This article appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. Energy saver To help keep warm air from escaping, pick a dog door sealed with gaskets and weatherstripping. Shown: PetSafe Extreme Weather Aluminum Pet Door, from $130; PetSafe While most…

When NYC inside designer Ellen Hamilton undertook the renovation of a 1970s seaside cottage in Chilmark, Massachusetts, she knew it would be neither the greatest challenge she’d at any time undertake, nor the most dramatic transformation—but its modesty is accurately what appealed to her. Chilmark is a town on Martha’s Vineyard,…

This article appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. With nearly every interior surface refreshed, the living room retains its original ceiling beams and carved-oak fireplace surround. Past the French doors, a former sunroom now serves as homeowner Katherine…

How to soak up the previous times of summertime? With quite ceramics for dinners outside, a freshly opened upstate B&B, and a screened porch to reside in 24/7 from listed here on out. Go through on: Earlier mentioned: A late-summertime scene from A Catskills Cabin Up the Hill from a…

This article appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. Just about everyone wants to live at home, well, forever, says James Vitale, an Altadena, CA, architect who specializes in disability access. But fewer than half of those age 55…

Swedish painter Emma Bernhard‘s kitchen area is much like her art: minimalist, bold, trustworthy, with a fondness for black. Regarded for her big-scale works featuring evocative black brush strokes, Emma collaborated with Nordiska Kök to style and design the room, deciding upon the firm’s streamlined Valchromat cupboards for a modern…

Walls and trim feel to get all the focus when it arrives to paint makeovers. Upcoming time you purpose to liven up a space with color, glimpse at your ceiling: It may well just be the important to waking up a worn out home, without a dear rework. We aren’t…

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This article appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of This Old House Magazine. Click here to learn how to subscribe. Standard features: 1. ON/OFF switch; 2. Speed-control dial; 3. ¼-inch collet; 4. Spindle lock; 5. Quick-release lever; 6. Gripping surface; 7. LED lights | Worthwhile upgrades: Micro-adjustment dial (A); Dust…

Final year, I wrote about the off-the-grid guesthouse that architect Greg Dutton, of Midland Architecture, built on his parents’ rural assets in Ohio (you can examine it listed here.) A number of months in the past, he wrote to share news of his latest private challenge: the renovation of the…