Let's be honest, one of the main attractions of TV design shows is to see the hunky shirtless carpenters glistening with sweat while wielding caveman tools and smiling into the camera. Whether or not they do good work isn't necessarily important; it's the six-pack abs, deeps tans, and coiffed hairstyles that keep viewers tuning in.
1. Carter Oosterhouse
Carter was promoted to his own shows after stealing the spotlight as a carpenter on other people's programs. He began his career as a model and now balances TV appearances as a correspondent on several networks along with HGTV's Carter Can and Red Hot and Green. Super hunky, sweet, and talented.
2. Paul Daly
While Paul isn't traditionally hunky, Candice Olson sure does admire his charms. When introducing him on her HGTV show Divine Design, Candice consistently refers to him as a hunky carpenter, and hence is the inspiration for this post. We haven't yet seen Paul with his shirt off, but the work he does speaks for itself.
3. Ty Pennington
Ty is the original TV carpenter, starting out on Trading Spaces before design reality shows even existed. He's grown a cult of personality around his name, with several published books, product lines for Sears, and his own show on ABC called Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
4. Matt Iseman
Who wants a clean house? Niecy Nash's go-to guy sure knows how to create one. The former doctor turned handyman assists the Clean House crew with all their makeover needs.
5. Scott McGillivray
After working on several shows with Debbie Travis, Scott received his own called Income Property on HGTV. He helps homeowners design and renovate rental properties within their houses.
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Comments (46)
Quite the "content lite" post.
How about Andrew Danjumbo from one of those HGTV shows?
MATT ISEMAN!! <3 <3 <3
I want them all, except Ty. He seems too needy.
Really?
Er, is AT pursuing a new editorial policy here?
Not knocking these guys, but Mike Holmes (HOLMES ON HOMES) makes them all look like little boys.
I have to second the nod for Mike Holmes. Although I wish he'd stop wearing the wife-beater with his overalls....
Fun post Annie, but you forgot the hunkiest of them all! Don't ask me how I know his name, but Jared Walker Dostie on Rate My Space takes the cake!
I didn't recognize that photo of Ty Pennington because he lacks his normal over-tanned orange glow
This is a silly post, but I'm still going to register my disapproval of Pennington. He dresses way too young for his age. Not attractive.
Much as I love me a hunky man, this is an AT posting? I thought I was at Tiger Beat for a moment....
...but since we're here, how can you miss Jason Cameron and Ahmad Hassan??
Stephen Zimpel from The Outdoor Room. HellO!
I used to work on a makeover show on a major cable net. Our carpenter was a Polish immigrant who could build anything, and was smokin' hot as well. Could not speak English very well, so the EP decided that he'd just do all of this on-camera work without speaking and without a shirt.
Fun post. I miss hunky Paul on Devine Design. Also, I think Steve Hanneman, on HGTV, is very cute and talented.
Andrew Danjumbo! Who, lucky me, actually worked on my friend's house before he was on tv. He was so much better looking in person and just a really nice guy who did an amazing job on her kitchen.
They're hot so we don't care how well they do their jobs? Wow.. that's not condescending or anything. Flip the genders and see how well that sits..
Here I was thinking AT was giving us the beefiest, most satisfying collection on a Monday morning (reclaimed wooden bar stools from Australia, sexy Spanish hotels and ss tables with mahogany storage units) when WHAM there's all these hunky carpenters to look at. What a stellar day to be an AT devotee. Thanks guys and gals!
Back to Mike Holmes. Yeah... All around nice guy plus he wears wife beaters w/overalls, in the dead of winter in CANADA!!!
Chip Wade, Lynn Kegan & Lorne Hogan...just to add to the list.
Moving beyond the hunky carpenters, I'm sure there are plenty of women and men who dig David Bromstaad (Color Splash) and Roger Hazard (Sell This House!) big time!
Ditto Mike Holmes and Jason Cameron!
Hmmm.... I wonder what the response would have been if the post had been about firm-breasted, well-tanned and perfectly-coiffed female TV presenters, especially if it also stated that whether or not they were good at their job was unimportant and that it was only how they looked that really mattered..... ;)
Scott McGillivray, hands down.
And AcrossThePond...Genevieve Gorder, all the way!;)
Ditto Chip Wade!
Jason Cameron. Lawd hab mercy!
tacky post, sorry. I'd rather see some buff armoires on AT
Yeah, what AcrossThePond said.
C'mon AT, post it. I dare you. I double dog dare you.
:P
As they used to say on the old Red Green tv show: "if you can't be handsome, at least be handy", here we have both. Being Canadian, I have to go with Mike Holmes - not particulary attactive, but makes these guys look pretty b-grade in the skill department.
I hope that AT objectifies women the same way they objectify men, just to be fair. I highly suspect if they did "pin up girls" of the Food Network (including a "saucy" pic similar to Ty's with Giada or someone else in a skimpy outfit), there would be an awful lot of complaints about sexism.
This post takes a giant step backwards, AT.
Oh, people. Stop taking yourselves soooo seriously!! Yeesh! My favorite carpenter was the surfer two seasons ago on HGTV's Design Star. Who did the blank white room as if a big wave hit it.
despite others protests about this post, it is a fact that pleasing appearances and personalities make for better tv. saying that, could the post after hunky carpenters be chunky carpenters?
On one level, I don't care if people want to get silly about hunky guys with questionable talent.
One another, I know that those of you saying "lighten up" or whatever would be absolutely LIVID if this post was about hot female TV design presenters of questionable design qualifications.
So, I say again, Annie Werbler, play fair. Post the hot design chicks post. I dare you. I double dog dare you.
It'll be fun.
:P
Don't forget Lynn Kegan. Got to give a shout out to the redheads and the boy has some muscles.
http://www.lynnkegan.com/
Because carpenter is a man's profession. What year are we in again?
Booooo.
I mean, really? Not even a token "We know carpenters are *supposed* to be guys but here's one cute girl carpenter, isn't she novel and unusual?" thrown in?
DW almost licks the screen when Income Property is on. I always feel that I should give them some alone time... LOL..
p.s. Content-lite is OK. It's a blog, not a bible...
Scott McGillivray is really cute, but my favorite was Antonio Bellatore who won Design Star last year and had his own show for about two minutes before disappearing. He was hot.
OK.... What's a "double dog"???
Look, why doesn't AT just go ahead and post that pictoral with Giada in a skimpy outfit and even things out? That way, everyone's equally insulted and we can move on.
Sooo, um...I'll just be waiting for that post...
girlndocs, you have some serious issues. I'm just saying. Since no one on your end is willing to point that out, I will.
Gordon; no chance. We are way too outnumbered. Showing photos of women in the house is no longer considered politically correct and god for bid a shot should be posted with a woman in the kitchen or even worse in the bathroom, forget it, AT would likely be contacted by the Federal government for crimes against humanity..Well, you get my point.
Century, you're the only one saying it because you're the only one thinking it and actually, you're comment says more about you and the kind of serious issues that you might have, if anything! ;)
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