Repcolite Home Improvement Show

Original Air Date: October 17, 2026 Episode Number: 481Episode SummaryTwo topics this week. First, a follow-up to last week’s interview with Jean Stoffer and Grace Start. Jean mentioned that she fell for British kitchens because they had furniture, coziness, and a sense of being a room people gathered in rather than a wall of boxes. That sent Dan down a rabbit hole and into the ...

Original Air Date: October 10, 2026 Episode Number: 480Episode SummaryDan sits down with Jean Stoffer and her daughter Grace Start, the mother-daughter team behind Grand Rapids based Jean Stoffer Design, Stoffer Home, and the Magnolia Network show The Established Home. They cover how Jean got into design with no formal training, how a failing kitchen in her own house sent her to...

Original Air Date: October 1, 2026 Episode Number: 479Episode SummaryDan opens with two questions: what's the weirdest thing in your house that you've never been able to explain, and what's the strangest thing you've ever found in one that you weren't looking for? Then he spends the full episode on his own answer. His first house was a 1928 place in Zeeland, bought in 1999, and ...

Original Air Date: September 26, 2026 Episode Number: 478Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan starts with elastic waistband jeans and gets from there to an architectural idea worth borrowing. British architect Alex Gordon argued that good buildings should have long life, loose fit and low energy. That middle one, loose fit, is the useful one for homeowners. It means...