The specs are confusing, quality and pricing all over the map. Here’s a stab at untangling the choices.

American Arts & Crafts architecture includes many examples that go “beyond the bungalow.” This one in Portland, Oregon, is a classic.

Untouched and unusable, a kitchen in Portland, Oregon, is sympathetically remodeled with elements of the 1910s.

Historical Concepts designs a Greek Revival home with Southern roots.

Whether it's a potato masher, a bunch of Tupperware lids, or just a jumble of nonsense, there's almost always something junking up a drawer. Not these, though!

Many of you may have noticed that kitchen pantries are making a comeback. But for a lot of us, especially here in America, we've never had one. Well, I haven't. But oh do I wish I did!Or for those who have had a pantry, it was some utilitarian closet filled with dry and canned food. …

Kitchen cabinet design and details are critical in making a new kitchen fit an old house. We look at traditional construction, and outline the must-haves for restoration-worthy cabinets.

Custom fabricator of handcrafted, period-style cabinetry for kitchens, baths & other rooms: Arts & Crafts, Shaker, Victorian, Early American & contemporary styles; available nationwide.

Crown Point Cabinetry - Period Homes

Crown Point Cabinetry - Period Homes

Crown Point Cabinetry - Period Homes

Custom fabricator of handcrafted, period-style cabinetry for kitchens, baths & other rooms: Arts & Crafts, Shaker, Victorian, Early American & contemporary styles; available nationwide.

Crown Point Cabinetry - Period Homes

Period Homes' Buying Guide to kitchen, bath & heating specialties for classically-designed residential building projects.

The Palladio Award winner for Adaptive Reuse and/or Sympathetic Addition goes to Jeffrey Dungan Architects for Southern Farmhouse.

Architect Susan Rochelle’s Lowcountry house combines historical integrity and amenities of comfortable modern-day living.