Kitchen Furnishings & Appliances

Kitchen Furnishings & Appliances

3 Appliance Options for Old-House Kitchens

Hiding the appliances was standard practice for period-inspired kitchens, but that’s no longer the case. Market innovations allow you to choose among multiple approaches in your design.

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6 Tips for Tile on a Budget

Strategies for using art tile to best effect, with other ways to get artisan or custom looks for less.

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6 Ways to Hide Kitchen Appliances

Modern machines are the anachronism in a period kitchen—here are 6 ideas for disguising them.

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A 1868 Greek Revival Kitchen

Never out of style…that can be said of Windsor chairs or a blue-and-white color scheme—and of this recent kitchen in an 1868 Greek Revival house.

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A New Kitchen for a Greek Revival Cottage

A kitchen in the American vernacular suits this restored Minnesota cottage.

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Adventures in Installing a Kitchen Sink

Today’s kitchen restorations involve hundreds of decisions. Take for example that prosaic workhorse, the kitchen sink.

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Anatomy of an Old-House Kitchen

Want to re-create a period look in the heart of home? Tap the past for inspiration, and duplicate details with faithful reproductions.

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Built-Inspirations

Need more storage space in your old house? Built-ins are a good way to find it.

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Buyer’s Guide to Vintage Appliances

One of the best ways to create old-time kitchen ambience is to introduce antique appliances—in particular, a cookstove and a refrigerator.

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Concrete for Counters, Sinks, & Floors

Recent innovations, new concrete products, and excellent concrete fabricators have made concrete a coveted material for residential use.

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Conversation Pieces from Elmira Stove Works

Elmira Stove Works started with wood-burning stoves and now customizes unique appliances in two very different lines.

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Corner Cupboards & Spoon Shelves

Ingenious ways and means for storing items in early homes teach us about beauty with utility.

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Counter Points

The workhorse of kitchens from any era, countertops have come in a wide range of materials over the past 150 years, presenting a wealth of historical options for today.

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Designing an Old House Kitchen

How do you design an appropriate old house kitchen? One that will still look good and function well in twenty years?

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Directory of Antique Appliance Restorers

Find someone near you who can restore your vintage stove or refrigerator with this state-by-state directory.

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Dress Up a Refrigerator with Tin Ceiling Panels

Embossed “tin ceiling” panels can be used to create a cabinet front, disguising a modern refrigerator.