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Smart Fix is a new HGTV remodeling show hosted by Kristin Wells and filmed in Charlotte, NC. Smart Fix will air later this year. Kristin Wells, the host, was cohost of HomeMakers on the former TurnerSouth network and has owned her own renovation company, modeled and was even in a music video.
Here is an overview from the production company, NAHB Production Group.
“Smart Fix with Kristin Wells currently in production for HGTV
We’re all looking for innovative ways to update our home. Whether it is transforming an unused formal living room or creating a patio expansion, our expert host, Kristin Wells, helps homeowners identify and solve their remodeling dilemmas. The show focuses on multi-functional rooms, such as living rooms, kitchens and outdoor areas. Under Kristin’s tutelage, the homeowners are active participants in these projects, which can include installing a new tile backsplash, creating a bamboo ceiling surround or building a new dining room table. The show takes on three to four projects per episode, which help make for a true overall makeover.”
Watch Kristin in this video:
http://www.nahbprods.com/video/smart-fix
Kristin at age 3 holding a hammer
Kristin and HomeMakers crew
Kristin in Smart Fix scene
Kristin Wells, host of the new HGTV show, Smart Fix, before she hosted any TV shows, helped her dad with a beach cottage addition. Kristin at the time had her own renovation company in Charlotte, NC. Kristin installed approximately 700 square feet of ceramic tile in the cottage. Not long after this, Kristin became cohost of HomeMakers, an all female renovation crew and show. HomeMakers aired on Turner South before the network was bought a few years ago.
Beach cottage addition
Before Kristin Wells appeared as Superwoman in DC comics, the real Kristin Wells appeared on planet earth beginning her quest to take on skills reserved for men in the past, wielding hammers, saws and power tools to keep homeowners safe from home destruction.
The real Kristin Wells first gained exposure on camera doing modeling assignments for companies like Lands End and even appeared in a music video “Rock my World Little Country Girl.” Kristin’s first TV show was as cohost of “HomeMakers,” an all female renovation show. Kristin has been filming a new remodeling show, “Smart Fix” for HGTV.
Kristin Wells, Superwoman, from Wikipedia:
“Kristin Wells is a comic book character, the secret identity of one version of DC Comics Superwoman. Created by Superman comic writer Elliot S! Maggin, Wells first appeared in Maggin’s novel Superman: Miracle Monday (1981); he later introduced her into comics continuity as Superwoman.”
Wells is a descendant of Jimmy Olsen who lives in the 29th century (like Jimmy, Wells is a freckled redhead). She is a journalism student whose graduate thesis was the successful investigation of the origins of the holiday known as Miracle Monday, using a form of time travel technology that had just began to be used by the public in her era. She then became a teacher, but became interested in finding out the identity of Superwoman, the last superhero from the 20th century whose secret identity had never been discovered. She managed to convince the authorities of her time to send her again to the present, at the moment when Superwoman was supposed to debut, helping Superman fight a villain called King Kosmos. Wells soon deduced that she herself was supposed to become Superwoman, and, using some of the technology she had brought from the future which (conveniently enough) allowed her to have superpowers (including flight, teleportation, empathy, precognition, and telekinesis), she disguised herself and helped Superman defeat Kosmos. She revealed the truth to Superman, then returned to the future to make the information public. Wells realized she would have to periodically return to the 20th century to ensure that all the historical events Superwoman was part of were fulfilled.
However, during one of those trips, a malfunction of the time travel process—which was still imperfect—left Wells trapped in the past, suffering amnesia. This caused her boyfriend to lead a movement against time travel that eventually resulted in it being banned. Years later, Wells returned home, apparently having recovered her memories, and was reunited with him. The details of her later activities in the present (and of her return to the future) remained unrevealed. The 29th-century Kristin’s last appearances to date are in the non-canonical story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? in 1986, and a brief cameo as a one panel ghost in The Kingdom: Planet Krypton in 1999.”
Kristin in music video
From a Charlotte Observer article dated November 20, 2008
“Tool woman”
“In the family album is a picture of Kristin Wells, age 3, on a ladder and wearing a tool belt. Her path to a job on HGTV was being crafted even then, following in her dad’s footsteps.
“He was a do-it-yourselfer. Anything that went wrong around the house he would fix. I’m cursed with same thing – even if I have the money to pay somebody, I’ll try to do it myself. And sometimes it’s a curse.”
Anyone who tackles intimidating household projects knows what she means, but in Wells’ case, the curse has a magic side. The Charlotte resident is an up-and-coming celebrity in television’s home-improvement world.
Her latest project is for HGTV, a series called “Smart Fix” that is expected to debut in January.
With a budget of $3,000, Wells transforms a room in a house through design, decorating and construction. All 13 episodes of the first season were shot in Charlotte, where homeowners offered rooms in need of magic.
Mindful of some wretched makeovers she’s seen, Wells is careful to make sure her work appeals to the homeowners. One woman wept with joy when she got to see what Wells had done with her basement. “She told me, ‘I always wondered why people cry on these shows. I’m overwhelmed,’” Wells recalls.”
“Her TV career started while she was working for a Charlotte design company. She got a call – she was standing, appropriately enough, in the parking lot of Home Depot when it came in – asking if she’d like to audition for a home-improvement show for the now-defunct Turner South network. She got the part in “Homemakers,” which featured an all-woman cast and transformed a dilapidated 1905 home in NoDa.”
Read more:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/471/story/301710.html
The show did not air in January and is scheduled for the 2009 season.
Kristin Wells TV shows 