Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.

Hand-sanded and hand-finished solid white oak, cherry, and mahogany cabinets, dressers, tables, chairs, beds, and armoires.

Pacific Register Co. specializes in registers manufactured from steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, stainless steel, wood, acrylic and stone in standard designs and sizes as well as custom designs. Made in the USA.

Bare but for a thin skin of paint, modern walls are a stylistic aberration. For most of our history, the lower wall has been decently dressed in decorative paneling and various wainscoting styles.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to bring back a great old house. In the case of this 1909 chalet-bungalow, it took two!

What makes one brand of door hardware better than another—especially if they’re all but identical in style?

If you need to replace the doorknobs in your Victorian-era house, some background on decorative trends of the time can help you sort through antiques and reproductions.

Charming, sometimes quirky, 18th- and early 19th-century staircases also aspired to elegance.

The owners have chosen a style proven over time, exhibiting the warm, familiar atmosphere embodied by the word “home.”

Balsam and holly collected nearby, strings of cranberries, feather trees, bits of bauble tucked amidst the china—traditional holiday decorating in a ca. 1700 house unscathed by time.

Stenciled designs and scenic murals were popular from around 1790 to 1850.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to bring back a great old house. In the case of this 1909 chalet-bungalow, it took two!

That understated New England sensibility is familiar in this house north of Boston.

A couple finds an unconventional place to live—with space for working at home, and in a historic neighborhood.

With disarming respect and gratitude, a history-minded couple describe their relocation and restoration of a late-18th-century house.

In a glorious if lengthy reversal of misfortune in Santa Barbara, California, the 1912 Bungalow was restored by dedicated owners who fell in love with this period.

Restoration of this magnificent house in Texas included the imaginative and heartfelt re-decorating of the summer-home interior.

A Chicago couple transforms a neighborhood eyesore into an inviting home—on a reasonable budget.

Interested in a few old-house ghost stories?

What makes one brand of door hardware better than another—especially if they’re all but identical in style?

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