Million Dollar Contractor

Licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka teams up with superstar designer Thom Felicia to give an apartment on Central Park West a facelift. Highlights include a completely new kitchen, and a former maid's room will be upgraded into a mother-in-law suite. Design never looked this good.

What is an 18,000 square foot apartment missing? A listening room, of course! Licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka and a team of audio engineers build a room that is perfectly suited to listening to music, while also pleasing to the eye. That means no flat surfaces anywhere in the room, special acoustic fabrics and building materials, and engineers' tests to confirm perfect audio clarity. The client charges Fanuka to build the best listening room in the world, and he delivers nothing less.

The Central Park West apartment featured in this episode is exquisite - except for the dated kitchen. Licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka and his team are brought in to modernize the space with custom European finishings, and reconfigure a barely-used formal dining room into a multipurpose family room.

Licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka pulls out all the stops in this Upper West Side pre-war beauty. Highlights include a stunning new floor with a pattern made from four different species of wood (at a cost of $100k), a master bathroom decorated in floor-to-ceiling granite slabs, and a kitchen made from a rare and beautiful African hardwood called Anigre.

Licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka takes on his biggest challenge yet when he builds a solarium on the roof of a Central Park West apartment building. It's challenging feat of engineering 17 stories above the city. Expect cranes, street closures, and an army of workers, all with Stephen Fanuka at the helm.

In this episode, licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka takes on a challenge - can he deliver "Million Dollar" quality on a fraction of the price? He attempts to do just that when he renovates and updates a public school teacher's studio apartment. Meanwhile, his team designs and installs a massive, six-hundred-pound pocket door in a spacious and modern riverfront apartment.

The renovation of the huge Upper East Side apartment continues as this episode follows the "private" spaces - the master suite, kids' bedrooms and bathrooms. This renovation incorporates the rarest materials like Thassos pure white marble (priced at $100 per square foot), a hallway lit by concealed LEDs and over-the-top built-ins in every room. Every inch of this apartment is designed and executed to perfection.

High design meets family life in this enormous Upper East Side apartment. This episode follows the renovation of the "public" spaces - the kitchen, dining room and two living rooms, which feature handmade Venetian plaster moldings, custom pocket doors, and Stephen Fanuka's trademark cabinetry in every room.

Stephen Fanuka is the first contractor ever asked to design and build a room in the prestigious Kips Bay Decorator's Show House. The eyes of the New York design community are on him as he transforms a boring old laundry room into a futuristic, sci-fi masterpiece.

Stephen is hired to do a small bathroom renovation for a client's Upper East Side pied-a-terre. But when the team discovers the apartment plumbing isn't up to code, the size of the project increases dramatically. Murphy's Law is in full effect as this small job becomes a big headache.

Nate Berkus has bought the apartment of his dreams in Greenwich Village. The famous designer and television host has enlisted Stephen as he renovates, redesigns and rushes to finish the space for Nate to move in. The team focuses on the first-floor library, which boasts 11-foot-high bookcases, custom-fabricated steel doors and an antique French fireplace, in addition to the upstairs dressing room with massive built-in cabinetry. At the same time, Fanuka is also hard at work building a custom study for a Long Island mansion.

To succeed as a contractor in New York, you have to do a few favors - and in this episode, licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka helps his friends, designers Ed Ku and Etienne Coffinier, as they design and build a room for the 2010 Kips Bay Decorator's Show House. With only two weeks to transform a featureless room into an elegant living space, Fanuka Inc. pulls out all the stops to execute Ed and Etienne's vision and in doing so, impress the world design community. At the same time Stephen pushes his crew harder than ever to get a Central Park West Apartment done in time for the family to move in.

Stephen Fanuka and his team are tasked with turning a massive penthouse condo into the ultimate New York bachelor pad. With a top-of-the-line chef's kitchen, a walk-in closet with custom cabinetry and a 700-pound walnut floor-to-ceiling swivel room divider in the theater room, see what challenges the team faces during the complete renovation of this $10 million apartment.

When a favorite client asks Million Dollar Contractor host and licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka to renovate her kitchen, he's thrilled -until he hears the three month deadline for a renovation that should take five. When overseas vendors, unforeseen problems and last-minute changes threaten to derail this renovation every step of the way, Team Fanuka comes together to conquer one of their biggest jobs ever.

In an apartment full of high-end details, Million Dollar Contractor host and licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka has the unique challenge of building a custom refrigerated wine room and wet bar. It's a small room, but a massive challenge as the team struggles to combine sophisticated engineering with uncompromised aesthetics.

Million Dollar Contractor host and licensed contractor Stephen Fanuka is renovating a massive duplex apartment, giving a contemporary look to a classic space. His client's budget is limitless, but so are the expectations. This project combines rare materials, fine finishes and custom millwork to create a stunning apartment.

Fanuka is gut-renovating a sprawling apartment with three bedrooms and soaring ceilings, combining modern touches with traditional elegance. Everything is custom - from mirrors and glass to window treatments - and when the apartment is finished, it will be a space that any New Yorker would envy.

In a pre-war apartment that's seen better days, Fanuka is tasked with restoring the wood-paneled dining room to its former glory. But when demolition in the apartment goes too far, it's up to Fanuka to recreate hundred-year-old craftsmanship.

Fanuka's clients own a one bedroom apartment, and they've purchased the studio next door. Now it's up to Fanuka to combine the spaces and give his clients the master bedroom of their dreams.

Fanuka Inc has built thousands of bookshelves, but Stephen takes on a new challenge when he's asked to build a study with a secret door housed in a bookcase. Meanwhile, Fanuka gives his own backyard an upgrade - complete with a wood-burning pizza oven.

Stephen Fanuka has been working with wood for decades, but when he's called on to construct a traditional wood-panelled dining room with an incredible level of detail, his years of experience will be put to the test.

In this unique renovation, Fanuka is asked to turn a two-bedroom apartment into a one-bedroom master suite, complete with his-and-hers dressing rooms, and a custom kitchen - all on an incredibly tight deadline.

Last year, Fanuka Inc. replaced the rooftop solarium in an exclusive penthouse on Central Park West. Now it's time to renovate the rest of the apartment, and it will prove a challenge for Stephen and his new project manager Peter. Every inch of the apartment is beautifully finished with built-in walnut cabinetry and rare materials like wallpaper that's actually made of stone.

In this special episode, Fanuka teams up with celebrity chef Marcus Samuelson to renovate a kitchen in a needy Harlem YMCA. Meanwhile, in a downtown loft, he takes on the challenge of expanding an industrial-chic kitchen.

In this Upper West Side gut renovation, Fanuka is focusing on the kitchen and dining room, and both rooms require exquisite custom millwork. Fanuka goes to extremes to achieve the highest quality, travelling halfway across the country to select the actual trees that he will use to build his cabinets, and risking life and limb to get a 600-pound stone countertop into this eighth-story apartment.

Fanuka Inc has a massive challenge - renovate and a restore an uptown apartment with over 100 years of history, and seamlessly blend new wood paneling with century-old millwork. Meanwhile, Stephen and his team are called in to fix a crumbling kitchen in Tribeca.

Famed director Penny Marshall enlists Stephen Fanuka and his contracting team to split her massive duplex penthouse into two apartments. Meanwhile, project manager Peter focuses on a one bedroom renovation that has a French atmosphere.

Contractor Stephen Fanuka is tasked with converting an open loft space into a lovely modern apartment. Converting a commercial space into a luxury residence presents challenge upon challenge, but the team comes together with fabulous results.

Stephen Fanuka and his client work closely together to build the ultimate bachelor rooftop patio, complete with custom grill and outdoor entertainment center. As the project moves forward, the client decides to expand the job's scope, and the entire apartment is renovated top to bottom.

The Fanuka craftsmen renovate a classic seven apartment with beautiful results, and create a small custom built home office for a previous client.

Fanuka is hard at work renovating of a small apartment but runs into some big issues when quality control starts to slip. Meanwhile, the Fanuka team helps designer Elizabeth Bolognino on a charity project.

Fanuka and his team cope with a client's curveballs when what starts as a big project gets smaller and smaller. Meanwhile, a smaller project becomes a bigger headache when cabinets don't match.

The Fanuka Inc team completely reimagine a large upper west side apartment to better accommodate the client. When the project runs into plumbing issues the team must rally to finish in time.

Stephen Fanuka heads to Connecticut to build a sprawling 10,000 square foot vacation house for his city-dwelling client's country retreat. It's an ambitious project, but the results are nothing short of stunning.