New Old House

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.

House Tours

With a desire for a house that was traditional on the outside yet contemporary inside, this family of four turned to architect Wade Weissmann, and wrote their own chapter in the evolving architectural story of Lake Forest, Illinois.

Greek Revival Houses

Architect Marc Rueter designs a new Greek Revival style house on a farm in rural Michigan.

House Tours

Peter Zimmerman Architects designs a rustic log home in Jackson, Wyoming.

Architect Sandra Vitzthum designed this farmhouse addition using traditional clapboards, square column supports for the farmer’s porch, and wood roof shingles.

Siding, Shingles & Roofing

New old house designers and architects reveal their top picks for authentic exterior building materials.

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A new old Louisiana traditional farmhouse seems to have evolved over time; architect J. Everett Schram relied on Acadian and Creole traditions.

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Colonial Revival style defines this classic New England farmhouse by Patrick Ahearn in Massachusetts.

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Interior Lighting

Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.

Furniture

A curated collection of dining room furniture favorites.

House Tours

Michael G. Imber designs a ranch-style Texas farmhouse to nestle into its surroundings.

House Tours

This serial restorer of old houses decided to build new—owing to a personal connection to the Gamble House.

Hardwood floors and a soaking tub create a country feel in this seaside bath by John B. Murray.

Period Bathrooms

These spectacular bathroom designs offer utility along with beauty.

Garden Design

Design your garden around the style of your house.

New floor-to-ceiling windows with stained glass transoms provide views of the backyard.

Old-House Kitchens

Homeowner Benita Cooper meticulously restores her town house kitchen with period perfection.

The interior stair hall is classically designed.

House Tours

A new farmhouse, resting on 60 acres of Pennsylvania's sprawling pastures, looks as though it's been there for ages.

The interiors are kept casual with a mix of vintage furnishings and artwork. Wood floors are covered in beach grass rugs for a seaside atmosphere.

House Tours

Architect Geoffrey Mouen designs a simply sweet getaway cottage in Rosemary Beach, Florida.

The landscape was designed to bring out the earthy historic colors found in the freshly completed paint job.

Arts & Crafts Houses

With a nod to Modernism, Garrison Hullinger and J Jones refine a 1909 Portland Foursquare saved from the wrecking ball.

The arrangement of these parts forms a welcoming entry courtyard, adorned with gardens and fountains that flank the main walkway toward the entry portico.

House Tours

Fairfax & Sammons adapts the Anglo-Caribbean style for a new home on Florida’s Singer Island. It is a perfect blend of formal character mixed with relaxed lifestyle living.

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Historical Concepts looks to the South’s designs of the past to create a new old house in Savannah, Georgia.

The kitchen offers traditional touches with several views of the nearby coastline.

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Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders weaves contemporary comforts into a traditional Nantucket design.

Burt addressed the formal entry by giving it prominence with clear cues. A new roof was added to the porch, as were paved pathways leading to the front door.

Garden Design

A dismantled home finds new life when it's salvaged parts are repurposed for a garden.

Pruning is one of the most important tasks you can do to keep your trees healthy.

Gardening Projects

An orchard offers sensual pleasures to your garden nearly all year long—but creating one requires patience and hard work.

Architect John Day worked with Connor Homes to design the perfect pared-down Greek Revival for his young family.

Greek Revival Houses

LDa Architecture & Interiors melds tradition and modern life in New England.

The gingerbread detailing in the house’s eaves and dormers is welcoming and offers a charming cottage feel. Built-in benches on the porch offer open-air seating.

House Tours

Despite all the wear and tear, the gorgeous bones and exquisite lines of this circa 1900 Shingle-style Peabody & Stearns carriage house captured the attention of builders in Boston.