After working a lifetime, some people just can't relax when they retire. Instead they decorate or customize their homes and backyards in sometimes amusing and bizarre ways.
Features artists who have used their homes and yards as the canvas for their art. We visit Dick Elliott and Jane Orleman at 'Dick and Jane's Spot' and Butch Anthony at 'Moore's Junction'.
Features a home made of bottles, another called the Junk Castle and the ultimate recycled wonder, the Beer Can House.
Three individuals each with their own pain and suffering have created three unusual and bizarre homes.
A bowling ball garden, love pond and hundreds of dummies are cultivated on the two strange but very funny farms featured.
Features people who feel they must decorate their home or yard to make a point.
For some, pink flamingos is just the start. Yard art or outsider art is creeping up all over rural North America.
A lady in Nova Scotia who has filled her yard with life sized scarecrows, garden constructed of huge boulders and another garden fantasy with thousands of flowers.
From the House of Exotica in San Francisco to the Nuthouse in Alberta, these are indeed 'strange, yet wonderful.'
A 40 year collection of stuff from prairie farms and the home known as House of Toys are the pride of two very charming collectors.
What some consider trash, others can create into remarkable pieces of recycled art.
A man made mountain in the desert, a temple in the backwoods of Georgia and an underground home in Ontario illustrate three very different views of paradise.
Features three artists whose weird and wonderful creations have taken over their homes and backyards. From life size robots, to metal dogs to the odd cyclops in the garden.
Three artists who have taken the concept of working out of the home to new levels. Don Thompson of Whiskey Creek, BC, uses a chainsaw to carve crazy critters out of stumps. Carlo Marchiori of Calistoga, California has turned his home into his personal art gallery and sculptor Hobart Brown can often be found welding in his living room.
Some folks have fantastic homes that you wouldn't find on an ordinary street. Hitchhike Mike has created for himself a little place in the wilderness on the wild coast of British Columbia. George Smith's 'Georgetown' in California is full of Hollywood dreams. Artist Larry Fuente has a home where the psychedelic 60s still reign.
This show celebrates three yards that have gone way beyond the basic patch of Kentucky blue grass. Cornelieus Evegroene's Ontario dairy farm has a herd of strange creatures mingling with the cattle. Everything from rocks to fine china decorates the yard of the Portuguese Brothers in Mendocino. Axel Stenzel's BC yard is a home to a menagerie of whimsical sculptures.
You can't judge a book by its cover and you can't judge a home by its exterior. One California home is an old brewery at first glance and a gallery of fantastic footwear once you get inside. If the shoe fits, it's probably here in June Moxon's Shoe Room. A little Abracadabra will get you into Richard Tuck's wizardly wonderland.
Do you need space on your mantle for your bottle collections? This show features a few collectors who will inspire you to make room for more. Washington's Bob McGiveron has crowded the nooks and crannies of his home with collections amassed over thirty-five years. There are more than five hundred exhibits in Harold Carlaw's military museum and more than six hundred cats crowd into Jack and Donna's home.
Most people keep their feet on the ground. Here are three homes that keep their owners up in the air. J.D. Higdon has occupied his Oregon tree house for 22 years. Come fly with Jerry McKinnon and his two flying saucers and visit Ontario's Mike Horne whose unique dome house revolves at the push of a button.
This episode features three men whose homes really are their castles. On an isolated island Karl Triller built his imperial residence by hand out of thousands of cement blocks. A kingdom in Ontario brought Peter Camani's childhood dreams to life, and in Colorado, a fire-breathing dragon protects Jim Bishop's incredible stone fortress he built by hand.
Pour some lemonade, pull up a porch chair and look out over these crazy yards. Yard sale treasures adorn Jim Perucca's Kansas City home. Cliff and Francis Bruce raise bulls, glass chickens, windmills and memorabilia on the grounds of their Ontario farm. Paul Hefti's Wisconsin yard is a jungle of pop bottles and other paraphernalia.
Three people who pour their hearts into their work and create homes that are Made With Passion. A witch's house in Milwaukee is actually where Mary Nohl creates marvelous concrete sculptures. Every inch of Carl Jennings' California home reflects his artistry and his passion. A dream inspired Andy Parashos to make a Greek temple of his formerly plain Toronto home.
Some people live in places that can make passersby gaze in amazement. One Roadside Attraction is Ross and Carla Ward's wild west Tinkertown: an acreage crowded with a little bit of everything. The attraction in Goderich, Ontario is George Laithwaite's crop of bizarre concrete creatures. In Mullinville, Kansas, people stop to see what M.T. Ligget has on his mind and on his often offensive signs.
Try out your sea legs on this show, which features homes that are Staying Afloat. Wayne and Katherine Adams built their West Coast home from salvage that washed up from the sea. A fishing village in British Columbia is home sweet floating home for artist David Dorrington. Rod Palm will welcome you aboard his home, a former ferry that is now high and dry.
This show introduces folks who have made room in their homes for things close to their hearts. Roy and Charolyn Bowins' Homemade Shrine is a celebration of all things Elvis. A former master plumber in Texas, Barney Smith, crafts a monument to the lowly toilet seat in his 'Toilet Museum'. In North Carolina we visit the bizarre home of Robert Seven, a man who pays homage to hilarity.
Not all artwork is created with paint and canvas; these three artists are working with materials that are really out of the ordinary. Tom Every has created an 'Evertron' in Wisconsin, a magical metal machine fuelled by imagination. Ken Glasgow is a British Columbia artist who thinks big - very big. Dan Slaughter from rural Indiana whittles wonders out of wood with a chainsaw.