''Sarah's House'' is a

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television

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hosted by

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interior designer

Sarah Richardson Sarah Richardson (born October 22, 1971) is a Canadians, Canadian interior designer and television personality who started out her career as a prop stylist in 1994. Since then, she has hosted several television series on design for HGTV (Canada), ...

, which airs on

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. The program's on-air team also includes interior designer Tommy Smythe and contractor Vito Colucci, as well as Richardson's husband, marketing communications specialist Alexander Younger. In each season of the series, Richardson purchases an outdated and undervalued house, and depicts the process of renovating the house. Each episode focuses on one room or two related rooms within the renovation project. The program's first season aired in 2007, followed by the second airing in fall 2008. Season 3 premiered March 9, 2010 on HGTV Canada. The fourth season began airing in fall 2011.

''Sarah's Cottage'' spinoff

A similar program, which aired in spring 2009, was entitled ''Sarah's Cottage'', and featured Richardson doing a similar renovation on her own family

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. In 2015, ''Sarah's Rental Cottage'' aired, with Richardson tackling a renovation on a cottage she had purchased as a vacation rental property."Designer Sarah Richardson updates rental cottage for new HGTV show"
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'', April 9, 2015.

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''Sarah's House''
2000s Canadian reality television series HGTV (Canada) original programming 2007 Canadian television series debuts 2010s Canadian reality television series {{Canada-reality-tv-prog-stub