Renovation Videos
Fix it, build it, learn it.
Every project we cover, with its parts in order.
Published: 29 Jun 2025
A homeowner refinishes a dark builder-grade staircase railing and newel posts by sanding with 80 and 120 grit and applying a one-coat sunbleached stain to match the white oak floors.
Published: 2 Apr 2024
Part 1 of a two-part stair railing remodel replaces an outdated white oak railing with a Stair Supplies system.
Published: 2 Dec 2023
A hallway closet with hard-to-open, loud double doors is emptied, stripped of its doors, shelves and trim, and filled with custom built-ins.
Published: 11 Nov 2022
A homeowner turns a carpet-stripped basement staircase into a finished one by laying 1/4 in. pine plywood treads over the existing treads, adding routed pine bullnose nosing, then staining and…
Published: 15 Jan 2022
A professional painter shows homeowners how to repaint a hallway without taping.
Published: 7 Aug 2020
Shows how to lay out 1/2 in. iron baluster locations on an open-tread staircase with white oak treads.
Published: 8 May 2020
The creator turns unfinished basement stairs into finished ones for under $200 over 3 days.
Published: 27 Feb 2020
Mr. Build It builds plywood built-in shelves for the area under a staircase, using 3/4 inch maple plywood, mitered face frames and wood glue.
Published: 3 Feb 2020
Richard Trethewey replaces a 1962-era two-wire thermostat with a smart thermostat without running new wires.
Published: 5 May 2019
Tom Silva of Ask This Old House shows a homeowner how to replace loose, cracked, noisy split-level stair treads with new red oak.
Published: 22 Apr 2011
A Menards Around The House episode with Scott Feroni of Colonial Elegance shows how to install a stair railing.
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