Old House Links

What we are reading this week about decorating and renovating old houses:

Looks like house bloggers took off Labor Day weekend too. So instead of the latest posts, we’re bringing you some old favorites. The first is a 1903 ranch house in a rural area of Northern California called the Pope Valley. Being from Northern California, we can easily imagine the enchanted isolation of this remote location. In addition, the construction of this house seems to derive from Spanish Colonial folk building traditions, although it makes use of off-the-shelf machine-made Edwardian materials as well. There are not many houses like this still extant in California. The occupant, artist and former sous chef at French Laundry Richard Carter, bought the house from the family that built it, and has restored it. Click the link to see photos of the beautiful interior.
A Rustic Farmhouse and Artist Studio [Remodelista]
Photo by Douglas Sterling

This bed-and-breakfast in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood has to be the ultimate hipster bohemian Victorian industrial rustic artisanal hangout with its original stained glass, exposed brick walls and handcrafted furnishings by Midwestern designers, no? In fact, you might even wake up and think you were in Brooklyn.
Stay: Honor & Folly [Designtripper]
Photo by Marvin Shaouni

If you spend any time looking at house blogs, you’re probably familiar with this landmark achievement in DIY style. The folks at Door Sixteen spent six months of weekends and $5,745 doing all the work but the plumbing themselves in this bathroom renovation. We really like the mix of new and old here, which seems appropriate to the house, since this bath was already a later addition to an 1891 Victorian in Newburgh, N.Y. The upstairs bathroom, original to the house, is much more traditional.
How Much for This Room? [Decor8]
My Downstairs Bathroom [Door Sixteen]
Photo by Anna Dorfman