Lick Yellow 07 is the ultimate feel-good shade. It will add a burst of sunshine to even the dreariest of mornings. While ...

A Victorian house in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood sold for $1.97 million despite peeling paint, broken windows and an unstable foundation. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu ...

A quick search on our own Brownstoner Forum, or in any old house/restoration magazine or website, will soon come up with someone asking about painting and woodwork. The following is a timeline of what ...

LONDON – A nearly forgotten Victorian painter is back in the limelight after his work played a part in pointing Barack Obama down the path toward the White House.. G.F. Watts‘ painting “Hope ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. There is no one Victorian house style: the Victorian era ...

The Hammonds House painting is an example of that. ... Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds knew this history went he bought a mammoth Victorian house on Peeples Street in Atlanta in the late 1970s.

Dinkel remembers the first time they stepped inside the townhouse. “My husband and I were looking for a Victorian house in San Francisco for more than a year when we walked into 1180 Guerrero ...

The house was built in 1890s and was owned by a general in the British Army. It's surrounded by Army land where they still ...

A painting by local artist Susan Amidon depicts a winter scene of the historic, stately homes on St. Paul's Ramsey Hill. Front and center is a yellow Victorian with a wraparound porch, manicured ...

Library officials offered to turn over the 130-year-old Victorian house to anyone who would preserve it. For a year, nobody would, and plans were made to tear it down this month.