Season 5 - Federal-Style Home
Charleston, SC
Bob tackles the revitalization of an exquisite Federal-style home, built in the early 1800s, which survived the Civil War but barely survived Hurricane Hugo. Projects include the painstaking process of restoring the original plaster ornamentation and woodwork to their original detail.
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| Bob sets out on a carriage tour of historic Charleston, South Carolina, to get a feel for the elegant and well-preserved architecture of one of the most beautiful cities in ...
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| Richard Marks, the restoration contractor who's responsible for much of the expert work being done in and around Charleston, S.C., takes a tour of the elegant but quite run-down Federal-style ...
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| Bob meets Betsy Johnson, homeowner of an 1805 Federal style home in Charleston, S.C., which will be restored by restoration contractor Richard Marks. While the home is fixed up, the ...
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| Bob visits a Federal-style house undergoing reconstruction, as well as adding an addition, in Charleston, S.C., with contractor Richard Marks.
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| Bob checks out the plaster cornice in the project home. Water damage has ruined a large section of the cornice, and much of the remaining plaster is in need of ...
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| Bob takes a tour of the spectacular home of Nathaniel Russell, one of Charleston's wealthiest merchants of the Colonial period. Inside, Bob discusses the architecture and decor. A highlight is ...
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| Bob meets with Richard Marks, general contractor at the Charleston, SC, remodel of a Federal-style home. Richard explains the reconstruction (as opposed to restoration) that he is accomplishing, along with ...
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| Bob is invited into the elegant "rooms" of the gardens at Charleston's William Gibbes House, one of the nation's best examples of Georgian architecture.
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| Bob meets with general contractor Richard Marks and roofer Joe Wells to go over the proper installation techniques for a slate roof.
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| Bob visits with Ralph and the plasterer to watch them add details to the plaster cornice. The scratch coat is complete and the white coat is underway. Several types of ...
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| Bob returns to the William Gibbes House in Charleston, South Carolina, to tour the one-acre garden of this grand Georgian mansion.
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| Bob and Patty Hettich strip paint from decorative woodwork, then make rubber molds to create new detail in a Federal style home in Charleston, South Carolina.
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| Bob tours a home in Charleston, South Carolina, with restoration specialist Richard Marks and watches painter David Snyder scrape and sand old wood siding.
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| We're invited to take a look at a Georgian architectural beauty with twin octagonal parlors a few blocks away from our house in Charleston, South Carolina.
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| Bob meets with the restoration contractor, Richard Marks, and looks at shutters. They also visit the Withers Industries plant where the shutters are made.
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Building the Portico and Restoring the Fireplaces Video Clips (HA0507)
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| Bob chats with painter Rick Snyder in the dining room of a home in Charleston, South Carolina, while Rick experiments with color on intricate wood detail.
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| Bob takes a field trip with a different slant at Charleston's historical Aiken-Rhett House. He sees stables, kitchen houses, slave quarters, privies, and sheds in their original condition for a ...
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| Bob meets the restoration contractor, Richard Marks, in the library to go over the mantelpiece mockup.
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| For our final visit to the Charleston project, we take a grand tour of the elegant, restored Federal-style mansion, focusing on the portico and back fa?ade.
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| Bob meets with Rick and Martha Snyder to see how they faux-finish an antique entry door to look just like it was originally done.
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| Finishes are completed on the 1800's Federalist home in Charleston, South Carolina, and the interior design is underway as the owners finally move in from the carriage house.
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