
This Old House Makers
April joins fellow maker Anne of All Trades in Seattle to build an 8-ft. x 12-ft. tiny house in seven days.

April joins fellow maker Anne of All Trades in Seattle to build an 8-ft. x 12-ft. tiny house in seven days.

Paul builds an 8-foot tall, 90-pound hammer from reclaimed southern yellow pine and makes a hand plane three times the original size.

Paul carves a bench from ash logs, gives the Adirondack chair a beefy design update, and makes a puzzle box with a hidden latch and a secret drawer.

Laura builds a coffee table from oak with mortise and tenon joinery, using a piece of her original workstation for the top continuing with table making, she designs a sideboard from an old workbench, but hits a speedbump.

Laura challenges herself to build a folding table that is collapsible, stable and also good-looking the result incorporates two of the three Laura builds a table with a dog bed for Smudo.

Tyler builds an over-engineered bottle opener or a pneumatically actuated rapid mobile bottle cap removal device he redesigns a "big, giant vise grip."

Diving deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating.

The teams go on a one-hour supply run in a hardware store to gather the materials to create their invention mentors from the product industry interface with the teams to share some of the real world challenges and processes in product development.

Meeting the teams and learning their back stories the teams learn the challenge and its rules, and they get started.

April shares a series of DIY builds, including a decorative storage bench with a flip-top lid, a cold smoker made from cedar, and a floating shelf for smaller personal items.

April shares two doghouse designs for the modern pup and builds a mobile propane-fueled, firepit coffee table with plenty of tabletop space for folks to put up their feet and rest their drinks.

April designs an adjustable coffee table, organizes the pots and pans in her kitchen, and makes a live-edged bench from a salvaged slab of pecan.

Jamison and Jamie share tips for laying bathroom tile and installing shiplap and trim they hang interior doors, put down flooring and add faux-wood ceiling beams.

The duo install custom garage doors with a high-lift track system, hang board and batten siding and design a curbless shower with niche shelving.

Jamison and Jamie's dream home takes shape as they install wiring, have retaining walls poured and design their dream kitchen.

Jamison and Jamie buy a plot of land and take the leap to build their family's dream home they excavate, pour the foundation and frame the exterior and interior walls.

Rectangle or round, Jamie designs and builds two different coffee table styles, each unique and straightforward to make.

Jamie makes an outdoor golf game similar to cornhole, builds a durable outdoor armchair, and finishes his walkout basement patio.

Anne transforms a used mandolin into a finely tuned instrument before walking through the planning of a garden after organizing her seeds into yes and no piles, she introduces the plant dibbler.

Anne builds a temporary structure from materials found around the farm for some new alpacas Anne demonstrates how to make a milking stool from firewood, turning each leg on a laithe.