EH Fall/Winter 2014

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.

OHJ Product of the Week - Allied Window, Inc. - Bowed - Custom Color (2)

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.

Bathrooms

GOOF PROOF SHOWER installations made easy. Mark E Industries manufactures products to simplify the art of shower and tile installations by focusing on some of the more difficult and time-consuming tasks.

Old-House Kitchens

Despite remodelings and our expectation of modern function, the old-house kitchen is a favorite space, often exuding atmosphere.

Believe it or not, this is a new vacation home in Kentucky. Construction was with modern materials to meet all codes, but reclaimed materials are used to convey history.

Old-House Kitchens

These examples show it’s possible to combine old and new to create a traditional yet comfortable kitchen.

Interiors & Decor

The owners have chosen a style proven over time, exhibiting the warm, familiar atmosphere embodied by the word “home.”

Furniture

Desks of any sort were uncommon before public education created greater literacy at the start of the 19th century. Here's a look at common early desks.

House Tours

The restoration of a beautifully reclaimed Dutch–English house.

House Tours

This new house was planned around a collection of rugs and antique furniture passed down for five generations.

Digital

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Furniture

Located on Lake Superior in far north Minnesota, North House Folk School is a haven for Northern crafts. Courses are offered year-round.

Repairs & How To

North House Folk School is modeled on the Scandinavian folkeshoskole, developed in Denmark in the 19th century.

A slant-top variant of a desk-on-frame, this early example is precursor of the familiar schoolhouse desk.

Furniture

Desks of any sort were uncommon before public education created greater literacy at the start of the 19th century. Here's a look at common early desks.

At the Jonas More House, a large carpet is made of stitched lengths of birdseye carpet with a border in a Greek key design.

Textiles

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

The kitchen wing includes an informal dining area with a fully paneled fireplace wall.

House Tours

This new house was planned around a collection of rugs and furniture passed down for five generations.

Midwestern Historic Sites

On new wide-plank pine boards in a ca. 1700 house, the edges were beveled down to make the floor look old.

Flooring

Original wood floors are a prized feature—when they have survived. For those looking to approximate one, our experts explain what an authentic floor should look like.