Saturday, February 11, 2012

Romances for the Post-Bubble Homeowner

On The Bronson Pinchot Project, which debuts on the DIY Network this Saturday, the actor from Perfect Strangers seems a long way from Hollywood. In fact, Balki?s in Harford, Pa., 30 miles north of Scranton, where he spends his days renovating historical properties, rescuing 19th-century clapboards from salvage yards, and concealing his refrigerator behind 200-year-old planks of wood. Pinchot?s show is about what happens when a hobby becomes a passion and then escalates into a pathology?he owns more than a half dozen homes in Harford, and he?s so obsessed with historically appropriate renovation that he spends a good portion of the pilot episode dressed in a purple pajama top. (?I just got so excited that I never got dressed,? he told me.) Pinchot?s wardrobe choices and his muted reaction when a shipment of gasolier globes arrives at his home in tiny pieces?no tears or shouts of outrage, just a look of profound sadness?represent one of the reasons that TV shows about home renovation are booming: They?re educational, aspirational, and entertaining, but they?re also incredibly raw and real.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=b18328419f6b8c06c87718eebc305daf

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