Innehållsförteckning för New Old House 2023 från Old House Journal

WHAT MAKES A NEW OLD HOUSE? Authenticity, integrity, character, and timeless quality are words that bubble to the surface. New old houses are designed and built to last for ages. They evoke a sense of place and belonging. Craftsmanship and attention to detail are of the utmost importance. In this annual issue of New Old House, we feature homes that bring these words to life and share some of the best examples of traditional design around the country—from a Creole cottage and a Norman-style residence in the South to a stone farmhouse in Pennsylvania to a Palladian-inspired design in Florida. We visit a new home in south Louisiana by architect Everett Schram that ties into the area’s vernacular. He relied on Acadian, Creole, and West Indian influences to guide the…

A LOS ANGELES COUPLE, making a move from their Brentwood (Los Angeles) home to apartment living, recently called on Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) to smooth their transition. “We’d done a house on Martha’s Vineyard for them, and another in Brentwood, back in the 1990s,” says architect Randy Correll, a partner in the firm. “After 20 years, they decided to move.” One of their goals was to bring some of the character and warmth of the previous home’s French Provincial detailing to their new apartment—which is inside a Brutalist structure designed in 1958 by Austrian-born architect Victor Gruen. “It’s about 15 stories—a big, concrete building that covers the whole block,” Correll says. “It’s called Wilshire Terrace, and has a sculpted façade with double-height outdoor spaces.” Their 4,000-square-foot apartment—it’s actually…

Their blank slate was a scenic spot near the Contraband Bayou—part of the planned development of Walnut Grove in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Having raised five daughters in a contemporary Arts & Crafts house, the clients envisioned something different for their next chapter: a home rooted in Louisiana’s colonial history. They decided to embrace the warmth, color, and craftsmanship of Creole and West Indies architecture. “They wanted their new home to really tie into the vernacular language of South Louisiana,” says the architect J. Everett Schram, who was principal of Walnut Grove Design Group during the project’s development. (He has since launched his own firm, J. E. Schram Architect, in Baltimore, Maryland.) As a Louisiana native and avid enthusiast of Southern architecture, Schram fully embraced the opportunity to dive into Acadian,…

Historical Concepts’ Jim Strickland and Clay Rokicki used historical and whimsical details of the region for a house that looks out on large oaks and Spanish moss. • Strickland suggests that clients put together an image board to plan a dream house. Rokicki advises looking to the vernacular for inspiration.…

CHANGE IS GOOD, goes the adage. But for decades, change after change to a prewar apartment building, perched on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, had dulled its shine to just a glimmer of what it had been. Architect Douglas Wright saw the damage inflicted on the historic apartment building through records of cobbledtogether floor plans that had erased much of the 1920s character. With deep experience in renovating apartment buildings, Wright was perfectly poised to help restore the building’s integrity—by recasting almost a full floor as a comfortable, spacious, two-bedroom dwelling. “When I first saw the building, it kind of looked like a New York City SRO (single-room-occupancy building),” says Wright, the principal of Douglas C. Wright Architects in New York City. “It was pretty rough. The building had had many…

“THEY STUDIED EVERYTHING, including how the sun plays across the site,” says architect Gregory Palmer, whose team included architectural designer Robbie Pich. “They wanted everything to be perfect. For example, they wanted a multicolored slate roof, but they didn’t want it to fade. Some Vermont slate will lighten over time, so, for the deep-purple hue, we chose Welsh slate, which is a little slower to fade.” The plot, which Palmer calls a “choice piece of property,” created the greatest challenge because it was significantly sloped from left to right as well as from front to rear. “They wanted large, flat, sunny areas for entertaining, so we ended up cutting five feet off the top of the site after demolishing the old house, which was in sad shape and was not…

Furnishings strike a balance between luxury and informality. Their proportions and placement work in the 19th-century rooms. When you live in a 10,000-square-foot Queen Anne Victorian—a grande dame of a house built in1895—passersby snapping pictures of its ornate architecture become commonplace. Women asking to step inside to revisit where they used to sneak cigarettes when it was a Catholic girls’ school might, however, startle most homeowners. But one owner, the longtime inhabitant of this house in Newton, Massachusetts, invites them in to take a look around. That there is still schoolgirl graffiti on the basement walls suggests how principled the mother of two is about maintaining the historical integrity of the place she’s called home since 1990. “I feel like it’s my responsibility to be the steward of this house,”…

CLASSIC KITCHENS TAMING A BRUTE page 25 ARCHITECT Jim Strickland and Clay Rokicki Historical Concepts historicalconcepts.com INTERIOR DESIGNER Heather Chadduck Hillegas heatherchadduck.com LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Don Hooten, Hooten Land Design hootenlanddesign.com CONTRACTOR Riverside Custom Homes riversidehomescustom.com DEVELOPMENT Crane Island (Amelia Island, Florida) craneisland.com PAINT walls: Sherwin-Williams “Classic Light Buff” (SW0050) ceiling: Sherwin-Williams “Pure White” (SW 7005 kitchen Cabinets: Sherwin-Williams “Tinsmith” (SW 7657) ISLAND PENDANTS Clarkson Lighting Urban Renewal Mini Pendants by Circa Lighting circalighting.com WALLPAPER OVER RANGE Gracie Wallpaper (covered with thin layer of Plexiglass) graciestudio.com  VENT HOOD Venetian plaster treatment HIDDEN PANTRY WALLPAPER Magnolia Home Ticking Stripe (#ME1562) Sherwin-Williams Stores sherwin-williams.com DINING NOOK WINDOWS Ultimate Double Hung G2 Marvin marvin.com  DINING NOOK LANTERN vintage DINING NOOK CHAIR FABRIC Petite Frond in “China Blue” Heather Chadduck Textiles heatherchadducktextiles.com A MODERN ANTIQUE…