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Windows, Doors & Shutters

Heartwood Fine Windows & Doors offers custom-made, high-quality wood windows and doors for classic homes

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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.

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Brass, Bronze & Copper Hardware

Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.

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Queen Anne Houses

This cira-1900 Queen Anne house in Portland boasts a wide veranda, a tower, pocket doors and an abundance of original detailing. Take a look at how this couple restored this historic home using art wallpapers, vintage textiles, antique lighting fixtures and a variety of period-appropriate antique decor.

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Mid-Century Modern Houses

This historic Pittsburgh house was built in 1947. WIth its window wall and open plan, it lives large at just 1170 square feet.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Homes

Designed by Pittsburgh architects Peter Berndtson and Cornelia Brierly, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lipkind house is carefully preserved.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Homes

Wright's Pew house on Lake Mendota in Wisconsin recall's the architect's famed Fallingwater, but on a more modest scale.

The large kitchen is relatively new. Its rambling layout, well-matched fir beadboard, vintage stove, and copper sink make it look original.

Spacious, recuperative, and quaint describe this survivor from the days of mountain camp retreats.

The dining room’s Italian-villa red and avocado green were early colors found on the original plaster. Chris reinstalled a plate rail and wainscoting by following ghosted outlines on the wall; he also replaced columns.

Arts & Crafts Houses

If you keep it simple, you can restore a period home on a modest budget.

Open shelving in the kitchen helps keep the space light and airy; the family room is seen beyond.

Arts & Crafts Houses

This 1906 Craftsman was too good to raze—so its preservation-minded owners moved it to a new location.

Arts & Crafts furniture includes the reissued Stickley oak pedestal table and chairs. In its simplicity, the modern Artemide Logico Suspension triple chandelier is a good fit.

This deceptively simple 1937 house offered sturdy brick construction, heavy moldings, and romantic arches—even Batchelder tiles. But it needed TLC.

Art Nouveau wallpaper from Switzerland (now discontinued) dresses up a tiny bedroom.

Picking the right wallpaper is easy with a little historical understanding.

The rustic 1930s cabin was raised and a daylight basement added beneath. The exterior features log siding, cedar shakes, and fieldstone masonry.

Interiors & Decor

On this pretty sweep of Pacific Northwest shoreline, a rustic cabin is remodeled as a year-round home by the great-grandson of its builder.

Surprising neoclassical columns in mahogany support beams in the entry hall with keystone arches between them, lending a formal air and creating an inviting seating nook.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Artistic yet proper, this 1909 house boasts neoclassical details along with its river-rock chimney and beams.

The new cabinet was built into the space once occupied by a hall closet added in the ‘70s.

Interiors & Decor

A ’70s-era linen closet is rebuilt into a Craftsman-style linen press that’s a perfect complement to a 1906 bungalow.

The house has an old-fashioned elegance, with great proportions and plenty of light. The 1940s Duncan Phyfe-style dining table and chairs belonged to grandparents.

Creating a color palette for a Colonial Revival doesn't have to be challenging.

The main living room, with its massive stone fireplace, is the center of the original 1911 cottage.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Simple, evocative rooms show how family tradition has held up for a century at a family camp named Bungalowen.

The house is furnished with country antiques and hand-me-downs; the old floors are painted. Bookcases are original cabinets; the walnut doors were stolen long ago.

Greek Revival Houses

A two-story portico is the only embellishment on this sturdy brick I-house, which, although long neglected, escaped modernization.

A German Secessionperiod cloth covers the table set with Secession enameled stemware by the Austrian firm Theresienthaler; English walnut chairs are covered in a modern peacock feather-pattern velvet.

Arts & Crafts Houses

English and American Arts & Crafts furniture provides a backdrop for this burgeoning collection of Art Nouveau objets.

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Coordinating your garden with your paint scheme can pump up your home's overall allure.