Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
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.
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This living history museum is the heart of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's historic city center.
Wondering if you'd like a Colonial, Victorian, bungalow, or modern? Try this quiz from the editors of Old House Journal magazine.
Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
Inside an addition to an old house in Pennsylvania, this new but timeless kitchen is a simple room with all of its details well-considered.
Prussian blue gets all the ink, but true Colonial-era colors, although diverse, have an earthy quality.
A homeowner with a penchant for early antiques invites a preservation consultant in to help her unscramble a house initially built with architectural salvage.
The timeless approach to decorating that’s also known as Traditional.
Connecticut’s Phelps–Hatheway House has both Colonial and high-style Federal rooms. During the winter holidays, the house is appropriately decorated with balsam and fir, pinecones and berries.
The preservation of an 18th-century house in Maine has been life-changing for a couple who found their best possible place.
The keeping room of old became the family-friendly living room; a sunroom and electric kitchen fed 20th-century desires. Like the original Colonial dwellings he interpreted, Royal Barry Wills houses have stood the test of time. This one in North Carolina has been beautifully restored.
Nestled into a New Hampshire hillside, the handsome Colonial fits right in—though it was built in 2006, from an authentic house plan.
Whether the house is a Colonial or Romantic Revival variation, shutters help add a touch of elegance while enhancing color (or contrast) to the exterior.
Learn about the Parson Fisher House Museum in Blue Hill, Maine.
Visit colonial-era homes in the Old South of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
The restoration of a beautifully reclaimed Dutch-English house in New York's historic Hudson River Valley.
This new old farmhouse looks as though it's been there for ages.
See how the 1686 Daniel Lummus House was restored.
Paint colors of the past suggest combinations for early period and Colonial Revival houses today.
This idyllic town in northwest Connecticut boasts plenty of well-preserved old houses.
Many stories are told by this much-evolved house, which features original Georgian period woodwork as well as later additions.
Chandeliers are the apex of "colonial" lighting, but many beloved designs date to after the Revolution, even well into the 19th century.
Period Architecture Ltd. designs a gourmet kitchen with revolutionary flair.
How many old-house owners have glanced around their rooms and sighed, "If only walls could talk?" What, for example, could they tell us about the richest colors from the earliest days of colonial America, when paint was hand-ground, expensive, and often flaunted as a status symbol by those who could afford the very best?
