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A Collage of Homages

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A former antiques dealer nudges the stiff lines of a late-1930s Tudor toward a more open-hearted décor reminiscent of English and French country styles.

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A Miracle of Old New York

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In an out-of-the-way corner of Brooklyn, an astonishing survivor—a freestanding Greek Revival in wood—has been immaculately restored, ready to face the next century.

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A Southern Town, Northern Style

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Need a New England fix? The tiny village of St. Michaels, Maryland, with its winding streets lined with Saltboxes and Capes, its blocks of quaint shops, pubs, and restaurants, and its thriving shipbuilding yard, is the perfect destination.

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All Booked

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The special place of home libraries in the old-house lifestyle.

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An Interior Unfolds

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Inspired by his time at Wright’s Taliesin, architect Gerald Lee Morosco creates a warm and classical Modern environment in his Pittsburgh row house.

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Beauty from Industry

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Industrial light fixtures are inspiring a slew of home-friendly reproductions.

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Concrete for Counters, Sinks, & Floors

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Recent innovations, new concrete products, and excellent concrete fabricators have made concrete a coveted material for residential use.

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Decorative Pillows for Every Era

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Clad in luscious fabrics, intricately stitched, or trimmed with lace or tasseled fringe, the accent pillow has a place in most period interiors.

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Energy-Efficient Windows for Old Houses

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Looking to cut your energy costs and perhaps score a tax credit? Plenty of period-friendly windows and doors meet the new standards, but so do interior storms.

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Evan Chambers of Pavonine Glass

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Evan Chambers of Pavonine Glass discovered his preferred medium 10 years ago, when he saw a glass blowing at Carl Radke’s Phoenix Studios not far from his California home. Soon after, his sister snuck him into a glass-blowing course she was taking at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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Expert Advice: Wallpaper & Paint

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Experts lend advice on getting patterned wallpapers and trim colors to coexist for maximum effect.

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Explore the Door

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Wisconsin’s sweetest vacation destination is a 75-mile-long peninsula that shelters Green Bay from the main body of Lake Michigan.

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Exterior Shutters and Hardware

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Period reproduction shutters not only come with authentic architectural detailing and sympathetic hardware, but they’re operable too.

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Finding Old Florida

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Once upon a time, long before glittering Miami Vice skyscrapers and Disney fantasies scrawled their signature across the state, there was a whole other Florida.

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Flooring Options for Period Homes

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The flooring you choose sets the style, period, and tone for the room.

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Garden Faux Bois & Trabajo Rustico

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Our garden writer and hands-on practitioner describes his latest obsession, an overlooked art form that’s coming back into vogue.

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Getaway Kitchens

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The no-fuss pleasures of getaway kitchens.

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Greek Revival Preserved

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A light touch and a way with color, bits and pieces of classical ornament: one vision of vernacular.

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Heating in Brave New Places

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If it’s a surface—walls, roof, ceilings—you can put heat on it or under it. You can even heat thin air.

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How to Create a Faux Bois Planter

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If you’d like to try your hand at making your own piece, start small: with a planting container.

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I Got It At Auction

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Can’t-miss guide to scoring unique furnishings for your old house in an unexpected place: the live auction.

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Inspired by Mackintosh & Art Deco

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Its eclectic facade inspired the owners of this San Francisco house; they honored original interior features but also included colorful flourishes from well into the 20th century.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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A century ago, heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner created the perfect antidote to Boston’s cold, dark, wet winters when she built a light-suffused, temperate garden in the courtyard of her own personal museum.

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Modern Design Motifs

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A mid-century house reveals the design sources for a generation of dwellings.

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New Kitchen for a Victorian House

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A Victorian house gets a sunlit kitchen with period details.

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New Options for Decorative Ceilings

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On the surprising affordability of trim pieces, ornaments, and onlays in plaster, compo, urethane, and wood.

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Roman Baths

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Neoclassical elegance is never out of style, in houses new or old. The point is made in these two traditional bathrooms

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Streamline

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An Art Moderne house is usually the oddball in the neighborhood, and that’s true of this one in Alexandria, Virginia. But one couple knew just how cool it could be.

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Texas Independence in Washington County

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The rolling countryside of Washington County, Texas, is tranquil and pastoral. But this quiet part of the Lone Star State is also its most historic.

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The Restoration of Newark Park

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Love and determination bring back a once-dilapidated castle in Gloucestershire, built in 1550, complete with peacocks.

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TV Camouflage

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Designers have come up with innovative ways to mask a television screen; cabinetmakers offer media furniture that’s both beautiful and practical.

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Underneath What’s Underfoot

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The finish flooring is only as good as its underlayment, especially when it comes to tile and resilient floors.

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