The New Yankee Workshop
The New Yankee Workshop is a woodworking program produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash, the program is hosted by Norm Abram, a regular fixture on Morash's This Old House. The series aired for 21 seasons before...
The New Yankee Workshop
The New Yankee Workshop is a woodworking program produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash, the program is hosted by Norm Abram, a regular fixture on Morash's This Old House. The series aired for 21 seasons before broadcasting its final episode on June 27, 2009.
The New Yankee Workshop
The New Yankee Workshop is a woodworking program produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash, the program is hosted by Norm Abram, a regular fixture on Morash's This Old House. The series aired for 21 seasons before...
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First Season of the Series. Series host, Norm Abram, builds an oak medicine cabinet, an ash drop-leaf table, a pine blanket chest, a pine bedside table, an oak bathroom vanity, a cherry trestle table, a painted bookcase, a pine chest of drawers, a candle stand, a pine hutch, a maple slant-top writing desk, and a pine corner cupboard. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a workbench.
Episode 1: Medicine Cabinet
After a tour of The New Yankee Workshop to preview the collection of furniture he will build in the...
Episode 2: Workbench
A good workshop begins with a well-equipped workbench, and master woodworker Norm uses one from his...
Episode 3: Drop Leaf Table
Norm uses ash, a durable hardwood, to fashion a drop-leaf table featuring turned legs, a top and lea...
Episode 4: Blanket Chest
Norm travels to the island of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast to look at a handmade blanket ch...
Episode 5: Bedside Table
Norm constructs a bedside table inspired by one found at the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massa...
Episode 6: Oak Bathroom Vanity
Norm demonstrates how to build a bathroom vanity with dovetailed joints. He uses oak and a laminate...
Episode 7: Trestle Table
After a look at a pine trestle table in a Shaker house on the island of Nantucket off the Massachuse...
Episode 8: Bookcase
Norm builds a free standing bookcase with a cornice detail, adjustable shelves, and a removable base...
Episode 9: Chest of Drawers
Norm demonstrates how to build a chest of drawers using Ponderosa pine. He cuts and planes the wood,...
Episode 10: Candle Stand
Norm travels to the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts to gather ideas for his own desi...
Episode 11: Hutch
Norm demonstrates how to build a hutch using knotty pine. The hutch consists of a base cabinet that...
Episode 12: Writing Desk
Norm builds a writing desk with a slanted top that is constructed mostly of maple. The desk features...
Episode 13: Corner Cupboard
Norm constructs a corner cupboard of pine and plywood. His design employees a top section that is en...
Norm builds an ash rocking horse, a cypress Adirondack chair, a mahogany butler's table, a pine kitchen dresser, a pine hearthside settle, a poplar pencil-post bed, a maple and poplar chair table, a pine kitchen worktable, an oak mission-style sofa, a Chippendale mirror, a cherry chest-on-chest, a teak English garden bench, and an armoire entertainment center.
Episode 1: Rocking Horse
After a look at a collection of wooden toys at Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in...
Episode 2: Adirondack Chair
Norm designs his own version of the rustic Adirondack chair out of cypress, an excellent wood that n...
Episode 3: Butler's Table
Norm visits Kingscote, an elegant Gothic Revival house in Newport, Rhode Island, for a look at a mah...
Episode 4: Kitchen Dresser
After a look at an early 18th-century kitchen cupboard at Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history"...
Episode 5: Hearthside Settle
Norm travels to the Massachusetts harbor of Gloucester to look at a high-backed, curved hearthside s...
Episode 6: Pencil-Post Bed
Norm visits the Shelbourne Museum in Burlington, Vermont to examine an antique pencil-post bed with...
Episode 7: Chair Table
Norm drops in on the Fitch House in Old Sturbridge Village, central Massachusetts' "living history"...
Episode 8: Kitchen Worktable
Norm constructs a kitchen table that functions equally well as a dining table or a worktable. Built...
Episode 9: Mission Style Sofa
In a departure from the traditional New England-style furniture usually featured on The New Yankee W...
Episode 10: Chippendale Mirror
In a change of pace, Norm shows how to build picture and mirror frames, emphasizing tools and clamps...
Episode 11: Chest on Chest
With this eight-drawer, cherry chest-on-chest Norm simplifies a complicated project that may, at fir...
Episode 12: English Garden Bench
Norm leaves his trademark plaid shirt and jeans at home and dons a stylish suit and derby when he vi...
Episode 13: Armoire (Entertainment Center)
Norm winds up The New Yankee Workshop's second season with an armoire based on classic designs but a...
Norm builds a number of Shaker-inspired projects: step stools out of pine and cherry, a painted two-drawer blanket chest, a pine washstand, a walnut wall clock, a pine woodbox, and a cherry library table. He also builds a picnic table and sawhorses out of 2x6 stock, a sandbox, a cherry harvest table, a redwood garden swing, a cricket table, a pie safe, and a mahogany standing mirror.
Episode 1: Shaker Step Stools
Norm builds a three-step version of the classic Shaker step stool and a more elaborate two-step vers...
Episode 2: Picnic Table and Saw Horses
Norm builds a basic sawhorse crafted Spruce and Plywood and a one-piece picnic table. The sawhorse d...
Episode 3: Shaker Two Drawer Blanket Chest
Norm builds a Shaker style blanket chest using pine. He uses an acrylic latex paint to finish the ou...
Episode 4: Shaker Washstand
Norm uses Pine to build a classic Shaker washstand with dovetail joinery in the flared top section,...
Episode 5: Shaker Wall Clock
Based on a clock built by Shaker craftsman, Isaac Young, Norm crafts a wall clock from Walnut and ad...
Episode 6: Sandbox
Norm builds a sandbox modeled after one built for his sister and him by their father. He uses Cedar...
Episode 7: Harvest Table
Norm builds a harvest table from Cherry. It has turned legs and a hand-rubbed Danish oil finish. The...
Episode 8: Shaker Woodbox
Norm builds a wood box with storage space for kindling in an upper section and firewood in the lower...
Episode 9: Library Table
Norm crafts a Cherry library table. He demonstrates how to match the grain on the front of the two o...
Episode 10: Garden Swing
Norm builds a two-seat swing using Redwood and a swinging mechanism that uses common off-the-shelf h...
Episode 11: Cricket Table
Norm's hardwood cricket table is crafted with complex angled mortise and tenon joinery. He uses a se...
Episode 12: Pie Safe with Punched Tin Front
Norm's two-door pie safe has multiple shelves and is put together using mortise and tenon joints. He...
Episode 13: Standing Mirror
Norm uses a band saw to aid his in constructing a Mahogany frame for a full-length standing mirror....
Norm builds a cypress outdoor lidded bench, a child's wagon, a pallet-wood coffee table, a redwood gardener's work bench, a Shaker tall chest, white cedar colonial fences, a pine console table, an oak wheelbarrow, an oak umbrella stand, a maple and pine turned-post bed, a dove cote, and a cherry ladderback chair. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a rolling shop cabinet.
Episode 1: Rolling Shop Cabinet
Norm builds a rolling shop cabinet using several construction techniques and materials he hasn't use...
Episode 2: Outdoor Lidded Bench
Norm fashions an outdoor lidded bench from Cypress. The bench measurements are 55 1/4" high x 36" wi...
Episode 3: Child's Wagon
Norm builds a child's wagon with threaded rod axles with aluminum braces. He uses non toxic fire-eng...
Episode 4: Coffee Table
Norm uses recycled pallet wood to build a unique and rustic coffee table. He demonstrates how to pre...
Episode 5: Gardener's Workbench
Norm's gardener's workbench is constructed of Redwood. It has open shelves for pot storage and the p...
Episode 6: Shaker Tall Chest
Norm designs a tall Shaker style chest modeled after one he viewed at Hancock Shaker Village. The ch...
Episode 7: Colonial Fences
Norm demonstrates how to build four versions of a fence. He uses Eastern White Cedar to build a 6' g...
Episode 8: Console Table
Norm builds a simple, yet elegant, console table with a half-round top using knotty Pine. He crafts...
Episode 9: Wheelbarrow
Norm uses Oak to build a wheelbarrow. It features a pneumatic tire, removable sides and a medium den...
Episode 10: Umbrella Stand
Norm's umbrella stand is built from light Oak and features a mirror and clay pot holders to catch th...
Episode 11: Turned Post Bed
Norm uses Maple and Pine to build a four-poster single bed. It features robust turnings on the posts...
Episode 12: Dove Cote
Norm builds a dovecote modeled after an elaborate one found in Colonial Williamsburg. Smaller than t...
Episode 13: Ladder-back Chair
Norm builds a ladder-back chair using Cherry and demonstrates how to weave the seat. The chair measu...
Norm builds a Victorian kitchen table out of pine, a plant stand out of pine, an oak Delft rack, an oak coffee table, cypress outdoor planters, a pantry table, a white oak sideboard, a pine hanging corner cupboard, a pine cupboard, a poplar and maple butcher block, a redwood arbor, a pine secretary desk, and a tall pine clock.
Episode 1: Victorian Kitchen Table
Norm builds his version of a perennial favorite, the Victorian kitchen table, using a design that co...
Episode 2: Plant Stand
This tall English country plant stand is perfect for a temperamental fern. The trick to this relativ...
Episode 3: Delft Rack
Norm visits a private collection in an English castle and discovers a Delft rack from 1780. The Delf...
Episode 4: Oak Coffee Table
Americans are mad for coffee tables! Norm's version of this feature of modern life is inspired by th...
Episode 5: Outdoor Planters
Norm creates two outdoor planters: one that's square with raised panels and a second that's simpler,...
Episode 6: Pantry Table
This simple, versatile English country pantry table needn't be confined to the pantry: it can serve...
Episode 7: Sideboard
We call these buffets, huntboards or servers in America, but they're sideboards in England, and some...
Episode 8: Hanging Corner Cupboard
After searching London's renowned King's Road, Norm uncovers this unusual piece. He then teaches vie...
Episode 9: Pine Cupboard
Norm teaches viewers how to make flat panel doors as well as glass panel doors for the display area...
Episode 10: Butcher Block
Norm's version of the indispensable kitchen staple, the butcher block, features a hard endgrain mapl...
Episode 11: Redwood Arbor
Although Norm researched arbors in old England, the one that he builds is inspired by versions from...
Episode 12: Secretary Desk
Norm builds a secretary writing desk out of pine. Viewers can learn how to craft breadboard corners...
Episode 13: Tall Pine Clock
Norm suspects that the original of this English country clock found on London's King's Road, with it...
Norm builds a number of child-related projects, including an easel, a doll house, a maple and mahogany toy chest, a cradle out of cherry, a trundle bed, a marble roll, a rocking chair, an alphabet wagon, a high chair, and a playhouse. He also builds storage units and a student's desk out of oak.
Episode 1: Easel
Norm has thought of everything for this classic easel, combining his favorite elements from several...
Episode 2: Doll House
Adult viewers may be as excited about this doll house as the children it is intended for when Norm c...
Episode 3: Toy Chest
Combining functionality with simple fun, Norm's toy chest features a top with an inlaid checkerboard...
Episode 4: Cradle
Norm visits Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts for the inspiration behind this Earl...
Episode 5: Trundle Bed
A useful space-saving piece of furniture, the trundle bed is perfect for sleep-overs. The top bed is...
Episode 6: Marble Roll
Norm considers a historic example of the classic marble roll, as well as a huge mechanical version l...
Episode 7: Storage Units: Bureau/Cupboard and Bookcase
The storage units are essentially three projects in one: a chest of drawers, base cabinet and matchi...
Episode 8: Student's Desk
Norm builds this project for the "A" student in the house - a desk inspired by the memory of his own...
Episode 9: Rocking Chair
Children always want a chair that is their own size. Norm's is one they might someday pass on to the...
Episode 10: Alphabet Wagon
Norm builds an "Alphabet" wagon.
Episode 11: High Chair
Norm builds a high chair.
Episode 12: Playhouse (1)
Norm's blockbuster project for the sixth season is a playhouse that boys and girls alike will love....
Episode 13: Playhouse (2)
Norm's blockbuster project for the sixth season is a playhouse that boys and girls alike will love....
Norm tackles a number of larger projects including a Clancy boat and a Gazebo. He also builds a cherry X-brace trestle table, a pine pergola, a mahogany TV tray table, an outdoor garden table and Lutyens bench out of teak, a cherry bathroom vanity, picture frames, a pine quilt rack, and a pine chimney cupboard.
Episode 1: X-Brace Trestle Table
Norm visits Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to inves...
Episode 2: Pergola
What better way to enjoy a hot summer day than from the shade of a graceful arbor? A perfect complem...
Episode 3: TV Tray Table
True to its name, this handsome mahogany piece is actually a tray and table in one: the tray feature...
Episode 4: Outdoor Garden Table
It's been next to impossible to find an outdoor side or coffee table - until now. Norm builds a low...
Episode 5: Cherry Bathroom Vanity
Norm builds a cherry bathroom vanity based on one he designed for his own home, guiding the woodwork...
Episode 6: Lutyens Bench
Norm finds his inspiration for this piece in the garden furniture designed by renowned English archi...
Episode 7: Picture Frames
Norm visits Old Schwamb Mill, the oldest operating custom frame factory in the country. Back at the...
Episode 8: Clancy Boat (1)
A visit to the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Washington launches this challenging and exciting...
Episode 9: Clancy Boat (2)
A visit to the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Washington launches this challenging and exciting...
Episode 10: Gazebo (1)
Norm begins work on one of the most ambitious projects ever attempted at The New Yankee Workshop. Br...
Episode 11: Gazebo (2)
Norm begins work on one of the most ambitious projects ever attempted at The New Yankee Workshop. Br...
Episode 12: Quilt Racks
Norm returns to Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts to research the colonial custom...
Episode 13: Chimney Cupboard
Salvaged wide pine boards, some more than 200 years old, are the material of choice for Norm's versi...
Norm takes a trip to California wine country. Inspired from his trip, he builds a chestnut coffee table, a pine paymaster's desk, a pine long table, a pine double dresser, a chestnut desk, an Irish hutch out of pine, and a redwood wine storage unit. He also builds a bedside cupboard, turned table lamps, and a nest of drawers. Finally, he builds a garden shed and recycling center. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a router table.
Episode 1: Bedside Cupboard
Based on a piece he finds at a California vineyard, Norm builds a bedside cupboard out of pine.
Episode 2: Chestnut Coffee Table
Built of recycled chestnut barn timber, this generously sized coffee table is a reproduction pine ta...
Episode 3: Paymaster's Desk
The owners of this unusual table, Jack and Jamie of Schramsberg Vineyards in Calistoga, California,...
Episode 4: Long Table
Norm finds the quintessential gathering table - it's 10 feet long - in the wine tasting room at the...
Episode 5: Double Dresser
Norm spies this beautifully proportioned double dresser in a private collection of antique pine furn...
Episode 6: Chestnut Desk
Another piece found in a private collection in wine country, this elegantly simple desk has an expan...
Episode 7: Irish Hutch
One of the most impressive pieces Norm discovers during the course of his travels in wine country is...
Episode 8: Wine Storage Unit
In keeping with the wine-country theme, this project is much more than just a wine rack. It is the p...
Episode 9: Three Turned Table Lamps
Norm designs three natural wood lamps made from recycled materials to complement his collection of w...
Episode 10: Garden Shed and Recycling Center (1)
Norm builds a handsome and practical storage shed outside The New Yankee Workshop. The 12-by-8-foot...
Episode 11: Garden Shed and Recycling Center (2)
Norm builds a handsome and practical storage shed outside The New Yankee Workshop. The 12-by-8-foot...
Episode 12: Nest of Drawers
Here is a practical project that harks back to the first half of the season: the design for this nes...
Episode 13: Router Table
Norm builds a router table. An improved version of this project can be found in Season 15, Episode 1...
Norm visits Savannah, Georgia. Inspired from the trip, he builds a pine planter's desk, a pine turkey table, a tiger maple washstand, a pine carousel table, and a mahogany 7-drawer chest. He also builds a Nantucket settle out of cherry, a pine dough box, a pine garden gate, cherry serving trays, a bent-wood hat rack, and a fireplace mantel. Finally, he tackles a major project - building a greenhouse.
Episode 1: Planter's Desk
Norm begins his search for low-country furniture projects in Savannah's famed Monterey Square at the...
Episode 2: Turkey Table
While touring Savannah, Norm found the inspiration for this unique piece in Marty Johnson's antique...
Episode 3: Nantucket Settle
On a sojourn to the quaint New England island of Nantucket, Norm found a wonderful lidded settle tha...
Episode 4: Tiger Maple Washstand
This lovely washstand is true to the circa 1830 original found in the antique collection of Stanley...
Episode 5: Dough Box
In the 1800s, a dough box provided a warm hiding place for bread dough to rise. When Norm crafts his...
Episode 6: Garden Gate
Norm couldn't resist bringing the romantic design of this garden gateway back from a visit to a hist...
Episode 7: Serving Trays
Norm takes viewers in to his favorite antique haunt on the quaint New England island of Nantucket wh...
Episode 8: Carousel Table
It's a great family gathering table and perfect for playing games with the kids, Norm claimed when h...
Episode 9: Seven Drawer Chest
Norm spied this regal nineteenth-century English mahogany, seven-drawer chest in the back room of Al...
Episode 10: Hat Rack
Norm introduces viewers to the seventeenth-century craft of wood steaming when he creates this charm...
Episode 11: Greenhouse (1)
He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," wh...
Episode 12: Greenhouse (2)
He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," wh...
Episode 13: Fireplace Mantle
Between shooting The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House, Norm rarely has time to build anything...
More from Norm's trip to Savannah, Georgia; he builds a pine linen press and a walnut table. Norm also visits Arizona, where he gets ideas to build a white oak Morris chair and a mesquite bookcase. Norm also visits Utah where he gets wood from an old railroad trestle and builds a chaise lounge. He also builds a pine Irish table, a pine library ladder, a pine Irish bar, a barn cupola, a whirligig, and a roll-top desk. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a chop saw station.
Episode 1: Irish Table
Viewers find Norm celebrating the tenth anniversary season of The New Yankee Workshop on the quaint...
Episode 2: Linen Press
Norm asks, "Have you ever noticed that most armoires and linen presses are too big to fit in today's...
Episode 3: Walnut Table
Norm travels to Savannah, Georgia, to meet Greg Guenther, a respected local craftsman known for his...
Episode 4: Library Ladder
Though a gardener friend uses his handsome antique library ladder to display a collection of vintage...
Episode 5: Old Pine Bar
Norm builds his version of an antique Irish bar out of recycled pine and gives it a high gloss finis...
Episode 6: Morris Chair
In Arizona, Norm goes on a search for Arts and Crafts-style furniture in Tucson's Historic Arts Dist...
Episode 7: Cupola
In a surprise twist, Norm opens this New Yankee Workshop from This Old House's recent job site in Mi...
Episode 8: Mesquite Bookcase
Norm's expedition to Arizona in search of Arts and Crafts-style furniture projects to build in The N...
Episode 9: Chop Saw Station
For any woodworker who aspires to have a home version of The New Yankee Workshop, Norm builds a port...
Episode 10: Whirligig
On a recent sojourn to Nantucket, Norm is invited to view a local antique dealer's private collectio...
Episode 11: Chaise Lounge
Norm takes viewers on an adventure to Utah to witness the dismantling of a twelve-mile long railway...
Episode 12: Roll Top Desk (1)
Norm visits the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, the mill was purchased...
Episode 13: Roll Top Desk (2)
Norm visits the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, the mill was purchased...
Norm builds a number of kitchen-centric projects, including, a kitchen island, a kitchen pantry, a kitchen secretary, a bake center, classic kitchen cabinets, a sink base, a chef's table, and a grill cart. He also builds an old pine hutch, a teak bar, a laundry center, and a press cupboard. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a table saw station.
Episode 1: Kitchen Island
It's a little known secret that when Norm is not in The New Yankee Workshop or on a This Old House j...
Episode 2: Kitchen Pantry
Meant to meet the demand for more storage space, Norm's custom designed kitchen pantry promises to b...
Episode 3: Kitchen Secretary
Norm's kitchen secretary solves the problem of creating a work space in the kitchen that still allow...
Episode 4: Old Pine Hutch
In each season of The New Yankee Workshop, Norm crafts at least one woodworking project whose beauti...
Episode 5: Teak Bar
Woodworkers who entertain are going to love making Norm's attractive, custom-designed teak bar. Feat...
Episode 6: Laundry Center
This is a Norm original, inspired by his need to sort his bright plaids, pastel plaids, and even a f...
Episode 7: Bake Center
Viewers who share his interest in the culinary arts were on Norm's mind when he designed several woo...
Episode 8: Table Saw Station
Most woodworkers and homeowners own at least a portable light weight table saw for a variety of proj...
Episode 9: Classic Kitchen Cabinets
The universal carpentry and cabinetry lessons that woodworkers will learn while making these classic...
Episode 10: Sink Base
Host Norm Abram shows how to build a sink base.
Episode 11: Press Cupboard
Norm found the inspiration for this simple press cupboard in a Nantucket house he vacationed in last...
Episode 12: Chef's Table
True gourmets will appreciate Norm's more sophisticated butcher block-topped chef's table which has...
Episode 13: Grill Cart
For the outdoor chef, Norm offers a solution to the shortcomings of modern barbecue grills-extra cou...
Norm builds planter boxes and a bench out of cypress, a croquet set and bench, a hanging porch swing and outdoor patio table out of teak, a computer desk, a mahogany patio trolley, a chestnut desktop writing case, an English server, a jewelry case, and a breakfront cabinet. For "shop tools and techniques", he spends two episodes assembling a garage workshop and builds a sharpening station.
Episode 1: Garage Workshop (1)
If only I had a workshop like Norm's, I could build anything. Norm puts an end to this common viewer...
Episode 2: Garage Workshop (2)
If only I had a workshop like Norm's, I could build anything. Norm puts an end to this common viewer...
Episode 3: Planter Boxes and Bench
Norm crafts modular outdoor planters and a bench that are so versatile, they can be used to transfor...
Episode 4: Croquet Set and Bench
Following a trip to Newport, Rhode Island to learn the finer points of the game, Norm builds his own...
Episode 5: Hanging Porch Swing
Norm discovers a beautiful antique porch swing that has been delighting fans for generations and dec...
Episode 6: Computer Desk
Bowing to numerous requests from fans, Norm designs and builds a complex of clever spaces for the ho...
Episode 7: Patio Trolley
This handsome trolley is just the thing to roll around the patio when there are beverages and food t...
Episode 8: Desk Top Writing Case
After looking through the offerings of a country store, Norm finds the inspiration to build a small...
Episode 9: Outdoor Patio Table
Norm adds to his growing collection of outdoor furniture projects when he builds this round, teak pa...
Episode 10: English Server
Norm wanders into a country European antique shop and walks out with a treasure, a low English serve...
Episode 11: Sharpening Station
You can't do the work, unless the tools are sharp... is the mantra of woodworkers everywhere. Norm c...
Episode 12: Jewelry Case
Norm shops for a perfect gift for a loved one, discovers an exquisite jewelry case, and decides to r...
Episode 13: Breakfront Cabinet
Home woodworkers, who look to The New Yankee Workshop for ideas in creating attractive storage space...
Norm builds a white oak hall seat, a pine CD storage case, a cypress garden armchair, an outdoor cupboard, a mahogany dressing table, a mailbox, a bath cupboard, a pine monastery table, and an oak barrister's bookcase. For "shop tools and techniques", he spends two episodes demonstrating jigs and builds a hutch for the workshop.
Episode 1: Jigs (1)
Norm celebrates the 13th season of The New Yankee Workshop with jigs. Proclaiming them "as important...
Episode 2: Jigs (2)
Norm celebrates the 13th season of The New Yankee Workshop with jigs. Proclaiming them "as important...
Episode 3: Hall Seat
A visit to the historic Grove Park Inn in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains provides the inspira...
Episode 4: CD Storage Case
Norm's CD storage case promises to fool the casual observer with its handsome looks, and capacity to...
Episode 5: Garden Armchair
Norm adds to his growing collection of outdoor furniture a handsome garden armchair that has generou...
Episode 6: Workshop Hutch
When Norm felt it time to remodel The New Yankee Workshop, he seized the opportunity to build an ing...
Episode 7: Outdoor Cupboard
Norm designs a clever outdoor cupboard that's versatile enough to be prized by everyone from the bac...
Episode 8: Dressing Table (1)
Norm visits the fabulous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Built in 1880 by George Washi...
Episode 9: Dressing Table (2)
Norm visits the fabulous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Built in 1880 by George Washi...
Episode 10: Mailbox
Like most of us, Norm has a mailbox he purchased from a local home center that now shows all the wea...
Episode 11: Bath Cupboard
Like the term "coffee table" there is no such thing as a "bath cupboard" in furniture history, never...
Episode 12: Monastery Table
Norm puts down his fork long enough to appreciate the craftsmanship of the handcrafted monastery tab...
Episode 13: Barrister Bookcase
Among Norm's personal collection of furniture, is an old oak barrister's bookcase that safely showca...
Norm builds a chestnut steamer trunk, an Adirondack loveseat, a tiger maple canopy bed, a cherry shaving stand, a pedestal table and deck chair out of teak, a four-drawer chest, wooden bowls, a cherry and tiger maple nightstand, and a stepback cupboard. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a miter bench with storage, a work table, and a clamp cart.
Episode 1: Miter Bench and Storage (1)
A well-equipped workshop will need a bench for a miter saw. In this two part project, Norm builds a...
Episode 2: Miter Bench and Storage (2)
A well-equipped workshop will need a bench for a miter saw. In this two part project, Norm builds a...
Episode 3: Steamer Trunk
Long after the last steamship sailed its last voyage, Norm sets out to build a New Yankee Workshop v...
Episode 4: Adirondack Loveseat
One of the all-time most popular projects ever built in The New Yankee Workshop was the Adirondack c...
Episode 5: Canopy Bed
The main business of Leonard's Antiques, a group of highly respected antique stores located in the N...
Episode 6: Shaving Stand
While visiting Palm Beach, Florida, Norm discovers an attractive maple shaving stand in the Flagler...
Episode 7: Work Table and Clamp Cart
Surely one of the most useful projects Norm's ever built for the shop is this work table. It's a lig...
Episode 8: Pedestal Table
Norm visits an antique shop and spots a small round pedestal table that the dealer tells him may hav...
Episode 9: Four Drawer Chest
If you've been looking for a small elegant chest of drawers then this Chippendale-inspired beauty is...
Episode 10: Wooden Bowls
Norm makes wooden bowls.
Episode 11: Nightstand
An antique cherry nightstand, circa 1840, found in a friend's house on Nantucket Island, is inspirat...
Episode 12: Deck Chair
It used to be when you cruised the ocean on a liner you would be offered a comfortable place to read...
Episode 13: Stepback Cupboard
When Norm finds this early cupboard in a Nantucket antique shop, he can't be sure of what he has fou...
Norm makes a pine sheep shearing coffee table, a Queen Anne pedestal table, a cigar chair, a glass cupboard, a maple media press, a Douglas fir flagpole, a mahogany regency headboard, a painted corner hutch out of poplar, and a walnut French side table. For "shop tools and techniques", he builds a deluxe router station and a wall-mounted tool chest.
Episode 1: Deluxe Router Station
Norm's original router station is the most popular shop project he's ever done. So why change it? We...
Episode 2: Sheep Shearing Coffee Table
How about a coffee table that once served as a portable platform to shear the wool from sheep? We're...
Episode 3: Queen Anne Table
It would be hard to imagine a more graceful dining table than Norm's new Queen Anne pedestal table....
Episode 4: Cigar Chair (1)
Norm happened to mention to a reporter that he had never made an upholstered piece of furniture. Thi...
Episode 5: Cigar Chair (2)
Norm happened to mention to a reporter that he had never made an upholstered piece of furniture. Thi...
Episode 6: Beveled Glass Cupboard
This jewel of a display cupboard will provide attractive storage for any bathroom. The top of the ca...
Episode 7: Media Press (1)
Organizing today's electronics is a challenge with ever-larger televisions, DVD's, amplifiers, speak...
Episode 8: Media Press (2)
Organizing today's electronics is a challenge with ever-larger televisions, DVD's, amplifiers, speak...
Episode 9: Flagpole
Years ago on This Old House we featured the installation of a wooden flagpole on our Napa, Californi...
Episode 10: Regency Headboard
In lieu of a great bedstead, sometimes all you need is a headboard. On this program Norm builds a be...
Episode 11: Painted Corner Hutch
This narrow corner cupboard will be extremely useful in today's home where space is sometimes limite...
Episode 12: French Side Table
Norm finds a handsome dark wood French side table in a private collection on Nantucket. Made of dark...
Episode 13: Wall Mounted Tool Chest
You can find Norm using hand tools in The New Yankee Workshop, but we are not proud of the way they...
Norm builds a butterfly table, a Shaker bookcase, and a lowboy out of cherry, a folding screen and dining table out of mahogany, a flower stand and gardener's dry sink out of cypress, a tall case oak clock, a decoratively-painted dower chest, a fan back Windsor chair, a painted pier table, and an oak mission-style desk.
Episode 1: The Butterfly Table
Norm revisits Old Sturbridge Village and discovers an old table built by a colonial furniture maker...
Episode 2: The Folding Screen
The folding room screen is an attractive alternative to divide a room or to seal off an unwanted vie...
Episode 3: The Flower Stand
The flower stand is a woodworker's interpretation of the flower vendor's classic three-tiered displa...
Episode 4: The Shaker Bookcase
This bookcase will surprise many fans because it is unlike most Shaker designs. Elder Green built th...
Episode 5: The Tall Case Oak Clock
From hobbyists building a clock out of a kit to professionals building one from scratch, clock build...
Episode 6: The Dower Chest
Pennsylvania Dutch is an endearing style created by early furniture makers. Many pieces of this deli...
Episode 7: The Windsor Chair (1)
The Lancaster County "Fan Back" Windsor chair is perhaps the most challenging woodworking project of...
Episode 8: The Windsor Chair (2)
The Lancaster County "Fan Back" Windsor chair is perhaps the most challenging woodworking project of...
Episode 9: The Lowboy
Lowboy's are similar to the lower case of a classic highboy. Sometimes called a dressing table, they...
Episode 10: The Pier Table
A pier table is a small table that is meant to be located between two windows. Norm finds a beautifu...
Episode 11: The Dining Table
Norm visits an antique dealer who commissions reproduction English antique furniture for his shop on...
Episode 12: The Mission Style Desk
Prowling through an arts and crafts shop of highly collectable Stickley and other Mission style peri...
Episode 13: The Gardener's Dry Sink
Here is a place to organize your horticultural life. Meant to go outdoors or in, this hard working b...
Norm visits Bermuda where he gets ideas to build a bench/table out of cypress and a chest out of mahogany. He also builds an oak hall mirror, an upholstered ottoman, a federal-style game table, a side chair, a cherry tilt top table, a Queen Anne highboy out of tiger maple, yet another kitchen island, carved wooden signs, and the library modular bookshelf system. For "shop tools and techniques", he demonstrates the basics of using the lathe.
Episode 1: Hall Mirror
Every family needs one of these. An assembly point for the family keys, hats, and mail, with the add...
Episode 2: Bermuda Bench/Table
Every time Norm does an outside project it is an instant hit. This will be no exception. It's a usef...
Episode 3: Ottoman
Encouraged by his success in building the upholstered cigar chair in Season 15, Norm partners once a...
Episode 4: Bermuda Chest
Bermudans call themselves "Onions" perhaps because of those succulent pungent bulbs they have grown...
Episode 5: Federal-Style Game Table
With no television and few newspapers to read, our ancestors had plenty of time for card games thus,...
Episode 6: Lathe 101
Lathe 101 is the first in a series of programs featuring the skills required to master a single shop...
Episode 7: Side Chair
Norm has said many times that chairs are the most challenging projects a woodworker can attempt. Not...
Episode 8: Tilt Top Table
One classic furniture form that Norm has long admired is the tilt top table. Graceful Chippendale fe...
Episode 9: Highboy (1)
Never in the history of The New Yankee Workshop has there been a more challenging project. This bonn...
Episode 10: Highboy (2)
Never in the history of The New Yankee Workshop has there been a more challenging project. This bonn...
Episode 11: Kitchen Island
Largely unknown in grandmother's time, kitchen islands have become indispensable in today's modern h...
Episode 12: Carved Wooden Signs
Norm makes carved wooden signs.
Episode 13: The Library System
Is there a homeowner out there who doesn't yearn for more shelf space for his books and display item...
Norm builds a colonial-style mantel, plantation shutters, a poker table and wall-hung console out of mahogany, a walnut shop clock, a white oak corner table, a Greek revival bookcase, a storage shed, a cherry corner chair, and wall paneling. For "shop tools and techniques", he spends two episodes demonstrating use of the router and he builds a roller stand, a stock cart, and a mobile tool stand.
Episode 1: Colonial Style Mantel
After tackling more pressing projects, Norm is finally getting around to building a mantelpiece for...
Episode 2: Plantation Shutters
If you've priced plantation shutters lately, you know how expensive they can be, costing several hun...
Episode 3: Workshop Helpers
Everybody knows Norm likes to work alone. Although he does get some help finishing the projects, Nor...
Episode 4: Poker Table
Poker is the game to be playing right now and Norm has a special project in mind for its legions of...
Episode 5: New Yankee Shop Clock
Over the years, Norm has created several clocks for The New Yankee Workshop, most notably the tall c...
Episode 6: Router 101 (1)
A continuation of a series of tool-specific episodes that provide instruction and techniques for usi...
Episode 7: Router 101 (2)
A continuation of a series of tool-specific episodes that provide instruction and techniques for usi...
Episode 8: Corner Table
This project involves some considerable effort. At the suggestion of a friend who, with his colleagu...
Episode 9: Greek Revival Bookcase
While prowling a designer show house, Norm discovers a handsome collection of bookcases built in the...
Episode 10: Storage Shed
Taking his cue from a pool house he finds on Nantucket, Norm creates a relatively simple, multipurpo...
Episode 11: Wall Hung Console
We first found this item in a decorator show house and were impressed with its functionality and bea...
Episode 12: Corner Chair
Corner chairs go way back in the history of furniture. Some say their early popularity had to do wit...
Episode 13: Wall Paneling
In this program, Norm demonstrates how easy it can be to panel a wall. Norm begins by showing some w...
Norm builds a giltwood mirror, an entrance door and bowfront chest out of mahogany, an old pine dry sink, a cherry candlestand, a painted Dominy clock, a cowboy sideboard, a painted cupboard, a decoratively-painted taunton chest, a nest of tables, and an upholstered window bench. For "shop tools and techniques", he spends two episodes demonstrating the use of the table saw.
Episode 1: Giltwood Mirror
One of the most challenging projects ever attempted on The New Yankee Workshop comes when Norm tries...
Episode 2: Entrance Door
It would be hard to think of a more important element of a home's appeal than its entranceway. But a...
Episode 3: Old Pine Dry Sink
Arlington House sits high above the National Cemetery in Virginia as an imposing witness to historic...
Episode 4: Martha's Candlestand
To see Martha Washington's bedroom, you'll have to talk to the Ladies of Mount Vernon, who look afte...
Episode 5: Dominy Clock
Without dispute, one of the greatest collections of American antiques resides at the Winterthur Muse...
Episode 6: Cowboy Sideboard
Wyoming antiques dealer Terry Winchell wants everybody to know about the remarkable work of furnitur...
Episode 7: Painted Cupboard
Little is known about the handsome Painted Cupboard, which resides in one of the period rooms in the...
Episode 8: Table Saw 101 (1)
As with his previous programs dedicated to a single tool, Norm takes viewers on a special two-part p...
Episode 9: Table Saw 101 (2)
As with his previous programs dedicated to a single tool, Norm takes viewers on a special two-part p...
Episode 10: Taunton Chest
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a treasure house of the first order that boasts remarkable collec...
Episode 11: Bowfront Chest
Recently, Norm, who is a trustee of the Old Sturbridge Village museum, asked the curators to put a s...
Episode 12: Nest of Tables
Prowling antiques stores for a suitable project for his own living room, Norm encounters Matt Buckle...
Episode 13: Window Bench
Gary Sullivan, an antiques expert and an old friend of The New Yankee Workshop, shows Norm an antiqu...
Norm spends the first nine episodes performing a kitchen remodel for series creator, Russell Morash. He also builds an Adirondack chair, table, and footrest, an all-weather loveseat, an upholstered lolling chair, and a Queen Anne-style tap table.
Episode 1: Kitchen Cabinet Basics (1)
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he gives the basics on kitchen cabinets. This is part 1...
Episode 2: Kitchen Cabinet Basics (2)
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he gives the basics of kitchen cabinets. This is part 2...
Episode 3: The Hot Wall
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he explains how to set up the "hot wall".
Episode 4: The Wet Wall
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he explains the basics of the "wet wall".
Episode 5: The Pantry
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he builds the pantry.
Episode 6: The Kitchen Office
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here builds the "kitchen office".
Episode 7: The Island
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he builds the kitchen island.
Episode 8: The Wet Bar
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he constructs the wet bar.
Episode 9: Finish and Install
Norm remodels Russell Morash's kitchen. Here he adds the finishing touches to the remodel and instal...
Episode 10: Adirondack Trio
In the beginning of The New Yankee Workshop there was the Adirondack Chair (Season 2), a classic des...
Episode 11: All-Weather Loveseat
A popular trend finds folks sitting in cushioned comfort on sofas and chairs that are able to withst...
Episode 12: Lolling Chair
When reading the Declaration of Independence, no doubt some of our founding fathers would have chose...
Episode 13: Tap Table
Norm visits historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire to track down a table he wants to build on The New Ya...
The Final Season. The episodes in this season are rebroadcasts from Seasons 9 and 10 with new introductions by Norm Abram.
Episode 1: Planter's Desk
Norm begins his search for low-country furniture projects in Savannah’s famed Monterey Square at the...
Episode 2: Turkey Table
While touring Savannah, Norm found the inspiration for this unique piece in Marty Johnson’s antique...
Episode 3: Nantucket Settle
On a sojourn to the quaint New England island of Nantucket, Norm found a wonderful lidded settle tha...
Episode 4: Tiger Maple Washstand
This lovely washstand is true to the circa 1830 original found in the antique collection of Stanley...
Episode 5: Dough Box
In the 1800s, a dough box provided a warm hiding place for bread dough to rise. When Norm crafts his...
Episode 6: Garden Gate
Norm couldn't resist bringing the romantic design of this garden gateway back from a visit to a hist...
Episode 7: Serving Trays
Norm takes viewers in to his favorite antique haunt on the quaint New England island of Nantucket wh...
Episode 8: Carousel Table
It's a great family gathering table and perfect for playing games with the kids, Norm claimed when h...
Episode 9: Seven Drawer Chest
Norm spied this regal nineteenth-century English mahogany, seven-drawer chest in the back room of Al...
Episode 10: Hat Rack
Norm introduces viewers to the seventeenth-century craft of wood steaming when he creates this charm...
Episode 11: Greenhouse (1)
He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," wh...
Episode 12: Greenhouse (2)
He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," wh...
Episode 13: Fireplace Mantle
Between shooting The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House, Norm rarely has time to build anything...
Episode 14: Irish Table
Viewers find Norm on the quaint New England island of Nantucket in an antique shop that specializes...
Episode 15: Linen Press
Norm asks, "Have you ever noticed that most armoires and linen presses are too big to fit in today's...
Episode 16: Walnut Table
Norm travels to Savannah, Georgia, to meet Greg Guenther, a respected local craftsman known for his...
Episode 17: Library Ladder
Though a gardener friend uses his handsome antique library ladder to display a collection of vintage...
Episode 18: Old Pine Bar
Norm builds his version of an antique Irish bar out of recycled pine and gives it a high gloss finis...
Episode 19: Morris Chair
In Arizona, Norm goes on a search for Arts and Crafts-style furniture in Tucson's Historic Arts Dist...
Episode 20: Cupola
In a surprise twist, Norm opens this New Yankee Workshop from This Old House's recent job site in Mi...
Episode 21: Mesquite Bookcase
Norm's expedition to Arizona in search of Arts and Crafts-style furniture projects to build in The N...
Episode 22: Chop Saw Station
For any woodworker who aspires to have a home version of The New Yankee Workshop, Norm builds a port...
Episode 23: Whirligig
On a recent sojourn to Nantucket, Norm is invited to view a local antique dealer's private collectio...
Episode 24: Chaise Lounge
Norm takes viewers on an adventure to Utah to witness the dismantling of a twelve-mile long railway...
Episode 25: Roll Top Desk (1)
Norm visits the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, the mill was purchased...
Episode 26: Roll Top Desk (2)
Norm visits the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, the mill was purchased...
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