DIY Network launches new home improvement series Wasted Spaces, an hour-long special, Wasted Spaces: America's Biggest Pack Rat, and introduces informative online content to help viewers maximize the space in their homes.Knoxville, Tenn. – December 2006 – With Americans spending over nine million hours each year searching for misplaced items in their homes*, it is easy to understand why consumers spend in excess of $7 billion a year on home organization tools. DIY Network tackles the wide world of clutter during its 10 Days of Organizing Ways from January 24 until February 2, 2007 with hours of original series and specials, both on-air and online, that put the spotlight on one of the top 10 New Year’s resolutions -- managing our mess. Anchoring this special programming event is the premiere of a new hour-long special, Wasted Spaces: America’s Biggest Pack Rat (8 p.m. ET/PT) and four back-to-back episodes of DIY’s new home improvement series, Wasted Spaces (9 p.m. ET/PT).
"A place for everything keeps everything in its place," according to DIY home improvement expert Karl Champley. "Wasted Spaces will help homeowners find the space to make a place to organize and store everything from keys to keepsakes and toys to treasures."
Hosted by Champley, Wasted Spaces: America’s Biggest Pack Rat and Wasted Spaces will teach viewers how to make the best use of all those nooks and crannies gathering dust. Through step by step instruction, viewers can pick up valuable home improvement skills such as creating innovative storage solutions, how to properly use a drill, tips on building cabinets, dry walling how-to, and lighting installation. Visitors to www.DIYnetwork.com can get an online "sneak peek" of the series, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 17, along with more organizational insight and know-how.
Homeowners regularly feel the squeeze of having too much stuff and too little space. Since buying a bigger house is out of the question for most consumers with costs souring, the only solution for many homeowners is to make better use of their existing space. Wasted Spaces: America's Biggest Pack Rat profiles DIY Network’s search of the worst clutter bug in the United States and the winning applicant is: Theresa Voyles, a hard-working mother of two from Farmington Hills, Mich., who gets all the organizational goods needed to make her clutter-free home, a reality.
Voyle’s personal projects had literally taken over her kitchen and dining room while the 1800-square-foot basement was piled high with everything imaginable -- holiday costumes and décor, old Mary Kay products, her kids’ old clothes and school supplies, and abandoned home office equipment and files. The garage was the ultimate pack rat nightmare with her extended family using the space as storage for all their personal clutter. During the hour-long special, Champley comes to the family’s rescue and surprises them with all the tools necessary to clean up their world.
In the new Wasted Spaces series, Champley also shows real people how to make the most of their unused space in their home. In his 20 years of renovating and remodeling, his motto is "there’s no such thing as dead space!" With Champley’s trained eye, what looks to be a regular wall to most people, is an opportunity to create a multi-use storage shelf and extra hidden drawers.
In each episode of Wasted Spaces, he meets a different homeowner with a unique space constraint. Champley assesses the situation, presents homeowners with realistic and creative solutions and together they work to solve the storage problem at hand. The transformation is hard to believe but by the end of each episode, the homeowners have set new ground rules for clutter in their homes and have learned how to participate in their projects as designers, carpenters, builders and visionaries.
Check out a sneak peek of Wasted Spaces on www.DIYnetwork.com on Wednesday, Jan. 17, followed by its on-air network debut of the one-hour special Wasted Spaces: America’s Biggest Pack Rat on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. That same night, four half-hour, back-to-back episodes of Wasted Spaces air at 9 p.m. ET/PT. New half-hour episodes will also air every Wednesday in its regular time slot at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Information about the additional 10 Days of Organizing Ways programs are available upon request.
DIY Network is available nationwide on DISH Network Ch. 111 and DIRECTV Ch. 230. For additional cable channel designations, check local listings or visit www.DIYnetwork.com.
About DIY Network
DIY Network is the television source for the best know-how and how-to when it comes to any type of do-it-yourself project and is one of the fastest growing digital networks. Currently in 40 million homes, DIY is 90 percent original programming across a broad range of categories including home building; home improvement; automotive and boating; crafts; gardening; hobbies; living; and woodworking. DIY’s programs and experts answer the most sought-after questions and offer creative projects for do-it-yourself enthusiasts. DIY’s companion Web site, www.DIYnetwork.com, features step-by-step instructions totaling more than 15,000 projects online and averages over 2.5 million unique visitors per month.
