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S10 E9 Smart Home Solutions

Instructional & Educational

NR

20 minutes

Dec 31, 2013

Designing Spaces offers up some smart solutions for a better home life; topics include outdoor furniture, kitchen knives, home standby generators and life insurance for home and family security.

Season 10, 44 Episodes

Designing Spaces - Easy and Unforgettable

Easy and Unforgettable,

Host Chef Ralph, Prepares a selection of recipes perfect for Big Game Day entertaining with co-host Ingrid Hoffman.

Designing Spaces - All About Home

All About Home,

Designing Spaces delivers the goods covering three topics All About Home.

Designing Spaces - Green Lawn Care Tools

Green Lawn Care Tools,

Matt and Kelly have decided to do their own lawn care, but find themselves in need of new tools.

Designing Spaces - Lifestyle Changes and Transformations

Lifestyle Changes and Transformations,

Join Desiging Spaces on a voyage that could change your lifestyle, from living spaces to working spaces.

Designing Spaces - All About home II

All About home II,

This episode of Designing Spaces is loaded with suggestions for improving your home and lifestyle.

Designing Spaces - The Joy of Pets, Pet Parenting, and Beyond

The Joy of Pets, Pet Parenting, and Beyond,

Your Pets' happiness and well-being are important to Pet Spaces , and their care and living spaces play a big role in you providing them a secure and loving home.

Designing Spaces - Blooming Trends for Easy Growing

Blooming Trends for Easy Growing,

Gardening and lawn care should be rewarding and fun. Today’s topics take us outdoors with new lawn care tools, termite prevention, and weed-free gardening. Enjoy your personal great outdoors!

Designing Spaces - Kid Spaces Celebrates Family Traditions; Easter

Kid Spaces Celebrates Family Traditions; Easter,

The spring and Easter seasons bring the family together, as kids take a break from school. Today, Kid Spaces presents three topics to help celebrate Spring family traditions. We look at Easter gifts, hair care, and photos.

Designing Spaces - Smart Home Solutions

Smart Home Solutions,

Designing Spaces offers up some smart solutions for a better home life; topics include outdoor furniture, kitchen knives, home standby generators and life insurance for home and family security.

Designing Spaces - Energy and Our Enviroment

Energy and Our Enviroment,

Think Green presents “Energy and Our Environment”. In this installment we look at how our homes are becoming more energy efficient and sustainable, thus reducing the strain on our communities and the eco-system.

Designing Spaces - Pools, Pergolas and Patios

Pools, Pergolas and Patios,

As spring blossoms into warmer weather, Designing Spaces is already ready to show off some great ideas and items to make the backyard lifestyle better than ever. Topics: pool care troubleshooting, grilling, and DIY WiFi.

Designing Spaces - A Zero Carbon Lifestyle Home and Transportation

A Zero Carbon Lifestyle Home and Transportation,

Think Green visits the Honda Smart Home in Davis California; a living space where new technologies demonstrate a vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility.

Designing Spaces - A Journey Through Parenting and Family Safety

A Journey Through Parenting and Family Safety,

On this episode of Kid Spaces, we take on three topics to benefit kids in all aspects of life. Topics include sunscreen for kids, audiobooks for enjoyment and learning, and a graphing calculator for students.

Designing Spaces - Home Improvements with Mom in Mind

Home Improvements with Mom in Mind,

From home improvement projects to gift ideas for Mother’s Day, Designing Spaces has a bundle of great ideas for the spring season packed into one half-hour show. Topics cover DIY pool care, Mother’s Day, and DIY blinds.

Designing Spaces - Do it Yourself, Do it for Me: Pride in DIY

Do it Yourself, Do it for Me: Pride in DIY,

With the weather warming up, it’s a perfect time to take on some DIY projects around the house and make upgrades that will make your home look better and improve your family’s lifestyle. Do it yourself…do it for me!

Designing Spaces - All About Home

All About Home,

Designing Spaces offers up a potpourri of topics that will have you feeling good about yourself, and your living spaces. When it’s All About Home, Designing Spaces is there with tips, suggestions and ideas.

Designing Spaces - More All About Home

More All About Home,

Designing Spaces offers a triplet of topics that will have homeowners feeling empowered and in control of their living spaces. With tips, suggestions and ideas to empower homeowners, we are Designing Spaces!

Designing Spaces - What Parents Can Do for Their Child’s Future

What Parents Can Do for Their Child’s Future,

In this episode of Kid Spaces, parents are given the kind of information that will help them provide an environment that leads to healthier more fulfilling lives. It’s all about a better future.

Designing Spaces - All About Home

All About Home,

In this episode of the All About Home series, the spotlight is on home life. we take a look at three different aspects of feeling good about how you live in your most secure space: your home.

Designing Spaces - Do It Yourself; Do It For Me

Do It Yourself; Do It For Me,

Designing Spaces lends helpful advice to all DIYers who take pride in DIY. Topics cover sun protection while active outdoors, advice on obtaining a mortgage, and how to maintain your household water softener as easy DIY.

Designing Spaces - Cool Renovations, Retrofits and More

Cool Renovations, Retrofits and More,

Designing Spaces looks at two topics dealing with upgrade retrofits, and takes a side trip into insurance. Topics include an energy-efficient window retrofit; new shower enclosure glass; and dental insurance for the family.

Designing Spaces - Protecting Your Greatest Investment

Protecting Your Greatest Investment,

Designing Spaces presents three distinctly different topics that all deal with protecting your home. From the roof to the foundation, there are a number of actions a homeowner can take to keep potential problems away.

Designing Spaces - Energy and Our Enviroment

Energy and Our Enviroment,

On this episode of Think Green, the focus is on energy efficiency in the home. Each of the three topics addresses one particular aspect of energy consumption and how it affects environmental concerns.

Designing Spaces - All Around the House

All Around the House,

This edition of Designing Spaces takes us all around the house, from choosing the right home and lifestyle to maintaining your property to a standard you desire. Topics: saltwater pools; resort communities; and mortgages.

Designing Spaces - A Journey Through Parenting

A Journey Through Parenting,

In this episode of Kid Spaces, we are offering up a potpourri of topics that are helpful to parents and help enrich the lives of their children. Topics cover housing for college students; gaming, and a family travel destination.

Designing Spaces - Do it Yourself; Do It For Me

Do it Yourself; Do It For Me,

Designing Spaces lends helpful advice to all DIYers who take pride in DIY. Topics cover termites; new lawn care power tools, and blinds for a window makeover.

Designing Spaces - Back to College Special, Part 1

Back to College Special, Part 1,

Kid Spaces focuses on college students going back to school, preparing to make the move with minimal hassles; and taking along the right tools to help with lifestyle and studies.

Designing Spaces - Back to College Special, Part 2

Back to College Special, Part 2,

While classes and studies dominate a student’s time, there is also a social scene, and college students want to make the best of it!

Designing Spaces - Smart Home, Safe Home

Smart Home, Safe Home,

Living smart; living safely; living wisely on this edition of Designing Spaces. Topics covered include home Spa care as DIY, insurance for the recreational cyclist, and a visit to a rental home and community.

Designing Spaces - Your ‘Hands-On’ Home with Style

Your ‘Hands-On’ Home with Style,

This episode of Designing Spaces offers up some fantastic advice, great ideas and tips for the DIYer in all of us. Watch to learn more about pool care monitoring, ‘upcycling’ old wood furniture, and first-time mortgages.

Designing Spaces - Energy, Our Environment, and Living Green

Energy, Our Environment, and Living Green,

On Think Green we are thinking about the latest concepts in eco-friendly living that will also have you saving green. Watch to see options for LED lighting concepts and designs, active outdoor living, and indoor air quality.

Designing Spaces - Protecting Your Greatest Investment

Protecting Your Greatest Investment,

Here on Designing Spaces, we want you to feel secure in your home, and protecting your greatest investment is a big step forward. Topics cover home safety and insurance, urban apartment communities, and termite prevention.

Designing Spaces - Parents, School and the Magic of Kids

Parents, School and the Magic of Kids,

Kid Spaces helps wind down after the long hot summer with some great suggestions for parents and inspirational magic for the kids. We have three topics aimed at wrapping up Summer and looking forward to Autumn.

Designing Spaces - All Around the House

All Around the House,

Designing Spaces offers up some sound advice and wise suggestions garnered from some of the leading experts in their respective fields. Topics cover termite control; DIY moving and storage, and universal life insurance.

Designing Spaces - Smart Home Solutions

Smart Home Solutions,

On this episode of Designing Spaces we wise up to some smart solutions for a safer and more secure home, as well as peace of mind. Topics include home owner’s insurance, a monitored home security system, and DIY roof repair.

Designing Spaces - Tech Upgrades and Must Haves

Tech Upgrades and Must Haves,

In this episode, we look at some upgrades you can make to your home that will increase efficiency and safety. Then, we address a different kind of security issue that is definitely food for thought.

Designing Spaces - New Ways to Cool and Heat Your Home

New Ways to Cool and Heat Your Home,

In this Special Edition of Designing Spaces Green Spaces, correspondent Desiree Markella takes us on a tour of home HVAC systems, and what should be done to keep them energy efficient and up to date.

Designing Spaces - Simple Winter DIY

Simple Winter DIY,

This edition of Designing Spaces takes us from purchasing that first home, to living an outdoor lifestyle, and then preparing the swimming pool for the onslaught of winter. Pull out the sweaters and enjoy your fall lifestyle.

Designing Spaces - Great Indoor Innovations

Great Indoor Innovations,

All homeowners want their houses to be in good shape and up to date. Today on Designing Spaces we take on three subjects that all contribute to feeling better and more secure about a fresh indoor innovation.

Designing Spaces - A Journey through Parenting

A Journey through Parenting,

Designing Spaces presents three topics parents will find helpful towards the goals of engaging and enabling their children. Topics cover a color printer; gaming; and a calculator for math students.

Designing Spaces - Winter Updates and Preparedness

Winter Updates and Preparedness,

With winter weather starting to settle in, we have the chance to think about how well prepared we are for the unexpected. It’s also a good time to enjoy our indoor spaces and make them something that enriches our household.

Designing Spaces - Getting Ready for the Season

Getting Ready for the Season,

Designing Spaces is back for another season of Holiday cheer, gift ideas and generally good things you can do to make the season a joyous one for you and your family. Topics cover hair care, Christian gifting and cell service.

Designing Spaces - Great Gift Ideas to Give and Get

Great Gift Ideas to Give and Get,

Designing Spaces is back with more Holiday cheer, gift ideas and what you can do to make the season a joyous one for you and your family. Topics cover firearm safety, phone batteries, cookies and candy.

Designing Spaces - Living the Life You Love to Live

Living the Life You Love to Live,

Being happy in your space; it's what Designing Spaces is all about, and today we take on three topics on making your living spaces the way you want it.

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Designing Spaces

Instructional & Educational

TV-G

9 Seasons

20 minutes

Designing Spaces is the signature home improvement television series that travels all over the country redefining and redesigning space.

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