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America's Pettiest Houses, Two-Tone Cabinet Secrets, and Why Your Deck Coating Is Doing It Wrong
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- Home In Progress
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- May 16, 2026
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Episode Summary This week on Home In Progress, Dan starts off with one of the more entertaining detours the show has taken in a while: spite houses. Real buildings, built by real people, for the sole purpose of making someone else miserable. Then he gets into a deep dive on two-tone kitchen cabinets, answering six questions that almost always come up when people consider taking on that project. And he closes out with deck season, including why most product claims about longevity don't hold up in Michigan, and why RepcoLite's Deck and Dock Wood Protector works differently than most of what's out there. In This Episode [00:00] -- Show Preview [00:54] -- Spite Houses: When Homebuilding Gets Personal [15:26] -- Two-Tone Kitchen Cabinets: Six Common Questions Answered [41:25] -- Deck Season: What You Need to Know Right Now Segment 1: Spite Houses -- When Homebuilding Gets Personal [00:54] Most people who've had a bad run-in with a neighbor or a family member haven't responded by constructing an entire building. But spite houses are real, they show up throughout American history, and they're exactly what they sound like: buildings put up primarily to annoy, block, or inconvenience somebody else. The Tyler Spite House -- Frederick, Maryland [02:27] 112 West Church Street, Frederick, MD In 1814, the city of Frederick decided to extend Record Street straight through a piece of land owned by Dr. John Tyler, a wealthy ophthalmologist who was also credited as the first American-born physician to perform a cataract operation. Tyler fought the decision, lost, went home, and started thinking. He found an old local ordinance that said the city couldn't build a road through a parcel if construction on a substantial building was already underway there. So he hired a crew and overnight,…