Repcolite Home Improvement Show
Every week on the RepcoLite Home Improvement Show we interview a variety of experts from the West Michigan area and beyond! If you heard one of our guests and would like to get in touch to ask further questions, we've got everything you need in the table below.
Episodes
October 22, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: October 24, 2026 Episode Number: 482Episode SummaryThree topics this week. First, Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year 2027, Webster Green HC-130, and the story that got Dan thinking about it: his son’s living room, which went from a perfectly nice gray to a deep blue-green that Dan tried to talk them out of and now wishes he had in his own house. He walks through what the color actually looks like, thr...
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October 15, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: October 17, 2026 Episode Number: 481Episode SummaryTwo topics this week. First, a follow-up to last week’s interview with Jean Stoffer and Grace Start. Jean mentioned that she fell for British kitchens because they had furniture, coziness, and a sense of being a room people gathered in rather than a wall of boxes. That sent Dan down a rabbit hole and into the work of English designer Johnny Grey, who challe...
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October 8, 2026 • 56 mins
Original Air Date: October 10, 2026 Episode Number: 480Episode SummaryDan sits down with Jean Stoffer and her daughter Grace Start, the mother-daughter team behind Grand Rapids based Jean Stoffer Design, Stoffer Home, and the Magnolia Network show The Established Home. They cover how Jean got into design with no formal training, how a failing kitchen in her own house sent her to British magazines with a magnifying glass, and what h...
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October 1, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: October 1, 2026 Episode Number: 479Episode SummaryDan opens with two questions: what's the weirdest thing in your house that you've never been able to explain, and what's the strangest thing you've ever found in one that you weren't looking for? Then he spends the full episode on his own answer. His first house was a 1928 place in Zeeland, bought in 1999, and it came with kitchen cabinets mounted so high he neede...
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September 24, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: September 26, 2026 Episode Number: 478Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan starts with elastic waistband jeans and gets from there to an architectural idea worth borrowing. British architect Alex Gordon argued that good buildings should have long life, loose fit and low energy. That middle one, loose fit, is the useful one for homeowners. It means leaving room for change, and Dan looks at what that m...
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September 17, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: 09/19/26 Episode Number: 477Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan covers paint store tools you've probably walked past without a second look, and explains why each one is worth having. They include FrogTape (green and yellow), the painter's five-in-one tool, a brush comb, the Handy Paint Pail, the Wooster Pelican Pail and the Wooster Sherlock system. Then he gets into ombre walls, a painted gradien...
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September 10, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: 9/12/26 Episode Number: 476Episode SummaryThis 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 farth...
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September 3, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: 9/5/26 Episode Number: 475Episode SummaryDan 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 sa...
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August 27, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: 8/29/26 Episode Number: 474Episode SummaryDan 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 ev...
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Original Air Date: 08-23-2025 Episode Number: 473Episode SummaryDan 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 Ameri...
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Original Air Date: August 16, 2025 Re-Air Date: August 15, 2026 Episode Number: 471Episode SummaryFour 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...
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August 6, 2026 • 43 mins
Original Air Date: 08/08/26 Episode Number: 471Episode SummaryDan's son Caleb stopped in to pick up primer and ended up on the radio. He bought his first house -- a 1901-era fixer-upper -- and has spent the past several months dealing with cat smells in a crawl space, a squirrel that chewed through wiring, a dead possum under the floorboards, and the humbling experience of learning to cut in a straight line for the first time. The ...
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July 23, 2026 • 40 mins
Original Air Date: 07/25/26 Episode Number: 469Episode SummaryA listener question about painting aluminum siding kicks off the show, and Dan splits the answer across two segments with a detour in the middle: a full conversation on how to identify and safely clean biological growth off the exterior of your home -- algae, mold, mildew, moss, and lichen. The aluminum siding answer wraps up at the end with product recommendations and a...
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July 16, 2026 • 39 mins
Original Air Date: July 18, 2026 Episode Number: 468Episode SummarySome exterior surfaces are one-way doors. You can paint them -- but once you do, something changes permanently, or close enough to it that you should know what you're signing up for before you start. Dan opens with a story about a pair of jeans he turned into extremely short shorts without measuring first, and uses it to frame a conversation about five exterior su...
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Episode TitleOriginal Air Date: 07/08/26 Episode Number: 467Episode SummaryA full episode this week. Dan picks up the smoke smell series with fabric, carpet, upholstery, and the full cigarette smoke remediation process -- including the right primer and why it's step four, not step one. Then a long segment on painting in summer heat: surface temps vs. air temps, when to start, when to quit, how to chase the cool shade, bees on ladde...
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July 2, 2026 • 39 mins
Original Air Date: July 4, 2026 Episode Number: 466Episode SummaryIt's the annual Home In Progress Fourth of July Extravaganza. This year Dan covers three topics connected to the Revolutionary era: the Liberty Bell, and how almost everything most people think they know about it is a little off; colonial curb appeal, what colors those front doors actually were, and why any of that matters for your house today; and the real story of ...
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June 25, 2026 • 40 mins
Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan opens with a story about a flaming microwave, a snowbank, and a pair of whitey tighties -- and turns it into a genuinely useful guide on getting smoke smell out of your home. He's then joined by Jeff Mot, manager of the Lakewood RepcoLite, to talk about a car show and ice cream social coming to that store on July 18. Then Dan picks up where last week's bathroom lighting conversation...
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June 18, 2026 • 44 mins
Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan dedicates the whole show to bathroom remodels -- why they're trending, and how to think one through before spending anything. He covers the tub-or-shower decision, storage planning, lighting that stops working against you, upgrades worth baking in while walls are open, aging-in-place choices, and a full closing section on painting the bathroom right. A practical episode worth saving...
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June 11, 2026 • 47 mins
Original Air Date: June 2025 Episode Number: 463Episode SummaryThis week on Home In Progress, Dan tells the story of Earl Young -- a self-taught architect from Charlevoix, Michigan who never finished his degree, never drew a blueprint, and never really cared what the architecture establishment thought of him. What he left behind are some of the most unusual homes in the Midwest: curved stone walls, swooping roofs, fireplaces that f...
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