Vanilla Ice - Rapper, Reality Star and Home Remodeling Expert

When you mention the name Vanilla Ice, most people only remember the
rapper with the bad haircut and that interminable hook that gets stuck
in your head before you can stop it.However that was a long time ago,
over twenty years in fact, and these days Rob Van Winkle is still
making a lot of money but in a very different way, as a new show
debuting on the cable channel The DIY Network showcases.For the last
two decades Van Winkle has been a "house flipper" and he says that
even in a down real estate market he's still making money.The new show
"The Vanilla Ice Project", began on Thursday October 14th at 9pm. The
first episode chronicled one of his current remodeling projects, a
7,000 square foot mansion in Wellington, Florida.He paid $420,000 for
the house and after adding $300,000 in home improvements he intends to
put it on the market for a cool $1 million.Exactly what has Ice added
to the home so far? A full home theater in the attic is just one of
the new features and it not only boasts electric curtains but "mood
sensing" lighting as well.Perhaps the most surprising thing about all
this is that Van Winkle does most of the actual remodeling work
himself. Upcoming episodes of the show feature Ice and his new crew
creating a racetrack in the garage, completely renovating a swimming
pool and installing some very high end cabinets in a formerly
dilapidated kitchen which had been ruined when the previous occupants
decided to rip out and take most of the built ins with them.