Old House Journal – February 2024
Features
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Bungalow-Era Comebacks
Arts & Crafts motifs 1900–1930 — tiled fireplaces, built-ins, colonnades, nooks, tapered piers — are back in style.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pew House, 1939
Wright's Pew House on Lake Mendota in Wisconsin recalls the architect’s famed Fallingwater, but on a more modest scale. It found its steward.
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Laundry and Pantry in One
A mixed-use room is tied together by good design and a shot of happy color.
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Preserving a Greek Revival Farmhouse
Efficiency, solar power, and a sensitive kitchen for an 1830s house in New York.
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Rescuing Old Hardware
Whether it’s already in your house or picked up at a flea market, vintage hardware almost always needs help.
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Restoring Polychromed Light Fixtures
Tips on refreshing vintage, painted light fixtures—with sensitivity and respect.
Other
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Mortising a Hinge without a RouterDo this, not that when working neatly with a chisel, a good option for mortising a hinge.
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A Greene & Greene House RestoredAn early, more modest commission is brought back from neglect.
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Period Kitchen for an Arts & Crafts HouseSuzie Van Cleave designs an interpretive kitchen for a 1913 bungalowin Milwaukee.
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