Great stuff! I love flipping through old magazines for stuff like that. This guy is doing all the work for you.
I had a pile of old Home Craftsman magazines from the early 1950s, kind of a woodworking and beyond magazine. The one I loved had an article where they took an untouched 1880s victorian home, and showed how to do things like saw off the gingerbread trim, and rip out ornameted ceilings, stained glass, gas fixtures, etc and make it look like a modern 1950 home. Complete sacrilege now, but back then it happened every day.