Pacific Register Co.
Pacific Register Co. specializes in registers manufactured from steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, stainless steel, wood, acrylic and stone in standard designs and sizes as well as custom designs. Made in the USA.
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They Still Make: Products for an Inspired Home
Browse the digital version of OHJ's annual special publication featuring authentic, high-quality, historical, and hard-to-find items.
Acorn Manufacturing
Acorn is the finest and largest manufacturer and distributor of forged iron builders hardware in the United States. Specialties include bath, cabinet, shutter and door hardware; grilles & registers; clavos; strap hinges and barn door hardware.
Chittenden House Restored
A couple planning to downsize instead took on the restoration of a large, important house built in 1796: “We’d done a series of renovations, but nothing could prepare us for this project.”
A Restored 1916 Bungalow
With an artist’s eye, curated collections, and a whole new palette for rooms inside, Gwen Jones fine-tunes a handsome 1916 bungalow.
A Farmhouse ca. 1820
The farmhouse built ca. 1820 retains its historic ambiance—and the farm is active once again.
A Restored 1920s Arts & Crafts Bungalow
Facing tilted porch piers and baby-blue woodwork, a smitten owner brings the Arts & Crafts aesthetic to a 1921 bungalow in Seattle.
The Restoration of St. Benedict
The restoration and artful decoration of the St. Benedict house in England.
The Relocation and Restoration of a Late-18th-Century House
With disarming respect and gratitude, a history-minded couple describe their relocation and restoration of a late-18th-century house.
A Victorian Homestead
A decrepit homestead was theirs to interpret in Victorian fashion when this couple stepped up to save it (and the barn) from ruin. Now it’s exquisite.
A Beautiful 1912 Bungalow Restoration
In a glorious if lengthy reversal of misfortune in Santa Barbara, California, the 1912 Bungalow was restored by dedicated owners who fell in love with this period.
OHJ Serial Restorers
For OHJ’s 45th anniversary, we visit four restorations done by devoted readers who are serial restorers.
Designing the Victorian Bath for Today
Designing and outfitting a Victorian bath that looks just right.
Restoration of an 1881 Italianate
Top-notch restoration for an 1881 Italianate, inside and out! Respectful owners create comfortable rooms, a period-inspired kitchen—and even removed a boxcar addition.
How to Add Central Air
In this video, see how with The Unico System it is possible to add central air and keep your high ceilings, crown molding, arch ways and closets.
A Unique Kitchen Island
Cleaned up and repurposed, an old French dental-tools cabinet is nifty and functional in the kitchen.
After 40 Years with No AC, Watch How SpacePak Changed this Family’s Life
Plaster House? Not a Problem.
Watch SpacePak 101 to Learn the Many Benefits of a Small Duct High Velocity System
See what a difference it can make.
Why Preservationists Choose the Unico System
From Hemingway's Home to Lincoln's Cottage.
Finding Sophisticated Architectural Salvage
It’s trendy to repurpose five-panel doors as headboards, and to up-cycle vintage hard-shell suitcases into dog beds. For restorers, the best use of architectural salvage is to replace missing architectural details that should never have been lost in the first place.
Foursquare, Years to Go
Near Philadelphia, energetic owners re-interpret a transitional house, rescuing it from bad taste, layers of paint, and other disasters.
Reviving a Rundown Victorian
How a dilapidated Victorian house in a historic town became our forever home.
A Preserved 1883 Brownstone
Across the river from Manhattan, a mansard-roofed townhouse built in 1883 gets the superlative treatment, guided by a preservation-minded designer.
Saving a 1906 Gambrel House
Gutted and back on the market, the gambrel house showed promise.
