Bob reviews progress in the kitchen, where pantry space and a tin ceiling have been installed, and where contractor Bob Ryley continues working on the staircase. In the master bath, the plumber demonstrates how to install a pedestal sink.
Bob takes a tour of Olana, a Victorian artist’s mansion in Upstate New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Named after a Persian fortress/treasure house, Olana has been dutifully preserved since the artist’s death in 1900.
Landscape designer Ruth Foster visits the project site to explain her choice of plantings for the formal courtyard garden.