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.
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Unico System
A central heating and cooling system using "aspiration" technology to warm and cool homes evenly and quietly with flexible small ducts that weave through ceilings, walls, and even floors.
Authentic Designs Colonial Lighting
Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
Lighting 1910 to 1930
Endlessly inventive, Teens and Twenties lighting fixtures still appeal today.
Traditional Lighting Fixtures
Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.
Arts & Crafts Interior Ideas
More than a century after the movement began, artisans continue the exploration.
Nautical Lights Ahoy
Mid-20th-century ship lights are rewired and polished up to become attractive wall sconces or lamps.
Restoring Antique Lighting
An enlightening tutorial about saving vintage fixtures: safety, cleaning, missing parts, and special finishes.
High Tech, Historical Revival Lighting
Lighting has always been driven by technology and available sources of energy. As tech got more advanced there was an explosion of innovation in the shapes, styles, and placement of light fixtures and lamps.
Period Lanterns
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.
Farmhouse Lighting
Based on the idea that rustic materials—punched tin, seedy glass—make for a period type, Farmhouse Style is a new lighting craze.
High-Tech Lights with Old-House Style
Newfangled lighting systems, once the scourge of old-house renovation, have become period friendly—or at least less obtrusive.
How To Rewire an Antique Light Fixture
When original lighting fixtures flicker and fail, restore them to good working order by rewiring.
Restoration Resources
Restoration Resources is renowned nationwide as a retail treasure-trove...showcasing unique artifacts, antique decorative salvage, architectural and ornamental building elements, vintage statuary, and choice old house parts, hardware, and fixtures.
