California, here it comes: 'This Old House'
For the first time in its 30-year history, the PBS home improvement series THIS OLD HOUSE is traveling to Los Angeles to tackle a West Coast renovation project. A charming 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival home located in the picturesque hillside community of Silver Lake will get a Hollywood makeover from the show�s expert crew. Courtesy of Mark Lohman Credit: Courtesy of Mark Lohman Photo/
East of Hollywood and northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the trendy neighborhood of Silver Lake clusters around a reservoir, with many houses packed tightly on narrow, hilly streets.
For the last few months, a Spanish Colonial Revival house on one of these streets has been ground zero for PBS' venerable home-renovation series, "This Old House" (Saturday at 7 p.m. on WNET/13), which is tackling a Los Angeles project for the first time in its 30-year history.
Viewers can watch host Kevin O'Connor, master carpenter Norm Abram and the rest of the Boston-based "TOH" team, along with Los Angeles-based design-build firm Home Front, start adding 750 square feet - comprising a second floor, a larger kitchen, a family room and two bedrooms and baths - to the 1,500-square-foot 1930s home, which boasts a water view out the back.
It belongs to Kurt Albrecht and his wife, Mary Blee, who both work in the entertainment industry and whose expanding family necessitated more room.
"It goes well," O'Connor said on the job site in October (the wrap party is set for early February). "You've seen our little gem here in Silver Lake. This is quintessential California - red roof, clay tiles, stucco walls, earthquake prevention and hillside fire prevention."
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