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.

In an old house or one built in a revival style, default to the look of early 20th-century bathrooms with white fixtures.

Original sources are credible—and charming.

An otherwise all-white room gets boundless energy grounded by a colored floor.

How appealing is this vintage Victorian cottage bathroom, all in green and white?

So many choices, it’s hard to decide: antique or reproduction, European or modern?

Ideas from every era for old-house kitchen shelving.

Keep your bathroom timeless while using fixtures designed for modern living.

Bungalow-era baths were of the “sanitary white” persuasion. Not so the bathrooms built after the mid-1920s! Bright color and Jazz Age glamour continued through the 1930s. By the mid-40s, white tile was back.

To replace nondescript space in an old house, an architect designs a hard-working “modern Craftsman” kitchen for a friend who has strong ideas about design and function.

Mediterranean color meets Craftsman design in a joyfully restored house in Portland, Oregon.

Despite remodelings and our expectation of modern function, the old-house kitchen is a favorite space, often exuding atmosphere.