RECENT FEATURES ADHESIVES Clues on Glues Removing Linoleum Adhesives Removing Linoleum Glue ARTS& CRAFTS Arts & Crafts Rug Renaissance CEILINGS Centers of Attention Keep the Floor on the Ceiling! DOORS Artful Entrance Door-ology Doors and Entrances by Design Fine Points on Pocket-Door Hardware In Step with Coming Unhinged Knobs, Latches, and Levers Repairing Pocket Doors Screen Savers EXTERIORS A House for the Automobile Architectural Stone Better Ways to Lasting Wood Getting Under Second Skins Grand Entrances Horizontal Siding Circus In Deep on Adobe Porch Details by the Book Remuddling Medley Saving Face Saving Structural Brickwork Shingles Club The Architectural Alchemy of Columns The Mania for Mansards The Short Course on Historic Mortar FIREPLACES A Frame for the Fireplace Making Sense of Chimney Liners FLOORING A Clearer View of Floor Finishes Down to the Finish Fixing wood Floors Getting to the Bottom of Sagging Floors Laying Timeless Tiles Lie Like A Rug Restoring Painted Wood Floors HARDWARE The Hardware That Tamed Curtains and Carpet HOUSING TYPES & STYLES A Vaster Master Plan After the War American Houses, Spanish Styles Bamboozling Bungalow Brownstone Rides Again Early Colonial Revival Germanic Houses in the New World Greek Revival in America Modern for the Masses Post-Medieval Houses Refreshing Rooms-in-the-Round Romanesque Revival Stick Style The Cape Cod Revival The Mania for A-Frames The Story on Sears The Styles of American Independence Tudor Revival Was the Colonial Revival for Real? HVAC & INSULATION All Wrapped Up Care & Feeding of Air Vents Cool Ways to Heat Old Houses Embracing Energy Efficiency Hybrid Hydronics Insulation Q&As Keeping Your Cool Radiant Reflections Radiators in the Rough The Short Course on Caulk INTERIORS 20th-Century Wallpaper 6 Ways to Survive a Wallpaper Project Behind the Scenes with Beadboard Bold Frameworks of Design Breaking Down Walls Bringing the Outdoors In Cleaning a Marble Mantel Delicate Dismantling Early Modern Mouldings Fantastic Plastics Femme Fleur Here Drums the Sun High-Style Steel In Search of Central Vacuums Inside The Sears House Learning Curves Nothing Finer Than from Carolina Old Houses, Aging People One Hot Rock Praise for Glaze Repairing Plaster Cracks The Accidental Charm of Clinker Bricks The Making of Built-Ins KITCHENS & BATHS A Perfect Fit Bungalow Kitchens Counter Intelligence Counter Points Glass With Class Half Baths & Tiny Toilets In Living Color Kitchen Cabinet Revolution Kitchen Classics Kitchen Lighting in Context New Light on Old Kitchens Playing with Matches Sink Fairy The Full Range of Cookstove Issues LIGHTING Deco Lights the Way Let There Be Light for Everyone Lights, Camera, Blastoff... Sparkle & Glow We Sing the Eclectic Electric When Evening Shadows Fall LOG HOMES Skilled Fixes for a Log House The One-Dollar Log Home OLD-HOUSE LIVING A Family Affair A House of Many Stories A Place for Everything Benediction Big Believers in Small Houses Discovering Comfort Gamble House Sitters for a Year Ghost Catcher Gypsy Life High and Dry Home Sweet House Museum Historic Hotels That Welcome Four-Legged Guests How Lucky We Are Life in the Old-House Lane Li'l Buggers Old House Romances: The Dark Side Old-House Love Is Blind Old-House Stars of the Silver Screen Queen of the Special Order Real Photo Postcards Restoration Lessons Second Time Around Stripping Paint and Lessons Learned Visible Means of Support Wasting Away in Home TV-ville Wild Nights Wishing on a Star Working Stiff OUTSIDE THE OLD HOUSE A Little Bite of History A Sampler of Shrubs Worth Seeking All the Hues That Fit Arboreal Americans Chimney Checklist Chimneys bottom to top Choosing Exterior Paint Don't Dig It Garden Designs for Historic Homes Garden Ornaments by Design Made in the Shade Outdoor Nail Use Playing Garden Sleuth Primer on Pickets Standard Procedures The Practical Beauty of Espaliers Tree Planting 101 (Hint: It's Not What You've Heard) Whacking Wicked Weeds PAINTING & PAINT COLORS Bronze Beauties Cures for Calcimine Ceilings Finish Revivers Get up to Speed on Steam Homespun Paint Stripper How Crazy People Paint a House Living with Lead Making Sense of Paint Strippers Milk Paint Putting Period Colors in Their Place PLUMBING Caring for septic systems Past Perfect Steams, seats, handles Stem Faucet Clinic Stems, Seats, and Handles RESTORATION &         PRESERVATION $$$Help for Home Restorations 30 Restoration Tips All Historic Districts Are Not Created Equal Architectural Ripoffs Day Camps Nurture Budding Historic Preservationists Gut Reaction High Tech for Old Houses Making Census of History New Horizons in Historic Preservation Off to Buffalo Officialdom Conquered Old-House Insurance Policies with the Right Stuff Plaster Repair Options Projects that Pay You Back So You Want to Be a Professional Preservationist? What Date Do I Restore To? What's Restoration Worth? When Historic Properties Are Threatened Where Everybody Knows Your Budget Where the Past Meets the Present ROOFING Age Before Beauty Amazing Asphalt Banishing Bats Crowning Jewels Make Mine Metal Metal Shingles Old-house Roofing Slate Roof Stand-Ins Spots on Chimney Pots SALVAGE House Parts with a Pedigree Salvage Savvy TILE Art Tile, Take Two Hex Appeal Six R's of Tile Repair The Architecture of Art Tile TOOLS Cordless Update Energetic Cordless Tools Ladders at Large On the Level The Dirt on Wet-Dry Vacs WINDOWS A Private Eyeful Dormers, Bays & Turrets Glass of the Titans Picture This Sash Window Clinic Visions in Glass Old-House Journal Magazine Index 2006 Early Modern Mouldings After the turn of the 20th century, window and door casings made a radical shift to the flat, ahistorical millwork associated with bungalows and Foursquares. Our guide will help you identify and install three common types. Refreshing Rooms-in-the-Round Round rooms are a mainstay in old houses, but decorating their Rubenesque dimensions can be tricky. We show you the best ways to restore, repair, and furnish this space—without going around in circles. The Short Course on Historic Mortar Get a quick education on the difference between lime mortar and Portland cement, how they should be used, and why this knowledge is so crucial for historic buildings. Banishing Bats Old houses are common havens for displaced bats. One old-house owner discovers some proven methods for keeping the flying—and often endangered—mammals at bay. Old-House Living: A Family Affair A house with ties to a former president brings plenty of restoration challenges for the 17 family members working together to preserve this slice of history. The Mania for Mansards Our historians delve into the French origins of the dual-pitched Mansard roof and its overwhelming popularity in post-Civil War America. Advertisement

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