Patricia Poore

Products of the Week

Vintage Doors produces hand-crafted, solid hardwood doors for every type of interior and exterior home project, including screen, Dutch, porch, and pet doors and garden gates.

Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, & Backsplashes

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.

Bathrooms

Specializing in high-performance water closets and the most technically challenging of ceramic products, the company surpasses industry standards and consumer expectations.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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

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

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

The country vernacular.

Hardwood parquet flooring is the standard for high-style and urban Victorian houses.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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.

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.

Dumbwaiters were in use as early as the beginning of the 19th century—and probably earlier.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Many a row house had a hand-operated conveyance between floors.

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Kitchens & Baths

The typical bungalow-era bathroom is a simple space given to sanitary white surfaces and little ornament. Still, utilitarian can be handsome.

Much evolved, a true farmhouse kitchen retains metal cabinets along with the old corner cupboard, long-ago wallpaper, and an electrified kerosene lantern on a pulley.

Old-House Kitchens

Practical tips for getting the farmhouse look in your own kitchen.

The main block of the 1814 house has remained intact. The typical Federal-era paint colors were taken from a painting by Jonathan Fisher himself; his notes say he mixed the buff-yellow paint using ochre found on site.

Northeastern Historic Sites

The Kennebec Company kitchen was fitted into an existing addition.

Old-House Kitchens

An eccentric plan resulted in a workable and beautiful kitchen for this 18th-century Georgian home.

Complete with a berm and nestled into its sloping site, the Brown House mirrors 18th-century Chester County homesteads that were added to over time. Mixed materials were used in constructing stone, log, and wood-framed sections.

Historic Neighborhoods

An authentic stone house vernacular is still strong at this community of new old houses in Pennsylvania.

Green and cream tiles laid on the diagonal jazz up a Depression-era Tudor kitchen.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Serious or whimsical, cabinet hardware sets a period mood. It’s jewelry for the kitchen.

The kitchen wing includes an informal dining area with a fully paneled fireplace wall.

House Tours

This new house was planned around a collection of rugs and furniture passed down for five generations.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Follow these guidelines to create cohesive Victorian color schemes.

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.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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

The bungalow is one of the more modest homes in this neighborhood of revival-style houses developed in the 1920s.

House Tours

Pastel tiles with black accents warm up a modest Jazz Age bathroom.

Period Bathrooms

How to maximize space, solve storage woes, and set the style.

In this Arts & Crafts living room, practical roller shades can be pulled down to block sunlight or for privacy. Sheer half-curtains filter light and the view while subtly calling attention to unusual sash proportions.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Unfussy window treatments like these may be used alone or as an underlayer.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Three strategies for a sag-free garden gate.

Second Empire cottage all-white paint scheme

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Historical color experts suggest that this late Victorian cottage might be polychromed in period colors.

The dramatic foyer holds one of the owners' most prized finds: a vintage Widdicomb bench made of bleached walnut with its original peachy fabric.

Mid-Century Modern Houses

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

This massive 1904 pergola has been restored at a residence once part of the Rose Valley Arts & Crafts colony.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Whether as a promenade, a covered terrace, or a freestanding garden feature, a pergola is a bold statement worth making, with practical advantages as a sunscreen and as a support for plants.