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Japanese living in historic half-timbered houses

Between tatami and bonsai: Atsuko and Helmut have created their dream Japanese home in their half-timbered house. They built most of it themselves or found it at flea markets in Japan.

First aired on: 26/01/2025

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Practical living in the Tiny Customs House

Kerstin and Peter live in a historic tiny house: the tiny customs house from 1820 combines half-timbered charm with practical ideas. Three and a half years ago, the couple discovered the old customs house, which is only 38 square meters in size, and fell in love with it immediately.

First aired on: 0/02/2025

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Our self-built house

Annette and Bernhard live in an alternative community in Cologne. They built their house themselves—deliberately crooked, uneven, and adaptable. At first, the single mother lived in a construction trailer, but her two daughters wanted a real house.

First aired on: 20/04/2025

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Living in the Bread Museum

Esther and Ronny are transforming the historic building into a unique home with creativity and hard work. In Nieheim’s charming Museum Street, where the cheese, beer, and sack museums attract visitors from near and far, the bread museum once found its place in the town’s history — and has now been converted into a cozy residential building.

First aired on: 11/05/2025

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Living like 100 years ago

Valerio Bonanno lives out his passion for Art Nouveau to the fullest: with a few exceptions, his apartment is furnished with antiques, or more precisely, furniture from around 1900. But it’s not just Valerio’s home that pays homage to the Art Nouveau era—his clothing style does too

First aired on: 15/06/2025

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Living on the Funkel Farm 

Ulrike (44) is a self-employed goldsmith from Brühl. She always wanted to move to the countryside. Now she has fulfilled her dream with her own farm near Nideggen in the Eifel region. She has a passion for old things, especially when they glitter and sparkle and refract the light.

First aired on: 27/07/2025

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Living in the inventor’s house

Starting with five different doorbells, rainbows throughout the house, a homemade grotto in the bathroom, and a smoke drawer: nothing is ordinary in this house belonging to inventor Hilli and his wife in Oberberg. Since purchasing the half-timbered house in 1984, the couple has renovated it according to their own personal wishes and tastes.

First aired on: 17/08/2025

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Living in Your DIY Dream Home

A spacious home with room for their blended family—Mette and Martin made this dream a reality in 2021 with their roughly 400-square-meter villa in the Lower Rhine region. They handled almost the entire renovation themselves—with the help of countless video tutorials. You can tell that their home used to be a hotel by the room numbers on the doors.

First aired on: 26/10/2025

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Living at the Adenauerhaus

Georg Adenauer was Konrad Adenauer’s youngest son. For many years, he lived with his wife Ulla in a single-family home in the Eifel region. After his death in 2020, Marcel had the opportunity to buy the house. He didn’t make many changes to the house itself; he wanted to preserve its period style. He found furniture and accessories that tell the story of the famous family. However, he also added his own personal touch to the house.

First aired on: 01/11/2025

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Living in a Wilhelminian-style villa

Ivonne and Daniel are living a very special dream with their family: their historic villa, built in 1912, has been lovingly furnished down to the last detail—with period-appropriate furniture that cost barely more than 100 euros. From the charming table to the opulent mirror, they’re bringing the house’s historic spirit back to life.

First aired on: 12/01/2026

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A Palace from One Thousand and One Nights

Gardener Nino lives in Werl in a home that’s the complete opposite of a tiny house. He has transformed a 250-square-meter former workshop, filled with countless oriental fabrics, cushions, and glittering decorations, into an oriental fairy-tale world. Throughout the apartment, he has created magnificent DIY mosaics using over 40,000 tile pieces. It glitters and sparkles like something out of One Thousand and One Nights.

First aired on: 26/01/2026

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400-square-meter luxury townhouse

Both mother and son are interested in art. “Why not turn a hobby into a career?” they thought, and set out to find a gallery space where they could display and sell their art. During their tours of North Rhine-Westphalia, they came across the unique townhouse near Münster and immediately fell in love with the 600-year-old building. But with 12 rooms, it’s actually much too big. So Renata decided that mother and son would move into the house together, combining work and leisure.

First aired on: 09/02/2026

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A dream home made from an old horse stable

Where the mine horses of a nearby coal mine in Essen-Horst once stood, Simone Kruse (40) and her husband Oliver (35) now live with their mixed-breed dog Mika. Over the course of three years, the project manager and the teacher have transformed the old ruin into a unique home, almost entirely on their own. Flea market finds, old heirlooms, and homemade furniture now characterize their interior.

First aired on: 09/03/2026

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