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Friendly Kitchen in a 1912 Foursquare 22 Mar 2013 | 10:37 pm
You might say that Julia Hanfling has been stewarding this house in Portland’s Colonial Heights since she was 14 years old. That’s when she took it upon herself to “rescue” the door hardware from a ne...
Fancy Painted & Cottage Furniture 20 Mar 2013 | 07:06 pm
From the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, paint was the humble medium of choice for embellishing furniture. Painted furniture was not just a country or folk art phenomenon, but was also de rigueur in fashi...
Romantic 1920s Bayou Bungalow 18 Mar 2013 | 06:13 pm
The Louisiana vernacular meets suburban bungalow in this well-tended house in Lake Charles, in the southwest corner of the state. Its low gabled roof overhanging a spacious porch, horizontal windows, ...
How to Choose the Right Paint Color 15 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
During a century that witnessed at least five major architectural movements and the birth of interior design—all before 1950—color palettes went in and out of fashion. Some looked to the past, while o...
New Classic Kitchen in a Cape Cod Federal 13 Mar 2013 | 05:09 pm
When a new kitchen meets an old house, start with black and white. In this Cape Cod Federal house built in 1844, the classic white cabinets with wide stiles and rails are handsome and evoke styles fro...
A Colonial Revival-Style Stone House 11 Mar 2013 | 05:19 pm
These two are purists. They took a handsome but neglected house and, over 12 years working nights and weekends, created a superbly authentic interior. Rosario Scalia is the researcher who made sure th...
Visit to a Paint Decorator’s Home 8 Mar 2013 | 06:09 pm
Since the 1970s, when just-married Fred and Hope Angier bought and restored an 18th-century house, they have lived in and worked on good examples of New England’s early housing stock. First on Massach...
Pueblo Revival Houses in Santa Fe 18 Feb 2013 | 05:00 pm
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Native American, Spanish, and Anglo cultures meet and blend as seamlessly as the earth-toned features of its ancient high-desert landscape, the old is always fashionable...
How To Make a Dutchman Patch 15 Feb 2013 | 07:59 pm
A Dutchman is a small wood patch that’s used as a repair where fillers won’t reliably hold up—for example, on areas subject to abrasion, tension, or stress. They’re also used when aesthetics demand an...
Primitive Colonial-Inspired Kitchen 13 Feb 2013 | 08:18 pm
When the 18th-century woman of the house prepared dinner at Cold Spring Farm, she would have turned to the stone fireplace. There, she may have cooked a stew in the cauldron or baked the meal in the h...
