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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.

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.

House Tours

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

House Tours

Restoration of this magnificent house in Texas included the imaginative and heartfelt re-decorating of the summer-home interior.

The 1877 Elissa, the official Tall Ship of the state of Texas, came to call in Galveston in the 1880s.

Historic Places

Since 1528, Galveston has reinvented itself repeatedly. It has flown five flags and was briefly a national capital.

With a tiled island and backsplash, leaded glass windows, and custom-made cabinets, the kitchen is sympathetic to the Spanish Colonial Revival house.

Old-House Kitchens

Salvaged tile, leaded glass windows, and vintage lighting transform a Spanish Revival kitchen from eyesore to showstopper.

House Tours

When a Dallas couple decided to revive the decrepit old house across the street, they ended up with a new place to call home.

Arts & Crafts Houses

For a budding family in Fort Worth, Texas, living in a historic house is just better.

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Historic Neighborhoods

“This neighborhood is such a treasure. The pioneers came to this isolated area, yet they survived and kept on building.” –Sharon Joseph

“We have a multi-generational neighborhood," say residents John and Candace Volz. "Young folks who grew up here come back to raise their families near their parents’ homes.”

Historic Neighborhoods

Ceiling fans on the porch provide cool breezes during the long Texas summers.

House Tours

Ignacio Salas-Humara relies on Old World traditions to design a German stone farmhouse in Texas.

Period details, such as an open hearth and stone walls, offer patina to this Texas kitchen inspired by the past.

Old-House Kitchens

The Texas governor’s mansion sustained heavy damage after a fire on June 8, 2008.

Repairs & How To

The Greek Revival governor’s mansion rises from the ashes and is returned to its former glory.

Despite many changes of hands over the years, the façade of the Driskill Hotel still looks remarkably like it did in 1885.

Southern Historic Sites

The legendary Romanesque landmark brings a Lone Star brand of grandeur to Texas’ state capital.

The Byrne-Reed House in Austin, Texas, recently underwent a dramatic restoration that removed its 1970-era shell and returned its original appearance and finely crafted details.

House Tours

If your object is to re-create a true 19th-century period kitchen, the challenge is to not get cutesy with the details. It should be a utilitarian space.

Old-House Kitchens

When these astute owners decided to authentically restore a turn-of-the-century town house in Galveston, they extended their clear vision to the kitchen by keeping it simple.

The breakfast room, thought to be the original back porch, features a late-1800s English oak armoire that supplies storage space. The dry sink at right displays circa-1893 Texas Marshall Pottery.

House Tours

When a hurricane destroyed their yearlong restoration efforts, two old-house rehabbers used their determination and expertise to start over from scratch.