O’Connor says his role as host has always been to act as proxy for the show’s fans, asking the questions they would ask if these pros were working on their homes. In addition to fronting This Old House and its sister series, Ask This Old House, O’Connor serves on the editorial board of This Old House magazine and authored the 2011 book The Best Homes from This Old House. O’Connor has been honing this skill of asking informed questions that elicit useful answers from professional craftspeople for 15 years, making him the longest-running host of a show that’s drawn home-improvement viewers for four decades. “So, how far above the roofline are you shooting for here?” asks O’Connor (MBA’99), prompting Hawkins to explain how he calculated the height of the chimney cap based on the pitch of the home’s roof. Kevin O’Connor, host of the venerable PBS television series This Old House, stands on a roof in Newton, Mass., helping fireplace installer Jonathan Hawkins attach the final sections of a new chimney pipe.
Crafting a Covetable Career How Kevin O’Connor went from Questrom to PBS’ This Old Houseīy Corinne Steinbrenner / Photographs by Tony Luong
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