'Houses with History': Designer Jen MacDonald is a proponent of architectural salvage
‘Houses with History’ is a home renovation series on HGTV that takes us to Plymouth, in Massachusetts. This house tranformational series is looking at houses and barns built by early Americans in the New World. For this, the producers research fascinating backstories of America’s oldest homes.
In the show, we see passionate preservationists Mike Lemieux, Rich Soares, and designer Jen MacDonald meticulously restoring vintage historic homes in and around Plymouth. This renovation series comes with a serious amount of information. In each episode, the history buff, carpenter, and designer work together to save century-old properties.
The show stars a trio of Massachusetts' natives who have dedicated their lives to historic real estate. The premiere episode focuses on just two historic properties: a former inn and a single-family home built in the 1700s. What's more, they share the homes’ origins, renovation stories and all that history with us too!
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Who is Jennifer MacDonald?
Jennifer (or Jen) MacDonald is a home desinger, realtor and co-operator of her home renoation and refurbishing business, 'Full Circle Homes'. She runs this business with husband and partner Mike Lemieux.
Career
Jennifer is an expert inside fashioner and a realtor. MacDonald is also the VP/co-founder, realtor, designer of 'Full Circle Construction', according to her LinkedIn profile. She regularly experiments and has fun in space designing, building and being creative.
Jen also builds plant walls and other fun items like stenciling concrete, and is a proponent of reusing architectural salvage!
Relationships
Jen is married to her business partner Mike Lemieux. She is a mother to a girl, Karissa MacDonald, and a child whose name is yet to be made public. Jen says that Karissa is her plant expert and has the green thumb in the family. She is always keeping all the plants in their house well fed and watered.
'Houses with History' premieres on Wednesday, September 29, at 9 pm ET/PT on HGTV.