How-to hero Vicki Payne is back and tackling another sensational season of DIY on FYH—For Your Home. Although Vicki’s daughter and historic co-host, Sloan Payne Rutter, sits out the season to spend time with her growing family, Vicki won’t go it alone in this 26th season. On the contrary, top interior designers, decorative painters, gardening specialists and other experts join in on making these great projects come off with beautiful results. Vicki also keeps her FYH trademark of appealing, affordable and do-able home improvements going strong with new projects that not capitalize on the hottest trends, but offer empowering satisfaction. The new season premieres Saturday, January 23, at 10:30 AM, on UNC-TV.

This season’s highlights include some super feel-good episodes. In the season kickoff, Backyard Makeover, Vicki helps a single mom, struggling to make end’s meet, as she seeks to provide her two young children with a safe and fun backyard playground. Vicki also gets victorious at Victory Junction, a camp that provides enriching, empowering and exciting camping experiences for children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses in a safe and medically sound environment. In this episode, Vicki and friends create a lounge where the camp’s dedicated counselors can retreat and recharge.

As the housing market steadily grows, FYH gives it an extra nudge with an enlightening view, from homeowners’ perspectives, at building a custom home or planning a major remodeling project. In addition, FYH helps spread breast cancer awareness and treatment message through Vicki’s continued commitment to the Susan G. Komen “Build for the Cure” show home. Vicki and her team worked with the home’s builder and furniture supplier to create this dream home and inspire fresh ideas for bringing new life to your home and garden. The nine shows featured showcase highlights from the home’s construction, interior design and landscape architecture.

"As a cancer survivor," notes Vicki, "I am truly honored to work on this wonderful project. I always look forward to sharing our ideas with the thousands who toured the home as well as the FYH family of viewers. We rely on our national sponsors as well as dozens of volunteers to create a special space that radiates the true spirit of the season and this important cause."

Each half-hour episode of this viewer favorite still showcases the FYH "You Can Do It" trademark: easy, step-by-step directions for successfully creating beautiful and useful home decorating, remodeling, crafts and gardening projects. In addition, leading home and garden professionals reveal their insiders’ know how in each show. For unique insider views to help take the intimidation out of achieving professional results, For Your Home brings it all home to you!

Produced by Charlotte-based Cutters Productions, For Your Home showcases cutting-edge designer trends shot on location, along with leading experts in all fields of home improvement and design. Get great ideas for designer touches you can do yourself while watching Vicki put the dream in home every Saturday, at 10:30 AM, on UNC-TV. Visit www.unctv.org/whatson for schedule info and www.foryourhome.com for news, tips, insider information and more For Your Home.

About the Host:
Vicki Payne—As the creative force behind Charlotte, NC-based Cutters Productions, Vicki Payne brings three decades of ever-increasing influence to the world of how-to. She serves as a consultant to companies throughout the craft and hobby industries. She is a member of the Art Glass Association (AGA), Hobby International Association, Association of Creative Crafts, Designers Association, and the Society of Craft Designers. She also served as Chairperson of the AGA Manufacturers' Committee. Recognizing her proven record of success, the craft and hobby industries increasingly utilize the well-regarded development and marketing strategies pioneered by Vicki. In addition to her near ubiquitous television presence, she is also a frequent guest at national and regional home improvement and crafting shows. As an accomplished writer, speaker and educator, Vicki is an in-demand subject for interviews and guest columns in craft and trade magazines. Her most recent book, 2007’s Easy Home Organizer: 15-Minute Step-by-Step Solutions.

About Cutters Productions:
Cutters Productions proudly produces quality lifestyle and how-to programming, including the successful national public television series For Your Home, The Donna Dewberry Show, Glass with Vicki Payne and Paint, Paper & Crafts. Cutters also produced the national pledge specials Donna Dewberry’s Painting Extravaganza, Donna Dewberry’s Painting Spectacular, The New Generation of One Stroke Painting, Kid Concoctions 1 & 2, Learn to Knit, Scrapbook Memories For Your Home and Savvy Senior. Cutters Productions, earned the American Public Television (APT) 2005 MVP Award. To date Cutters has provided APT with 23 program titles for national public television distribution, many of which were highly successful fundraising programs. Cutters’ One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry remains one of the top-grossing how-to pledge programs ever produced. For more information about For Your Home and other Cutters Productions, please visit Cutters online at www.cutterstv.com.

About UNC-TV:
UNC-TV, North Carolina's statewide public television network, provides life-changing television services for viewers of all ages. In addition to flagship channel UNC-TV, broadcasting in high-definition, other services include UNC-EX The Explorer Channel, as well as UNC-KD, a channel just for kids, and UNC-MX, a cable-only channel featuring a mix of programming for adults, from public affairs shows to how-to and more. Visit www.unctv.org for more information about programs and services offered by UNC-TV. 

About American Public Television:
American Public Television (APT), distributing more than 300 new program titles per year and with more than 10,000 hours of programming in its library, marks 47 years as a prime source of programming for the nation's public television stations. APT milestones include distribution of public television's first HD series and the 2006 launch of the Create TV channel—featuring the best lifestyle programming on public television. Known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and viewer-friendly programming, APT continues its established tradition of providing public television stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules, such as Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert, Battlefield Britain, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves' Europe, Great Museums, Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way, America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated, Broadway: The Golden Age, Lidia's Family Table, California Dreamin’—The Songs of The Mamas & The Papas, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Monarchy With David Starkey and other prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs, children's series and classic movies. For more information about APT's programs and services, visit www.APTonline.org.

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