Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

A Salvaged Garden in Cleveland

A dismantled home finds new life when it’s salvaged parts are repurposed for a garden.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

A Santa Monica Heirloom Garden

Refreshing a neglected heirloom garden.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

A Second Empire Cottage Garden

A cottage garden ends up being a couple’s happy place.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

A Stunted Victorian

“We need more education in architecture.” –Karen M. Kirk

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

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

A Winter’s Tale at Juniper Hill Farm

Winter interest was paramount in the architectural design of this garden.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

An Outhouse Or An Addition?

A dissonant addition.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

An Urban Garden in Massachusetts

How an avid gardener and her landscape designers reworked a streetside urban plot to create private “rooms” along with lawns and perennial beds—while honoring the scale of the big old house.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

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.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Arts & Crafts Door Options

Today, millwork companies are opening up to the look of early 20th-century Arts & Crafts doors.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Back to the Land

Ways your landscape can give back to you—agrarian style.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Ball and Ball Antique Lighting Reproductions

Fabricator of historical lighting: chandeliers, sconces, pendants, lanterns & table lamps; Early American & Turn of the Century styles; antique & salvaged originals, new designs, custom work & reproductions; stair handrails; restoration services.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Battling Wood Rot & Termites With Borate

Borate gets new attention as a less toxic safeguard against wood rot and wood-destroying insects, such as termites.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

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

Best Hydrangeas for Historic Gardens

Hydrangeas come in a variety of colors and sizes making them a great way to spruce up any historic garden.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Boardinghouse Blues

“A home with a hernia.” – Ken Ellis