Most homebuyers would tear out a 1940s postwar kitchen; this owner went in the opposite direction.

Bold choices work well in this Victorian Revival upgrade.

Period Architecture moves a 1770 Georgian house in historic Greenwich into the 21st century.

When you buy an old house, you will have to remodel the kitchen. Old houses never have enough storage space. Bachelors don’t cook. Wrong, wrong, and wrong—at least at Sconehenge, David Berman’s 1910 Shingle Style house in Plymouth, Mass.

Sometimes, what is retained is as important as what is renovated or added. Small things and the right details in a cottage renovation can bring back the joy.

Facing tilted porch piers and baby-blue woodwork, a smitten owner brings the Arts & Crafts aesthetic to a 1921 bungalow in Seattle.

An otherwise all-white room gets boundless energy grounded by a colored floor.

Ideas from every era for old-house kitchen shelving.

Equip the kitchen’s prep area with classics past and present.

To replace nondescript space in an old house, an architect designs a hard-working “modern Craftsman” kitchen for a friend who has strong ideas about design and function.

A McKim, Mead & White house gets some thoughtful kitchen and bath updates.

Barnes Vanze Architects designs a real cook's kitchen for a Mid-Atlantic Mediterranean.

Owners of this 1913 house turned back the clock on some intrusive remodelings.

Cleaned up and repurposed, an old French dental-tools cabinet is nifty and functional in the kitchen.