Its been a long process but it finally happened. I am officially a member of the HGTV family! Its crazy to think the direction my life has gone this past year. I am so thankful for the opportunities that have been given to me. The best part of my new show Going Yard on HGTV is that I get to have my fiancee Peyton and my family on it with me.
As my brother Erik told me: “Don’t ever lose your humble, small town, caring charm. It is what got you here.” I never will or I’m sure my brothers will com after me and put me back in line.
Thank you all for the support.
Congrats on the new up coming show! How do we go about auditioning for the show? My wife and I live in MA and just bought a new house. The front yard is great, but back yard is boring and needs some updating for our 3 month old son.
Well I guess I’m just about the last person to contact you and wish you well in your 2 new adventures……Marriage and new TV show.
I sat down last night and composed an application for the free yard nakeover on your new show and promptly sent it on to the website that was listed in the Cape Cod Times. Alas, it came back with undeliverable. I sent all my information, a show bio, pictures of the property, etc. etc. to landscapecasting@magneticproductions.com and it came back undeliverable. Is it too late for my application? Please say it isn’t. I can’t think going through another summer with my back and side yards. Horrible mess. I’m a widow and 73 years old and things are getting harder and harder to maintain. I could sure use some help in deciding what to do which would bring me more leisure time. Thanks so much and good luck again.
Marie Goodman – street address – 85 Schoolhoue Road (2 houses down from the Cape Cod visitors’ center, Eastham, MA 02642
Please try it again. We are still looking for homes!
SO hoping you are looking to do some yards OUTSIDE MA!!
We live in Indiana and boy, does our yard need a makeover!! House is cool – log home originally built in 1819. Added a timber frame great room and new kitchen in 2001. Sure hope to hear from you, Chris!! Good luck with the show! I watched yesterday and LOVED it!! Prettiest yard re-do I have EVER seen on HGTV and I am a Yardcrashers junkie!! 
Linda R.
Linda
Wow prettiest redo EVER on HGTV!!! I love it. That is a HUGE compliment.
You just made my day
Chris
Hi Chris! Congratulations on your HGTV show! It’s nice to see a local guy hit the big time! I’m wondering if you might be filming locally. I’m located in Methuen, MA with as barren and unappealing a yard as you might imagine. Centerpiece is a pool surrounded by an incorrectly built retaining wall (by a novice – me). The only color is grass green and buddy, no shrubbery whatsoever, and it is hurting! Any idea how I might get some exposure for filming consideration? Thanks very much!!!
Congratulations! This is exciting news. Curious – will the show be filmed locally, as in New England or out on the West Coast? If it is local, can people apply to be on your show?
All the best with your new venture.
- Alexis
That is great to see some one from Mass going on HGTV.
Is this the show they had that you could sign up for on HGTV in the fall. My wife and i have done a bunch of stuff in side our house in Falmouth that we bought year and haven’t gotten to the nasty back yard yet, would love to get some ideas on things to do.
Congrats on the show can’t wait to watch it with our kids!
Mark
Hi. I was a huge fan of yours on the Bachelor and I’m also a neighbor. We have a perfect Cape property for your new show!!!! We have 4 acres of land on Center Street in Yarmouth Port. It was part of the oldest farmland on the Cape and big, open areas like this are almost impossible to find now. Besides our house (a salt box) which is set way back from the road, the land is basically an open canvas. We have marshland in the back and can see Barnstable Harbor in the distance. It would be a huge challenge to transform! Please consider us! Best wishes on your show.
Hey Chris – Work in the broadcast business and am a huge fan of landscaping shows. But even more looking forward to your show, since you are from Cape Cod! My family has owned a home in Chatham for some 40 years and we are so thrilled that this special spot, and its special people, will possibly be featured on your show. Way to go. Wish you, your family and your business all the best this year. Way to represent!!
I am in desperate need of this show to help me! I live in Brewster and due to the financial struggles of being a single mom, I have not been able to keep up our yard at all and it is probably the worst kept yard on Cape Cod. No pride in saying that at all, just desperate for help. I would so like my daughter to have a yard that she can be proud to be friends home to. How do I apply?
Oop, I made an error in that post I just made – I meant bring friends home to. Guess I should not be posting half blind in the middle of the night! LOL Congrats on the show Chris!
Again, Chris congrats. This is your year. We will be waiting to see the first episode as well was the wedding.
CONGRATULATIONS Chris and to Peyton for the new show!!! You deserve it ‘coz you’re both lovely people and inspire us with your simplicity. More luck to come and we will definitely watch “Going Yard”. Don’t forget us in The Chris Lambton Fansite, we’re supporting you all the way…
Congratulations, Chris, on such a humble path. I live next door to Scargo Cafe, having no idea when I watched the Bachelor, that you would be on it. I have been so impressed with your humility and I have no doubt that you will continue in that manner with your very exciting new show. One day my mom and I were driving down Whig St. and we saw you with Peyton and you looked so happy.
You and your family are the kind of family that anyone would love to have for neighbors. I hope to meet you sometime in the Merc or down Corporation Beach. My brother, Greg Urquhart, works for the town of Dennis (DPW) and sometimes tells me he sees you hard at work around town. My mom facilitated an ALS support group for both those with ALS and their families here on the Cape for years. Coming home to take care of your mom is taking the highest calling. I did the same for my dad in 2003 and then moved back for good 4 years ago to be near my mom. Don’t want to miss a day.
Blessings to you and your family and may this new year be the best one yet.
Jan Urquhart
a neighbor down the street
Hey Chris…Congratulations on the new show. Can’t wait to see the first episode. I am sure with your humor it will quite entertaining but also will end up beautiful
Yeah, I have a 6000 squ. ft. dumpy yard in Allston, MA-rock city yeah!
Congratulations! My husband and I just closed on a house in Westwood, MA with a very very neglected back yard and just discussed yesterday how we wished there was a local HGTV landscaping makeover show!!!! Seriously….we have a perfect project for you!!! Interested? It’ll bring great ratings!!! Oh, do you do bathrooms, too???
Congratulations Chris and Peyton! You have so many fans who are happy about your engagement. And for me, marrying my two guilty pleasures–the Bachelor/ette and HGTV–is beyond great.
Here’s another plug for a local landscape project. We have a home in Brewster that we are trying to get prepped for an 80th birthday party for my father-in-law this spring/summer. Can’t decide what we want to do with our yard. Maybe a patio, maybe a firepit, maybe we should leave it ‘wild’. Would love help
Hey, Chris
Congrats on the show! This is Doug from Ballroom Bliss on the Cape, My backyard is horrible, if you need a major WOW factor for a before and after, stop on by and take a look. Let me know if I can help in any way, shape, sound. Congrats again to you both.
Doug
Congratulations Chris!
I am a Mashpee resident and would love to have you transform my plain ol yard to something beautiful!
Chris, Congratulations on your success and we will be anxious to see your first show and many thereafter. You have come a long way since Pee Wee soccer and we are so proud of you!
Love
Linda and Bob
Congratulation Chris! i’ll volunteer our yard. Five dogs, sometimes six.
best of luck, tom giardino
Congrats!How do we go about auditioning for the show? My husband and I bought our new house in july, in Yarmouth,mass and boy or boy the back needs help, i use to have a builtin Tikibar at my last house, thats why they call me Tikimama but had to leave that all behind, maybe you can help bring a little tiki back to me =)
Nice… I am a resident of Cape Cod. Bought a forclosure about 5 years ago and have not been able to get the yard just right. I would love your help. PLEASE!!!!
Bonnie
Centerville, MA
Live in Marstons Mills and for over 20 years we haven’t been able to
get our yard looking like it should….We could use your help!
Love HGTV and have been hoping they would have a “local” show.
Good Luck Chris, I’m sure the show will be great!
Wow, this is so exciting! Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing your show…..I have it marked on my calendar.
Hi Chris..My wife and I are looking forward to watching your show. We are retired and living on the Cape in Centerville. Our landscaping looks as if we just threw the shrubs in willy nilly. We would be thrilled to have you drop by and give us some advice. Steve and Diane
Hey Chris, Can’t wait to see the new show. I also would like to know how to get in the running for a back yard project. I live in New Bern, NC.
Could you please post the HGTV site to apply for the show? I would love to have a backyard makeover! I have 3 young kids and no time to invest in an area for them….or my husband and I to relax. I can’t quite seem to find the info on the HGTV website…I’m on the Cape, so you wouldn’t have to travel far!
Hi, Would like to know how to apply for a backyard make over. What I really would like is a brick patio. To have the wooden one taken out and replace it with brick. Thanks
Hi Chris….great idea for TV..just curious, are you at all interested in sustainable landscaping? My son, an ecological design consultant and educator has done many workshops in CA and now NM, would love to possible set up workshops on the East Coast.( please check out his website).We live in Falmouth, and of course would love to incorporate his workshop in our backyard…He is currently in Puerto Rico setting up a farm, but has left his conceptual design…didn’t know if you might have interest in collaborating/learning?….From what I have seen/read your designs seem to lean toward natural landscaping..extremely important for our earth…Good luck with your show, please don’t hesitate to contact for more info?
Congrats! This is really something to celebrate!
I just read and sent off the article in the Cape Cod Times about your new show to my son in Denver (U-Mass Horticulture 2002)and from the looks of the response you have had in this blog, I am not alone in my enthusiasm for this show and interest in being a part of it in some way. I think the Cape is a unique place with a unique appreciation, love and respect of the outdoor world. We take pride in showering outdoors from April until late November. (This year it was turned off the week before Christmas!) We love our yards…I have a yard that could be a different story. It is not a “rags to riches” tale but one of gardens that have seen their day (lovingly maintained in more of a lipstick on a pig sort of way) and are in need of a makeover. We have lots of gems as our son traded trees for rent when he lived here and worked at a local nursery. I will be following this blog and the show. GOOD LUCK! LOVE THE STORY! Lorraine
Hey Chris and Peyton!
Like many of the other people who posted, my fiance and I would love to have your show come to our house. We live in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. We just recently bought a home together and are getting married on June 9, 2012. Obviously we are burdened with a lot of expenses as we plan a wedding, so we have not been able to do any landscaping whatsoever. Our backyard and frontyard both totally lack any kind of landscaping whatsoever.
I heard about your show because I’m a huge Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor Pad junkie (it’s my guilty pleasure!) and I kinda force my fiance to watch it with me
You guys have always been our favourites since you seem so nice and down-to-earth.
Anyways, wishing you guys good luck with the show. Hope to hear how to apply!
Congratulations on your new gig! I love that you, Peyton and the family all get to do this together, that is just perfect!!! If you get to Virginia Beach I need some serious yardwork LOL But most of all I am just so happy that your life has had such positive things happen! You really deserve all the best in life.
Congrats to you and Peyton. Good things happening to good people. Hope to see you guys at another CCALS gala. Much love, Pat and Kevin.
Hi Chris ,I was a big fan of yours watching the show , We could really use your help if you are taking auditions . I live with my Boyfriend and our 2 children in Pembroke ma on a corner lot , we could really use some help with the yard . Right now we are not able too get much done in it. At this time I do not have the resources to put in to the yard and make it the way we want it. My boyfirend was in a Horrific car accident 18 weeks ago and almost did not make it. Heis unable at this time to leave the house with out the help of a wheel chair or walker So the yard is on the back burner . Please help us
Good luck with the show
Hi Chris -
Congrats on the new show! Look forward to seeing what can be done with a Cape Cod seaside yard. Our’s gets salt spray, bunny chompin’, boat trailers backing over it, and general Cape Cod-dy type abuse. Hope “Going Yard” can help!
Hi Chris,
So happy for you and Peyton. After watching you on the bachelor and seeing what an amazing guy you are and falling in love with your family – it’s awesome to follow your journey with Peyton. Best wishes to both of you.
As far as the show – of course just like everyone else who watches these shows, I sit and say, why can’t it be me. We bought a home in W. Yarmouth a few years ago and have been doing what we can. My husband is a Police Officer and works ridiculous hours because I am unable to work right now, so we get down there when we can, but I feel so bad that he has to do work around there when we are down there. My son is a former US Marine who served 3 tours in Iraq, and he is also getting ready to enter the Police Academy in a couple months, so as hard as he works, it will be even harder for him to get down there.
Just thought I drop a line and throw it out there if you were looking for willing participants for show
Thanks Chris, and hopefully I’ll run into you sometime when I’m getting my addiction – Merc muffins!
Dadene
Congrats on the new show. Love watching it all on TV. Will it be filmed locally? Need to see more East Coast/New England locations. If it’s local, I’d love to volunteer our yard. It’s definitely in need of a new update. Can’t do much on a student’s unemployed salary. Good luck with the new show. I’ll be sure to check it out! Congratulations on your engagement!
Hi Chris, congrats on your new show – I went to the HGTV web site to apply for a “make over” but couldn’t find your show?
My poor back yard needs help. I moved back to Mass. and Cape Cod from Louisiana in November 2009. Have been “doing my yard” by myself and it’s gone beyond me! Help me please? I live on a 1/4 acre in Marstons Mills on beautiful Cape Cod with my cat Tatters Marie and would kill for some lilacs in the spring. We live in a grove of tall pine trees with a stand of bamboo along the side? It looks like you’ve got a huge group already clamouring for your favors, oh lucky you. HGTV is so much fun to watch so here’s hoping you’re a terrific success!
Very best regards from Marston Mills to Dennis,
Paula Finkle (PS I’m 71 and glad to be home)
Hi Chris, congrats on your new show – I went to the HGTV web site to apply for a “make over” but couldn’t find your show?
My poor back yard needs help. I moved back to Mass. and Cape Cod from Louisiana in November 2009. Have been “doing my yard” by myself and it’s gone beyond me! Help me please? I live on a 1/4 acre in Marstons Mills on beautiful Cape Cod with my cat Tatters Marie and would kill for some lilacs in the spring. We live in a grove of tall pine trees with a stand of bamboo along the side? It looks like you’ve got a huge group already clamouring for your favors, oh lucky you. HGTV is so much fun to watch so here’s hoping you’re a terrific success!
Very best regards from Marston Mills to Dennis,
Paula Finkle (PS I’m 71 and glad to be home)
My husband and I just fulfilled our lifelong dream of buying a little place on the cape (in Eastham). In fact, we were looking to buy during the filming of Bachelorette (what was she thinking?) and once we had our closing we immediately went to Eden to purchase the original Cape Cod bracelet so I would always be connected to my favorite place (thanks to you). Our home is modest but has true Cape Cod charm and our yard is private and sheltered; great for the grandkids. We don’t have the good knees we once had so gardening is harder than it used to be but we would love to have an easy care yard consistent with the natural beauty of the area. It would be awesome to have you help us with our own little piece of heaven.
Congradulations!! This is exciting to have someone from “home” going to the national spotlight!!! Getting weary of seeing California run the TV!! You bring some of Cape Cod…you’ll be a mega-star!!!! I hope you’ll consider me for an episode? I just purchased a new home in Kingston, MA (just outside of Plymouth) and I have an acre. Just grass…nothing else!!! I mean nothing…FULL SUN, level ground, lots and lots of grass!!! I could really use your talents as I am a new father at 40 to my first child. I’m swampt!! Anyway…can’t wait til your debut!!!!
Chris, congrats on the show! I’m a fellow Cape Codder from Orleans (Nauset ’02), now living in Boston. My parents are SO excited about your show, and their yard could use some landscaping.. we have ivy that grows insanely fast and goes everywhere. Anyways, just a thought, in case you need some Cape locations for your show. Feel free to reach out to me via email or twitter (@angieo13). Congrats to you and Peyton, as well.
Hi Chris, Congrats on all your accomplishments! I am from the Cape, still work and go to school down there. It’s great seeing a local person do such great things. If your show is looking for A small city backyard to transform, My home is the perfect place. Its my first home. My husband are a young couple with two kids just starting out. I’m really into gardening but lack of space is a challenge.I really miss the beauty of cape and would to bring it to my back yard to make it feel more like home. We are located in NewBedford about an hour from Hyannis..
Hey Chris,
Congrats on your engagement and the new show! Can’t wait to watch. Don’t know if you’ll ever be filming back east, but we live on Cape Cod and our backyard needs help. We live on a great piece of earth, and my husband has lots of great ideas, but not so much time. He would never ask for this kind of help…it would be like pulling over and asking for directions. The highlight of our backyard is the swingset (with a zipline coming soon). It would be wonderful to turn it into something special for all of us.
Chris…Congratulations on the show and more importantly on your upcoming nuptials; I’m very happy for you! Drop a line when you have the time. Cheers, -Brian
Can’t find TV listing for show , please send time, channel,and days of this show
The time, day etc won’t show up til May but I’m sure you’ll see info while watching HGTV, closer to actual day.
Day’s and channel’s of show and time please
I, myself, wondered about submitting for the show, although I am not in the Cape area. However, I did find the info for submission here:
http://www.hgtv.com/about-us/get-a-major-backyard-makeover/index.html
Im watching the White Room Challenge and I see this guy (You) whose name sounds familiar and I remember him being a landscaper. Gotta love google. I realize you’re the great guy on the Bachelorette? So I’m glad to hear you and Peyton, who I also remember from the Bachelor, have found each other and now you have this great career opportunity with HGTV. Can’t wait to see your show. You deserve everything and it’s just funny how life turns out.
Congratulations to you both and best of luck with the new show. If you are looking for a backyard project with a Cape Cod location, I can help. My 91 year old mother and I live in Mashpee MA off of Red Brook Road. The yard is not huge, but has so much potential. As her daughter and caretaker, I am in charge of the yard maintenance and with a fixed income, not much can be done. I would love to have something really nice so her five other children and twenty grandkids and great grandkids would enjoy visiting her. She has only a few years left and I would love to give her this amazing gift. email me for my cell phone number.
Hi, Chris & Peyton! Congratulations on your marriage and your new show! My family owns an old, waterfront home in Manomet (the southern tip of Plymouth – just a few miles from the Cape Cod Canal). Although our yard is very neglected, it has a great deal of potential. There are about 75 stairs down to a private sandy beach. The view of Provinetown on a clear day is amazing. As for the type of party we’d throw when they yard is complete – that’s easy! My beautiful twenty-four year-old niece has just gotten engaged. What a perfect reason to celebrate! Please let me know when and how we can apply to be on your show. We are open to leaving the yard “untouched” until you can work work your magic on it in July and August. All the best to you both! So very happy for you!
Dear Mr. Lambton,
I live in Duxbury on a lovely but wild 2 1/2 acre property on 3A with my 98 year old mother. The location would be great for advertising your work in progress and offers lovely visuals for the camera (my house is of 1840 vintage and the original one room house was built by a Free Man of Color). I’m sure the local paper would also take advantage of a good story about a Duxbury resident and her luck on HGTV.
Best,
Sarie Booy
Congrats Chris! We’re so happy for all your success in love and life! I knows you are a PC grad – my husband and I are actually both alumni too. Go friars! It’s nice to see someone do so well. We currently live in Milford, MA with 3 little girls – Ava is 5 and the twins, Grace & Rosemary are one and a half. We have been living in the same house for about 8 years and have not had lots of time or $ to devote to our small yard. We would really love something fresh and simple that could provide more privacy than we currently have. Also, our cracked concrete patio is unsafe for our kids. Any help would be so appreciated! Your work looks beautiful.
Congrats Chris & Peyton on the new show! My husband just had his dream fulfilled seeing his own sustainable home design get built and won his first official award. We are now living in the beautiful modern home in Hingham, but since we poured our life savings into it, now need desparate help with the driveway and landscaping to at least have a back yard for our 2 and 3 yo to play. Would love to see your ideas to go green with our new green home! BTW, you’d first have to remove all the hay that the building inspector required us to spread over the entire property!
Congratulations on your new marriage and new show, Chris & Peyton! How do I sign up for landscaping help on your show? We need help for our front and back yard. We live in Wayland, MA. We also have a large hill which we’re not sure how to make it more attractive. Our lawn is full of moss & weeds. Please let me know how to sign up to be on your show. Thanks!
Chris, congratulations on your new show! Just watched today’s episode and I love the cottage garden you did in the backyard. As a fellow graduate of PC, and and annual visitor to the Cape, I have been keeping an eye on you since your Bachelorette days. If you are ever in the Madison, CT area, would love for you to make over our back yard which is set on a pond. Best of luck with your new marriage and new show! —Joy
We over paid for our home in 2006 and scaped the front but have no clue what to do with a backyard of appoximately 40×50. Any ideas would be great. I live in central Florida…….. Help!!!!!!!
What do you like to do? Need ideas before I make a suggestion.
In a recent episode you installed a large paver you said it was a chevron, it resembeled a paralelogram .Where can we get it and what is the actual name?
thank you
Oh yeah the Chevron pavers….they are actually poured cement so they are relatively cheap. I suggest going to a local stone/brick yard and they would most likely be special order but should only be around $5 a square foot
I’m watching the show for the first time and am enjoying it! I lauughed at the clown socks comment (I own those, too). The episode is the grass circle one…I’m sure it will keep getting better and better…great to see a non-real estate show get a chance…I’ve been leaning towards DIY Network the past few years…good luck to y’all!
Peyton has goofy socks I love them hahahaha
Oh, and is this going to be a show where homeowners do or do not participate? I found the female homeowner off-putting because she merely walked around chirping…viewers at home are all breaking their bums in their own yards and I think we get a little snarky if we see someone getting it all done for them ,lol
I was thrilled to hear of your marriage, and already love your new show.
Thanks for watching!!!
HI! I am trying to send in my info to be on Going Yard and I keep getting notifications that my email failed. Any suggestions on how I can get my information to the right people? Thanks! Jen
Can you tell me what material you used on the pergola of the Yard went to the Dogs episode that aired on June 16th? We have the same problem of no shade in our backyard that faces West and want to put that on our existing pergola.
Thanks
We used an all weather bamboo that we simply rolled out to length on the roof and nailed in place. It worked great and was easy to do!
Hi Chris!! Was just searching your site. My husband and I bought a house in the Raleigh area… We have a huge back yard and we desperately need help!! Are you ever in the NC area??
Hi Chris & Peyton,
I’ve been a big fan since the Bachelorette- and Bachelor Pad! Love the new show! I watch it (via DVR) and am trying to get suggestions on my yard here in Harwich, MA
Would love to see a hints section, or even to know what general area the projects you are doing are- they seem to not be local, so my guess is they’ve got you traveling across the country? Wishing you much success with the show and Peyton! You two are so cute to watch!
I like the idea of a hints/behind the scenes section. We did tape some on the Cape and start taping on the Cape in August!
Congratulations on the new show. We are in desperate need of a yard makeover. How do we apply? My yard is a mess.
We need pictures of the “Modern Backyard Makeover” you just finished (or it was shown 7.21.12. We have 2 acres to landscape and have maybe finished half of it. The planters and walkways were perfect for this size yard. Would also like to add a water feature. Can you send us photos of this show and maybe directions for a water feature using rocks. Our property is full of large, ,medium and small sized rocks. Thx for any help you can give us. Carol and Steve Pacuta, 13326 SE Southwood Drive, Prineville, OR 97754
Glad you liked the episode. Making a water feature out of rocks from your own yard is easy….dig out an area, get thick rubber to lay down in area you want for water feature (can buy from local landscaping specialty store…should be pretty cheap), add rocks around it, then simply fill with water. Done and done!
How do you apply for the makeover. WE need something. OUr back yard slopes. Terrible drainage and is now covered in moss. It is completely unuseable. Help!
Hi Chris and Payton and congratulations on your marriage and new venture!
I am a local, Cape Cod girl who lives and teaches in Brewster, however has spent
The last 30 summers at my home away from home Howes Street Beach…the best on the Cape, agree?
I would love some advice on what to do to “spruce up” the landscape of my home. I am a single mom of 4 great kids. 20-26 who have all but one graduated from college and living and working in NYC or NH. My youngest is a junior at UNH and leaving next week for preseason football. When I divorced 12 yrs ago, my ex agreed that I would remain in our home with the kids, still owning together, however we would sell it once the last child grad. So my task is to get my house in “selling condition” before putting it on the market. I have spent much time doing over inside. I recently “did over” the whole upstairs myself; stripping wallpaper, sanding painting, ordered all new carpeting and then had the fun task of adding color, fun paintings, etc. I was very proud of my huge undertaking but would appreciate any advice on improving the appearance of the outside of my home. thank you!
Christine
I would love to help out. send me an email and we can discuss the next steps.
clambton13@gmail.com
Thanks
Chris
Hi Chris I have a brand new home. We are adding on and have a very large yard we need ideas for grandparents to enjoy (us) and room for grandchildren to play come on over and help us lots of space to work with. Thanks looking forward to hearing from you
Wilmington m pictures upon request
email me more info and pics to
clambton13@gmail.com
I would be happy to work with you!
My wife an I have lived in our home in Hanover, MA for 5 years now. We originally moved from Braintree when my daughter was 6 months, so that she could grow up in a neighborhood and have a yard to play in. The backyard is big enough, but we have a brook that runs between our property and our neighbors and although I try to keep up with it, I cannot keep up with clearing bush/thorns from overtaking our fence that lies between our yard and brook. It’s to the point my wife doesn’t like to go out in the back yard and usually plays with the kids in the driveway instead…Any help or suggestions would be great.
Thanks.
Chris & Peyton,
Congratulations on your new marriage and show! I’m a long time viewer of the Bachelor/Bachelorette and think you both are so great and happy you found each other! I don’t think I’ve missed an episode since it started:) I am wondering if the show will ever come to the midwest??? We built a house a few years ago (’09) and are struggling to get it landscaped, grass, etc….. I think we have a great spot for the show to come! It is about 1.5 acres on a pond. I’ve only seen if you live in the Cape Cod area and wondering if you’ll ever venture this way! We could sure use some help! There are a lot of great ideas out there, but unfortunately my hubby is not good with tools or patient enough. (I don’t even trust him much with a screw gun…makes me nervous!) I love the new show! Please let me know if I’ll ever get a chance to apply…here in the good ole state of IOWA! Thanks and good luck as you continue on this journey!
Angie
I would love to take Going Yard out across the US I think it would be so much fun!!!
I have only driven through Iowa so would love to go there and give you and your husband a beautiful new backyard and maybe even teach him some landscaping!!!
Thanks for watching the show and I am pretty luck to have found a great girl like Peyton.
Chris
Hi Chris,
We have been so concentrating on the inside we haven’t gotten to the outside. We are really hoping you would come out to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and help us! We are desperate!
We love your show!! So many great ideas and everything you guys do is fantastic! My family and I have recently bought our dream house and have been renovating the inside for months now. We love our house…well, except for the backyard. The previous owner had walking paths throughout the woodsy yard and now it is just all overgrown and an absolute mess! I’m sure it was nice at one time but now…well I wish you could just see it
Thanks for your time,
James and Julie Brunetto
Hello Chris,
I am a new fan of your show and am curious about how to apply. We are first time homebuyers about to invest in a great house with a terribly non-functional yard.
Please share how we can apply.
Thanks so much,
Meg in MA
Hi Chris, I love your new show especially since Peyton is on it with you! My husband and I are retired school teachers and really need some help with our backyard to make it safe for our grandkids! It has a creek (rain runoff) through the middle. The only problem is that we are in Alabama! Is there any chance that you could come to the Heart of Dixie?
Well since Peyton is a southern girl I know she would love to do some shows down south!!! I would love to help out teachers as I was a high school teacher for 7 years and LOVED it. Maybe season 3 we can go on the road!
Hi Chris & Peyton! I would LOVE (and need!!) to apply for your show! Please tell me how, or if this little note works as an application, please accept it! I have a fairly large backyard that could use you and your expert work! We have 3 children (and a small dog) and really need to use our backyard more- and make it pretty! We never go back there because it’s BLAH! It has so much potential and it’s calling your name…”Chris…Peyton…come to Georgia!” Ha! You guys are great- loved you both on The Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor Pad. Please come see us! Thanks so much! Niki
Your show is not on HGTV anymore on Saturdays. What happened to it?
I am finishing taping season 2 right now so when we are done with that it will be back on!
It’s not weird if larger households were more likely to leave, and/or the new households in those apartments were more likely to be smaller or single-person — what you’d expect with a growing upper middle class and a declining working class. Not saying that’s what happened, but I would have expected to hear something that indicated it wasn’t happening. I haven’t had time to pull numbers myself, or really do much more than quickly read the NYT article, since this came out, but I would at least expect something like voter registrations to increase at the rate or faster than the in-migration population increase if it truly was broadly upper middle class types coming in — the narrative of much of the past decade. Likewise, legal immigrants are fairly easy to identify. That leaves illegal immigrants, which I can’t imagine the CB hasn’t gotten better at ignoring^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspotting since 2000.
Hi Chris,
First off, Great show.. really enjoyed the first season! Second, I watched you and Peyton on the Bach/ette series. I know you don’t watch the show, so maybe you don’t know that many viewers of the show think that it’s wonderful that the 2 classiest and most down to earth contestants, (maybe the only 2 that have conducted themselves with dignity and maturity!) in the history of the franchise, managed to find one another. So congrats on both the show and your marriage! I bet your dad is really happy with how things turned out for you.
I live in Austin in a wooded area. My yard is pretty with the trees, but completely useless in terms of hosting parties, gardening or enjoying. I have kids that would like a more useable space outside too. If you ever do a show in Texas, please consider me.
Glad you like Going Yard!!! Thanks for watching HGTV and the Bachelorette
Hi Chris,Congratulations. My family and I have been in our house for 3 years, we managed to landscape our front yard sort of. The back yard is a blank slate and we really don’t know what to do with it. There is an old deck that allows us to get out the sliding door and into the back yard. It is very old, some of the wood is rotting, and you get splinters on it. We keep hamering in all the nails that keep popping up. We have a very large yard and no idea what to do with it. I have 2 sons that I constantly warn to wear their shoes so they wont get a splinter. We would love to be able to have friends and family over to use our backyard with us. By the way we live in Port Perry, Ontario Canada. Small quiet town, very nice area. Please let me know if you are able to help us. Thanks Lisa
Lisa
Sounds like you need to tear out the wooden deck and put in a stone patio!!!
Where is Port Perry ?
Chris
Hi, Chris. Congratulations on the show, and on LOVE! I feel a little selfish posting this letter. There are so many wonderful people out there who need your help, and deserve it. And while my darling husband and I would probably be just fine with our simple yard just the way it is, I would love to have something special like this happen in our lives.
We have learned that amazing things come to those who wait. We are in our mid-late 30′s, and just got married last year (2012). We were just both waiting for “the one”, and we are so incredibly in love. I moved 1000 miles away from my family to be here with him, and even though it is difficult to be away from my family — he is worth every mile. I grew up in CA, where my Mom and I spent endless hours together working in the yard. I miss that terribly. The soil here in Idaho isn’t the best, and so gardening is a challenge.
Because we are a little older than most newlyweds, we don’t have years that we can wait to start a family. As our hearts are set on this goal of having children, our wish is that we could have a beautiful yard — one that we could make memories in. I remember fond memories from my childhood, playing out in the yard with my family and friends.
I don’t really have room to ask for another wish to come true. Finding my darling husband was the greatest wish come true I could imagine. Thanks for your consideration. Best wishes.
~ Katie in Idaho
Katie
Looks like you either just did celebrate your 1 year anniversary or are about to….so congrats. We are celebrating today!!!
Chris
Chris, my husband and I enjoy watching the show so much. We actually are Cape residence ourselves and We actually have a mutual friend in the area. My husband and I were joking and wondering if we we could be considered for the show. Of course we could fund the project ourselves, but could definitely use guidance. Our lawn looks like Plants come here to die. We have a beautiful little house but the lawn looks like a battlefield. Please let us know and we would be more than happy to submit some pictures for your viewing. We really appreciate it and I hope you prosper and have a wonderful season……….John and Jen Stewart \Bourne Ma.
John and Jen
Send me an email and let me see what this “battlefield” yard looks like!!
clambton13@gmail.com
Who is the mutual friend?
Chris
Welcome to the team! When are you coming to Texas? No one comes to help us Texans on our yards.
I Have a large, blank slate yard… too much grass – which I’m allergic to. You wanna help me and my husband out? lol
I’m sure you are taken where the HGTV wind blows you.
Kelly
My wife lived in Dallas for 6 years so I have been to Texas many times!!! You are right it is a tough place to landscape since its so hot and arrid and since you are allergic to grass its just as well anyway!
Chris
Hey Chris…Congratulations on your personal and professional life. Me and my husband are faithful fans of yours. We love watching the amazing transformations that you do. My husband designed and built a Gazebo in the back yard and it was great. We never got to finish the back yard due to my husband being diagnosed with cancer last May. He is cancer free but had to have extensive surgery and chemo and radiation. It will be another year or 2 before he will be able to try and get back to a new normal. I loved our backyard. He started scraping and was not able to keep it up. Our back yard looks like a ” Sanford and Son” back yard. Makes me sad to even go back there anymore. We used to have outdoor parties and get togethers. We sure could use your help….would love to hear from you…thanks for listening and good luck with your new show…#1 fans from Florida….
Gayle
Glad to hear that you husband has beaten cancer….what a horrible disease it is. Sounds like in 2 years you will have to have a huge Cancer Free celebration in your backyard!!
Chris
Chris, Just watched your show while working out at the gym yesterday. Love, love, love what you did for the family “Outdoor Room With a View” episode! Your wife is also extremely talented and I think it is fabulous you are collaborating on this show together. Though living in rural eastern Oregon puts me off the HGTV makeover grid, I was wondering if you might be willing to tell me where you (or your wife) purchased the pillows/or fabric for the gazebo in this episode?
Hey, how about this…an episode called” “Going Yard Rural Challenge”…you and your crew come out to my place. We have a nice, modest home on the river with large backyard that has HUGE potential. The challenge of course would be that you would you would be 2 to 3 hours away from the nearest Lowe’s or Home Depot!
Congratulations, to you both and have a blast!
Suzy
Suzy
hahahah…Going Yard Rural edition I love it.
We got all the pillows and fabric in the gazebo from homegoods and pier 1 and you can order those online and have them shipped so no need to trudge 3 hours to find them!!
Chris
I was wondering if your show travels all over the US? If so, have you ever done a yard in Louisiana? I love your show and all of your work. I would love a little bit of help to design my yard. It’s a blank slate, so I’m pretty open to anything. Thanks in advance
Tasha
We mainly stay on good ole Cape Cod. I would love to head to Lousiana though!!
Chris
Hi Chris,
My husband and i watch your show a lot and love all the stuff you have done. We have been trying to find out how to get on your show. We bought a house 8 months ago in AZ and we love our front yard but our back yard is just dirt and it gets hot here too, we have been trying to find ways to make the yard have shade and where the kids can out back in the middle of summer and still keep cool and we can entertain our friends and family too. is there any ideas you can share with us? or how do we apply to be on your show? we look foward to hear from you.
thank you
Annalisha and Michael
Annalisha and Michael
SO glad you like wataching the show!!! Would love to landscape in AZ especially in the long, cold winters we get here in New England. Keep checking on hgtv.com to find out how apply.
Chris
I saw your show yesterday and loved it! I have an older home with a large yard. Our home was built in the 1930′s and I’ve lived here 19 years. I do not have the magic touch that you do. My yard needs help in the worst way!! However I live in Missouri, near Kansas City. I wish that you could transform my yard into something beautiful. Desperate in kc.
Desperate in KC
So glad that you like the show!!!
Keep checking on HGTV.com to find out how to apply for not just my show but all of their shows!
Chris