Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Styles, projects, and ideas for old house gardens and exteriors, including planting tips, painting, siding, roofing, shutters, and windows.

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Boardinghouse Blues

“A home with a hernia.” – Ken Ellis

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

The Perspective Landscape

Layering built and organic features transforms a lot “with potential” into a sweet retreat.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Porch with a View

When Hammer Architects added a spacious new porch to an old Watch Hill home, they created interesting opportunities for landscape architect Keith LeBlanc.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Living History

Discovering ancient plantings for American gardens.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Tale of Two Towers

“The house is a money-maker. I get it. A few fixes and she could shine again.” – Tina Kaasman

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Sometimes Conformity is Good

Don’t buy a row house if you can’t play nice with others.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

The Magic of Willowwood

Surrounding a house with portions dating to 1792, a landscape from gardening’s golden age unfolds.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

An Urban Garden in Massachusetts

How an avid gardener and her landscape designers reworked a streetside urban plot to create private “rooms” along with lawns and perennial beds—while honoring the scale of the big old house.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Vintage Onion Lanterns

Great sources for finding vintage onion lanterns.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Garden Gate from Window Grate

Repurposing a window grate.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Garage Doors: Your Design Options

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Garden Glories

Historically, a porch was an indulgence of time and materials, but the benefits always outweighed the expense.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Fruitful Garden

Even the word, orchard, invokes an air of tradition and permanence, of hearth and home, of established place and purpose.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

The boxy original house begged for light-filled wings and a conservatory to tie it to the rural property. The foundation was kept unfettered by plantings in the Victorian tradition, but new gardens are everywhere.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Garden Aesthetics

Ontario–based Virginia Burt weaves century-old construction materials into a contemporary landscape on two residential acres in Cleveland, Ohio.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Ideas for Porches, Patios & Decks

Wood columns, balustrades, and even fretwork can last decades provided they’re cut from long-lived, dimensionally stable wood with a low moisture content.

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Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Product of the Week

Preservation Products

The Unico System

Ward Clapboard Mill

Boardinghouse Blues

The Perspective Landscape

Porch with a View

Living History

Tale of Two Towers

Sometimes Conformity is Good

The Magic of Willowwood

An Urban Garden in Massachusetts

Vintage Onion Lanterns

Garden Gate from Window Grate

Garage Doors: Your Design Options

Garden Glories

Fruitful Garden

A Farm Garden Reimagined

Garden Aesthetics

Ideas for Porches, Patios & Decks