Paul Lafrance is a television personality on HGTV Canada. He is from Ajax, Ontario, Canada, with his business located in Pickering, Ontario.
Lafrance has been a host on several shows, including Decked Out, Deck Wars, and is a celebrity judge on the second season of Canada's Handyman Challenge. He is also slated to host Disaster Deck, a new series that HGTV is still casting homeowners with deck problems to participate in.
Biography
Lafrance owns local Pickering, Ontario building company Cutting Edge Construction and Design. Lafrance is also the owner/operator and CEO of Paul Lafrance Design, which specializes in high-end custom deck designs servicing North America.
Lafrance's company has made a name for itself by generating innovative custom deck designs for over 15 years. He has designed and built over one thousand five hundred decks across Southern Ontario.
Lafrance is also known for his love of music and composition. HGTV describes his background as both a musician and a deck builder as an edge that gives him the creativity needed to offer the one-of-a-kind deck concepts that transform backyards.
He was offered his own television show after doing a miracle makeover segment on Breakfast Television. The show, Decked Out follows Lafrance and his decking company to jobs where Lafrance attempts to make a mini oasis for people in their backyard. While filming Decked Out, Lafrance completed work on Deck Wars, a reality game show that pits two teams against each other with Lafrance presiding over as judge.
Lafrance describes himself as easily bored and a "counter-culture guy". He says his philosophy around decking comes from a war vet friend who told him decks were places of rest in a crazy world. Lafrance struggled in school, ultimately dropping out, and was told to go into the trades. He is known for being energetic and at one point was working on Decked Out and Deck Wars while developing Disaster Deck.
Lafrance is also a musician and was active in the Christian music scene in Ontario. He was a musician before he was a carpenter. His band, Found in the Fury, released Songs from the Cave in 2012.
His work has been featured on several Holmes on Homes, Breakfast Television, and Holmes Inspection.
In a television interview concerning the opening of his new art gallery, L'Artisan, in the Nautical Village of Pickering, Ontario.
Filmography
Decked Out
Deck Wars — host
Canada's Handyman Challenge — judge
House of Bryan — guest star, deck builder
Disaster Decks
Home to Win — guest builder
Custom Built
See also
Mike Holmes
Bryan Baeumler
Scott McGillivray
References
External links
Paul Lafrance Design
1974 births
Living people
Canadian television hosts
Canadian performers of Christian music
People from Pickering, Ontario
Place of birth missing (living people)