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Doors & Windows

Identifying the Best Window Attachments for Your Comfort

Learn the pros and cons of both traditional storm windows and storm window inserts to determine which work best for your home’s windows.

New Old Houses

New Old House, Winter 2022

New Old House, a special publication from the editors of Old House Journal,  is for homeowners and designers who are planning to build a house that embodies quality and tradition now and for the future. They want to build a home that looks vintage, but functions like new—truly, a new old house.

Repairs & How To

Moving Toward Fossil Free

Changing energy markets and evolving technology make it possible to heat, cool, and ventilate homes of any age with (mostly) clean, all-electric power—and less of it. Heating home water, formerly an energy hog, is turning into an energy sipper, too.

Repairs & How To

Caring for Silverplate

Whether the design is Rococo, Aesthetic, or Art Deco, silverplate is collectible—and needs care.

Architectural Salvage Projects

DIY Furnished Elegant Bathroom

This elegant bathroom has fixture panels fabricated from parts of a Victorian armoire.

House Tours

House Tours

Restoring an Abandoned House

Fixing up an abandoned house became a healing act for this owner, at a time of personal change. Delightful surprises were to be found along the way.

House Tours

A Dutch Colonial Full of Character

Smaller homes like this 1920s Dutch Colonial so often get over- looked as worthy of restoration. Owners don’t think they’re special . . . or they add on or remodel until the original is unrecognizable. This owner saw the potential.

House Tours

Preservation Pasadena: Craftsman To Modern

Pasadena Heritage will be hosting a virtual, 10-day celebration of preservation and architecture, from Friday, November 5 through Sunday, November 14, 2021.

House Tours

Dutch Colonial Revival

Nostalgic and beloved, the Dutch Colonial Revival style evolved between the 1880s and 1940.

House Tours

New Old House, Winter 2022

New Old House, a special publication from the editors of Old House Journal,  is for homeowners and designers who are planning to build a house that embodies quality and tradition now and for the future. They want to build a home that looks vintage, but functions like new—truly, a new old house.

House Tours

Antique Dealers Restore a Historic House

An intact historic house gets the right owners: a couple of antiques dealers.

House Tours

Inheriting a Whimsical Historic House

Finding themselves in possession of a large, important, whimsical, and historic house with outbuildings on 19 acres, a couple did the right thing—preserving its essence, restoring the grounds, and updating the essentials with sensitivity.

House Tours

Preserving an 1890 Brownstone

Benign stewardship: This 1890 brownstone has had just two owners.

Repairs & How To

Repairs & How To

Identifying the Best Window Attachments for Your Comfort

Learn the pros and cons of both traditional storm windows and storm window inserts to determine which work best for your home’s windows.

Repairs & How To

Moving Toward Fossil Free

Changing energy markets and evolving technology make it possible to heat, cool, and ventilate homes of any age with (mostly) clean, all-electric power—and less of it. Heating home water, formerly an energy hog, is turning into an energy sipper, too.

Repairs & How To

Leather Furniture Care & Cleaning

Expert advice on how to keep leather furniture looking its best.

Repairs & How To

Caring for Silverplate

Whether the design is Rococo, Aesthetic, or Art Deco, silverplate is collectible—and needs care.

Repairs & How To

DIY Furnished Elegant Bathroom

This elegant bathroom has fixture panels fabricated from parts of a Victorian armoire.

Repairs & How To

The Singer Vanity

Learn how to create a Singer vanity.

Repairs & How To

Shop Tour: Vintage Doors

For more than 30 years, Vintage Doors in Hammond, New York, way up on the St. Lawrence River, has been a national source of handcrafted, solid-wood screen, entry, and interior doors.

Repairs & How To

Hanging a Salvaged Door

We’re old hands at hanging the doors we salvage. Years ago, we bought six interior doors that matched originals elsewhere in our 1885 row house. We just installed the last of them for a bathroom closet. Here’s what we’ve learned.