Technology, fittings, and finery to warm the hearth, the room, and thee

See our English Country style essential bookshelf.

It's comfortable, personal, and surprisingly American.

For your bungalow, imagine a cozy chair in the mellow light of a mica lampshade.

The forms of reproduction hardware may look familiar, but the techniques used to make these pieces have changed dramatically.

See pretty fabric and wallpaper prints that are perfect for a new old house.

Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.

A handpicked selection of traditional tile for your new old home.

A curated collection of dining room furniture favorites.

Bare but for a thin skin of paint, modern walls are a stylistic aberration. For most of our history, the lower wall has been decently dressed in decorative paneling and various wainscoting styles.

If you need to replace the doorknobs in your Victorian-era house, some background on decorative trends of the time can help you sort through antiques and reproductions.

Charming, sometimes quirky, 18th- and early 19th-century staircases also aspired to elegance.

The owners have chosen a style proven over time, exhibiting the warm, familiar atmosphere embodied by the word “home.”

Balsam and holly collected nearby, strings of cranberries, feather trees, bits of bauble tucked amidst the china—traditional holiday decorating in a ca. 1700 house unscathed by time.

Stenciled designs and scenic murals were popular from around 1790 to 1850.

The Aesthetic Movement influenced British design and American taste.

Surprise sophistications in early furnishings.

Design ideas for an informal and beautiful vintage mantel.

Whether your taste runs to colonial wire-arm chandeliers or hammered copper with mica shades, period-inspired lighting is easy to love. But are reproductions really functional in this age of halogen lamps and organic LEDs?

See available options from Simplicity Sofas.

Detecting Asian influence in the work of Greene & Greene.

An extensive list of Mid-century Modernism books.

Figured glass added beauty, light, and privacy to houses by fusing form and function.

Stained glass windows add color and appeal, changing the quality of the interior light and lending another dimension to the room’s design.