
This Old House Makers
Brad installs vinyl flooring in his laundry room and designs a nightstand with cutout walnut drawer fronts, adding a hidden compartment with a secret button.

Brad installs vinyl flooring in his laundry room and designs a nightstand with cutout walnut drawer fronts, adding a hidden compartment with a secret button.

Chris and Shaun transform a leftover slab into a modern epoxy desk then, Chris installs built-in living room cabinets.

After a big design idea for a dining table goes wrong, Chris and Shaun pivot and share tips for taking math out of woodworking.

Quebec-based woodworker and avid skateboarder Andrew Szeto upcycles skateboard decks to make custom designs with 44 million skateboards produced yearly, the resource for creative reuse is endless.

In the last installment of April's deck renovation, she adds deck skirting and builds an underdeck storage area with sliding drawers before applying a stain finish.

In part two of April's deck renovation, she shares tips for building stairs, including how to calculate rise and run then, she installs a plunge pool with a nailable stone exterior.

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 is back in the workshop she designs a simple machine to help her bend sheet metal, makes a stainless-steel dead blow mallet, and transforms an old suitcase into a portable kitchen.

Continuing her camper conversion project, Laura installs a folding ramp, installs insulation, and adds solar power and a metal roof rack.

Jamison and Jamie reframe the tiny first-floor bath at the lake house and, upstairs, install a new guest bath they share how to transform a space with peel-and-stick wallpaper.

Jamison builds a kitchen island with a breakfast bar and seating in the lake house and encloses a steel I-beam spanning the first floor ceiling and wraps the support post in matching panels.

Anne gives Adam a guitar kit to build together over the holidays Adam leaves his corporate job and realizes how much work managing a farm can be.

Anne's dream of building a crafts school hits significant roadblocks, with an outcome that culminates in smiles through tears.

Jason tears out an old window bench in his home and designs a new built-in to replace it.

Jason makes an upholstered headboard for a bedframe he built from black walnut.

In part 3, with the porch decking installed, Jimmy repairs water damage, replaces the front door threshold, installs new porch columns, and seals and repaints the ceiling beadboard.

Tyler modifies a custom press brake and steel dies for precision cutting and bending Tyler experiments with a motorized windshield wiper to scrape food off plates.

The brainstorming and prototyping stage includes inventing, building, innovating and collaborating.

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