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'Save This Old House' Update: 2006

You wanted to know: What happened to those gorgeous, ravaged beauties we feature in the back of the magazine each issue? We tell you which have sold, been demolished, or are still available for your taking… more

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Best Old House Neighborhoods 2010

by Keith Pandolfi and Danielle Blundell

As the housing market stabilizes, now's the time to find masterfully crafted homes in communities that truly appreciate them…more

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Best Old House Neighborhoods 2010: Easy Commutes

by Keith Pandolfi and Danielle Blundell

Here are 17 places close enough to a city or major business center that your drive (or bike or train ride) to work will still leave you plenty of time to enjoy a rich old-home life.…more

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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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