Episode 9: "From Top To Bottom" airs Saturday, Jan. 14 at Noon - Tommy frames up a new Arts & Crafts style front porch using custom cut pieces. Richard visits a marble quarry in Vermont.

THE HOUSES: Five Arts and Crafts-style homes, including a two-story ... judging from the trash container in front and the materials on the front porch. Outside the house that has been sanded ...

Take a look at Susan Lauber's 1910 Arts and Crafts home in Kirkwood ... [email protected] The enormous wraparound front porch is Susan's favorite "room" of the house.

Craftsman style homes are typically horizontally-slung dwellings with low-pitched gable roofs and minimal adornment. That said, their most defining characteristic may just be the front porch.

Luckily, I have a very sunny front porch. A few years ago ... who offer a wonderful variety of vegetable starts. There is an art and a science to choosing the appropriate size container, but ...