Crown Point Cabinetry offers custom cabinets for period style kitchens, baths, offices, laundry rooms, home bars and more. Styles include Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional.

Marvin Windows and Doors offers customized, high-performance windows and doors.

Family owned manufacturer of top quality red cedar, mahogany, basswood, poplar, and red oak shutters for interior and exterior, and providers of full painting services, a large selection of exterior hardware and endless cutout design.

Understanding the common structural shortcomings that cause floors to sag and what to do about them.

This biannual ritual will help keep your house functioning smoothly.

Metal ceiling panels, originally used to create a tin ceiling, can be cut into “tile” strips and repurposed as decorative frames for mirrors.

The community in Buckland, Virginia, has a deep commitment to historic preservation.

Wondering if you'd like a Colonial, Victorian, bungalow, or modern? Try this quiz from the editors of Old House Journal magazine.

Situated at the rear of a 1760 Cape, a fitting addition holds a practical kitchen filled with hand-planed cabinets.

Traditional approaches help make additions to old houses more successful.

Understanding some basics about residential design and historic preservation can provide useful guidelines for creating sensitive additions to old houses.

Built in 1806 as a side-hall house with a tavern, this dwelling, known today as Forest Oaks, became a manor after additions in 1812 and, significantly, in 1916.

For OHJ’s 45th anniversary, we visit four restorations done by devoted readers who are serial restorers.

This transitional better than net-zero Victorian house in energy consumption is very comfortable.

Better lines, better proportions, better trim—and an Arts & Crafts house rises in the neighborhood. The architect–homeowner explains design considerations for seamless makeovers.

This serial restorer of old houses decided to build new—owing to a personal connection to the Gamble House.

Smitten by terrazzo floors and expanses of glass, ancient California live oaks and a sublime simplicity, a family restores a 1957 Modern house to its original integrity.

The gazebo of this cherished 1864 Italianate house on Cape Cod has become a beloved feature in the neighborhood—as much a part of the history of the house as its Italianate elements.

Ultimate salvaging: a schoolhouse becomes a home.

Understanding the common structural shortcomings that cause floors to sag and what to do about them.

• By Steve Jordan

This biannual ritual will help keep your house functioning smoothly.

• By Lynn Elliot

Metal ceiling panels, originally used to create a tin ceiling, can be cut into “tile” strips and repurposed as decorative frames for mirrors.

• By Brian D. Coleman

Traditional approaches help make additions to old houses more successful.

• By Gordon Bock

Understanding some basics about residential design and historic preservation can provide useful guidelines for creating sensitive additions to old houses.

• By Old House Online

Undertaking a major HVAC overhaul, or simply want to keep a lid on future energy costs? Geothermal is catching on with historic-home owners.

• By Mary Ellen Polson

Clear guidelines on whole-house systems, heat pumps and minisplits, high-velocity retrofits, and ways to boost comfort.

• By Mary Ellen Polson

Learn how to solve an uncommon toilet problem.

• By Editors