More than window dressing

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Old shutters can be used to improve a new or old home's exterior and add period style inside -authentic traditional shutters can be bought from an architectural salvage yard, where one can find dozens of hand-carved shutters from old-growth timber, shutters from a single source to lend a period look to a new house, or can be put to creative use inside the house or in the garden. Functional and decorative elements of shutters ensures that they will continue to be popular additions to old and new houses and one has to decide whether to install them on the house or inside it.

Residential Building Construction, Housing Additions & Alterations, Usage, Dwellings, Home remodeling, Window shutters, Exterior wooden doors

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Posts with a past

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Architectural cast-iron newel posts, which were common in the 18th-century Europe, could be used to decorate the foot of exterior stairs, breakfast bar in the kitchen, a base for a birdbath, or a one-of-a-kind mailbox support. Some of the models include a boxy Italianate model with circular finials, Neoclassical ones with embossed flowers and urn-shaped caps, and Colonial Revival forms with fluted columns and budlike ornaments.

Evaluation, Design and construction, Architectural design, Staircases, Neoclassicism (Architecture)

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Vintage vessels

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An old sink made of vitreous-china or porcelain-coated cast iron can give baths a period-appropriate look that complements popular styles of the early Victorian era. The important features that should be considered before going for vintage bath sinks and faucets are described.

Bathrooms, Materials, Varieties, Sinks

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