Interiors & Decor

Styles, projects, and ideas for old house interiors & decorative accessories, including furnishings, painting, wallpaper, ceilings, lighting, floors, and rugs.

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How to Choose and Save Money on Traditional Replacement Windows

Today’s period-friendly window options ensure your new replacement windows will match your old-house style. Find out how to save money on traditional sash windows, casement windows, and more.

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Choosing a Stencil Style

Whether folk or classical, stenciling transforms a room.

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Is Your Old House Haunted?

Here’s how to tell—and what to do if you find otherworldly visitors hanging around.

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Guide to Pressed Metal Ceilings

Decorative metal ceilings are a historically appropriate way to alter the look of your old home.

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Design Motifs of the Aesthetic Movement

An untouched 1883 interior in Massachusetts offers up an encyclopedia of Aesthetic Movement ornament, much of it in the Anglo-Japanese or Orientalist taste.

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Locally Sourced Wood Flooring Options

From Eastern White Pine to Hickory and Douglas Fir, we discuss the variety of locally sourced flooring options.

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How To Decorate a Victorian House with Plants

A brief history of the Victorian obsession with houseplants, which turned parlors into bowers.

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Discovering History in an 1810 Colonial

Even before we moved in, I was haunted by our house. I was a relatively young first-time buyer and the 1810 Colonial seemed very, very old.

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Traditional Trades: Handcrafted Lighting

One couple’s down-to-earth lifestyle helps contribute to timeless designs of period lighting.

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High-Tech Windows for New Old Houses

Blending technology and tradition in new old windows.

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The Case for Interior Shutters

A fresh look at interior window shutters, with tips on how to get that historical look today.

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You’ll feel a hushed intimacy when you enter a room, or a niche, fitted with fabric walls. Echoes, footfalls, and conversations fade quickly and do not resonate, regardless of the height of the ceiling.

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