Rehab Addict

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 Curtis works in the bedrooms to put up all new walls and ceilings and removes the black and white linoleum flooring and patch up a burn mark in the hardwood.

Moving back outside, Nicole Curtis cleans up the debris from the yard and comes up with a plan to use salvaged materials from the house to create a cute back yard area. For the front entryway, Nicole exposes hardwood floors.

The house needs the cedar shakes repaired and the fascia covered in aluminum for protection. Nicole Curtis looks to neighboring houses for inspiration as she finishes the front porch.

Working in St. Paul for the first time, Nicole Curtis finds a icky yellow and brown house in an up-and-coming neighborhood that needs her attention. Fighting colder weather, she tackles the exterior first.

Nicole Curtis begins work on the interior of the Case Ave house and finds the living and dining room are full of gorgeous woodwork and original pocket doors that have been painted over the years.

Nicole Curtis opens up the dark and dim front entryway, removing soffits, repairing original stained glass windows, and hunting for salvaged parts to rebuild the fabulous staircase. She's also repairing the front porch.

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.