This Old House Season 18 Episode 19 The Tucson House - 1

This Old House hits Tucson, Arizona, for an eight-part winter project: the renovation and expansion of Jim and Colleen Meigs' 1930 Pueblo Revival home. After an overview of Tucson's sights'tract housing, golf courses, Old Tucson Studios, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the Air Force's "Boneyard" of old planes, Biosphere 2, and the magnificent Catholic mission San Xavier del Bac'we head to the Meigs' house, where we see what the homeowners have in mind. After living there for nearly 20 years, they are pretty certain: a new kitchen, an outdoor cooking area, a finished courtyard with fountain, a media room, library, a new master suite and a new coat of stucco. Their target cost is around $150,000. As Jim is an architectural designer, we visit one of his completed houses. However, since as Jim puts it, "A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client," he has hired an architect for his own job'Alexandra Hayes. She shows us the model she has built for the proposed project. Then general contractor John McCaleb shows us a fine home he has just completed and checks out the problems at the Meigs' place. The crew warns Jim and Colleen about the stress they're about to expose themselves to, but there's no stopping them.