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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.

Steve sees progress on the house with general contractor Rick Groden. Norm talks with Brian Stamp about a concrete pour meant to strengthen faulty arches in the porch section.

Norm sees how the plaster walls are being patched and finished, while Steve tours the grounds with landscape architect Kevin Holler.

Steve helps tree cutter Tony Sisto take down a dead tree, with some difficulty, while Norm checks the installation of the house’s new air-conditioning system.

Norm sees the roofing replaced with modified bitumen membrane system, Steve meets with the architect and homeowner’s daughter Mary Ellen Frank.

Steve and Norm find a 1917 Mediterranean Revival-style home that was directly in the path of Andrew, surviving structurally intact but with significant water damage.

Steve and Norm arrive with the entertainment center. Tom installs prefabricated cherry-veneer panelling. Don Martini shows Steve the security system. The crew and homeowners unite for the wrap party.

Jeff Hosking and crew install a floating strip floor system, while Norm continues work on the entertainment center at the workshop. Tom is installing maple stair treads.

Steve visits an iron fabrication shop to see how the front railings are being put together. Roger Cook plants pre-owned tree. Norm trims out a dormer window.

Lighting designer Melissa Guenet gives Steve a tour of the lights going into the new great room and kitchen. Norm works on the carcass and inlaid panels of the Igoes’ new entertainment center.

Norm builds an outdoor lidded bench out of reclaimed cypress reclaimed from a river in rural Georgia

Steve arrives on site to find the granite steps installed but Herb Brockert’s grading work in the backyard halted by the snow. Norm puts in the columns at the front entrance.

Steve finds Tom Silva installing the doors. Tom shows the process of installing french doors.

Steve arrives and they talk about the debate over a doorway in the library. Norm goes to view a fire test.

om Worth gives Steve an update on the layout. Inside, Rich Trethewey shows Steve the plastic tubing that has made rough plumbing proceed quickly.

Roger Hopkins is at work on the new landscaping. Norm and Tom Silva struggle to make the mitred corners on the redwood clapboards match up.

Tom Silva and Norm prepare an opening to accept a new window. Steve discusses various parts of the library’s design, and we see how mason Lenny Belleveau built the library’s fireplace.

The timber trusses are craned into place in the new addition, with stressed-skin panels following to form the new roof. Norm and Steve examine the architectural shingles that are going on the new roof.