Looking to cut your energy costs and perhaps score a tax credit? Plenty of period-friendly windows and doors meet the new standards.

Light the way—and your home’s architectural details—with well-placed landscape lighting.

Renowned garden writer Tovah Martin shares her personal garden in Connecticut.

The OHJ editors and writer Tovah Martin share their favorite old-house gardening books.

A survey of basic millwork patterns and their installation.

By getting creative with your shingling you can add flare and character to your house.

A soggy lawn gets a makeover to match an early 20th-century Georgian Revival home.

Design your garden around the style of your house.

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.

Emerging out of mud and stumps, a pretty garden flourishes around an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse.

A buried trough for water plants and soothing sound.

In The Garden: Add texture, prevent weeds, do away with mulch.

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.

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.

They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.

Underlying structure + horticulture = seasonal interest.

New England landscape designer Andrew Grossman bought his house, a 19th-century Cape, strictly for the lot.

Janice Parker revives a historical landscape to its former beauty by using classical and romantic design inspiration.

A Boston area landscape gets a serious upgrade with timeless appeal.

They still make ornamental roof cresting.

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.

Names of wood siding types varied over time and by region.

Double entry doors restore elegance to a Brooklyn row house.

Window boxes may be part of a “vertical garden” that includes pots and urns, hanging baskets, wall trellises, and even a pergola (an open-roofed porch structure that accommodates climbers).