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House Styles Photo Gallery
Classic architectural details and vintage furnishings give this outdoor living room timeless style. Here's how you can duplicate the look at your house… more
New Ideas
by Tabitha Sukhai
Here are 18 houses that may seem outlandish or resemble Photoshop pranks. But, we assure you, they're real…more
by Deborah Snoonian
One TOH reader's modest house in the woods gets a boost with an architect's proposal for a new porch and Adirondack-style details…more
In this how-to video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shares his secrets of installing cedar shingles
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
Q: Is there something (besides drywalling) that I can do to prepare crumbling walls for painting?
This Old House headed
inland to Winchester, Massachusetts to renovate a 1922 Colonial revival reminiscent of any small-town home
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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July/August 2009
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