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A 1908 Cottage With Simple Elegance

The projects—from repairing rotten floor joists and leaking radiators to stemming the tide of a full-blown flood—just kept coming for a couple of first-timers tackling a deteriorating home… more

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A Practical Kitchen Design With Period Appeal

by Jill Connors

A 1930 Spanish Revival house finally gets the stylish, high-performance kitchen it deserves…more

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A Home for the Holidays

by Deborah Baldwin

...and every season in between. Here's how a top-to-bottom redo turned a 1912 summer cottage into a year-round gathering spot for the whole family…more

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Family Plan
The Family Plan

A couple in Bermuda turns a classic Georgian house into a comfortable home for four

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Cook's Tour De Force

A dream kitchen drives a farmhouse's remodel

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How One Homeowner Rebuilt His Fire-Ravaged House

A devastating fire in an 18th-century farmhouse gives its devoted owner a chance to restore more than his home

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Welcome to the Neighborhood

This Old House headed inland to Winchester, Massachusetts to renovate a 1922 Colonial revival reminiscent of any small-town home

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Painting on Old Farmhouse Walls

Q: Is there something (besides drywalling) that I can do to prepare crumbling walls for painting?

Working It Out

And so began the work on another This Old House television project. After give-and-take between drawing board and checkbook, the plans— by local architect David Stirling — were finished.

Confessions of an Architecture Victim

I thought building a new house would beeasier than fixing up an old one. I was wrong

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