House Tours

These eight communities are the ones we consider the cream of the crop, the best of the best places to buy an old house

In the market for a historic home? If you’d like to buy an older home, here are 14 options for you.

A finished attic added space and light, inspiring other tweaks that make this small house smarter

They wanted a vintage home with a lofty interior for entertaining. They found it in a 1916 outbuilding with a crowd-pleasing open plan

One look at the dilapidated 1926 foursquare—smack in the middle of beach-condo country—sealed the deal for this couple.

Get renovation ideas and see how these homeowners transformed a stuck-in-time 1950s Cape Cod into a comfortable home for today

Six smart makeovers reveal the pains and payoffs of renovating a single space

Some key changes made a vintage cottage ultra-livable without sacrificing an ounce of its charm

This Old House multimedia editor Alex Bandon redoes her garden apartment one affordable DIY project at a time. Learn how she did it.

How one family learned through trial and error—popping off baseboards while using floor jacks and sawing a hutch in half to get it in the front door—to turn a 1909 wreck into their dream home

The 1830s farmhouse with 1950s additions was a shoo-in for a teardown. Then a pair of old-house buffs decided to revive its antique core and build a gracious, vintage-look home around it

Staging a house to sell doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Check out these house-staging secrets from an expert and maximize your chances of your home selling at a good price.

14 great places where the historic houses need TLC, presenting life-affirming DIY challenges and plentiful opportunities

Eight of our favorite neighborhoods where—if you have the bucks—you can score a grand old historical house to live in

17 great neighborhoods, from coast to coast, where you can get a steal on a historic house

Looking for the perfect place to retire? Spend the rest of your days in one of these 14 great old-house neighborhoods

The nation's greatest neighborhoods in which to nab a picturesque Painted Lady

Civilization meets wilderness in 14 great communities for historic houses near hiking, biking, and fishing

Take the old-house plunge in one of these 17 great neighborhoods for new homeowners

14 fantastic, urban neighborhoods to get a great deal on a historic house

Galleries, museums, theaters, and music festivals abound in these 12 great places for culture vultures and historic house buffs

Eight great neighborhoods for Queen Annes, Second Empires, Craftsman-style, and other historic houses in the states of the Northwest

Seven neighborhoods in the American desert where historic houses are affordable and plentiful

Affordable colonial-era, antebellum, and Craftsman beauties abound in these 13 great Southern neighborhoods

There are plenty of old houses up for grabs in the Northeastern states—and some of them are even affordable. See 10 great neighborhoods to snag one

13 great neighborhoods for historic houses at affordable prices in our nation's heartland

Picking the best of the best wasn't easy, but here are TOH's top dozen choices for where to buy an old house now

A follow-up on one of those bygone "Save This Old House" beauties we featured in TOH magazine

You wanted to know: What happened to those gorgeous, ravaged beauties we feature in the back of the magazine each issue? We tell you which have sold, been demolished, or are still available for your taking

Extend indoor comforts outside to increase your home's living and entertaining space. Here's how

How one couple maximized function and upped the comfort factor in their cozy cottage home

A rowdy fraternity had totally trashed the 1897 brick row house. Then a pair of professors bought it and set about restoring its architectural integrity