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Tyler Cameron might be best known for losing out on Hannah Brown’s hand as the runner-up on the 2019 season of “The Bachelorette.” But now, he’s embarking on a new path to stardom on the renovation reality show “Going Home With Tyler Cameron.”
On the Prime Video series (premiering on Thursday), the 31-year-old reality TV star follows in the footsteps of his father, who is a general contractor, and builds up his Image 1 Construction business in his hometown of Jupiter, FL.
We had a heart-to-heart with Cameron about what he’s learned renovating homes—including one left behind by his late mother—as well as how his new gig got him back in touch with “Bachelorette” Hannah Brown. He also opened up about his time in the “The Bachelorette” mansion in Agoura Hills, CA, and why he thinks the famous residence is in need of a “complete gut” job. (Hear him out, and you might very well agree.)
My pops used to bring me to his job sites all the time, and I would sit on his lap and be on the skid steer with him. I remember when I just got to be able to drive, I saw one of the lots was all dirt, so I was like, “I’m going to take this truck in the dirt and run it around.” I got it stuck right away.
He would always take me to go clean the lots, so I was like, “I don’t want to come anymore. I don’t want to just clean; I want to learn.”
I’ve had to learn now because I didn’t get to really learn back then.
On the show, you get to see the learning process. I’m not perfect. What I love about this show is, a lot of people come on these shows and they want to look perfect, they want to let you know they know everything.
I want you to see that I’m going to grow, and you’re going to grow with me.
[I’m] earning my stripes. I’m taking my lumps, getting some bruises along the way, but it’s been incredible.
We’ve got a lot of projects in front of us. I’m doing two in Jacksonville right now, I’m doing my house, I’m looking to buy another house, and we’re starting three more spec homes.
I’m always on Realtor.com®. Literally, every night I’m looking at properties. I’m looking for the next home to renovate and turn into a short-term rental. I’ve had some success with that, and I’m going to keep trying to find more and more of those.
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A complete gut. When I was in there in 2019, I was like, this is cool, it’s big, [but] it needs a lot of work. It’s a beautiful mansion, but it’s just dated.
I remember the vanities in the bathroom being cheap, needing to be redone. There [were] like six bunk beds to one little room. We could renovate the mansion. They need it! It could be such a cool Spanish-style home.
I bought a 1970s home, and it literally was not touched since the 1970s. It had a lot of old wood paneling that was falling off the wall, so we took it all off. We gutted it.
I love the character of this house, so we’re keeping the character, but we’re adding to it now. Every room is getting touched. We’re doing all the bathrooms, redoing living rooms, dining rooms, kitchen—everything’s getting done.
I didn’t want to go modern. I wanted something that was timeless. It’s got [these] cool columns in front, except it has no windows, so we’re going to put windows in. By the time we’re done, it’ll have a nice Colonial feel to it.
The inside, I’m trying to do a French cottage vibe to it, so a lot of stone, a lot of earthy tones, and it’ll be really pretty.
We did some really cool green and white marble checkered tile in the dining [room] and kitchen—that’ll be fun. And we’re doing some darker brown cabinets that I think will play really well with the green and white marble.
We built one on the show [for] my buddy Brent. It was dark, it had these sick wood panels on the walls and under lighting, it was sexy. It had this beautiful skin rug hung over the bed.
We macked out his whole bathroom: We did the floating concrete sink and dark shower walls—he’s got, like, six jets.
And it worked because once we built this thing, he got in a serious relationship [and] got the girl pregnant. It’s no longer a bachelor pad, it’s going to be a baby pad soon. I can’t wait for people to see that room because I want a room like that.
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We were in a little bit of a predicament [because] we were in the middle of renovating two houses. Our client, who has the dream house you want to work on—the big house on the water, one of my favorite homes in Jupiter I’ve always walked by—[said], “We want to do our bedroom. We want to do our closet.”
I was like, “We have to say yes. We can’t say no because we’re too busy. We [have] got to find a way.”
[This client] found me through “The Bachelorette” world, and she, of course, loves Hannah. I was mulling on it and was like, “Hannah does have a design background,” so I gave her a call and was like, “Can I pull a favor?”
She was all for it, and she was incredible. I’ve got to give it to her. She worked her tail off. The design is beautiful, and the people are so happy.
It was incredible. It’s very bittersweet in that I wish we were going to hand her the keys to that house. That she’s not here now makes it tough, but we did it the way she would’ve wanted.
She always wanted a beautiful outdoor space; she always wanted a pool. She always loved to entertain, and so we wanted to make sure that this house was great for entertaining.
My mom made it a home when she was living there, and when she passed, it kind of became a wreck. So to build it back, to make it a home again, to make it somewhere special that me and my family could always use, is special and something that we’ll cherish forever.
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When you’re going to renovate a home, the best things to do [are] live in the house a little bit, feel it out, understand the quirks of the house, and understand what spaces you use the most—what’s most important to you in the house.
Take some time to figure that out, and then really plan it out and stick to that plan.
When you start getting off that plan, or if you don’t even plan it out, that’s when you start busting your budget, that’s when you start going over time, and that’s kind of what I’m doing right now with my own house!
I was like, “Let’s just rip it apart. Let’s just get it over with.” Now I’m going back and making changes two or three times because I’m like, “Actually, I want to do this now.”
Getting a plan and truly sticking to that plan will help protect your budget and save you time.
One of the things we kept seeing with a lot of our clients is they would try to fix things and do things themselves, and then it would be just like 80% done.
When you start doing a lot of 80% projects throughout the house, then it starts to add up. You’re like, “Damn, there’s a lot of this house that’s not finished.”
Sometimes it is just better to call somebody and get it done right. Call Image 1—we get it done for you!
All eight episodes of “Going Home With Tyler Cameron” start streaming on Prime Video on April 18.
Karli Mullane is an entertainment journalist and host who covers celebrity lifestyle and news.
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