A Traditional Landscape for a Philadelphia Main Line Estate
Doyle Herman Design Associates bring seamless modernity to a traditional landscape, preserving the viewshed and complementing a Philadelphia Main Line estate.
Old House Gardens & Exteriors
All things on the outside: Articles focusing on styles, projects, and other ideas for old house gardens and exteriors, including gardening, landscaping, siding, windows, exterior paint, and conservatories.
Energy-Efficient Windows for Old Houses
Looking to cut your energy costs and perhaps score a tax credit? Plenty of period-friendly windows and doors meet the new standards.
Lighting for Porch & Patio
Light the way—and your home’s architectural details—with well-placed landscape lighting.
Tovah Martin's Autumn Garden at Furthermore
Renowned garden writer Tovah Martin shares her personal garden in Connecticut.
Books for Old-House Gardeners
The OHJ editors and writer Tovah Martin share their favorite old-house gardening books.
Horizontal Siding Guide
A survey of basic millwork patterns and their installation.
Decorative Shingling Ideas
By getting creative with your shingling you can add flare and character to your house.
Designing a Historic Georgian Revival Garden
A soggy lawn gets a makeover to match an early 20th-century Georgian Revival home.
The Architecture of the Garden
Design your garden around the style of your house.
Antebellum Garden Design
Large southern plantation homes often lacked lavish outdoor spaces, but ones that did sport elaborate gardens tended to be designed in a geometric manner that complemented the classical and formal lines of the house.
Greek Revival Garden
Emerging out of mud and stumps, a pretty garden flourishes around an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse.
A Do-It-Yourself Water Feature
A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.
Ground Covers and Underplanting
In The Garden: Add texture, prevent weeds, do away with mulch.
Restoring Historic Hardscapes
One of the real pleasures of owning an old house is that the landscape around it has reached maturity. To revive or enhance hardscape elements from the land’s past history, expect to do some sleuthing.
Taming Wildmuir, An English Garden
In New York’s Catskill Mountains, an English garden with deep roots and its architecture intact is nudged toward simplicity with native plants and shrubs.
Victorian Pedestal Mailboxes
They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.
The Year-Round Garden
Underlying structure + horticulture = seasonal interest.
A Landscape Designer's House & Garden
New England landscape designer Andrew Grossman bought his house, a 19th-century Cape, strictly for the lot.
Reviving a Historical Landscape
Janice Parker revives a historical landscape to its former beauty by using classical and romantic design inspiration.
Designing a Vintage Landscape
A Boston area landscape gets a serious upgrade with timeless appeal.
Period Lanterns
The entryway or porch light looks right when it illuminates the style antecedents of the house. Early lighting designs in copper or iron have been joined by lantern types patterned on those in French monasteries, English castles, and California’s iconic Arts & Crafts houses.
Clapboard, Dutch Lap and Other Novelty Siding
Names of wood siding types varied over time and by region.
The Formal Facade Improved
Double entry doors restore elegance to a Brooklyn row house.
L. & J.G. Stickley
Hand-sanded and hand-finished solid white oak, cherry, and mahogany cabinets, dressers, tables, chairs, beds, and armoires.
Crown Point Cabinetry
Crown Point Cabinetry offers custom cabinets for period style kitchens, baths, offices, laundry rooms, home bars and more. Styles include Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional.
Forbo Flooring
Leading global player in high-quality, commercial floor coverings and total solution flooring projects that include Linoleum, Vinyl, Luxury Vinyl Tiles, Flocked Flooring Carpet Tiles and Needlefelt.
