This Old House: Trade School Season 2, Episode 19: Water Feature, Geothermal Heat

Scandinavian Modern?

In Cambridge, Mass., the crew turns the inside of a dark, divided 1887 two-family home into an open, Scandinavian-style one-family.

Deconstruction and Design

Modernizing a Balloon Frame

Swedish Style

Landscape Plans, Roof Deck

Exterior Improvements

Old and New in Harmony

Plaster, Shingles, Radiant Heat

Installing Gutters and a Fireplace

Swedish Design Details

Window Seat, Stairs and a Painted Ceiling

Dry Wells, Kitchen Design, Deck Tiles

Hearthstone and Butcher Block Island

Secondary Spaces

The Big Finish

A Cottage in the Woods

Human Centered Design, Demolition

One-Level Living

Water infiltration damages the house and must be prevented from happening again; a landscape architect shows the plan for the side patio and details how it allows for ease of entry into the house and provides proper drainage.

Cottage Style

Standing-Seam Roof, Lightning Rods

Rustic Plaster, Advanced Septic

Insulation goes up in the Essex cottage; boarding ceilings; a plastering contractor shows how to achieve a rustic look using rounded corners.

Shiplap Walls, Finished Yard

Putting up 8-inch pine shiplap barn boards on the walls at the project's entry; the finished patio and plantings.

Tiling and Veneers

A tile installer lays black slate tile on the floor; a mason uses structural stucco to achieve the rustic plaster look of the original chimney; how a preservation carpenter helped music icon Daryl Hall assemble and restore an 18th-century estate.

Design for Everyone

A recap of the geothermal heating and cooling system installation process and how the whole system comes together with the heat pumps in the basement.

A Home for Mom and Dad

Interior screens for the signature casement windows; installing the Dutch door for the passage between the kitchen and sun porch; sconces at the entry; LED fixtures in the trees for general lighting; wall washers at the masonry walls.