Architecture & Design

Old House Renovation: Creating The Grand Foyer

Old House Web — If you're wondering how to give your house added style, start with the foyer. A renovation in this highly visible spot can create a grand entrance. Most of us can envision a grand foyer in a large house dating back to the early 1900s. From the ...More…

Creating a Custom Countertop

Old House Web — A custom made bar or kitchen countertop can be a stunning focal point. Here's how to work with a contractor to create this interesting element. While granite countertops are the rage in many areas, they are not very personalized. Your sister can ...More…

Updating Your Old Home's Bathroom

Old House Web — Old home bathroom remodeling doesn't have to be daunting or old-fashioned. Use green products to update your bathrooms. Old homes have so much character that even their small, outdated bathrooms can seem quaint. That is, until you've used your ...More…

A Spring Postcard, From The North & The Mid-atlantic

Old House Web — Home Improvement Topics Garden Closet Doors Products Doors Wicker Aluminum Siding Lighting Countertops Pellet Stoves Catalogs Remodeling Contractors Barn Doors Knobs Bathroom Suppliers Stoves Roofs Insulation Tile Windows Storm Doors Cabinetry ...More…

Summer camp at Jefferson's Poplar Forest

Old House Web — Two weeks away from home, sleeping in a college dorm room, digging for historical artifacts, staying up late, going on field trips. Does it make you wish you were a kid at summer camp again? You can't turn back the clock to recapture your youth, ...More…

Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest

Old House Web — George W. Bush gets away to his ranch in Crawford, Texas when he needs a break. His father fished, golfed and relaxed at his home in Maine when he needed a break from the White House. Ever since George Washington began using Mount Vernon as his ...More…

Virginia Victorian Revival

Old House Web — Danville, Virginia, feels like so many other cities that time and prosperity have left behind as I drive past block after block of empty tobacco warehouses. Suddenly I'm transported to 19th century prosperity as one of the South's finest ...More…

Postcard from Memphis

Old House Web — MEMPHIS -- Nearly three-quarters of a million travelers tour Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis each year. Thousands of others pack the blues clubs along Beale Street or visit the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel on ...More…

Season by season

Old House Web — Photos and text are from Anna Kasabian's newest book, "New England Style," and are used with permission of Rizzoli International Publications, 2003. The burgeoning of spring (in New England) is a dramatic and emotional time. All of us are ...More…

Maine's Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community

Old House Web — Shaker,village,Maine,Sabbathday,herbs,house,meeting,religions,preservation The 1850's "Boys Shop," where boys taken in by the Shakers lived, is now a museum and reception center. Just a short distance from the Poland SpringPreservation Park, ...More…

The Maine State Building

Old House Web — The octagonal inside of the Maine State Building at the Poland Spring Preservation Park. Outside, the building resembles a fancy, turreted fairy-tale palace. Standing in the magnificent three-story octagonal lobby and gazing up at the leadedglass ...More…

Maine's Poland Spring

Old House Web — Teddy Roosevelt is said to have insisted on drinking it; Joan Crawford reportedlybathed in it and Alice Cooper favored it for his pet boa constrictor. Almost since itsdiscovery and subsequent commercial development by European settlers in the ...More…