Surprising Spring City Home to be Featured on HGTV

You might pass the National Bank of Spring City every day on Main Street in Spring City and never realize you’re looking at a meticulously redesigned home.

The well-kept but nondescript front façade hides a house that is a work of art, remodeled and refurbished by local jeweler Cathy Calhoun, of Calhoun’s Jewelers in Royersford.

Now, Calhoun’s home has caught the eye of HGTV, a channel known for showing off interesting and amazing homes.

The shoot was for a show called “You Live in What?” to air on HGTV in 2013.

Calhoun was just contacted two weeks ago, and the shoot came together very quickly. A crew of four assembled on September 26 to shoot Calhoun’s bank-turned-home .

Calhoun worked at the National Bank of Spring City as a teller. It was her first job, before she went to work in the jewelry industry.

When the bank closed in 1989, Calhoun’s former boss contacted her, thinking it might be a good jewelry store location. Calhoun liked the bank building but thought it wouldn’t have enough foot traffic to work as a jewelry store.

However, the details of the building really captured her imagination. She bid on the property and won the building and all its contents.

It’s now a three-bedroom home, but Calhoun has left many of the bank details intact, such as the vault doors, the wall of safe-deposit boxes, and the spiraling wooden stair going to the second floor. The home has been decorated in a modern, colorful style with bright prints and bold colors.

The exact airdate for the episode is currently unknown.