An old empty house feels sorry for itself because it has no family living inside, but with the help of some good friends, its dreams come true.

From an unrestored masterpiece such as the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, South Carolina, to a farmhouse in upstate New York, inhabited only by a bird nesting

Restoring, Rehabilitating and renovating older homes.

This practical manual on residential renovation chronicles the conversion of a late-nineteenth-century summer house into five, well-appointed condominiums