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July 12, 2010

Baltimore real estate on the small screen

If you like real-estate-related television, this is your week.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is in town to build a new home for a nonprofit that provides a group-home setting for boys and girls. Excel Homes, which is coordinating the work with the Maryland Community Builders' Foundation, is still looking for skilled volunteers.

TUESDAY UPDATE: Now the need for skilled volunteers is even greater, thanks to the Monday rain.

The show is known for providing "over-the-top living spaces," as reporter John-John Williams IV points out. Even so, this one will be a record for the series -- more than 11,000 square feet.

Meanwhile, Baltimore residents Jen and Joe Di Mattina were just on HGTV's "Bang for Your Buck" as part of a "compare these kitchen renovations" episode. Darned if I can find the actual episode online, but neighbor Matt Gonter reports that their kitchen was judged the best of the three. (UPDATE: Here it is. Thanks, Grant!)

HGTV comes to Baltimore on a semi-regular basis. (Here's a local example from "Real Estate Intervention.")

Any other real estate reality television shows shining a light on our neck of the woods?

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 7:00 AM | | Comments (6)
Categories: Renovation/rehab
        

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The video of the "Bang for Your Buck" appearance is online at http://www.ilovepattersonpark.com/subpages/misc/HGTV/videoPlayer.html

Posted by: Grant Corley | July 12, 2010 10:57 AM

Thanks, Grant! I'm updating the post right now to reflect that link.

Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | July 12, 2010 10:59 AM

Real Estate Intervention will also be airing an episode shot in Charles Village on August 10, 2010.

Posted by: Abell Ave. | July 12, 2010 11:35 AM

Good to know, thanks.

Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | July 12, 2010 11:35 AM

I remember a few years ago when "Trading Spaces" did a show in Towson. They turned someone's master bedroom into a Pullman Car because the husband collected model trains. I wonder if the wife stopped crying yet?

Posted by: Gina | July 12, 2010 12:09 PM

love your work

Posted by: Kevin | July 13, 2010 3:46 PM

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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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