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Old-House Tips, Restoration Stories, & More

Exposed to the harsh elements, window boxes and siding often need to be repaired and restored.

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The Portland family wanted to live someday on Lake Oswego. When they stumbled upon a 1927 shingled cottage with Arts & Crafts stonework, it felt like home.

Beadboard wainscoting and simple fixtures define the cottage bath.

Period Bathrooms

Style notes for a room that's comfortable when it's traditional.

Living room with Stickley furniture

Arts & Crafts Houses

Plain-spoken and sturdy, the ca. 1900 house wants to be Arts & Crafts inside. With period colors and Morris-designed wallpapers, a delighted owner has played up the natural chestnut woodwork.

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Saved from its derelict condition, the plucky cottage became a vacation home for a family who enjoy the rugged joys of coastal Maine.

The homeowners decided to keep the large 1970s window for its light and view. A double-bowl apron sink from Ikea has a simple farmhouse look.

Old-House Kitchens

A small cottage kitchen in Maine gets a timeless makeover.

A one-and-a-half-story cape intersects a gambrel-roof cottage; the core of the house is First Period. The porch was added in the 1920s.

Many stories are told by this much-evolved house, which features original Georgian period woodwork as well as later additions.

A fieldstone fireplace anchors the living room, which is separated from the dining room by a staircase.

With new owners, a lakeside summer cottage becomes a year-round sanctuary.

The exterior of the home looks like a storybook cottage.

Architect Stuart Disston of Austin Patterson Disston Architects designs a breezy, beautiful guest home in Westhampton, Long Island.

A curvaceous settee and a piecrust table are lit by one of many restored art-glass windows.

This Victorian-era house with a bold exterior boasts paneled walls, art glass, and custom colors inside as well.

White hydrangeas beckon in the entryway. The sandy paint color is a 50/50 mix of ‘Nantucket Grey’ and bleaching oil, both by Cabot Stains. Trim is Benjamin Moore’s ‘Brilliant White’.

The red, white, and blue porch features Bar Harbor-style wicker furniture.

Relaxing on the porch is an official activity on the Gulf Coast, and the rockers are always ready outside this renovated 1870 home. From the porch, a boardwalk leads to the shrimp harbor and the Apalachicola River’s outlet into the Gulf.

A renovated French Creole cottage offers the best of old and new on Florida’s Apalachicola River.

The handsome house was built by Victorian-era architect Daniel T. Atwood as his own residence.

An addition to a Gothic Revival Cottage keeps the original house as the prominent view with a clear delineation between the original building and the new one.

A group of row houses sports varied roof-lines, façades, and porch treatments.

Historic Neighborhoods

The fluted square columns of the colonnade frame the corbelled brick fireplace in the 1920s parlor.

Arts & Crafts Houses

A dealer in antiques found the perfect cottage-size home for herself and her collections, then set about creating a comfortably eclectic interior.

Changes to the roofline are subtle; the cottage looks much as it did in the early 1900s.

Arts & Crafts Houses

This makeover of a Pasadena cottage, built and rebuilt on an old stone foundation, kept its original character.

The interiors are kept casual with a mix of vintage furnishings and artwork. Wood floors are covered in beach grass rugs for a seaside atmosphere.

Architect Geoffrey Mouen designs a simply sweet getaway cottage in Rosemary Beach, Florida.

A simple, front-gabled Victorian is the guest house next door to the Queen Anne.

The main house has a High Victorian formality, but this guest house next door shows a country sensibility.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

In the kitchen, an 18th-century English swing-leg table is surrounded by Pennsylvania plank-seat chairs. The crock nearest the center box on the mantel was made by a member of the Van Deusen family.

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Based on California’s coastal beach cottages from the 1930s, architect Stephen Giannetti designs his home in Santa Monica—and his wife, Brooke, an interior designer, adds the finishing touches.

The 1931 uncut stone house was hand-built by a New York state trooper gifted the land as a value-added premium on a newspaper subscription.