How you can support Antique Home Style
Antique Home Style and its sister sites, Mid Century Home Style and Bungalow Home Style, are owned and developed by one passionate old house lover / architectural historian with a little help from some friends.
It's not about making money ... it's about making good information available to people who love old houses and want to restore or remodel in a way that takes the best of the past and blends it with today's lifestyles. It's about sustainable living on an ever smaller planet using energy that is already bound up in existing housing stock. It's about living well.
Money is the means to that end. Hosting, web development, research materials all cost money. And it takes time to create each page. To continue developing useful content, I need your help.
Here's the pitch!
There are a several ways to support AHS:
- Support our advertisers and friends.
- Advertise or buy a sponsorship for a page. AHS gets a lot of traffic for a smallish niche site (20,000 unique visitors a month who view an average of 15 pages each).
- Buy your books, music, etc. through Amazon
. They're big, but they have everything including the kitchen sink.
- And if you love this site — and many of you do — please donate a few bucks here and there. It ALL counts. (Some of you spend HOURS on the site and many of you return over and over again, so — like the local library and PBS — we need your support!)
Your payment goes through Paypal to Small Planet Living, which serves as an umbrella organization for the websites.
Thank you!
About us
Antique Home Style is intended to to be a repository of vintage design inspiration and a quiet space on a noisy, frenetic Web. With so many blogs, forums, and other opportunities for social interaction on the Internet, we didn't want to create another "wildly vibrant and creative space to share our knowledge and journey with others." We wanted a haven from the present that presents some of the coolest ideas and images we can find from the not so distant past. And nothing resonates with Americans like their homes.
Like half the population of the US, many of us have older homes, most of which were built from 1900 to 1970. Our focus here at Antique Home Style is how to live in and enjoy our older homes. There's considerable room for experimentation with new styles, taking what we can from the past, and preserving the character and integrity of our homes.
For the most part, older houses were well built using old growth timber. They were designed to be sturdy and comfortable. If you can find one that hasn't been "improved" to death, it generally has only a single bathroom. They are often modest in size and pretension: Back in the day, most people were happy to own their homes and a bit of land large enough for a flower garden with a few vegetables.
Drawing from our vintage publications and other resources, we'll open a window into the past that allows you to see how people used to live in your antique home.
Contact us
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To reduce marketing junk and other unsolicited mail, we've opted to not publish a physical address. Because we're a virtual entity that seems appropriate, but if you want to reach us, send an email; we'll respond with phone and mailing information when appropriate.
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