Nicole Curtis is saving historic houses, one broken-down fireplace at a time. Working in Detroit and Minneapolis, Nicole takes ramshackle homes from the wrecking ball to their original stunning glory. Whether it's managing her rugged crew or wrangling city officials, this single mom wields her hammer with skill and returns condemned properties to their place as the pr... Read all
Genre: Reality-TV
Cast:Nicole Curtis , Jason Sanford , Bobby Prothero , LeBron James , Keith Brace , Justin Sykes , Reid Moniaci , Ray Vin Zant , Jack Plas , Ethan Curtis , Savannah Brinson James , Joanie Curtis , Jeffery Clark , John Jepsen , Adam Griffith , Mackinley Gilbert , Rollin Gedney , Ryan Wesolowski
Host and interior designer Nicole Curtis is ready for her next big property. After discovering a house she can purchase for $1 in a historic neighborhood in desperate need of help, she sets out on her most ambitious project yet.
With the green-light to start work on the Dollar House, host and interior designer Nicole Curtis' first project is a major one: lifting the house to fix the crumbling foundation.
Moving to the interior, host and interior designer Nicole Curtis demos her heart out and focuses on the disgusting kitchen space and adding a half bathroom to the first floor, evicting a few pigeons along the way.
Restoring the first floor of the Dollar House continues as Nicole Curtis uncovers hardwood floors throughout the living and dining rooms. The dining room hutch is still intact, but there's a whole new fireplace mantle to build.
Heading up to the second floor, Nicole Curtis takes on the bathroom, one of the house's dirtiest and grimiest rooms. She brings it down to the studs, adding clean lines with white subway tile.
Ever closer to finishing up the interior of the Dollar House, Nicole works in the bedrooms to put up all new walls and ceilings as well as remove the black and white linoleum flooring and patch up a burn mark in the hardwood. The staircase needs attention as well, so Nicole repairs some broken treads and comes up with a cool idea for how to turn an odd space into a storage closet.
Moving back outside, Nicole begins to clean up all the debris from the yard and comes up with a plan to use salvaged materials from the house to create a cute little back yard area. For the front entryway, Nicole exposes hardwood floors and dumpster dives in her own dumpster to find a light she can use.
All that's left to finish on the Dollar House is the exterior. The whole house needs the cedar shakes repaired and the fascia covered in aluminum for protection. As Nicole looks to the neighboring houses for inspiration as she finishes the front porch, she must also make a decision on what color to paint the house.
Working in St. Paul for the first time, Nicole finds another house in an up and coming neighborhood that needs her attention. Fighting the onset of colder weather, she must first tackle an exterior makeover, figuring out how to clean up the front yard and replace the icky yellow and brown paint job. Inside, she begins the difficult task of cleaning out all the left over junk so the plumbers and electrician can get started.
Nicole begins work on the interior of the Case Ave house and is faced with a living and dining room full of gorgeous woodwork and original pocket doors that have been painted over the years. It'll take hours and hours of sanding and stripping, but Nicole just can't leave them the way she found them. Once she sets her mind to something, there's no stopping her.
Nicole takes the dark and dim front entryway and opens it up, removing soffits, repairing original stained glass windows, and hunting for salvaged parts to rebuild the fabulous staircase. She must also find a way to repair the front porch floorboards to keep them from falling off the foundation.
The bedrooms and bathroom on the second floor desperately need Nicole's attention. She must deal with water-damaged walls, old carpet and vinyl covering the hardwood, and a tiny, dirty bathroom that needs an updated shower.
The Case Ave house is almost complete, and Nicole has saved the most difficult task for last - figuring out a functional layout for the cramped kitchen. To save the original cabinets, she must get creative in order to find a way to make them fit with modern appliances. With a few left over pieces from around the house, Nicole finds new ways to re-purpose them in the basement.