Tale of Two Towers
"The house is a money-maker. I get it. A few fixes and she could shine again." - Tina Kaasman
Queen Anne Houses
Queen Anne Houses are often noted for their colorful exterior paints, decorative decor, embellished windows, and various building materials such as stucco or wood. These Victorian-era homes are often seen with towers or turrets and artful roofs.
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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.
Exterior Paint Color Schemes
Help for one of the biggest decisions homeowners have to make: choosing paint colors for the outside of your house.
An Exuberant Queen Anne in Michigan
A long journey took this restoration-committed owner deep into research—and on a hunt for antiques.
Authentic Gaslights in a Capitol Hill Victorian
The gaslights are still gaslit in this 1891 Queen Anne tower house in Washington, D.C.
Design Motifs of the Aesthetic Movement
An untouched 1883 interior in Massachusetts offers up an encyclopedia of Aesthetic Movement ornament, much of it in the Anglo-Japanese or Orientalist taste.
A Converted Queen Anne
A California couple enlisted their creative zeal—and a few of their friends—to doctor a decommissioned hospital.
A Ravishing Victorian Home
Never has the interior of this Queen Anne looked so good, from its wallpapers to textiles.
L. & J.G. Stickley
Hand-sanded and hand-finished solid white oak, cherry, and mahogany cabinets, dressers, tables, chairs, beds, and armoires.
Pacific Register Co.
Pacific Register Co. specializes in registers manufactured from steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, stainless steel, wood, acrylic and stone in standard designs and sizes as well as custom designs. Made in the USA.
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.
