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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|6|20}}<ref name=bc/>
|birth_place = [[Miami]], Florida, U.S.
|education = [[University of Florida]] (Journalism,<ref>
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==Early life and education==
Vila, a [[Cuban-American]], is a native of [[Miami]], [[Florida]]. When Vila was a child, his father built the family home by hand.<ref name=bc>{{cite web|title=Bob Vila – Television Host, entrepreneur|publisher=[[Biography Channel]]|url=http://www.biography.com/people/bob-vila|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622164740/https://www.biography.com/people/bob-vila|archive-date=June 22, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Vila graduated from [[Miami Jackson High School]]<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Miami Herald | date=September 11, 2005 | page=4H | last=Farrell | first=Jodi Mailander | title=Home expert strengthens house hit by Charley | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-bob-vila-high-school/133176646/}}</ref> and studied [[journalism]] at the [[University of Florida]].<ref>
==Career==
Vila was hired as the host of ''[[This Old House]]'' in 1979, after receiving the “Heritage House of 1978” award by ''[[Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)|Better Homes and Gardens]]'', for his restoration of a [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[Italianate]] house in [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]], [[Massachusetts]]. On ''This Old House'', Vila appeared with [[carpenter]] [[Norm Abram]] as they, and others, renovated houses. In 1989, he left the show following a disagreement arising from his involvement with outside commercial endorsements for [[New Jersey]]–based [[Rickel|Rickel Home Centers]],<ref name="Conflicts"/> and the subsequent retaliatory pulling of underwriting by Rickel's competitor, [[Home Depot]], and lumber supplier [[Weyerhaeuser]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110224011301/https://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117314,00.html Google News Archive Search] ''The Modesto Bee'' {{Dead link|date=May 2022}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Steve Thomas (television)|Steve Thomas]].
After leaving ''This Old House'', Vila
Vila also appeared on three episodes of the situation comedy ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' during 1992 and 1993 as himself on ''Tool Time'', the fictional show within the sitcom, where main character and cable TV host [[Tim Taylor (fictional character)|Tim Taylor]] (played by [[Tim Allen]]) saw him as a rival, and made futile attempts to outdo Vila. Contrary to ''Home Improvement'', when Allen was interviewed by ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' and asked if he could make a video game, Allen proposed one about aspects of carpentry, and the end scene would be the player being featured on ''Bob Vila's Home Again''.
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==== ''The Northeast'' ====
* [[Morris–Jumel Mansion]] overlooking the [[
* [[Dyckman House]] on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] in [[Upper Manhattan]].
* [[Hancock Shaker Village]] in western Massachusetts.
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