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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.
CUSTOM CABINETRY
The finest quality in Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional styles.
Mosaic Floor Tile Patterns for Baths
Mosaic floor tile patterns, from simple to elaborate, can be a great fit for old-house bathrooms.
6 Tips for Tile on a Budget
Strategies for using art tile to best effect, with other ways to get artisan or custom looks for less.
Ideas from an Edwardian Bathroom
With gleaming tile and salvaged parts, an Edwardian bath is full of ideas to borrow.
Guide to 20th-Century Bathroom Tile
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.
The History of the Bathtub
An inside look at the history and evolution of the common bathtub can help you choose the right one for your old house.
Kitchen & Bath Lighting in All the Right Places
Bathrooms and kitchens have very specific lighting requirements, but who says task lighting can't be beautiful as well as functional? Vintage fixtures, period reproductions, and subtle contemporary lighting keep the design spot-on.
4 Ideas for Timeless Baths
These spectacular bathroom designs offer utility along with beauty.
The Evolution of Colored Bathroom Fixtures
Mid-20th-century bathrooms displayed a rainbow of hues, as evidenced by these vintage advertisements.
Hard Working Floors: Best Bets for Bathrooms
There’s a reason why resilient flooring types and ceramic tile are the go-to floorings for utility areas in the home.
Privacy for Bathroom Windows
Clear glass may not do the trick in a bathroom. But you shouldn’t sacrifice light, ventilation, or beauty in the quest for seclusion—not when so many period-friendly options await.
Designing a Timeless Bath
Two hands-on restorers transform a played-out bath into a bright, beautiful, period-inspired spa retreat.
Master Bath Re-created
Wood, marble, and nickel evoke the prized bathrooms of the 1890s.
9 Ideas for Cottage Baths
Style notes for a room that's comfortable when it's traditional.
Art Deco Lighting for the Bathroom
When it comes to lighting bathrooms of the 1930s and '40s, you can't go wrong with a little Modern design.
A Fix For Mismeasured Custom Drawers
When drawers in the custom cabinet open into the toilet.
Refreshing a Colonial Revival Bath
Thanks to some lucky finds and a dose of ingenuity, a Colonial Revival bathroom is transformed into a light-filled, period-appropriate retreat.
Leveling a Bathtub
"After living in my 1925 Colonial Revival for a few months, I noticed that water tends to pond on the rim of the bathtub underneath the faucet. Black mold keeps popping up along that side, especially in the corner." —Anna Taylor
Baths Tried and True
Designing a bathroom for a house that didn’t have one when it was built? Here are two approaches.
Jewel-box Bath
Moody blue walls paired with oak wainscoting make for a Victorian room.
A Bungalow Era Bath is Timeless
The typical bungalow-era bathroom is a simple space given to sanitary white surfaces and little ornament. Still, utilitarian can be handsome.
Reproduction Victorian Bathrooms
In this meticulously restored Victorian house, wood, marble, and nickel evoke the prized bathrooms of the 1890s.
How To Install a New Faucet
Perk up your bathroom by swapping out your faucet for a retro-inspired one.
