For 10 years, I wrote about old houses and toured other people’s old houses and helped other people learn more about the history of their old house. For 30 years, I read about old houses and subscribed to magazines about old houses and perused vintage magazines and books on old houses.

And then in 2007, six weeks after my second marriage, my new husband and I purchased a place of our own. My very own old house. And then I realized that the foyer in my old house looked a lot like the foyer in an old house photo from an old house book.

Old houses are times sinks and money pits, but they have a beauty and an elegance and a life history that modern architecture can’t touch.

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My old house foyer (left) compared to the foyer pictured on the cover of the book, "Colonial Style." It would seem that I have a "classic" Colonial Revival house. But I already knew that. ;) The biggest difference is, my house is a Colonial Revival. The photo on the right is a true Colonial (circa early 1800s).