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Woodcraft
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Crown Point Cabinetry
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.
Cozy Kitchens
Despite remodelings and our expectation of modern function, the old-house kitchen is a favorite space, often exuding atmosphere.
8 Ways to Design a Kitchen for an Early House
These examples show it’s possible to combine old and new to create a traditional yet comfortable kitchen.
White Kitchens for Vintage Homes
From cabinets and flooring to tile, lighting, and hardware, it’s the details that usher a white kitchen into the right decade. Keep in mind that white hasn’t always meant bright white, either.
Kitchen & Bath Lighting in All the Right Places
Bathrooms and kitchens have very specific lighting requirements, but who says task lighting can't be beautiful as well as functional? Vintage fixtures, period reproductions, and subtle contemporary lighting keep the design spot-on.
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.
Designing a Country Kitchen for an 18th-Century House
Inside an addition to an old house in Pennsylvania, this new but timeless kitchen is a simple room with all of its details well-considered.
Architectural Salvage in the Kitchen
Incorporating repurposed elements kept a modern room warm and in sync with the 1905 house.
Traditional Kitchen in a New Addition
Situated at the rear of a 1760 Cape, a fitting addition holds a practical kitchen filled with hand-planed cabinets.
The Best Flooring Choices for Old-House Kitchens
The hardest-working surface in the house deserves good cover.
Spanish Kitchen Makeover
Salvaged tile, leaded glass windows, and vintage lighting transform a Spanish Revival kitchen from eyesore to showstopper.
A 1868 Greek Revival Kitchen
Never out of style…that can be said of Windsor chairs or a blue-and-white color scheme—and of this recent kitchen in an 1868 Greek Revival house.
A Collector's Kitchen Makeover
A reader’s “fun and festive” kitchen is a delightful place for baking and taking care of family.
Counter Points
The workhorse of kitchens from any era, countertops have come in a wide range of materials over the past 150 years, presenting a wealth of historical options for today.
Reviving a Late 19th-Century Row House Kitchen
Homeowner Benita Cooper meticulously restores her town house kitchen with period perfection.
Traditional Coastal Kitchen
Traditional materials, classic design, authentic style, and the perfect details create a beautiful and functional kitchen.
The Kitchen Well Planned
Tidy is the word for a new kitchen, modest in size but rich in quality, in a fine old Massachusetts house.
A True New Kitchen
As part of the rebirth of an 1830 Connecticut farmhouse after a fire, a modern kitchen is designed to fit in.
A Refreshed Traditional Kitchen
Interior designer Patricia McDonagh infuses a Boston-area kitchen with period flavor.
Kitchen Reinvention by Braulio Casas Architects
A Gulf Coast architect translates the homeowner’s ideas into fresh kitchen and bath spaces.
Budget Kitchen & Bath Renovations
Before you start demolishing the room, have a master plan—and decide where you will save or splurge.
Kitchen Storage in the Early Home
What these kitchens, from Massachusetts to Ohio, have in common is a preference for antiqued surfaces and open storage. Bowl and plate racks, plain shelving, glass-fronted cabinets, and old cupboards with doors left open offer pretty and practical display.
