It's Academic

Christopher Lowell

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The Great Fabric Show

This show is dedicated to decorating in different parts of the country. Christopher visits New England, the heartland and returns to Southern California, exploring your personal style no matter where you live.

Regional Design

This show is all about architectural embellishments, those elements that give a home a sense of style and structure. Christopher shows where to buy them, how to install them and merchandise them. Christopher takes us on a tour of the showcase house dining room before renovation. Christopher shows the concept drawings for the buffet wall, then shows the construction in the interim stage. Then it's off to Freeway Salvage Yard where you can pick up one of a kind architectural elements for any decor. Christopher reveals the completed Showcase House dining room. Christopher describes the fireplace of the showcase house before it was renovated. In studio, Christopher demos the mantle construction, then shows the fireplace in the ""during"" stage. In studio, Christopher demonstrates how to construct the mantle ledges. Christopher shows the completed renovation of the fireplace of the showcase house. Deborah Fabricant presents a Manhattan sky scraper tablescape. Viewer Luci Angeli Diecks of Chag

Architectural Elements

Christopher offers a way to create an office of your dreams without sacrificing valuable living space. Having the right environment that's conducive to planning that corporate takeover enhances productivity.

Working from Home

Christopher shares tips on inexpensive ways to add drama to that special wedding day from planning the wedding ceremony to the reception to a backyard honeymoon cottage.

The Wedding Show

This show takes a look at light fixtures and their different functions throughout the home and office.

The Lighting Show

It's about those do-dads and special little things you can add to your home to make it a reflection of your personality.

Decorative Touches

It's off to the flea market to find unusual, interesting hand-me-downs and treasures for the home.

Flea Market Show

Christopher shows how to throw a paint party where guests can have a good time and the host's white walls disappear. First, Christopher shows how to prepare the house for the party and design the invitations using painting supplies as the theme. Then Lesley Carlson of The Home Depot and Christopher discuss some of the tools and equipment needed. Christopher shows his guests how to apply the paint to different areas. Then Christopher welcomes guest Michael Walsh who shows how to paint designs on walls with the help of ""Walls with Style"" kits by EZ PAINTR. Christopher shows how to build a paint party tablescape out of tools from the paint store. Next, Christopher accessorizes the newly painted room. Finally, Christopher reads some viewer mail and gives advice on a wall color for a room with mauve carpet and a large fishtank.

Paint Party Show

The show is all about taking the spare bedroom in your home and transforming it into a warm and inviting ""hotel suite"" where your honored guests will feel welcome in your own home.

Guest Bedrooms

Christopher presents new products for re-surfacing floors, countertops, etc., giving them a much needed facelift and at the same time, saving a ton of money.

Savvy Surfaces

The show is dedicated to the use of clever and inexpensive ways to disguise elements in the house that may be outdated, unattractive or in need of a facelift.

Art of Disguise (2)

This show is all about how two independent people can bring individual decorating styles together expressing tastes that both find compatible. It's the battle of the sexes, how to combine his and her decorating that both can live with and the art of compromise.

Mars vs. Venus (1)

Christopher shows how to organize clutter and merchandise accessories in a home with a flair. Before your home resembles a junkyard or you take everything to the curb, check out Christopher's merchandising tips.

Merchandising the Home

Recapturing the glitz and glamour of the '50s is the theme of the bathroom makeover show. Warren Pearl from Lefroy Brooks joins Christopher to display the latest in faucets and showers for the bath. Next, it's off to the Showcase House for a ""before"" look at the master bath. Architectural elements in the room set the tone for a decidedly ""deco"" feel that Christopher carries through to the final makeover. Christopher visits the Surface Doctor in Signal Hill, CA for a look at how tubs and sinks are resurfaced. In a ""You Did It!"" segment Clara Daughtridge of Statonsburg, NC fulfilled her dream of having a master bedroom/bath suite by turning their two car garage into the master bedroom and the adjoining patio into the bathroom. And finally, Jerry Rosche from Rhodes/America Tuff As Tile shows the basics of resurfacing sinks and tile with a do-it-yourself resurfacing kit called Tub and Tile Finish.

Bathroom Makeover

You don't need to put on your hiking boots to enjoy the outdoor spaces around your home. Christopher applies his 7 layers of design to decorate outdoor spaces as beautifully as indoor spaces.

Outdoor Living

A man's home may be his castle but sometimes they don't look that way. The show's theme is unusual homes â€” styles that are eclectic, one-of-a-kind, really cool structures. Most of the houses were created by the courageous homeowners themselves.

You Live Where?

There are lots of ways to transform spaces into something special. Change is good and when lifestyles change, so does the need to accommodate living spaces.

Changing Spaces

The show is devoted to shopping for furniture and accessories through mail order catalogs and from Internet online sources.

Shopping from Home

Finding Your Style

You don't have to check in to check it out. That's the theme of this show that explores getting inspiration for decorating our homes by visiting public spaces like hotels and restaurants.

Great Ideas from Public Spaces

In this episode Christopher proves how home super stores are the perfect resource for creating an inexpensive yet chic interior.

Super Store Chic

Now that you've decorated your house, how about showing it off to your friends. Christopher's 7 Layers of Entertaining is the blueprint to superb entertaining without the angst.

CL's 7 Layers of Entertaining Spaces

Out of the Closet

A Formal Affair

Christopher will prove to us that everyone is creative, it just takes is little bit of imagination, some inspiration and a little bit of courage. The show will give you ideas that will inspire and motivate you to become personally creative.

The Creativity Show

Industrial Living (1)

Christopher focuses on incorporating flea market finds into your home, how to make the ragged look regal.

Ragged and Regal

Christopher's philosophy is, ""If you can put together an ensemble for yourself to wear, then you can put a house together."" This show looks at fashion designers and their influence on home decor.

Runway Chic

If your decor is beginning to resemble public storage, Christopher will save the day with innovative ways to reclaim the space and get organized. First, we tag along with Sandra Ateca, a professional organizer as she helps her client transform a bedroom taken over by clutter.

Clutter Free Living

In this episode, Christopher demonstrates how inexpensively fabric (layers number three and four) can transform and update everything in the home. First, we take a trip to the designer fabric showroom of Stroheim and Romann to discover how to shop without being intimidated. In-studio, Christopher uses swatches to demonstrate the best way to choose upholstered fabrics and accents fabrics. Designer Beverly Murphy, of Beverly Murphy Home displays her bedroom design and showcases her fabric by number technique for home design. Designer Laura Pattynama, displays a breakfast nook and bedroom vignette featuring several unique fabric ideas. Next, she demonstrates how to create a sewing tabletop for making home designs. Then, it's a look back with a Christopher Classic featuring his favorite makeovers with dramatic fabric themes. Next, he demonstrates how to create upholstered panels with fabric swatches and wood as wall art for the home. Artist/designer Yvonne Porcella drops in to demonstrate

Christopher shows how to create an entrance that will have the neighbors stopping by just to get a glimpse. The entrance is the first thing guests see when they enter the house. We'll show you how to make it memorable.

Grand Entrances (2)

Quality of Life

Challenged Living

Natural Inspiration

In this episode, Christopher demonstrates why discovering the best sources for unusual items for the home can be as much fun as the decorating. First, we go shopping at Blackmen/Cruz Design and meet designer Adam Blackmen for a tour of the unusual and outrageous accessories and furnishings featured in the store. Designer Craig Olsen of Plantation Design, demonstrates how to create ""fusion design"" a technique for combining eclectic accessories into one cohesive design. Next, we visit Eileen Paulin editor of Romantic Homes magazine to take a tour of the home she transformed featuring mix and match fabrics from Waverly fabrics and several savvy sources. Then it's off to Freeway Building Materials, where Christopher shows us how to discover hidden treasures for the home. In-studio he demonstrates how to create a headboard frame featuring wrought iron pieces from Industrial Metal Supply. Set Designer Leslie Erganian drops in and displays a complete tea set and accessories she challenged her

Savvy Sourcing

Many rooms furnishings have dual functions. Think of it as multi-tasking for your room. Whether it's a guest room that doubles as a home office or sewing room or a sofa that doubles as a bed for guests, it's all about multiple uses.

Double Duty

Family Rooms

Contemporary Living

Use What You've Got

Just like there are classics in literature and music, there are classics in design as well. It's the style we know as traditiona,l and Christopher shows how it can be updated and tweaked while the designs and the lines remain the same.

Classic Living / Traditional

The Sporting Life

During this episode Christopher shows how we can bring the joy of whimsical design into our homes. First, we visit Patrick McMahon at Cafe La Boheme to take a tour of their colorful wall treatments, mosaics and eclectic furnishings. Next author Fred Albert showcases outrageous dog houses featured in his book ""Barkitecture"". Our ""You Did It"" segment features the story book themed home of Judy Woodsmith who transformed a small run down home into a colorful and eccentric fairy tale cottage. Entertainment expert Deborah Fabricant pulls out all the stops with whimsical tablescape featuring bright silk butterflies, dragonflies and colorful pansy topiaries. Christopher demonstrates how to create a whimsical painted cornice box to update a window. International fashion and furniture designer Patty Shelabarger displays her extravagant and colorful clothing and furniture designs.

Whimsy

Enter Laughing

Christopher demonstrates how important furniture placement is to creating the right flow to any room. Instead of pushing all the furniture in the room up against the wall, you can create a more intimate setting by placing clusters of furniture in the center of the room.

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