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A Model Kitchen for the Georgian Era

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The challenge in designing kitchens today for Georgian-period homes is to produce something timeless, yet also ergonomically efficient.

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Bare Walls to Bright Colors

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Early Americans made creative use of materials at hand, from buttermilk to plants and berries, in order to express themselves with color.

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Eye-Opening Wallpaper Designs

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At the Farmers’ Museum, the Jonas More House, built in 1818 in Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, reveals the exuberance of early-19th-century color, graining, and wallpaper patterns.

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Four Calling Birds

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A uniquely talented family creates a home, gallery, and studio in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where they live a life infused with folk music and craft.

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Hand Forged & Foundry Cast

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The forms of reproduction hardware may look familiar, but the techniques used to make these pieces have changed dramatically.

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Remarkable Preservation

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A succession of owners has cherished this ca. 1800 Federal house. Current owners use the “store next door” as an antiques emporium.

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The Beauty of the Mantel

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In the Colonies before about 1760, there was rarely a “mantel” as such over the fireplace. Yet over the next 80 years, the mantelpiece became a signature focal point.

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Village Antique

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Plympton, Massachusettes, may be the oldest village in the country with its original dwellings. And ours is the oldest house in Plympton.

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Wonderful Windsors

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After colonial craftspeople adopted the Windsor, this perennial furniture favorite became uniquely American.

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