Catherine Lundie

Products of the Week

Allied Window is a manufacturer of invisible storm windows ®, customized for historic properties and renovation projects. Special shapes and custom colors; interior and exterior applications.

Repair Products & Tools

Woodcraft is one of the nation's oldest and largest suppliers of over 20,000 quality woodworking tools, supplies and services.

Kitchen 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.

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

Restoring this 18th-century Cape was a labor of love.

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.

Arts & Crafts Houses

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.

Exterior Painting

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.

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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.

Garden Design

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.