“We wanted to make the interior spaces naturally flow in a way that unfolds our home’s history yet dramatizes modern conveniences,” says Derek Rubinoff.

Rubinoff’s award-winning firm, Derek Rubinoff, Architect, also based in West Roxbury. Architectural services to design this contemporary but sympathetic renovation were provided by the staff of Mr. Victorian charm alongside strikingly modern updates. Homeowner-architect Derek Rubinoff and his wife Robyn Marder purchased the home for their family in 2012 with a long-term vision to correct the poor layout while augmenting Property records show the house was the first built in its subdivision in 1894 and was kept within only a handful of families across over a century and a quarter. Teamwork, craftsmanship, and creative problem solving are involved in the updating of a wood-frame home which saw its last major transformation during the Second World War. This series of episodes chronicles a significant and imaginative renovation of a 128-year-old single-family home to prepare it for twenty-first century family living in Boston’s coziest Here, O'Connor talks with Lauren McCutcheon about his unexpected career, what he does at home shows, his FAQs, and his very own home-repair list.Boston–– Starting February 3, 2022, This Old House®, the venerable home improvement television show, will begin airing a series of ten new episodes featuring a “West Roxbury After Ask came to the rescue, it came back - to offer O'Connor the host job. (Spin-off This Old House Trade School airs on the CW.) Back then, he was a bank vice president, and he and his wife, Kathleen, were struggling to remove wallpaper in their 1894 Queen Anne Victorian. O'Connor came to the franchise in 2002 as a homeowner on PBS's Ask This Old House.

Still, for a slower-moving older show, TOH has a huge following: two spin-offs, a magazine, an impressive digital platform, and millions of viewers. The bros' show flips a house each 43 minutes. The Maplewood, N.J., native has hosted the contractor- and tradesperson-driven PBS program for 15 years, following hosts Steve Thomas (1989-2003) and Bob Vila (1979-89).Īt 39, Boston-based This Old House is the same age as the Property Brothers - not the HGTV show, but the identical twin hosts, Drew and Jonathan Scott.

When This Old House host Kevin O'Connor takes the main stage at the Philadelphia Home Show this weekend, he'll represent the O.G.

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