Find guidance on buying, renovating, budgeting, and decorating. It’s all about keeping the character while upgrading for modern comfort and your own style. For prospective and recent homebuyers -- whether your house is Victorian or Mid-century Modern. Inside: • Kitchen/bath renos • When to DIY (and not!) • Inspiring house tours • Using vintage lighting • Pantry ideas • Modern farmhouses • Curb appeal upgrades • Choosing paint colors • Picket fence styles • Repairing floorboards • How to wallpaper … and lots more
Old House Journal
Welcome to Arts & Crafts
INTERIORS
Just the way it was • Original elements remain in this 1914 Prairie-influenced house: handsome wood and leaded windows, the brick fire place, wainscot and trim, and even kitchen cabinets. Deftly added upgrades in period mode enhance the exemplary restoration.
TEXTILES
David Netto • A LEGACY LIVES ON
WALLS & CEILINGS
ADDITIONAL LISTINGS
FURNITURE & ART OBJECTS
a bungalow Out West • A restoration prodigy restores a 1915 Arts & Crafts bungalow in Sheridan, Wyoming, and that leads to a successful career.
FURNITURE
Brian Brace • A CRAFTSMAN EVOLVING
ART OBJECTS
Jonathan White • EXPERIMENTS IN CLAY
KITCHENS, BATH & TILE
CRAFTING vintage • Calm but never boring, vintage-inspired but modern in function, this playful family kitchen suits the Craftsman-era home in Philadelphia.
IN SOUTH PASADENA, a bungalow bath • Plenty was original in this 1913 Craftsman bungalow. Additions, including the bathroom, fit right in.
KITCHENS & BATHS
Cha-Rie Tang & Mei-Ling Hubbard • MOTHER & DAUGHTER, CARVING IN UNISON
ARTFUL TILE
ADDITIONAL LISTINGS
LIGHTING & METALWORK
LIGHTING & ART GLASS
Conor Dooley • PATTERNS IN AMBER AND SILVER
HARDWARE
DESIGN, BUILD & RENOVATE
Arts & Crafts HOMAGE TO GREENE & GREENE • The Movement’s sensibility distinguishes a new house built for the Southwest landscape and affording modern efficiency.
WRIGHT BY THE RIVER • Rooted to its site, this new timber-frame house speaks the language of the owner’s favorite architect.
DOORS & WINDOWS
David & Kimber Degling • EFFICIENTLY SAVING HISTORIC WINDOWS
BUILD & REMODEL
HEATING & COOLING
EDUCATION & VISITS
RESOURCES
DESIGN truisms • Arts & Crafts takes in many styles and regions, each with its own motifs. For American Craftsman houses and bungalows, these rules ring true.