Best Bets for Exterior Building Materials
New old house designers and architects reveal their top picks for authentic exterior building materials.
Old House Gardens & Exteriors
Conservatories, Gazebos & Sheds | Exterior Lighting | Exterior Painting | Garden Design | Porches | Remuddling | Siding, Shingles & Roofing | Windows, Doors & Shutters
It's everything that's outside your old house; garden design, landscaping, exterior lighting, porches, siding, roofing, exterior paint schemes, gazebos, windows, doors, shutters & more.
Historic American Finery: Early Doors & Entries
Although construction, massing, and various elements help identify a house’s style, the entryway and doors often provide obvious clues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vermont Verde Antique
Vermont Verde Antique is an acid resistant, stain resistant, hardy, durable, low maintenance rich green serpentine stone perfect for kitchen and bath counters, shower enclosures, fireplace surrounds, and floors.
Unico System
A central heating and cooling system using "aspiration" technology to warm and cool homes evenly and quietly with flexible small ducts that weave through ceilings, walls, and even floors.
Authentic Designs Colonial Lighting
Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
