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Article: Bob Vila deftly offers home tips.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 12, 2002
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Byline: Mary Beth Breckenridge
It's not every day you get to ask Bob Vila for advice.
So when his publicist e-mailed with an offer for a phone interview, I figured this was my chance.
Vila, the home-improvement guru who came to fame as the original host of the PBS series "This Old House," was in the midst of a media marathon to stump for his latest projects. There was his new Bob Vila Signature Collection line of paint from Sears, and a Paint Designer tool on his Web site _
http://www.bobvila.com/
_ that lets you try out paint schemes on a virtual house and calculates how much you'll need.
Then there was the upcoming ...