Catherine Lundie

Products of the Week

Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, & Backsplashes

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.

Windows

Marvin Windows and Doors offers customized, high-performance windows and doors.

Shutters

Family owned manufacturer of top quality red cedar, mahogany, basswood, poplar, and red oak shutters for interior and exterior, and providers of full painting services, a large selection of exterior hardware and endless cutout design.

Banister-back chairs, each unique, are by Adam Mathews. The dry sink decorated with a tulip and unicorn pattern was adapted from an 18th-century Berks County dower chest by Oley Valley Reproductions.

House Tours

Located on Lake Superior in far north Minnesota, North House Folk School is a haven for Northern crafts. Courses are offered year-round.

Midwestern Historic Sites

Built right on the lake, the old cottage (bottom) was badly rotted. Handsome windows and new fiber-cement siding (top) improved its looks.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Nestled by the water, snug in pretty new outerwear, this cottage will weather another century.

A richly colored Federal house in Newport, Rhode Island, has a contrasting scheme is in patriotic blue and red.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Paint colors of the past suggest combinations for early period and Colonial Revival houses today.

A historic streetscape in the village, with the Winston-Salem central business district in the background.

Southern Historic Sites

Arts & Crafts naturalism: A warm beige on the coved ceiling gives way to a soft, tertiary green on walls in a 1911 Foursquare. Photo: William Wright

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Blue is blue, right? Not so much. Color sense changed by decade.

Digital

E-newsletters

Wood carvings from Architectural Products by Outwater.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Some older homes possess showier charms than others: decorative ornament in the form of plaster, composition molding, or wood paneling.

Organized by color and in perfect context, primitive boxes and containers in varying shades of blue turn a cornflower-blue hutch into a breathtaking showpiece. (Photo: Jessie Walker)

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

A common sense guide to displaying your collectibles.

The gracefully curved picket fence from New England Cedar Fence is sold in sections from 4' to 8' wide.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

The author wanted shallow cupboards on either side of the stove to create an old-fashioned cooking alcove; resting on the countertop, cupboards also hide small appliances.

Old-House Kitchens

Clever space planning and long-coveted design details make for an elegantly simple kitchen.

Gold accents in the Empire table are set against a warm, period blue in the dining room at Ames Plantation in Tennessee; trim is classical white. Photo: Robt. Ames Cook

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Kitchen Furnishings & Appliances

With a bit of decorative millwork, you can transform a cookie-cutter kitchen into something spicy.

In the dining room of an early house in Maine, exuberant folk stenciling displays a wealth of patterns inspired by nature. Photo: Brian Vanden Brink

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Whether folk or classical, stenciling transforms a room.

The fireplace after installation of art tile: Arts & Crafts meets Colonial Revival. Photo: T.J. Pignataro

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

A bland and damaged surround is remade with a period tile installation—and the fireplace becomes a stylish focal point.

In high-style Georgian homes, raised-panel shutters often reflected floor-to-ceiling room paneling, like these reproductions from Americana.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

A fresh look at interior window shutters, with tips on how to get that historical look today.

The owners of this 18th-century Georgian home used a medium shade of a deep, pigment-rich color on walls, and a darker shade of the same color on trim, for a historically correct tone-on-tone effect. Photo: Gross & Daley

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Crown Point Cabinetry used a custom-blended milk paint for these Shaker-inspired cabinets.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Real milk paint is back on the radar: It’s non-toxic and offers unique finish effects for walls, cabinets, and furniture. And modern formulations have extended its applications.