AFrom the Vanished Rooms channel
The light, the proportions, the paint, the secondhand finds and the care of old things. How to give the home you have the quiet character of an old house, without buying everything new.
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A note from Charles
For years the Vanished Rooms channels have looked at how the old families kept their houses, set their tables and dressed: plain things, bought well, looked after, and kept for a lifetime. The videos show the idea. There's never time in them for the measurements, the prices and the plan.
These books are where all of that went. Read the chapter you need today, and keep the rest for the next time it comes up.
Charles Ashworth
The house · The Ashworth Home Manual
The light, the paint, the proportions, the secondhand finds and the care of wood, brass and old materials. Every chapter says what to look at, what to measure and what it costs in 2026, with plans for $50, $500 and $5,000.
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The complete Ashworth set
The set adds two more books and a free guide to the Home Manual: the table, the wardrobe and the antiques. Each one works on its own.
In the set · 361 pages
How the old houses set a table, served a dinner and looked after their guests. Settings drawn to scale, ten menus you make ahead with 52 recipes, the wording for every note, and full Thanksgiving and Christmas plans.
In the set · 451 pages
The old-money wardrobe: no logos, the right fit and a few pieces of real quality. The twelve pieces, what a tailor can fix, shoes that last decades, buying secondhand, and plans for $200, $1,000 and $3,000.
Free in the set · 399 pages
Where good pieces still turn up, how to read wood and joinery, the marks on silver and brass, and the reproductions most often sold as old. It goes hand in hand with the Home Manual's chapters on secondhand furniture.
The complete Ashworth library
The house, the table and the wardrobe, with the antiques guide free. All four PDFs arrive in the same email, about a minute after you pay.
The Ashworth Home Manual446 pagesThe Ashworth Table361 pagesAshworth Style451 pagesThe Ashworth Field Guide to Antiques399 pagesFree$125 separately$89
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Yes. There are sections for newer and builder-grade houses, and reading orders for renters and owners of old or new homes. Choose the changes your home, and your lease, allow.
No. The manual has $50, $500 and $5,000 plans, secondhand shopping and care for what you already own. Project costs are separate from the price of the book.
The Ashworth Home Manual, The Ashworth Table (setting, serving, menus and manners), Ashworth Style (the old-money wardrobe) and the Field Guide to Antiques free. Four PDFs, one payment: $89 instead of $125.
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