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About Us |
| About HomeTips |
HomeTips provides on-line help to homeowners and produces home-improvement books,
web content, and related material for businesses.
HomeTips.com was started in a tree house in 1996 by home-improvement author Don
Vandervort. "In the early years, the Web site was little more than an electronic
business card for my writing work," says Vandervort, who converted a kid's clubhouse
into an office that he used for writing home-improvement books. Now, a decade later,
HomeTips is thriving with more than 800,000 visitors each month--and it has moved to
more conventional offices in Glendale, California. Today, HomeTips.com is rated one
of the Web's top home-improvement sites.
Don Vandervort, CEO and founder of HomeTips, wrote his first home improvement book
in the early 1970s and, since then, has written, edited, or produced more than 30
books, including the 560-page Lowe's Complete Home Improvement & Repair, The Home
Problem Solver (Perseus Books), and Home Magazine's How Your House Works (Ballantine).
Nationally recognized as a home improvement authority, Don performed as the segment host
on the Telly-award-winning HGTV show "The Fix," and has been featured as a home-improvement
expert on Dan Rather's 48 Hours (CBS News), many segments of ABC Television's HOME show,
and the HGTV shows "Help at Home" and "Working from Home." He has worked as a spokesperson
for Proctor & Gamble and American Standard.
Vandervort’s two sons also work with HomeTips. Gabriel, formerly a writer/producer of
shows for The History Channel is in charge of Web Development, and Christian, a
cinematographer and film editor, heads up New Media. A talented team of seasoned writers
and editors work with HomeTips to create expert content, including Louise Damberg, Kristinha
Anding, Michael Morris, Andrew A. Hunt, and Shelley Stewart.
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