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Workstead turns historic Upstate New York house into showroom

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HGTV.com loves how designer Susan Jamieson gave this historic Colonial home a modern makeover by updating the kitchen with sleek gray cabinets and open shelving, refinishing the brick fireplaces, installing pendant lights and pulling in colorful, contemporary furnishings.

There are definitely two factors that concur in making a space feel unique: the bones of a house and the alchemy of the decorative elements. This house definitely has both.

Is there anything in the almost universally loathed 19th-century approach to decorating that is redeemable? Fiona McKenzie Johnston weighs in

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Geoff Howell on Instagram: "There’s something about deeply dense decor that I adore…especially in this room that features 19th century photography, and in black and white, swipe to see, with the exception of a few books, this could pass for a period interior…of some crazy person…whose love of the decorative arts apparently knew no bounds. Of course, there are self imposed guidelines here as there are everywhere else in my house…there is a teal/soft green/green color palette, and the “stuff”…

To me, the best old houses are the ones that no one has touched in years. The floors are covered in wall to wall carpeting of dubious antiquity, or layers upon layers of linoleum.

Historic Home in New Orleans restored to a single-family residence — ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS

Victorian Houses or Homes depended on the financial status of the family. Poor Victorian children lived a much different life than the wealthy children did.

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trees, lamp, LADDER, bust, apholstery on the couch