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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
New Ideas
by Jill Connors
A 1930 Spanish Revival house finally gets the stylish, high-performance kitchen it deserves…more
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
A couple in Bermuda turns a classic Georgian house into a comfortable home for four
A dream kitchen drives a farmhouse's remodel
A devastating fire in an 18th-century farmhouse gives its devoted owner a chance to restore more than his home
This Old House headed
inland to Winchester, Massachusetts to renovate a 1922 Colonial revival reminiscent of any small-town home
Q: Is there something (besides drywalling) that I can do to prepare crumbling walls for painting?
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.
I thought building a new house would beeasier than fixing up an old one. I was wrong
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