Welcome to our annual paint and color issue, packed with advice for choosing the right shades for your space. Plus, tour the first of our 2020 Idea Houses, a colorful Cottage on the Cape.

Learn about smart-home upgrades that make life easier and how to save money while saving energy. Plus: Tour our second 2020 Idea House, a modern farmhouse that’s both warm and airy.

 Explore light-filled house remodels, one-room makeovers, and colorful outdoor spaces. Plus, learn about easy-care building materials, from composite decking to metal roofing.
 

Explore pages of stylish kitchen remodels and
relaxing bath makeovers. Plus, discover clever
storage solutions and the best new products
for the most-used rooms in your house.

Learn how to add special details and fresh paint colors to personalize your home. Find lawn and garden tips to get your yard looking better than ever, easy outdoor DIY projects, and more.

See how one family’s home renovation opened up and brightened a dated ranch house. Learn how to improve indoor air quality. Plus: cozy paint colors, built-in reading nooks, and more.

Tour This Old House’s newest Idea House, a rebuilt Greek Revival filled with inspiration for your next remodel. Plus: a modern family’s ranch expansion, DIY upgrades, product news, and more.

Join us for a special 40th anniversary issue of This Old House featuring your favorite projects, moments and memories. Explore Tommy’s tool belt, Kevin’s photos, Richard’s cutaways and more.

Take a tour of our finished mid-century modern in Brookline, MA, then travel to a garden filled with glass mosaics and inventive structures. Plus, our guide to streaming music at home.

Tour a master carpenter’s lovingly restored 1860s home and our mid-century modern TV project. Plus, all about raised-bed gardens and our editors’ favorite new finds for your great outdoors.

Tour our finished Jamestown Net-zero house, then meet this season’s crop of Generation NEXT apprentices. Plus, our roundup of the best new bath products and how to paint a cast-iron tub.

Follow along as our fearless DIYers overhaul a 1940s cottage, build their own kitchen cabinets and recreate a pricey platform bed. Plus, our editors pick the Top 20 best tools of the year.

Take a tour of our 2018 Idea House in Narragansett, RI, then learn how a crafty blogger restored her own circa-1740s home. Plus, build a mudroom bench with Tom Silva and Kevin O’Connor.

Preview the new TV season’s first net-zero renovation, then learn how to patch a chipped wood floor with a dutchman. Plus, everything you need to know before you buy a tankless water heater.

Tour two colorful renovations in Los Angeles and downtown Phoenix, then find your paint personality by taking the quiz in our special issue. Plus, learn how to build a rolling grill cart.

Visit two mid-century modern houses and four spectacular (lawn-free!) front gardens as we celebrate a home design that never went out of style. Plus, are you ever too old to get a mortgage?

Take a tour of the Charleston Single House, then learn how to build a live-edge table or an easy DIY porch swing. Plus, how to create garden rooms that maximize your outdoor living space.

Get a first look at our newly-finished GenNEXT TV project house in Newton, MA, learn all about farmhouse sinks, and preview our favorite things from the annual kitchen and bath show.

Get a sneak peek at the TV season’s second project in Charleston, SC, and follow along as two city dwellers tackle a farmhouse renovation. Plus, what to do now to ensure a lush, green lawn.


Get more use out of every room in your home, and what you need to know before putting in a pantry. Plus, energy-efficient dog doors, prepping your snow thrower and protecting chilly pipes.

See our editors’ favorite new tools, materials, appliances and fixtures in our annual TOH Top 100 roundup, plus learn all about wall cladding and how to build a shadow box, Tommy-style.

Take a tour of our 2017 Idea House, where beach casual meets smart, accessible design.  Plus, a Southern Gothic stunner, a new season preview and everything you need to know about fire pits.

Thinking of painting? Check out our fresh palettes inspired by historical colors, then preview a kitchen with scarlet cabinets. Plus, everything you need to know about fiberglass windows.

Meet the winners of our TOH Apprentice contest, then tour a magical garden and a beach town renovation in Coronado, California. Plus, what you need to know before you install Central AC.

Bright Ideas :  Fresh paint colors and thoughtful details enliven a 1907 farmhouse.

Small Wonder :  A narrow lot in upstate New York overfl ows with delightful garden ideas.

Fresh Start : Relocated and rebuilt, a kitchen on the West Coast takes advantage of its outdoor setting.

Read this before you redo your roof :  Everything you need to consider before you commit to new asphalt shingles.

Buy this House : Victorian-era farmhouses feature breezy porches with ready-made embellishments.

Modern family The finished Arlington project house blends original detail with wide-open space, labor of love A historical 1750 Georgian is renewed and enlarged to suit a family of seven, kitchen and bath special TOH editors’ favorite fi nds for the most used rooms in the house, paint ideas Layered colors in a natural palette create a restful bedroom, ask this old house How to replace a porch railing; move an established lilac; layer paint over stain; and more...,

See a family-friendly basement remodel, a mudroom addition that controls clutter, and the stylish renovation of a country cottage. Plus, check out our buyer’s guide to metal fences.

The Color Issue - Inspiring ideas fro every room.

Shipshape - Built-in storage and headroom boosting dormers expand the living space in a bayside cottage.

Green & Serene - A canyon hugging property in Los Angeles becomes a verdant oasis for relaxing and entertainment.

True Colors - A pro shares her strategies for picking the right paint shades to warm up her 1930s home and more...

Really Smart Homes - Five very different houses get the perfect smart-home setup. Plus, what you need to know before you upgrade.

Lush Life - Abundant plantings and a series of brick terraces tame the once-tricky sloping terrain surrounding a 1920s Spanish Revival.

Twice as Nice - In this kitchen redo, supersizing the island gives a family of five double the storage and workspace—and half the mealtime hassle.

All About Ceiling fans - Our buyer's guide provides the details you need to find the right one for your home-at the right price and more...

A Los Angeles couple gain living space in their small bungalow by opening it up to the outdoors.

A new group of artisans and craftsmen are putting heart and soul into Detroit's renewal, starting with their own homes and workspaces.

After some trial and error, a Nantucket cottage garden finally finds its sweet spot and more...

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