A house owned by a church, to be sold to fund the day care center, is in need of major remodeling.

The pastor enlists three women to take on the project: Birdie (Pam Grier), Rose (Florence Henderson), and Elizabeth (Donna Mills).

They also make unlikely friendships with men at the local hardware store, and their intimidating neighbor, Junior.

Ladies of the House did fairly well for Hallmark Channel: it received a 1.9 household rating and delivered over 1.6 million homes and 2.9 million total viewers on the day of its premiere, ranking it as the second-highest-rated ad-supported cable movie of the week and boosting the network to rank sixth in Prime Time for the day.

The movie also doubled their October-to-date Prime Time rating among women between the ages of 25-54.