In fact, his work as a hairstylist helped him in renovating the home he moved into just over a year ago.

"I consider what I do at work art because it's sculpture with color," Schrecengost says. "Really, anything you do in life is art."

With that attitude, the HGTV-Discovery-and-Learning-Channel-taught handyman set about reconstructing the interior of his 1940's era house.

He wanted to make it his own, and found the easiest avenue was through color. For that, he listened to what the rooms had to say.

"I sat in each room for hours, sometimes days," Schrecengost says. "I let it tell me what it wanted to be."

Though he has yet to renovate the kitchen, Schrecengost is very happy with the place he's chosen to live.

Not only is it surrounded by pecan and oak trees, it has a big backyard and a swing, which he made sure stayed with the house by specifying it in the contract, but it also has character.

"I love older homes," he says. "It's just got more personality."

And of the difficulty level of renovation, he says, "all you need is a ladder, Home Depot and a little bit of elbow grease."