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Products of the Week

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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Storm Windows & Interior Panels

Allied Window offers a beautiful, affordable and invisible solution for your bent glass and shaped windows. Allied Window's specialty is creating insulating storm windows that disappear into your shaped openings - matching the shape exactly - from bent glass to odd shapes, sizes and thicknesses – disappearing into your window opening.

Products & Services Directory

A showcase of unique and hard-to-find handcrafted furnishing and decor from Old House Journal's buying guides.

Queen Anne Houses

The Queen Anne, a favorite of American house styles, features exterior ornament and complex color schemes.

Textiles

A review of the “unseen” floor coverings of early America challenges the myth that colonial homes were bare.

“The smallest baby grand we could find” came from an estate sale. The Federal-style convex mirror is oversized to keep it unfussy.

House Tours

Learn how this owner took her house from tired and boring to bold and beautiful using fresh, budget-friendly ideas that don’t fight history.

Interiors & Decor

Ready to start shopping? Check out our photo gallery and buyers guide of out-of-this-world mid-century home decor.

Rejuvenation’s ‘Ashland’ neoclassical wall sconce

Exterior Lighting

The entryway or porch light looks right when it illuminates the style antecedents of the house. Early lighting designs in copper or iron have been joined by lantern types patterned on those in French monasteries, English castles, and California’s iconic Arts & Crafts houses.

Hardware & Metalwork

Window dressings complete a room. Here’s a tutorial on drapery hardware ca. 1860 to 1910—a period that saw lavish treatments but also a return to simple rod-and-ring drapery.

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Hardware & Metalwork

Make an electrical outlet or switch disappear by painting or wallpapering it to match the wall. (Wallpaper gets dirty fast, so make two and store one for later.) Alternately, these decorative covers turn the switch plate into an architectural detail.

Architectural Salvage Projects

Add historical detail and whimsical interest by choosing shelf brackets in industrial, Victorian, or Art Deco style, made of cast iron or brass.

Period Bathrooms

Moody blue walls paired with oak wainscoting make for a Victorian room.

House Tours

A Brooklyn family’s Moorish Revival take on a 1902 Italianate row house.

Textiles

Fashions for windows in early homes run from the simplest homespun on a string, to fancier layered treatments.

Interiors & Decor

Browse a selection of art, hardware and other miscellaneous decors for your early home.

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Period Paints & Finishes

A graceful foyer has the hallmarks of Colonial Revival style.

Arts & Crafts Houses

When it comes to old homes, not all renovations are stellar. Sometimes updates left over from previous owners are better reversed.

Textiles

Rugs were an important part of Arts & Crafts houses. Far more than mere floor coverings, their colors, textures, and patterns helped integrate house and furnishings in the pursuit of a totally designed environment.