 |  | | Putting Period Colors in Their Place Coming up with a period paint scheme for an old house can be a scary experience. Most people will agree that a perfectly polychromed Queen Anne looks right when the job is all done, but it's not easy to be so sure while you're still selecting colors and in-vesting lots of money and time. A big help, though, is realizing that the success of a paint scheme does not rest solely on the specific hues you select—red, say, over green—but rather on how you use them. It's the best placement of color that can make the most of an old house's architecture. In fact, many houses, especially from the 19th century, were designed with a particular use of paint in mind. So, if you're painting your old house this season, before you break out the color charts and fan decks, take a moment to consider the following advice on placement. Read the whole story. 
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|  How Crazy People Paint a HousePeople do crazy things for love, and when it came to working on our old house, there was a bit of romance involved. From the start we were determined to do things right, in-cluding the exterior paint job. As with many love affairs, those outside the loop don't always grasp what's going on. Read the whole story.   Lead and SoilMy friend Linda was understandably enthusiastic about moving. Her "new" home was an older, country house in a bucolic setting where she and her husband could raise homegrown vegetables, a few chickens, and their new baby, Adam. Two years later, the family was moving again. The reason for the dramatic turnaround was lead, but the source of the problem wasn’t interior paint—a common issue in older homes, and one that’s been widely publicized for the dangers it poses to children. Linda's lead was in the soil around her house. Read the whole story. 
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