Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Styles, projects, and ideas for old house gardens and exteriors, including planting tips, painting, siding, roofing, shutters, and windows.

An award-winning landscape designer’s own extensive gardens reflect two decades of cultivation and care.

Decorative masonry in early houses on the Eastern Seaboard.

What are we to make of these fanciful brick houses?

What’s a moon gate?

A primer on real, old-fashioned, appropriate exterior shutters, suitable for old houses, includes weather-resistant options.

Garden Design

True Colonial-era gardens were practical, rarely ornamental, and relied on edible and medicinal plants.

An eclectic informality is more Arts & Crafts than Gilded Age in the gardens of Blithewold developed between 1893 and 1913.

Glass house conservatories are different from greenhouses in that they are permanently attached to a building.