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Windows, Doors & Shutters

EFFICIENT WINDOWS: storms and interior panels

Thinking about adding storm windows, outside or as interior panels?

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Finding Home

Buying, renovating, downsizing — or looking for your forever home? Our 2021 special edition, Finding Home, will help get you started.

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On Original Plaster and Its Repair

Plaster conservator Rory Brennan touts the advantages of three-coat plaster walls and ceilings, and explains how plaster can be repaired, even by do-it-yourselfers.

House Tours

Refurbishing an Arts & Crafts Cottage

Refurbishing an Arts & Crafts cottage designed by William Lightfoot Price, noted architect and founder of utopian communities.

House Tours

Shingle Style in Maine

A late Shingle Style house designed by John Calvin Stevens is sensitively brought back by owners who use patterns by William Morris in its casual, summer-house rooms.

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The High Cost of Replacement Windows

There are several reasons why it’s worth saving and maintaining old windows. One example is using window inserts from Indow.

Exterior Lighting

Shop Tour: Old California Lighting

Gorgeous, period-inspired light fixtures made in America by artisans and Old California.

Doors & Windows

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.

House Tours

House Tours

Preserving an 1890 Brownstone

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

House Tours

Arts & Crafts Bungalow on Bainbridge Island

A 1915 Arts & Crafts house on Bainbridge Island, never substantially altered since it was built, is restored with regard for its history, architectural scale, and original style.

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1858 Greek Revival House

In creating a business they would own, a family finishes the rehabilitation of an important 1858 Greek Revival house in Tennessee.

House Tours

Shingle Style in Maine

A late Shingle Style house designed by John Calvin Stevens is sensitively brought back by owners who use patterns by William Morris in its casual, summer-house rooms.

House Tours

Refurbishing an Arts & Crafts Cottage

Refurbishing an Arts & Crafts cottage designed by William Lightfoot Price, noted architect and founder of utopian communities.

House Tours

The Shingle Style

A rarefied style in the 19th century, the Victorian-era Shingle Style is one beloved today.

House Tours

Victorian Brownstones

Many brownstone interiors are a Victorian wonderland.

House Tours

Legacy House on Boston’s North Shore

On Boston’s North Shore, an interior designer adds another layer to this legacy house with a strong personality.

Repairs & How To

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.

Repairs & How To

Replacing Doors

Is your original front door long gone? Is the entry so altered it’s impossible to tell what used to be there? It happens a lot. The wrong front door muddles the style of the house and hurts curb appeal. Take heart: you can restore what’s gone using salvage, custom replication, or an astute purchase.

Repairs & How To

Repairing Exterior Wood Shutters

To save exterior wood shutters, tackle loose louvers, detached stiles and failing joints, and rot damage.

Repairs & How To

Tools for Retrofitting Old Doors

Handy items help in repairing and retrofitting old doors.

Repairs & How To

Factory Glass Room Screens

Old factory windows are repurposed as room dividers, adding dimension while letting light shine through.

Repairs & How To

DIY Salvaged Hardware

Salvaged icebox hardware make new cabinets look like vintage equipment.

Repairs & How To

Working With Abatron Epoxy

What does a rotted window sill have to do with a maker of industrial epoxies and coatings? Plenty, when that company is Abatron Inc.