Old House Journal

Find guidance on buying, renovating, budgeting, and decorating. It’s all about keeping the character while upgrading for modern comfort and your own style. For prospective and recent homebuyers -- whether your house is Victorian or Mid-century Modern. Inside: • Kitchen/bath renos • When to DIY (and not!) • Inspiring house tours • Using vintage lighting • Pantry ideas • Modern farmhouses • Curb appeal upgrades • Choosing paint colors • Picket fence styles • Repairing floorboards • How to wallpaper … and lots more

Old House Journal

Lasting Traditions

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Double the Pleasure • With two islands, twin appliances, and a dual-bar setup, this kitchen suits a young family’s lifestyle and invites a party.

Service STATION • In a 1920s house, J.E. Schram Architect transformed the historic service wing into a hardworking kitchen with a breakfast room and scullery.

Timeless by Design • The thoughtful renovation of a historic Southport captain’s cottage brings old-world character and contemporary sophistication into effortless balance.

A Study in Restraint • Haver & Skolnick Architects create sympathetic additions to the house on Saltbox Farm in Connecticut.

Garden, Reclaimed • A thoughtful renewal of an 1870s Shingle Style property brings historical precedent, mature plantings, and finely crafted outdoor rooms into harmony with the architecture.

A Storied Cape House • Drawing on coastal architecture of the Gilded Age, DeOrsay Cambell Smith Architects designed a retreat in Osterville, on Cape Cod—a house with a sense of history even as it embraces the rhythms of modern family life.

Stone & Sea • In the Bahamas, architectural tradition has always responded to place. Limestone walls offer shelter, timber adds warmth, and deep verandas provide the comfort of shade laced with breezes.

COUNTRY MEASURE • On Long Island’s North Fork, a quietly composed Georgian Revival house draws on early-20th-century precedent to create a country retreat rooted in its landscape.

the WELLHOUSE • The materials of traditional countryside houses in Provence—rustic stone, ochre-colored tile roofs—lend themselves equally well to the Texas landscape. So when the homeowners asked architect Michael G. Imber to create a weekend retreat that reminded them of their travels through the South of France, the house took shape naturally.

BUILT TO BELONG • DRAWING ON KENTUCKY’S 19TH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECT TIM ADAMS CREATES A NEW HOMESTEAD THAT FEELS AS THOUGH IT HAS EVOLVED WITH THE LAND FOR GENERATIONS.

A NEW TAKE ON TRADITION • IN BEVERLY HILLS, TIM BARBER ARCHITECTS DRAWS ON THE ELEGANCE OF COLONIAL REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE TO CREATE A GRACIOUS NEW HOME TAILORED TO THE RHYTHMS OF MODERN FAMILY LIFE.

Higher Purpose IN JARABACOA • A historic barn finds new purpose on a working hacienda in the Dominican Republic.

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NEW OLD HOUSE • Inspired Traditions

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