Elizabeth Gilbert, the Oprah-approved bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, lives in a yellow Italianate Victorian in Frenchtown, New Jersey. She calls it her "beautiful, perfect" house and asks, "Why would anyone ever leave this ... Keep Reading
Restoring a Painted Queen Anne Cottage in Austin
This is the kind of house story I love to hear because it has a happy ending! The Wilkins-Heath House is a painted Queen Anne Victorian that was built in the 1880s but had fallen into serious disrepair by the 1980s. It's been restored ... Keep Reading
Rescuing a Classic Greek Revival from the 1830s
A reader named Nancy wrote me about Saxton Hall, her wonderful old house in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. It's a Greek Revival dating back to the 1830s, and they were determined to restore it to its original beauty. When she and her ... Keep Reading