Patricia Poore

Products of the Week

Bring beauty and value your home with heirloom-quality REAL wood doors by Vintage Doors. Meticulously handmade by expert craftsmen in your exact size and style—to be loved and respected for generations, just like the olden days. Hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.

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.

HVAC & Retrofit Systems

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.

Garden Design

Learn the best joinery techniques for a sag-free garden gate.

Interiors & Decor

Use our comprehensive guide to locate an architectural salvage store near you, or to browse the websites of stores across the country, many of which sell their wares online.

A cabinet for a corner; its warm wood patina suggested the peachy wall color, then plates in complementary blue. Photo: Duncan McNeill

Furniture

Furnishing a whole room, let alone a whole house, can be daunting. Here’s how to ease in.

New England itinerant artist Rufus Porter rarely painted murals that portrayed an identifiable scene. In this example, a stenciled frieze pattern seems to grow out of the sponge-painted trees overlaid on a rolling landscape.

Interior Paints & Stenciling

Stenciled designs and scenic murals were popular from around 1790 to 1850.

The room mixes painted and unpainted wood for an evolved feel that looks more like furniture than a modern kitchen. The beams were salvaged.

Old-House Kitchens

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.

Interiors & Decor

Restoration of this stone house has taken decades of respectful work by its owner, a designer who is inspired by Shaker design.

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In an 1840 house, a drop-leaf tavern table in original red paint sits on a natural-fiber mat.

Interiors & Decor

The country vernacular.

Flooring

The flooring you choose sets the style, period, and tone for the room.

With their natural patina, the soapstone countertops beautifully complement buttermilk-color cabinets.

Old-House Kitchens

Situated at the rear of a 1760 Cape, a fitting addition holds a practical kitchen filled with hand-planed cabinets.

Refrigerator drawer in an old-house kitchen

Kitchen Furnishings & Appliances

Modern machines are the anachronism in a period kitchen—here are 6 ideas for disguising them.

Used in both the entry and foyer, Pennsylvania flagstone floors connect indoors and out while introducing the textures and colors of nature. Continuing the indoor/outdoor dialogue, the use of natural stone softens the strong, modern statement made by the soaring fireplace.

Mid-Century Modern Houses

A predilection for Mid-century Modern leads to the perfect house.

Beadboard wainscoting and simple fixtures define the cottage bath.

Period Bathrooms

Style notes for a room that's comfortable when it's traditional.

A garland of dried bay is fastened to the mantel in a Greek Revival house; small apples and a homemade toy sit amidst boughs of pine and balsam with wax berries and silk leaves. (Photo: Franklin & Esther Schmidt)

Fireplace & Mantel

From simple to dramatic, here's a look at holiday mantels by period and style.

House Tours

The 1890 house had “all its integrity,” say its owners: stained-glass windows, a monumental staircase, fine woodwork, and even a dumbwaiter. But it needed their loving restoration.