To put it simply: When comparing this year’s holiday decorations in Colonial Williamsburg with years past, they’re more colorful and “the whole look just seems particularly brighter.” That’s the view ...

Interior designer Heather Chadduck Hillegas, a decorator and textile designer based in Birmingham, Ala. and a native of rural Virginia, was tapped by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to act as the ...

One of the wallpaper designs inside the historic Nelson-Galt House began its life more than 300 years ago as a bed curtain, delicately hand-embroidered in England with birds, trees and other natural ...

New city design guidelines could mean new paint colors for houses and more flexibility when renovating homes that aren’t considered historic. The proposed updated guidelines were presented Monday ...

In reality, those subdued “historical” colors are anything but authentic. This pervasive misconception dates back to the 1920s, when restoration teams in Colonial Williamsburg took paint scrapings ...