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Welcome to Home in Progress—the weekly show from RepcoLite Paints where we dig into the projects and little fixes that make home life better. Paint colors, design tricks, flooring, plumbing, yard work—you name it. If it happens at home, we’ll talk about it.
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What Color Makes a Small Room Look Bigger? (opens the original)
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Original Air Date: 9/12/26 Episode Number: 476 Episode Summary This week Dan tackles one of the most repeated pieces of color advice in home design — "dark colors recede, light colors advance" — and asks why it so often fails in real rooms. Digging into the perception research behind the phrase, he untangles two things the rule quietly conflates: a color fading into the background versus a surface actually appearing farther away. From there he works through seven common room situations — low cei
Furniture Flipping for Beginners: 6 Things to Check Before You Buy (opens the original)
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Original Air Date: 9/5/26 Episode Number: 475 Episode Summary Dan kicks off the Labor Day weekend with color capping — the emerging trend of using multiple shades from one color family as you move up the walls to the ceiling — and five things to think through before you try it. Then he launches a new multi-week series on refinishing and flipping secondhand furniture, starting with the skill that comes before any of the sanding or stripping: how to walk through a thrift store, antique shop, or fl
Hoosier Cabinets: The 1900s Kitchen Storage Genius That Still Works (opens the original)
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Original Air Date: 8/29/26 Episode Number: 474 Episode Summary Dan opens with a vacation story about swimmer's itch, a chatty store clerk, and a deeply awkward attempt to warn strangers on a dock -- with one actually useful tip at the end. Then the main event: Hoosier cabinets. Dan covers what they are, why they were brilliant, how they spread into one in ten American kitchens in the early 1900s, where the name came from, why they eventually disappeared, and why people are hunting them down agai
The Craftsman Home: History, Architecture, and Color; Plus 3 Vacation Lessons That Apply to Home Projects (opens the original)
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Original Air Date: 08-23-2025 Episode Number: 473 Episode Summary Dan opens with three lessons from the Hansen family cottage vacation -- each one stretched into home improvement territory. Then the back half of the show kicks off a new recurring series on American architectural styles, starting with the Craftsman home. Dan covers what makes a Craftsman a Craftsman, how the style began in Victorian-era England and spread across America through a furniture maker's magazine and a Sears catalog, th
Is Your Deck Safe? A Simple Inspection Guide -- Plus Basement Efflorescence and Paint Colors for West-Facing Rooms (opens the original)
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Original Air Date: August 16, 2025 Re-Air Date: August 15, 2026 Episode Number: 471 Episode Summary Four topics this week. Dan opens with a segment on AI, the trades, and why professional painters are on the safe list of jobs that technology won't replace. Then a deck safety segment covering what actually causes collapses and a quick inspection checklist you can run through today. After that, a breakdown of efflorescence -- the white powdery stuff on basement walls that looks like mold but isn't
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