Crown Point 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.
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Marvin Windows and Doors
Marvin Windows and Doors offers customized, high-performance windows and doors.
Shuttercraft
Family owned manufacturer of top quality red cedar, mahogany, basswood, poplar, and red oak shutters for interior and exterior, and providers of full painting services, a large selection of exterior hardware and endless cutout design.
What Kind of Old House Should You Live In?
Wondering if you'd like a Colonial, Victorian, bungalow, or modern? Try this quiz from the editors of Old House Journal magazine.
Authentic Designs Colonial Lighting
Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
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.
Restoring an Adirondack Camp
Spacious, recuperative, and quaint describe this survivor from the days of mountain camp retreats.
Reviving a Rundown Victorian
How a dilapidated Victorian house in a historic town became our forever home.
Victorian Pedestal Mailboxes
They still make Victorian pedestal mailboxes.
Editors' Picks: A Variety of Victorians
Our editors highlight new and classic articles as they explore the many faces of Victorian houses.
Award-winning Queen Anne Restoration
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frank Shirley Architects transforms an old house with an award-winning restoration and update.
Saving A Landmark Victorian
With the help of dedicated contractors and craftspeople, a determined couple commit to the rescue of a town landmark that will be their home—and provide an income.
Creating a New Old Kitchen
Three turn-of-the-century kitchens get revamped with cleverly disguised modern amenities and thoughtful period touches.
Renovating a Victorian?
Do no harm, of course. But when it comes to decorating decisions, especially those that prove ephemeral, personal preference is your guide. Let’s look at some approaches
Victorian Beauty
Spence Kass offers a 19th-century aesthetic to a Philadelphia manse.
A Cottage All Grown Up
Beautifully imagined and carefully edited, the 1886 house is a Victorian Revival jewel box, all in 1700 square feet (and that includes the basement).
Queen Anne Neglected No Longer
The exterior is done, but we’ve got years to go restoring our Queen Anne.
Step Up with a Cast Iron Newel
Used with a wood or wrought-iron balustrade, a salvaged cast-iron newel post adds history.
Jewel-box Bath
Moody blue walls paired with oak wainscoting make for a Victorian room.
Rich Rewards for a Labor of Love
Hard to believe this house had been cut up into four shabby apartments, or the woodwork painted industrial green and the verandah enclosed with aluminum siding and jalousie windows. Then there were the structural problems.
A Farm Garden Reimagined
The boxy original house begged for light-filled wings and a conservatory to tie it to the rural property. The foundation was kept unfettered by plantings in the Victorian tradition, but new gardens are everywhere.
