Old House Journal

Find guidance on buying, renovating, budgeting, and decorating. It’s all about keeping the character while upgrading for modern comfort and your own style. For prospective and recent homebuyers -- whether your house is Victorian or Mid-century Modern. Inside: • Kitchen/bath renos • When to DIY (and not!) • Inspiring house tours • Using vintage lighting • Pantry ideas • Modern farmhouses • Curb appeal upgrades • Choosing paint colors • Picket fence styles • Repairing floorboards • How to wallpaper … and lots more

Old House Journal

The Art of Design

Kitchen STANDARDS

FINAL ACTS

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view finder • Turning a dated Cape Cod Home into the ultimate summer getaway—complete with a classic kitchen.

an English INFLUENCE • For their new guest cottage—and its sunlit kitchen—a couple in South Carolina’s Lowcountry and their designer found some inspiration in the work of two iconic British architects.

the main event • Imagined history and contemporary comforts come together in a renovated compound on Nantucket.

Classic Transformation • As a team, an architect and an interior designer take a blank canvas and create an elegant, traditional living space.

English Garden Inspiration • In what was an old Columbus schoolyard, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects introduce a profusion of color and pattern.

pastoral symphony • An unassuming compound of vernacular structures is at one with this tranquil spot in New England.

SHIFTING SANDS • Architectural precision and unbridled imagination join forces in this globally inspired Florida beach home.

TO THE HAMPTONS, with love • THIS SHINGLE STYLE BEAUTY CELEBRATES THE ART OF SUMMERING IN SOUTHAMPTON.

ISLAND inspired • Having bought a small cottage near the marina in Lyford Cay, in The Bahamas, the new owners came to the architecture team with a singular driving vision for its redesign. • “It was as obvious to us as it was to our clients,” says Francisco G. “Kiko” Sanchez, AIA, principal of FGS Design. “The great room in the existing house would define the whole experience.”

REVOLUTIONARY LANDSCAPE • Dan Gordon Landscape Architects creates historical gardens in Concord, Massachusetts.

Carolina CHARM • Traditional details and enthusiastic collections, well curated, lend interest and personality to a beachside retreat damaged by a hurricane and reimagined by architect J. E. Schram.

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