A tutorial in bracing color and geometric, stylized forms.

A wonderful Victorian kitchen and pantries fit this 1861 house.

Mosaic floor tile patterns, from simple to elaborate, can be a great fit for old-house bathrooms.

Strategies for using art tile to best effect, with other ways to get artisan or custom looks for less.

Designer Sarah Blank brings a fresh perspective to a kitchen in Palm Beach, Florida.

Nods to history keep a brand-new kitchen anchored in an earlier era and period appropriate.

A seamless addition allowed for this master bath, imagined as a ca. 1930 upgrade.

Nostalgic details belie the room’s efficiency and storage capacity.

The new design for a kitchen follows Prairie School doctrine.

Strong color unifies a revival kitchen in a 1910 Seattle house.

With the look of a butler’s pantry full of built-ins, it’s family-friendly.

Design considerations for hiding modern amenities and creating credible period homes.

See a vintage kitchen with two pantries in this Colonial Revival home.

If the bedroom in your 1882 Queen Anne Victorian has a gilded ceiling, what is the bathroom like?

With gleaming tile and salvaged parts, an Edwardian bath is full of ideas to borrow.

If you’re lucky enough to have a vintage sink in your kitchen, it’s probably one of the things you treasure most about the house.

Most homebuyers would tear out a 1940s postwar kitchen; this owner went in the opposite direction.

Bold choices work well in this Victorian Revival upgrade.

Architect Donald Lococo uses a minimalist aesthetic to tie a new gabled wing to a classic Tudor.

When you buy an old house, you will have to remodel the kitchen. Old houses never have enough storage space. Bachelors don’t cook. Wrong, wrong, and wrong—at least at Sconehenge, David Berman’s 1910 Shingle Style house in Plymouth, Mass.

Sometimes, what is retained is as important as what is renovated or added. Small things and the right details in a cottage renovation can bring back the joy.

The specs are confusing, quality and pricing all over the map. Here’s a stab at untangling the choices.

When it comes to restoring the tile in a period bathroom, which style is appropriate for your home's style and era? A look at the evolution of styles, colors and uses for home bathroom tile in the 20th Century.

An inside look at the history and evolution of the common bathtub can help you choose the right one for your old house.