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In the fall of 1993, after sifting through nearly 200 proposals, we joined with homeowners Lauren and Dean Gallant for one of our favorite projects: the renovation of their 1907 Victorian in Belmont, MA.

Norm builds a tall pine clock based on an English country clock found on London's King's Road

Norm builds a secretary writing desk out of pine

Although Norm researched arbors in old England, the one that he builds is inspired by versions from the New England island of Nantucket

Norm's version of the indispensable kitchen staple, the butcher block, features a hard endgrain maple top instead of the usual parallel grain. Go to The New Yankee Workshop to see measured drawings for all projects

Norm teaches viewers how to make flat panel doors as well as glass panel doors for the display area of this English country cupboard

Norm Abram builds a four-shelf hanging corner cupboard, inspired by an 18th-century original, is built from hard sinker pine but has a plywood carcass to bolster stability

Norm's take on a sideboard is white oak with three drawers, fiddle-shaped legs and a pot board (a large open shelf between the legs for storage)

Norm Abram builds a simple, versatile English country pantry table that can serve as a bedside table, writing desk and more

Norm creates two outdoor planters: one that's square with raised panels and a second that's simpler, larger and rectangular, with vertical slats

Norm Abram shows how to build a Delft rack - an oak rack that is the ideal way to display china and figurines - with a cornice molding built up from up five different-shaped pieces of wood that "read" as one

This tall English country plant stand is perfect for a temperamental fern

Norm builds his version of a perennial favorite, the Victorian kitchen table, using a design that combines the best features of three tables he studied in Britain

Steve and Norm drive up to the site with only two days left.