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Kitchen reno cuisine: How to eat when you can’t cook

By: Elaine Vitone , Contributing Writer
In: Uncategorized, Home Improvement Tips, Old House Musings

Updating your old kitchen? Heaven help you. As if the cost of new, era-appropriate flooring weren’t enough to completely floor you, six weeks worth

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May

2010

Repurposing Old Windows

By: Elaine Vitone , Contributing Writer
In: Uncategorized, Green Renovations

Next in our series on creative new uses for old-house items and materials, I'm tackling my personal favorite among the piles of discards in the architectural

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Apr

2010

Repurposing old doors

By: Elaine Vitone , Contributing Writer
In: Uncategorized, Green Renovations

Every weekend, Better Half and I take a break from fixer upping to haunt our friendly neighborhood architectural salvage yard. I especially love to linger

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Mar

2010

Book Review: "The House at Royal Oak" by Carol Eron Rizzoli

By: Elaine Vitone , Contributing Writer
In: Old House Musings, In The News

A friend in the publishing industry sent me a review copy of a new memoir she thought might interest me and my fellow old-home-enthusiasts: The House at

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Feb

2010

Q&A: Toxins We Overlook in Old Homes

By: Elaine Vitone , Contributing Writer
In: Uncategorized, Old Houses

Bernard Goldstein, M.D., is a professor and former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Before he moved to Pittsburgh (my

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