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Products of the Week

Bring beauty and value your home with heirloom-quality REAL wood doors by Vintage Doors. Meticulously handmade by expert craftsmen in your exact size and style—to be loved and respected for generations, just like the olden days. Hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.

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.

HVAC & Retrofit Systems

A central heating and cooling system using "aspiration" technology to warm and cool homes evenly and quietly with flexible small ducts that weave through ceilings, walls, and even floors.

Plaster Repair

By using modern materials and a traditional technique, it is possible to repair plaster ceilings that are cracking and delaminating. Here is a step-by-step guide to how to fix plaster ceilings in your old house.

Interiors & Decor

The craft of ornamental plaster is a wondrous thing, especially to the uninitiated. Here’s what you need to know about this historic medium.

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

Interior Paints & Stenciling

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

Steve Jordan touches up a medallion in the double parlors of the Landmark Society of Western New York.

Wallpaper & Ceilings

Ceiling medallions are decorative features attached to a ceiling, suspended from the floor joists of the space above, give character to an often overlooked space.

Wallpaper & Ceilings

Classic decorative ceilings are typically embellished with color, striping, cast plaster ornaments, corner fans, borders, specialty papers, or murals.

Ceiling, Room & Whole-House Fans

Woolen Mill creates timeless iron, aluminum, and bronze fans with solid mahogany blades.

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Old-House Kitchens

A commentary on remuddled old-house kitchens.

Befitting its four-story height, the Waverly Mansion in Columbus, Mississippi, features a grand medallion with a central rosette surrounded by concentric circles, framed by several octagons. (Photo: Paul Rocheleau)

Interiors & Decor

Wallcoverings & Wallpaper

Walls, Ceilings, Plaster

Three ways to fix these quick-peeling surfaces.

Wallpaper & Ceilings

A look at the history and manufacturing of decorative tin ceilings explains their appeal at the turn of the last century, as well as today.

Walls, Ceilings, Plaster

What to do about rust on a tin ceiling and peeling calcimine paint.

Plaster & Composition Ornament

Kitchen Counters & Backsplashes

Chelsea Decorative Metal is a manufacturer and supplier of tin ceiling tiles, cornices, moldings, friezes and copper sheets. Specialties include hand-painted faux finishes and stamped walls, back splashes, wainscoting, and ceilings.

Radiators, Grilles & Registers

Wallcoverings & Wallpaper

Walls & Ceilings

Recreate the essence of period interiors using "Petitsin" ornaments and moldings. Exquisitely detailed, flexible, easy to install French-inspired moldings for ceilings, walls, fireplaces, cornices, doors, and furniture.

Lighting & Lamps

Metal & Tin Ceilings

The W.F. Norman Corp. produces quality tin ceilings and stamped sheet metal products with 140 ceiling designs and over 1,300 ornaments available in zinc, copper and brass.

Ceiling, Room & Whole-House Fans