Restoring Charleston

Trent begins work on an abandoned 1895 home in Charleston, South Carolina. The massive house has a kitchen on the old porch. Trent tears out the kitchen and rebuilds a new one in the heart of the home.

Trent tackles the front entrance and common room in a home that hasn't been lived in for over 50 years. Trent wrestles with the front door's historic hardware and attempts to expose a 100-year-old fireplace. Meanwhile, the living room goes from busted and broken to rebuilt and beautiful.

Trent transforms an old bedroom into a full master suite; he adds a beautiful, functional bathroom and a massive walk-in closet, the he must decide what to do with a historic fireplace that's in ruins.

An unwanted visitor appears while Trent is gathering beadboard from the ceiling of the abandoned home; he must figure out how to turn an old dining room into a new mudroom, laundry room and bathroom; he attempts to build a brick wall inside the home.

While restoring the home's exterior and working on the porch, Trent and his crew experience a setback. Trent finds three sisters who are descendants of the family who originally built the house back in 1895.

Trent restores the first floor of a cottage by rebuilding the stairs, kitchen, living room, and dining room; he finds antique appliances for the kitchen, and he gets creative when he realizes there's no room for the half-bath he wants to add.

Trent opens up the roof in order to add more square footage for a master bathroom, then he adds an antique vanity and a unique floor; Trent meets with traditional sweet-grass basket weavers to gain inspiration before decorating the master bedroom.

For a cottage with no curb appeal, Trent rolls up his sleeves and attacks the exterior of this historic home. He safely removes asbestos-ridden siding and replaces it with siding that matches the cottage's time period.