Old-House Journal

Front Cover
Jul-Aug 2003
136 pages
Vol. 31, No. 4
ISSN 0094-0178
Published by Active Interest Media, Inc.
Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
 

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Contents

Picturing Lost Porches
8
Porches (Photographs, Remodeling)
Nothing Finer Than from Carolina
21
Books in Brief
24
A Vaster Master Plan
26
Mail order business, Houses (Designs and projects), Houses, Prefabricated
More Post-Victorian Shutters
33
Shutters, Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Artful Entrance
60
Doors, Arts and Crafts movement
Better Ways to Lasting Wood
64
Wood (Preservation and preservatives), Borates
In a New Mold
68
Plaster and plastering, Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Keeping Your Cool
74
Historic houses, sites, etc, Air conditioners (Installation)
Bloody Good Architecture
80
Houses, Restored, Shaker Heights (Ohio) (Historic houses, sites, etc)

The $10 House
43
Historic houses, sites, etc (Humor, satire, etc), House selling (Humor, satire, etc)
Enchanted Dog-Day Evenings
45
Tuberoses, Moonflowers, Night-blooming cereus
Porches
84
Porches, Historic houses, sites, etc

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