Bob returns to Winterthur, industrialist Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, which is now a museum, in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. The museum's Port Royal Parlor display was originally part of a country home in Philadelphia slated for demolition in the 1920's. A collector of American antiques and architecture, du Pont bought the entire home and moved it to Winterthur. Pauline Eversmann, Winterthur's program director, joins Bob for a tour and recounts the parlor's history. The entryway opens onto the gardens, and in Colonial times, the doors would remain open to provide a view of the garden before guests proceeded to the parlor. As an area of the home intended for formal entertaining, du Pont wanted this room to be functional, so he expanded the parlor from its original size. Among the period antiques on display is an antique high chest that du Pont purchased for $44,000 in 1929, setting a long-standing price record for early American furniture.

Bob takes us on the first of many visits to the Winterthur Garden and Museum in Delaware's Brandywine Valley. Winterthur was the vision of Henry Francis DuPont, who researched and collected antiques and housed them here. Greg Landry, Director of Conservation for Winterthur, takes Bob to the Dominy Workshop, which once belonged to a family of carpenters and clock makers on Long Island. The workshop-turned-museum houses a multitude of Colonial-era tools, many of which are still in use today. Bob takes a turn on the great wheel lathe, which was used to mill large items like table tops as well as other decorative items. Landry also shows Bob some hand tools, including antique saws, planes, and drills.

In the kitchen, a neutral paint palette allows for striking contrasts. Bob looks at the mix of stainless steel and black Kenmore Elite Energy Star appliances, the Wellborn cabinets, and Curtis' choice of decorative antiques. In the informal dining area, Vila and Curtis focus on a reproduction wicker table set based on a Haywood-Wakefield design. In the sunroom, the furniture is a Bar Harbor-style wicker, which was introduced in the early twentieth century in Bar Harbor, Maine. These pieces were custom made by Curtis Designs of Los Angeles and feature a French fabric design from the SPNEA collection.

Bob visits Vizcaya, a remarkable Italian Renaissance-style "palace" with formal gardens situated in Miami. Industrialist James Deering spent an amazing $20 million between 1914 and 1916 on Vizcaya. Doris Littlefield, the head curator, gives Bob a tour of the villa. Starting in the East Loge room facing Biscayne Bay. The house�s seventy rooms are designed around a center courtyard. Many of the home�s architectural pieces were antiques imported from Italy. The estate�s grounds, originally 180 acres, are now composed of 12 acres of gardens, some formal with 17th century sculptures.

Bob meets the restoration contractor, Richard Marks, in the library to go over the mantelpiece mockup.

Bob checks in on installation of the bathroom plumbing fixtures in this segment. The crew is installing a custom vanity countertop and undermount sinks from TOTO USA. The heavy white marble top is braced on the wall with a wood strip anchored to the studs and supported from the floor with an antique-style chrome legs. Bob points out the acrylic tub from TOTO�s Baldwin Suite. The tub measures 22-inches deep and 72-inches long, making it a true soaking tub. Borrowing from commercial styling, the custom tub surround is constructed of 16-gauge stainless steel that is adhered to a plywood substrate.

Homeowners Jeanne Sanviti-Masher and David Masher look at the finished dining room with Bob. Using a favorite landscape painting by Priscilla Serafin, a local Rowley artist, Jeanne chose a muted yellow for the walls. For the dining room table, the Mashers decided to match mission-style upholstered chairs through Design Works, a Cape Cod furniture purveyor that created the table and provided Portuguese pottery, French flatware, and Czechoslovakian crystal, all from the Juliska line, to complete the look.

Bob and crew travel to Wareham, Mass., to visit the Tremont Nail Mill. Tremont Nail, manufacturer of the cut nails used in the antique pine flooring installation in the modern Colonial's sister house, still makes use of original production equipment dating back to the mid-to late-1800s. The tour, which looks at the machinery as well as the nails it produces, offers a glimpse of turn-of-the century manufacturing in New England.

Bob meets up with Professor Tom Visser from the University of Vermont to learn more about the antique year old brick used in the Burtch-Udall house in Quechee. The wall was built in the 1820s with bricks made on site. The brick is a high quality sand-struck brick. It's laid in a standard bond pattern with headers and then nine courses of stretchers. The wall is two courses of brick thick. The bricks were laid using a lime and sand mortar. Looking closely, one can still see the original tooling that was done. The bricks have never been re-pointed and never been cleaned and are still in excellent condition after nearly two centuries.

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.