Old house design

Bloomington's Old House Society Annual Home Tour is great opportunity to peek inside homes of the past, and to imagine what it was like to live in them.

Unique home designs with attractive locations. Today is a modern era. The old house designs that were just that, are now increasingly abandoned. If you look at the designs of this house, you will definitely be amazed. #modernhouse #homedesigns #home

A decrepit homestead was theirs to interpret in Victorian fashion when this couple stepped up to save it (and the barn) from ruin. Now it’s exquisite.

1895–1945: from architect-designed mansions to planbook homes.

There are more carriage and gate houses in Newport than I had ever imagined, so here is part 2 as a wrap-up to my summer post on the subject. I…

Le ville classiche evocano tutto lo splendore e il fascino delle epoche passate. Gli stili delle case antiche variano molto fra loro. Ci sono le case neoclassic

Twenty-or-so years ago, during a fluid period in my career, a girl I knew suggested we rent a mansion together in Stockbridge, Mass. Had we done so, either a single or a double homicide - depending on whether, or which, of us escaped - would surely have ensued, so it was a lucky thing we dropped the plan. One of the places we looked at was a fantastically decrepit pile in nearby Lenox called Ventfort Hall. When I moved in to where I live now, it didn't look a lot different than Ventfort did…

Olde Florida and Caribbean West Indies style architecture come together in this downtown Naples, FL. cottage designed by Weber Design Group, Inc.

Hard to believe this house had been cut up into four shabby apartments, or the woodwork painted industrial green and the verandah enclosed with aluminum siding and jalousie windows. Then there were the structural problems.