category to win Best Coverage (Events). Welcome Home covers many new and innovative products and services for the pool, spa and outdoor living industry. Says Welcome Home Executive Producer Bill Rogers, "I guess you could say we made a big splash!"
2012 Here We Come. . . International Housewares Show
Welcome Home brought the best from the Windy City in 2011 from the International Housewares Show in Chicago. We'll bring you the best in March 2012. This expo represents the $301 billion world of home goods and 60,000 of the world's most important housewares professionals, including over 2,000 exhibitors from over 30 countries. 
Welcome Home takes a bite out of the Big Apple!
Welcome Home found all the tasty foods at the International Fancy Food Show in Washington D.C.. We provided exclusive broadcast coverage of all of the epicurean delights. Check out our coverage! In 2012, Welcome Home will take a bite out of the Big Apple as the expo moves back to New York City.
Tune in each week for the latest in home improvements, kitchen countertops, rennovations, landscaping, home furnishings and home decorating. Saturdays at 1:00 pm on the Time Warner Home Network.
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