For 50 years, Old House Journal has been helping people repair, rehabilitate, update, and decorate their homes in classic style. We cover every American architectural style—from the earliest colonial-era buildings to mid-century ranches—and the wealth of Victorians and bungalows in between.
Our April 2023 Issue:
PROBLEM SOLVERS
Instructive examples of well-designed kitchens and baths as practical as they are beautiful.
26 VINTAGE VISION
The well-appointed kitchen, ca. 1911.
29 THEY STILL MAKE
Metal spiral staircases in Victorian style.
30 KITCHENS & BATHS
A Spanish Revival bathroom done in historical tile—just like an original.
10 INSPIRED + TIMELESS
For the farmhouse kitchen; the world of metallics.
14 WINDOW SHOPPING
True regional farmhouses.
16 SUCCESS!
Preservation-minded rebuilding after a fire.
34 POSTWAR REVIVAL FOR KITCHENS & BATHS
Rare is the room that doesn’t need work, even from this period. What can you save?
41 TOOLS & MATERIALS
Lower-tech tools for a cleaner outdoors.
42 KNOW HOW
An experienced do-it-yourselfer shares her Victorian Revival bath in periwinkle.
46 SALVAGE IT
A marriage of reclaimed lumber to a buffet makes a unique kitchen workstation.
49 DO THIS, NOT THAT
Considerations when you’re planing sash or shutters.
51 SCREWED UP
It started with a waste-pipe leak and ended with slippery hands.
54 A Chicken in the Kitchen
The 1750 farmhouse, once derelict,
retains marks of character.
62 FARMHOUSE STYLES NOW
64 Reviving a Victorian Shingle Style by Peabody & Stearns (Beauty at the Cove)
An important carriage house becomes a stunning residence.
69 THE FIRM OF PEABODY & STEARNS
70 Colorful Dilemma
A vintage range set the tone for a new kitchen in a 1912 house.
73 HARMONY WITH COLOR PALETTES
80 REMUDDLING
A relic of the 1970s mars the façade of an early house.
ON THE COVER The old farmhouse in Kennebunk, Maine, lives in tradition. kindra clineff archive.
New Old House showcases new homes built with the integrity of yesterday and the modern innovations of today. This unique magazine features beautiful, traditionally designed homes, created to provide a classic feel. Included in these new-old homes are all of the modern conveniences, bringing together a great combination of the past with the present.
Now published annually, this beautifully photographed, popular look at newly built, but traditionally designed, homes combines the best elements of classical architecture and new construction, artfully weaving together the past and the present.
Some stories featured in New Old House Magazine:
A Farm Revisited
On a long, lean spit of land in Rhode Island, a farm’s roots are redefined.
Sound Cottage: A New Old House in Long Island
From the pages of New Old House Winter 2023: Looking to the past, an architect and an interior designer create a updated cottage on Fishers Island.
Bayou Bliss
Architect J. Everett Schram infuses a new family home with centuries-old Creole soul—giving a nod to vernacular traditions and a tip of his hat to 20th-century Louisiana architect A. Hays Town, who embraced reclaimed materials and the look of age.
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