#norm abram

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To whoever is running This Old House's social media: you're doing the Lord's work. Here's a little treat for you, gen Z Heated Rivalry fan. May your bromance with PBS rein supreme forever.

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Bob Vila/Norm Abram

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Michael Piazza This Old House

When This Old House magazine decided to retool and redesign their look and feel, they asked Michael Piazza to photograph the full cast of This Old House at their headquarters in Connecticut on a Covid-19 safe production. Michael spent the day with the host of the popular This Old House show, Kevin O’Connor; Tom Silva and Norm Abram, contractors; landscape expert Jenn Nawada; plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey; carpenter Nathan Hilbert; and the rest of the show’s cast. Michael’s portraits of the team are used on a special fold out cover, throughout the new Spring 2021 issue of This Old House magazine, and across the show’s collateral. 

From left to right: Richard Trethewey, Jenn Nawada, Kevin O’Connor, Tom Silva, Nathan Gilbert, Jenn Largesse, Mauro Henrique, Jeff Sweenor, Heath Eastman, Charlie Silva, Ross Trethewey, Mark McCullough, Chris Ermides

See the issue on newsstands now and more of Michael Piazza’s editorial and portrait photography online.

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Watching This Old House

Yeah Tommy Silva, teach me

Go mason Go!

Norm Abram, you are doing miracles in wood

Interior designer shows up with hideous colours.

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Norm Abram for This Old House:

1. explaining the severity of carpenter ants, termites, and the structural damage they cause with great sincerity;

2. introducing a waterproofed newly-poured foundation wall;

3. showing off the ugliest tourist tshirt he could find in Key West;

4. trolling Steve by pretending to see the redwoods in Muir only as a source of furniture lumber;

5. being cut off [sorry] by some cutting-edge PowerPoint slide-change animations when introducing the inferior doors he was about to replace

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This Old House magazine celebrates 40 years of This Old House TV with five different covers.

Cover #2: This Old House, September/October 2019. Norm Abram photographed in 1998 by Keller + Keller.

Buy all five collectible covers here.

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Hello, I’m Norm Abram, and you’re watching This Odd House. Now, I know what you’re saying. “Norm, aren’t you usually helping genial New Englanders fix up their oceanfront condominiums?” Well, in my travels, I’ve seen a lot of phenomena that just can’t be explained by science.

You see, I believe that when people die inside a house, their spirit is trapped in it forever. Sometimes, when I do a renovation, their spirits come out from the wall or floor that I just pulled up and do a real number on the folks who live there now. I started going down to the public library and getting out books on hobby-grade exorcisms, nothing serious, just the kind of thing anyone can do at home. Got those ghosts right out of the homes, and back to a peaceful nonexistence. Then my producer thought, maybe there’s a show here. That’s what you’re watching now.

This handsome Victorian-style home in Rhode Island has six bedrooms and the long-dead soul of a Civil War general. Now that he’s been released, he cries out for vengeance against his heirs. I asked my buddy Tom Silva, a general contractor who has also never given up looking for the dark secret behind that one night in November 1987 where his car was attacked by howling orbs of pure energy, to come and help out a little. Tom?

Thanks, Norm. Now this kind of cedar plank-on-beam construction is really sturdy. It’s just too difficult to dismantle in order to fit your conventional smudging pots and dreamcatchers inside, so what we do instead is fill the area inside with the good energies from this xenon crystal I stole from the fortune teller of a travelling circus in Kansas. Forces this little sucker right out, and then you spring the trap. It’s so simple, but it has such a great effect on the appearance of your home. Look, the blood running down the wallpaper has immediately stopped.

Tom, it’s always a pleasure. Coming up after the break, we’ll fix a creaky oak stair tread and condemn a family of ethereal hell-dogs to the next plane of existence.