Bridger Steel
Architecturally accurate metal roofing and siding; available in a wide range of colors including prints and vintage inspired patinas; LEED certification is available on some products.
Flooring
Products of the Week
Vintage Doors
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.
Nostalgic Warehouse
Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.
How To Restore Painted Wood Floors
Does your old house restoration project include sprucing up painted wood floors? A few days' work and a little know-how can leave wide boards beautiful for decades.
Repurposed Floor Tiles
An old floor of earthy geometric tiles rescued from a razed church adds soul to a period-look row-house kitchen.
How to Fix Sagging Floors
Understanding the common structural shortcomings that cause floors to sag and what to do about them.
Mosaic Floor Tile Patterns for Baths
Mosaic floor tile patterns, from simple to elaborate, can be a great fit for old-house bathrooms.
How To Fix a Squeaky Floor
Two easy methods for silencing annoying squeaks in your hardwood floors.
Hard Working Floors: Best Bets for Kitchens
There’s a reason why resilient flooring types and ceramic tile are the go-to floorings for utility areas in the home.
Hard Working Floors: Best Bets for Bathrooms
There’s a reason why resilient flooring types and ceramic tile are the go-to floorings for utility areas in the home.
3 Flooring Options for Period Homes
The flooring you choose sets the style, period, and tone for the room.
Editors' Picks: Old-House Flooring
Get a leg up on old-house floors. Our editors highlight new and classic articles on flooring, and show us a way to fix a squeaky spot.
Epoxy Central
Manufacturer and distributor of epoxies. Our best-selling Job on a Floor™ Do-Yourself-Kits come with everything one needs to properly install a high performance floor coating.
Hull Forest Products
Sawmill-direct wide plank flooring from well-managed forests and a small family sawmill since 1965. Native hardwoods and softwoods, unfinished or prefinished.
Touching Up Old Floors
Floors may suffer indignities as they age, even as they develop patina. Refreshing a basically sound floor will keep it serviceable. Given care and respect, a wood, stone, tile, or resilient floor will last for many decades and beyond.
20th-Century Kitchen
Here are some fittings fresh as a new century, all well designed and crafted.
Authentic Wood Flooring for Early Homes
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.
How To Patch a Damaged Floor
Make your hardwood floor's gouges, splinters, and holes virtually unnoticeable with a Dutchman patch.
How To Inlay Linoleum Floors
A deft hand and a sharp knife can give classic pizzazz to linoleum floors.
The History of Wood Flooring
Gleaming tongue-and-groove hardwood floors might seem like the standard for old houses, but that wasn’t always the case, as a trip through wood flooring history illustrates.
Conklin's Authentic Antique Barnwood & Hand Hewn Beams
From floors with rich patina to Hand Hewn ceiling beams, mantle beams or custom furniture, Conklin's offers a variety of services with all the same quality and high standard you've come to expect with the Conklin name.
The Barnwood Store and Fisher Saw Mill and Millworks
The Barnwood Store offers a wide range of pre-made and custom milled products direct from the source.
Vermont Verde Antique
Vermont Verde Antique is an acid resistant, stain resistant, hardy, durable, low maintenance rich green serpentine stone perfect for kitchen and bath counters, shower enclosures, fireplace surrounds, and floors.
Locally Sourced Wood Flooring Options
From Eastern White Pine to Hickory and Douglas Fir, we discuss the variety of locally sourced flooring options.
Colonial Plank Floors
Using hardwoods from Pennsylvania and the surrounding states harvested using environmentally friendly practices, we follow historically true methods so our floors add a sense of tradition to any home unlike the flooring you can buy from the big box stores.
