It took six different power tools, a couple of saws and gritty determination for marketing specialist Kristen Coutts to complete her first renovation. Her goal was to improve her inner-city Toronto home, not necessarily to launch an entirely different career as a DIY influencer and host of her own renovation program on network television. Yet here we are.

Self-taught, extraordinarily competent and entertaining, Coutts has more than 200,000 Instagram followers and operates her own renovation company, Maisoncoutts. She is host of Beer Budget Renos, a 10-episode how-to program that premiered on Canada’s Home Network on Sept. 4. Her career, along with her personal home, has experienced a dramatic makeover in the past four years and it only began as a way to save money and share her discoverie

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