
This Old House Makers
Paul renovates his new barn workshop, designs a table from pallet wood, and creates a wooden map of Cape Cod.

Paul renovates his new barn workshop, designs a table from pallet wood, and creates a wooden map of Cape Cod.

Tyler builds the ultimate fly-defense mechanisms Tyler welds steel boxes in varying gauges to experiment with the expansion rate of ice and steel embrittlement.

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

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.

A recap of the journey to the marketplace.

With the posts and beams of his new timber-frame patio in place, Jason turns his attention to the ridge beam, rafters, and metal roof.

In part one of the timber frame patio project, Jason replaces his old pergola with a new post-and-beam frame using glued laminated timber beams.

Jason builds upper and lower laundry room cabinets with a corner cabinet lazy Susan, crafting the frames from three-quarter-inch plywood and finishing them with custom doors and a seamless face frame.

After 12 years remodeling his 1990s home room by room, Jason finally tackles the laundry room, adding poplar cabinets, a farmhouse sink, and butcher block counters.

Anne focuses on two bucket-list projects: converting an old motorcycle into a Cafe Racer and restoring a 1953 Chevy pickup into the ultimate farm vehicle.

Anne shares how finding the right teachers and learning environment can revolutionize how you learn then, Anne joins Stevie at her Built by Stevie workshop to make built-in cabinets with drawers.

Inspired by his original wavy vase, Paul makes a smaller version and carves a segmented bowl he makes penny boards from pallet wood with visiting makers Dylan and Molly from Woodbrew.

Laura repurposes discarded bicycle frames and materials for just about any cycling activity she welds a foldable sidecar from a broken wheelchair.

Experimenting with a broken grass trimmer, Laura builds a motorized raft Laura modifies a bike for festivals, adding a megaphone and a trailer to collect cups.

For his basement living room, Jamie builds a massive built-in entertainment center Jamie makes a "monster proof" canopy bed for his daughter and a platform bed with loft for his son.

Jamie shares some creative redesigns of traditional favorites: an outdoor bench for nature lovers, a shuffleboard table, and built-in bunk beds to maximize space.

Anne puts her welding and blacksmithing skills to the test, forging nail headers and a set of sturdy handles for her Dutch tool chest.

Anne builds a Dutch tool chest using a series of basic joineries the chest makes transporting her collection of custom tools easy and offers safe and secure storage.