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Kitchen 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.

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.

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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.

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Architect John Ike looks to the repertoire of the Arts and Crafts movement during the restoration of a Shingle Style house in upstate New York.

1840 Greek Revival farmhouse

Come into this old farmhouse in New York’s Hudson Valley to find rooms inspired by those described in 19th-century novels. Owner James Coviello is a reader, a traveler, a collector of curiosities, and an appreciator of times past. He’s also a talented fashion designer whose work, like his house, is vintage-inspired and detail-oriented.

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With disarming respect and gratitude, a history-minded couple describe their relocation and restoration of a late-18th-century house.

The large kitchen is relatively new. Its rambling layout, well-matched fir beadboard, vintage stove, and copper sink make it look original.

Spacious, recuperative, and quaint describe this survivor from the days of mountain camp retreats.

Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School home

Refurbishment of this Prairie School house took a team.

The gutsy centerpiece of the living room is the 10'-diameter mirror from the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.

Using salvaged materials, a vacant lot gets transformed into a SoHo townhome fully designed to look as if it were built in the late-19th century, just like its neighbors.

Italianate in NY

Embued with the spirits of the original family, the Italianate house on Long Island was a relic, a sentimental gateway to a time gone by, and, for preservationist Bert Seides, an object of reverence. He restored it, largely through his own labor and by leaving well enough alone.

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A Brooklyn family’s Moorish Revival take on a 1902 Italianate row house.

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The restoration of a beautifully reclaimed Dutch–English house.

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Fall in love with an old house, and you may find yourself moving from big city to rural hamlet to tackle a big project.

The garret of the Crabtree House still contains Lemma's favorite chairs, books, and clothing.

Classical moldings and a painted floor add authenticity.

See how antique architectural details were incorporated into the design of a new farmhouse.

Subway tile walls, Shaker-style cabinets set on legs, and dark wood floors offer a traditional feel to this transitional kitchen.

Old-House Kitchens

Fivecat Studio combines traditional and contemporary touches for a timeless, transitional kitchen in New York.

Improperly keyed quoins and years of inappropriate repairs had caused major cracking (visible above) on the corners of this cobblestone house in upstate New York. Stonemason Marty Naber restored the walls by removing old mortar and caulk and replacing it with new lime-based mortar.

Repairs & How To

A seamless, long-lasting repair for cobblestone walls requires a little background on historic methods and materials.

Fancy wicker chairs original to the house rest in front of the pebble and brick fireplace. Note the antique Hessian-soldier firedogs, so appropriate for this house built by German immigrants.

The Hervey Ely House, fronted by a prominent portico and Doric columns, is textbook high-style Greek Revival.

Northeastern Historic Sites

Italianate row houses on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Photo: Edward Addeo

Northeastern Historic Sites

Centered around a high clock shelf, the living room features frieze, walls, and dado hand-painted by the owner. Morris fabrics and Arts & Crafts furniture complete the look.

Arts & Crafts Houses

With paint, vision, and skill, a tiny New York City apartment has been transformed into an English Arts & Crafts salon.

The restored home is picture-perfect today, but it took a lot of work to get it there.

Greek Revival Houses

See how one family renovates a 185-year-old farmhouse.

Rock 'n' Roll Counters

Old-House Kitchens

A rock star’s personal collection of retro furnishings jump-started the decoration of some 1950s vacation cabins.

In the kitchen, an 18th-century English swing-leg table is surrounded by Pennsylvania plank-seat chairs. The crock nearest the center box on the mantel was made by a member of the Van Deusen family.

The Arts & Crafts-style garden gate and trellis are covered in Akebia quintata, with peonies in the foreground.

The 1931 uncut stone house was hand-built by a New York state trooper gifted the land as a value-added premium on a newspaper subscription.

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Greek Revival Houses

In an out-of-the-way corner of Brooklyn, an astonishing survivor—a freestanding Greek Revival in wood—has been immaculately restored, ready to face the next century.