HGTV stars invite viewers ‘Home’
Come Christmastime, even celebrity designers and carpenters like to kick back with friends and family and revisit some cherished traditions.
At 8 p. m. Sunday, HGTV lets viewers go home with a few of its stars, who get to show off their decorating, party planning and culinary tips to make the holidays shine.
Designer Monica Pedersen (“Designed to Sell”) is host for the one-hour “HGTV’s Home for the Holidays,” which also features designers Vern Yip (“Deserving Design”), Lisa La- Porta (“Designed to Sell”), Kim Myles (“Myles of Style”) and Angelo Surmelis (“Rate My Space”) and carpenters Eric Stromer (“Over Your Head”) and Steve Watson (“Don’t Sweat It”).
Chicagoan Pedersen is the only one of the stars who doesn’t actually go home for Christmas in the special. Instead, she heads to the historic Deer Path Inn, located on Lake Michigan in the town of Lake Forest, Ill.
Her father-in-law owns the 55-room inn, which opened in 1929 and is modeled after the 15th-century Manor House, a half-timbered and stucco Tudor home in the English county of Kent.
“This place has got such integrity,” Pedersen says. “There aren’t many places like it. It’s in a town that’s very WASP-y and tree-lined, with perfect, great old homes.”
It also represented a dream that Pedersen had with her mother.
“We’ve gone there every Christmas Eve,” Pedersen says. “My mom and I would walk by, and they had this little pastry village, and we would always say under our breath to each other, ‘We could do such a better job than that.’ We always had this fantasy to do it.
“When this came up, HGTV said, ‘Can we come to your house?’ I said, ‘No, my house is a disaster. But I can tell you about this place that we can do it in. I was already planning to do the holiday decorations there. Do you guys want to film there?’
“So my mom and I were psyched.”
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