Architectural designer Nancy Fishelson beautifully balances old and new to reinvent a 1795 Connecticut house in perfect harmony. Kitchen Entry She ripped out the dropped ceilings, stripped plaster and lathe down to the posts and beams, and opened up many of the rooms with wider doorways and additional windows. Nancy ...

Judi Boisson spent five years thinking about what she really wanted and needed in an addition to her 1880 Victorian home in Southampton, N.Y. She has owned the house since 1984, and lived in it full-time since 1990, when she switched occupations, from running her beloved antiques shop to designing her own line ...

Theresa Smith has honed her distinctively elegant salvage style through years of antiques shows — and it all comes together in her Glendale, mobile home. A double-wide mobile home on two acres of land offers a home base for Theresa and Craig Smith, who travel nearly half the year for their antiques ...

This Kansas City home strikes just the right balance between a gracious country house with old-world details and a relaxed family home that always welcomes. The shingle-and-Missouri-limestone exterior includes such elegant details as a second-floor balcony, and large front door flanked by sidelights and transom. ...

Built on Deer Island in Beaufort County, S.C., this comfortable home exudes Southern charm on the outside, thanks to a raised design and deep front porch. Inside, it's a light-filled ode to laid-back luxury. Making a new house look and feel timeless is no small achievement, but that's ...

Victorian home designer Carrie Raphael's farmhouse marries beauty with function. The Farmhouse The charming farmhouse gets extra appeal from the porch's shear curtains, which billow in the breeze. Carrie and her husband, Charlie, are business partners in their interior design service. ...

Painter Donna Krakovitz Feiner uses the fruitful land as a vivid canvas for herself and her family in Bucks County, Pa. Feiner House This magic happens just 45 minutes from Philadelphia, where the Feiners bought an old stone house 15 years ago, renovated it, and added an orchard and ...

Inspired by the locale, Senior Decorating Editor Robin Mayer chose a sky- and water-themed palette. Buttery-colored paint highlights the living room architectural details, from the coffered ceiling to the reeded mantel. Fresh roses and hydrangea line the mantel. Blue ...

A dilapidated, dark, eccentric dwelling in Ohio became a chance for Monique Keegan to explore her own personal style, resulting in a one-of-a-kind home. Nearly everyone who looked at the house was daunted by the mountains of possessions, the deteriorating condition, and the warren of rooms that comprised ...

Take a peek into four houses decorated for the Christmas season. A Colonial Christmas When their 1777 Connecticut home is filled with the scent of pine boughs and baking, Leslie and Steven Powell know it's the holidays. A Designer Christmas With the quiet ...

A cozy Tudor home gets a bright new outlook thanks to a room-by-room application of luminous color and pattern. Front Wreath Many Tudor-style houses, American favorites from the 1920s to 1940s, are charming yet dark - their heavy ceiling beams a little overbearing, their small leaded windows ...

With garlands, family traditions, and loads of good cheer, this New York home hosts a real country Christmas Horses and Snow Christmas arrives each year on hooves at the upstate New York home of Bob and Caroline Boniello. Caroline and her daughter, Jennifer, are accomplished equestrians, so ...

Integrating house and garden is Kevin Reiner's trademark - and the key to the revival of his farmhouse. New Living Room Simplicity of lines and trim harmonized new construction with old. In the new living room, French doors blur the transition between indoors and out, while white ...

Helen Bartlett and Tony Bill, a husband and wife producing-directing team, make movies for a living, and their base is sunny Venice, Calif. But Helen grew homesick for the lifestyle of her East Coast childhood and wanted to create memories of changing seasons with the couple's two daughters, Daphne and Maddie. ...

One family has transformed a love of animals into a decorating motif for this 19th-century house in New York's Hudson River Valley. Once Rachel McPherson and Patrick McMullan saw this 19th-century farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley, they knew they had found the yin to their Brooklyn ...