Interiors & Decor
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Articles focusing on styles, projects, and ideas for old house interiors & decorative accessories, including furnishings, painting, wallpaper, ceilings, lighting, floors, and rugs.
Reformed Gothic Style
Reformed Gothic style is a blend of medieval, aesthetic, and Arts & Crafts.
Inspirations for Interior Polychromy
Polychromy is the art of using many colors in decoration or architecture.
Victorian Trade Cards: Color Inspirations from the Printed Past
Inspiration for interior color palettes and polychromy (use of many colors) may come from period books, which often included color plates.
Easy Distressed Finishes
With a distressed finish you can paint it on, wipe it off; sand, glaze, or crackle it.
Scenic Wallpaper
Hand-painted and wood block-printed wallpapers surround us with historical scenes, both real and imagined, or they can bring the panoramic outdoors to rooms inside.
Books on English Country House Style
See our English Country style essential bookshelf.
Homey Arts & Crafts
For your bungalow, imagine a cozy chair in the mellow light of a mica lampshade.
The Eichler Effect & Legacy
Tracing the California roots of modern contemporary style and Joseph Eichler's impact.
Colorful Kitchen Floor
An otherwise all-white room gets boundless energy grounded by a colored floor.
5 Ideas for Historical Home Window Treatments
Window treatments confer privacy while giving rooms a décor boost. Here’s our guide to the best window embellishments for old houses.
A Directory of Architectural Salvage Stores in the U.S.
Use our comprehensive guide to locate an architectural salvage store near you, or to browse the websites of stores across the country, many of which sell their wares online.
Playful Art Deco Style
Exotic wallpapers are just one surprise in this playful Art Deco apartment.
The ABCs of Art Deco Style
A vocabulary introduces art deco history, influences & motifs.
Tables for any Occasion
Side tables and small occasional tables in early America were portable, versatile, and delightfully varied in style.
Prairie School Houses
Prairie School houses were a phenomenon 1901–1919 that changed domestic architecture forever.
Lighting 1910 to 1930
Endlessly inventive, Teens and Twenties lighting fixtures still appeal today.
Mediterranean Craftsman Color
Mediterranean color meets Craftsman design in a joyfully restored house in Portland, Oregon.
Art Tile and Everyday Tile
How to combine art tile with production tile to create a unique installation.
Arts & Crafts Winter Heating Options
Technology, fittings, and finery to warm the hearth, the room, and thee
Vintage Doors
Bring beauty and value your home with heirloom-quality REAL wood doors by Vintage Doors. Meticulously handmade by expert craftsmen in your exact size and style—to be loved and respected for generations, just like the olden days. Hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.
Nostalgic Warehouse
Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic fabricates heirloom quality architectural tiles for public and private installations, gift and commemorative tiles, vessels, gardenware, ornaments and both reproductions and adaptations of its historic designs and offers classes, workshops, lectures, internships and residency programs for studio potters and other artists.
