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Nashville home-flipping show considered by HGTV

Tony Gonzalez
tgonzalez@tennessean.com

Filming has wrapped on a pilot episode of a Nashville home-flipping show created by Mike Wolfe of "American Pickers."

Wolfe, an increasingly vocal proponent for historic preservation, said "Nashville Flipped" would tell the story of each renovated home, including through historical research, by delving into the surrounding neighborhood, and through stories told by past residents.

The show features local home flipper Troy Dean Shafer and interior designer Alexandra Cirimelli, who is a friend of Wolfe and owner of the Serenite Maison antique shop in Leiper's Fork. Locals Shaun Silva and Brian Friedman of Tacklebox Films shot the pilot in the past month at 331 Richardson Ave. in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in East Nashville. The home there was built in 1932.

"It's not your everyday flip," Friedman said. "They're not just ripping everything out to do it as cheap as possible. They're trying to give it life because someone is going to live there again."

The pilot could air on HGTV as soon as February, but a full series has not yet been greenlighted.

Here's an example of a recent project from Nashville Flipped: