Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival

Fall 2010

Arts & Crafts Editor — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:33:44 +0000

Here’s a preview of what’s inside of the Fall 2010 issue of Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival:

ON THE COVER: In an Arts & Crafts Tudor house in Seattle, a De Morgan tile is among the treasures on the mantel in the study. Photo by William Wright

IN THE MAGAZINE:

Restoration
Rescue for a Tudor
A 1908 fine house is a case study on how to treat the interiors of a transitional English Arts & Crafts Tudor. by Brian Coleman | photographs by William Wright

New Work
Craftsman Contemporary
Intimate spaces and beautiful work in wood and stone define a house that’s part rustic, part modern. by Regina Cole | photographs by Roger Wade

Outside
Where House Meets Garden
How pergolas, fences, arbors, and trellises soften transitions in the Arts & Crafts garden. by Dan Cooper

Utility Spaces
A Cook’s Kitchen
Artisanship is evident in an inspired kitchen for a new lake house; the design/build team made it personal. by Patricia Poore

The Guild
Mexican Copper
The traditional, hand-hammered metalwork of the Purepecha people of central Mexico has found a niche in the A&C Revival. by Patricia Poore

WEB EXCLUSIVES:

Today’s Arts & Crafts Kitchens

It’s easy to understand why this style is popular for kitchens, whether remodeled or brand new. Here’s a look at the various elements that go toward making a stunning revival kitchen.

A New Craftsman Kitchen

A husband-and-wife design/build team outfitted the space with unique woodwork and motifs of the Arts & Crafts movement.

Bungalow Kitchen, Plain & Simple

Practical yet old-fashioned, straightforward yet edgy with color, this Pasadena kitchen in a 1922 house has an apron-front sink, stylish white cabinets, built-ins, and original light fixtures. Here’s the homeowner’s story.

Arts & Crafts Kitchen Expo

Browse an inspiring and eye-opening list of specialist products and manufacturers to help you design, outfit, and finish your kitchen—whether you’re restoring a period bungalow or dreaming of a multi-function room for your Craftsman Revival house.

Art + Craft

See these great products featured in this month’s issue. From furniture to finishing hardware, we highlight items that you will love to see in your home.

Calendar of Events

Check for upcoming Arts & Crafts events coming to an area near you. Have an event that isn’t posted? Be sure to submit to our editors here.

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Today’s Arts & Crafts Kitchens

Patricia Poore — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:41:03 +0000

ABOVE: Artisan-made copper hood (from Historical Arts & Casting) and jewel-color art tile. Photo by Mikel Covey

It’s easy to understand why this style is popular for kitchens, whether remodeled or brand new. Here’s a look at the various elements that go toward making a stunning revival kitchen.

A case has been made for the true bungalow-era kitchen in Arts & Crafts Homes and Old-House Interiors magazines, and in Jane Powell’s bestselling book Bungalow Kitchens. Those kitchens from the first quarter of the 20th century were smallish rooms, separated from the rest of the living area, “sanitary” in their use of white tile and ivory enamel paint. Cabinets were plain, the floor was linoleum, and lighting was utilitarian.

It’s a good model to follow if you are restoring a bungalow. It’s an easy look to capture, and it’s just as efficient and easy to maintain as ever. Even with the addition of a few extra details, it won’t cost an arm and a leg.

So why are so many people ignoring precedent and choosing high-end, quarter-sawn oak cabinets, mica lanterns, handmade tile, and rubbed bronze hardware for their kitchens?

Elements of the revival kitchen: an antique chandelier; reproduction textiles
(from Arts & Crafts Period Textiles); hardwood cabinets; art tile.
Photo by Douglas Keister.

For one thing, we don’t use kitchens today the way we did in 1915. Rather than a service room, the kitchen has become a public center of the house, outfitted more like the living and dining rooms. In renovations, the original kitchen is often made larger (perhaps with a rear addition) and is opened up to the rest of the house. At that point, the plain white enamel look becomes the anachronism. Finally, the Arts and Crafts Revival that is in full swing has introduced its own conventions. The beautifully detailed kitchen is one of them.

The idea works for many types of houses, not just bungalows. It’s become the default style for much new construction. It’s also become a standard course for 19th century houses, because A&C-era kitchens had built-in cabinets, counter space, electricity—all more appealing than the typical Victorian larder and scullery.

The new Arts & Crafts kitchen is based on a handful of materials and motifs, shown here in kitchens that were updated or remodeled, as well as in newly constructed houses. The room starts with cabinetwork: often in oak or cherry and with period-style kicks, door and drawer construction, and furniture details. (Built-ins, window seats, and breakfast nooks all have made a comeback.) Countertops often vary in the room; wood may be used along with soapstone, marble, or tile. Arts and Crafts-style hardware is the finishing touch.

Today’s stunning art tile accompanies modern appliances.
Photo by William Wright.

Even more coveted now, perhaps, than when this bungalow was built in 1916: the cozy breakfast nook. Photo by Marco Prozzo/The New Bungalow Kitchen.

Options in art tile today far exceed those of a century ago—it’s so hard to choose! Many people use artisan-made tile as an arresting backdrop for a room that straightforwardly incorporates modern appliances. An artisan-made copper or zinc hood adds textured color and craftsmanship to make the stove (or cooktop) the centerpiece of the kitchen. The use of a stunning antique (a ceiling fixture, a Hoosier cabinet, a Magic Chef stove) lends authenticity even when the room is brand new. Stenciled or embroidered textiles for windows and table add just the right amount of Arts and Crafts design motifs and an old-fashioned softness. For unbeatable authenticity, many people collect kitchenware from the Twenties or Thirties, some of which is available in reproduction.

Copper, art tile, naturally finished wood, stone, period hardware and lighting come together in a high-quality, artisan-made, warm and textural kitchen, a room at the center of family life.

Arts & Crafts Kitchen Resources

National cabinet companies with an A&C specialty, and two important books.

Companies

Cook & Cook (207) 885-0767, cookandcookcabinetry.com
Crown Point Cabinetry (800) 999-4994, crown-point.com
The Kennebeck Company (207) 443-2131, kennebeccompany.com
N.R. Hiller Design (812) 825-5872, nrhillerdesign.com
Plain & Fancy (800) 447-9006, plainfancycabinetry.com

Books

Bungalow Kitchens by Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen [Gibbs Smith, 2000]
The New Bungalow Kitchen by Peter LaBau [Taunton Press, 2007]

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To infinity. . . and the bungalow!

Patricia Poore — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:36:55 +0000

A Note from the Editor:

I’m trying to remember which house style was symbolic of health and happiness, back when I was growing up. I think it was the Dutch Colonial. No matter whether the house was ancient, post-Victorian, or newly minted, nothing said “American family home” like a gambrel roof.

I’m remembering the movies, too. Art Deco meant glamour and sex; if the scene was a Colonial Revival living room with ruffled slipcovers, a marriage proposal was in the air. People got stabbed in Victorian houses. Really cool young families lived in ranches.

Back in those days, some of my relatives would “take a bungalow” at the Jersey Shore in August. They certainly didn’t have Stickley in mind; a bungalow was a small, unheated house. (The word was fitting enough. The first Anglo bungalows, exotic imports from the far reaches of the Empire—India—were built in English beach resorts.)

Subscribe to Arts & Crafts Homes, or pick up an issue at your favorite bookstore or newsstand. Order back issues through the Old-House Bookstore or call (800) 850-7279.

Then came the Arts & Crafts Revival. So-named bungalows of the period were snatched up to be restored and decorated with Craftsman sensibility. The work of Greene & Greene in Pasadena was rediscovered and copied nationwide. No question that the symbol of hearth and home today is The Bungalow, now with a capital B. For the past decade, television dramas and sitcoms have taken place amidst oak wainscots and mica lamps. But it’s the latest Toy Story movie that sealed the deal.

Rent it, if you haven’t seen it, and if you overlooked the details of Bonnie’s house at the movie’s end, look again. (You might have missed it if you were snuffling and wiping your eyes, as I was. What a great movie about childhood!) The house is all porch and rafter tails, bungalow piers and flowerpots, even house-number tiles in an Arts & Crafts font. Freshly mown grass and a picket fence . . . with animation, you can make life perfect.

Patricia Poore, Editor
ppoore@homebuyerpubs.com
10 Harbor Rd., Gloucester, MA 01930

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Bungalow Kitchen, Plain & Simple

Patricia Poore — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:30:59 +0000

ABOVE: Plain cabinets were based on originals remaining in the 1922 house. Photo by Jaimee Itagaki

Practical yet old-fashioned, straightforward yet edgy with color, this Pasadena kitchen in a 1922 house has an apron-front sink, stylish white cabinets, built-ins, and original light fixtures. Here’s the homeowner’s story.

Photos by Jaimee Itagaki

If this kitchen looks perfect for the 1922 bungalow, that’s because it was inspired by . . . the original one. “We loved our kitchen even before the restoration,” says Kristy Clougherty, who with her husband Brian has owned this house since 2001. They worked diligently to save the existing fir floor (discovered under worn linoleum), along with remaining cabinets, hardware (painstakingly stripped), and lighting fixtures. Kristy says that about 70% of what’s here is original; for the rest, “we thought about what details would have been in place, and then we searched them out.”

Like an open smile, the 1922 stucco bungalow welcomes visitors without pretense. It’s in a late Craftsman style showing signs of Colonial Revival restraint.

The stucco bungalow has an asymmetrical pier with a “swoosh.” Foxgloves also appear in the cottage garden at the rear.

Set off by dark soapstone, plain white cabinets were matched to the old ones, but with the flared leg detail added. (The original owner–builder was from back East, where soapstone was more prevalent.) The kitchen faucet is still wall-mounted: “against advice, but it works and is just like the original,” says Kristy. A new dishwasher hides behind a door. When the couple went to pick up the dependable, early 1950s O’Keefe and Merritt stove from its previous owner, “she cried when we drove off, and came to visit it several weeks later!” Kristy says. “We share love for this stove—it works like it was built.”

Bold chocolate walls soften the high contrast between cabinets and countertops. The soapstone’ sage-green veining is picked up in a new backsplash of porcelain subway tiles. For fabrics, Kristy was looking for something unexpected to complement the rich brown of the table in the nook. “Oddly enough, it’s my dad who sews—usually industrial fabrics for nautical purposes. He whipped up the café curtains and the nook’s seat cushions, piping included—very professional!” Kristy boasts.

The trim white stove is vintage (1953); O’Keefe and Merritt stoves are coveted by many old-house owners. The little built-in cabinet to the right is a spice rack.

A period convention very popular in today’s revival, the breakfast nook is a bungalow basic. This one is an original; benches echo the curved ceiling.

The color scheme is successful, and even restful. But “it’s not all that common to see black and white blended with warm tones,” says Kristy. “It was worth taking the risk.”

Sources

Cabinets Peak Wood Works, Glendora, CA: (626) 327-2079
Paint ‘Flatland’ (kitchen) and ‘High Country’ (bath) by Dutch Boy: dutchboy.com, ‘Sierra Orange’ (hall) from Weatherbeater (Sears)
Tile ‘Riesling’ handcrafted porcelain subway tile by Lenaburg, Covina, CA: (626) 915-6558
Sink ‘Dickinson’ apron-front by Kohler: kohler.com
Hardware Restoration Hardware: restorationhardware.com
Faucet Two-handle wall-mount by Price Pfister: pricepfister.com
Countertops Brazilian ‘Beliza’ Soapstone from Shadley’s Stone: shadleysoapstone.com
Bathroom Sink ‘Kathryn Lavatory Pedestal’ by Kohler: kohler.com

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A New Craftsman Kitchen

Patricia Poore — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:30:03 +0000

ABOVE: Hand-wrought details fill every corner. Cabinet doors are decorated with colored overlays and faux leading. Photos by Steve Gross & Susan Daley

A husband-and-wife design/build team outfitted the space with unique woodwork and motifs of the Arts & Crafts movement.

The upstate lake had long been her family’s vacation spot. When Phyllis Cavaliere built a new house at the site, she asked Paul Kelly and Sherrie Hunter to take on the kitchen. The artisan couple does it all: design and construction, fine woodworking, metal fabrication, glass work, and finishes.

“Actually, I’d just had a baby,” says Sherrie, “so on this job I didn’t do as much. Paul did virtually everything—he’s a little crazy that way.” When pressed, Sherrie recalls that she applied finishes, designed the upstairs bath, carved a few panels, and did the welding on the stove hood—but that’s all. The two operate out of a small workshop on the edge of a creek in a tiny village of Schoharie County, New York.

With a counter-height back, the large island acts as a fourth wall to separate the kitchen from the living area.

This one is a serious cooking kitchen. “Phyllis is a great Italian cook who feeds you anytime she sees you,” says Sherrie. “We gave her a ‘baking department’ with a countertop just the right height for kneading dough and so on.” The owner brought her own strong ideas about the kitchen’s layout and workflow. She wanted to accommodate many people in the space without its feeling crowded. “Paul did many drawings—beautiful drafting—until we all felt we had the right combination of elements. Then we continued to make revisions as we built.”

The architect for the house provided Paul with a basic layout, but he did not plan the functional arrangements of rooms. That gave Paul latitude to envision the kitchen as an open room tucked into a corner behind posts and beams that run throughout the first level. The result is a manageable space that feels large and uncramped.

Tucked into a corner, the kitchen is separated from the living room by an embellished pier and the back of the island. The pantry cabinet is off to the right.

Paul Kelly and Sherrie Hunter are fans of the Arts & Crafts movement and of Japonisme. “In a kitchen, we have to look for ways to marry function with natural elements and organic design,” Sherrie says. “The Arts & Crafts approach worked.”

The tamarack tree is a recurring motif, seen in maple inlays; these refer to the tamaracks lining the drive to the lake house.

The large, apron-front sink is in the corner beyond the stove. Note the restrained leaded-glass pattern in the Andersen windows.

While the couple used some of the movement’s familiar design conventions and motifs, their interpretations are specific to this house. The “arrow” inlays are trees, a reference to the tamaracks that line the drive to the house. The beautiful lumber throughout is quarter-sawn mahogany, with maple inlays. Butterfly joints on the pantry and refrigerator cabinets are functional decoration, in the spirit of Arts & Crafts joinery. Boards were carefully selected and matched throughout our kitchen.

A capacious storage pantry and desk are tucked into a spectacular cabinet.

For the mosaic tile frieze on the large pantry cabinet, Paul combined a grid with a curvilinear shape, inspired by Scottish designer Charels Rennie Mackintosh. The stove hood, made by Paul and Sherrie, is mild steel witih a metal coating in a copper finish.

Windows in the new house are by Andersen in their Frank Lloyd Wright-series Wichita pattern. To inexpensively dress up the cabinet glass, Paul and Sherrie used a product called DecraLed, a system of colored films and “leading.”

“The homeowners, Phyllis and Richard, are the nicest people you’ll ever meet,” says Sherrie. “It was absolutely a labor of love to make this kitchen work for them. Paul always puts his whole heart into his work.”

Company

Design/Build (including custom cabinets, stove hood, art glass) Sherrie Hunter & Paul Kelly, North Blenheim, NY: (518) 827-3138
Windows Andersen Windows & Doors: andersenwindows.com

Materials

Lumber Hogan Hardwoods & Moulding, Ruston, LA: hoganhardwoods.com
Countertops Typhoon Gold Granite, Brazil
Lighting Mini Mission pendants in amber, antique bronze by Wilmette Lighting: wilmettelighting.com
Hardware Lee Valley Tools: leevalley.com
Sink Shaws single-bowl fireclay apron sink by Rohl: rohlhome.com
Stove Wolf Appliance: wolfappliance.com
Copper Finish Metal Finishes Plus: metalfinishesplus.com

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Arts & Crafts Kitchen Expo

Arts & Crafts Editor — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:46:07 +0000

ABOVE: European style range from La Cornue/Purcell Murray Co.

Browse an inspiring and eye-opening list of specialist products and manufacturers to help you design, outfit, and finish your kitchen—whether you’re restoring a period bungalow or dreaming of a multi-function room for your Craftsman Revival house.

Cabinetry

A YesterTec Company
yestertec.com
PO Box 190
Center Valley, PA 18034
(877) 346-4976
Designers and manufacturers of kitchen workstation furniture. Patented, U.L.-listed furniture conceals appliances in efficient designs.

Black Cove Cabinetry
blackcove.com
137 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Scarborough, ME 04074
(800) 262-8979
Custom kitchen cabinetry featuring period details in Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and Early American styles.

Cook & Cook Exquisite Custom Cabinetry
cookandcookcabinetry.com
94 Broadturn Rd.
Scarborough, ME 04074
(207) 885-0767
Traditional inset cabinetry. All designs are custom made to fit your vision and space.

Crown Point Cabinetry
crown-point.com
PO Box 1560
462 River Rd.
Claremont, NH 03742
(800) 999-4994
Cabinets for kitchen, bath, and other rooms. Period-inspired styles include Shaker and Craftsman. Finish options include milk paint.

Diamond Cabinets
diamondcabinets.com
1 Masterbrand Cabinets Dr.
Jasper, IN 47547
(812) 634-0456
Large selection of kitchen and bath cabinets that feature ingenious organization solutions for your home.

Fieldstone Cabinetry
fieldstonecabinetry.com
600 E. 48th St. North
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
(800) 339-5369
Their craftsmen work in quartersawn red oak to bring a timeless design to your kitchen or bath.

Kennebec Company
kennebeccompany.com
1 Front St.
Bath, ME 04530
(207) 443-2131
Period-inspired cabinetry from Colonial to early 20th century, handcrafted in Maine, using authentic joinery and details.

L. & J.G. Stickley
stickley.com
PO Box 480
1 Stickley Dr.
Manlius, NY 13104
(315) 682-5500
Mission collections, including an Arts & Crafts-style Kitchen island with frame-and-panel construction.

Mitchell Andrus
medicinecabinetmaker.com
68 Central Ave.
Stirling, NJ 07980
(908) 647-7442
Period-correct medicine chests with intricate inlays in recessed or surface-mount designs.

NR Hiller Design
nrhillerdesign.com
3450 S. Garrison Chapel Rd.
Bloomington, IN 47403
(812) 825-5872
Custom furniture and cabinetmaking for kitchen and bath. Specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century design. Also a line of sturdy, colorful kitchen worktables.

Plain & Fancy Custom Cabinetry
plainfancycabinetry.com
Rte. 501 & Oak St.
Schaefferstown, PA 17088
(800) 447-9006
Cabinetry as well as freestanding furniture for any room, from English country to classic American designs, including Shaker.

Vintage Kitchens
vintagekitchens.com
24 South St.
Concord, NH 03301
(800) 832-6251
Good-looking, hardworking kitchens: enduring cabinetry and professional kitchen design in traditional styles.

Wood Essentials
woodessentials.com
PO Box 843
Lenox Hill Station
New York, NY 10021
(212) 717-1112
Makers of fine handcrafted medicine cabinets. Traditional, recessed, or surface-mount design with beveled mirror and glass shelves. Finished or unfinished.

Appliances

Aga Ranges
aga-ranges.com
1050 Fountain St. North
Cambridge, ON N3H 4R7 Canada
(877) 650-5775
Period and retro appliances. The legendary Aga British cooker is the only radiant heat, multi-function stove in the world.

Antique Stove Heaven
antiquestoveheaven.com
5414 Western Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90062
(323) 298-5581
Specializing in restoration of stoves from the ’50s and older, with more than 300 models in stock. They repair, restore, and sell the most popular brands.

AntiqueAppliances.com
antiqueappliances.com
PO Box 389
30 W. Savannah St.
Clayton, GA 30525
(706) 782-3132
Restores all makes of antique and vintage refrigerators and stoves, both gas and electric, and maintains a large inventory of restoration-ready appliances for sale.

Big Chill
bigchillfridge.com
PO Box 892
Boulder, CO 80306
(877) 842-3269
It may look like your mother’s ice box, but the Big Chill offers all of today’s functionality and efficiency.

Copperworks
thecopperworks.com
400 Western Ave.
Petaluma, CA 94952
(888) 530-7630
Copper range hoods from Sonoma County, handmade for more than 25 years at the best price.

Elmira Stove Works
elmirastoveworks.com
285 Union St.
Elmira, ON N3B 3P1 Canada
(800) 295-8498
Cast-iron, nickel-trimmed cookstoves with the convenience of the 21st century. Gas or electric. Also offers the Northstar line of Streamline refrigerators in retro colors.

Good Time Stove Co.
goodtimestove.com
PO Box 306
Rte. 112
Goshen, MA 01032
(413) 268-3677
Authentic, antique kitchen ranges and heating stoves, circa 1840–1930. Fully restored and functional.

Handcrafted Metal
handcraftedmetal.com
5121 E. Seventh St.
Austin, TX 78720
(800) 755-0310
Premium handmade range hoods built by master craftsmen using copper, zinc, brass, iron, and bronze.

HearthStone
hearthstonestoves.com
317 Stafford Ave.
Morrisville, VT 05661
(802) 888-5232
Their wood-burning DEVA 100 cookstove is made of durable cast iron, with nickel and chrome details, and features a ceramic glass cooktop.

La Cornue / Purcell Murray Co.
lacornue.com
185 Park Ln.
Brisbane, CA 94005
(800) 892-4040
Since 1908. Every La Cornue range is built to order and assembled by hand, by one worker, start to finish.

Lacanche / Art Culinaire
frenchranges.com
17721 132nd Ave. NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
(800) 570-2433
Their world-class French ranges have the perfect balance of style and performance.

Northland Appliance
northlandnka.com
PO Box 400
701 Ranney Dr.
Greenville, MI 48838
(800) 223-3900
Custom built-in refrigerators, freezers, and wine cabinets. Several products suitable for period retrofits and tight placements.

RangeCraft Manufacturing
rangecraft.com
4-40 Banta Pl.
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
(877) RCHOODS
Range hoods made to order, in any design, material, or finish, including copper, brass, stainless steel, or decorator colors.

Twentieth Century Appliance Restorations
monitortop.com
49 Christie St.
Troy, NY 12190
(518) 272-7916
Restores vintage and antique refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers, small appliances, and vintage electronics, including Victrolas, televisions, and radios. Services include mechanical and cosmetic refurbishing.

Countertops

Ashfield Stone
ashfieldstone.com
1739 Hawley Rd.
Ashfield, MA 01330
(413) 628-4773
Exclusive quarriers and fabricators of two rare schist stones unique to the Berkshires, for countertops, trough sinks, and more.

DeVos Custom Woodworking
devoswoodworking.com
1451 W. Hwy 290
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
(512) 894-0464
Solid wood countertops and butcher block tops with custom edges, inserts, and finish options.

Frigo Design
frigodesign.com
5860 McKinley Rd.
Brewerton, NY 13029
(800) 836-8746
Manufacturer of stainless steel, copper, and zinc countertops, backsplashes, integrated sinks, and panels.

Kuehn Bevel
kuehnbevel.com
111 Canfield Ave.
Randolph, NJ 07869
(800) 862-3835
Decorative edge molding for kitchen and bath countertops, including laminate bevel-edge, solid-surface edges, and hardwood edges for laminate countertops.

M. Teixeira Soapstone
soapstones.com
85 Myer St.
Hackensack, NJ 07601
(877) 478-8170
Importers of soapstone. Custom fabrication of countertops, sinks, tiles, and woodstoves.

RMG Stone Products
rmgstone.com
PO Box 807
680 E. Hubbardton Rd.
Castleton, VT 05735
(800) 585-5636
Quarries, fabricates, and supplies Vermont slate. Products include countertops, sinks, wall, and floor tile.

Sheldon Slate Products
sheldonslate.com
38 Farm Quarry Rd.
Monson, ME 04464
(207) 997-3615
Mining and manufacture of slate products: sinks, counters, floor tile, roofing, and monuments. From earth to finished product. Custom work.

Vermont Soapstone
vermontsoapstone.com
PO Box 268
Perkinsville, VT 05151
(802) 263-5404
The standard for sinks, floors, and fireplaces made of soapstone for more than 150 years. Miners, importers, and custom manufacturers.

Sinks

Antique Hardware & Home
antiquehardware.com
PO Box 278
Woonsocket, SD 57385
(877) 823-7567
They offer a wide assortment of furniture, plumbing, hardware, appliances, lighting, and decorative accessories.

Artisan Sinks
artisansinks.com
237 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114
(973) 286-0080
Quality sinks in copper and stainless, plus kitchen and bath faucets and accessories.

Copper Sinks Direct
coppersinksdirect.com
11522 Pagemill Rd.
Dallas, TX 75243
(866) 789-7465
Shop their online store for sinks, tubs, vessels, and more.

De La Frontera
delafrontera.com
PO Box 978
Salado, TX 76571
(888) 221-7587
Handcrafted copper, stone, mosaic, and wood sinks and vanities from Mexico.

Homes Best
homesbest.com
PO Box 26
Newell, PA 15466
(877) 800-4100
Handcrafted, antique-style vanities, custom ceramic sinks, faucets, and one-of-a-kind products created by talented artisans.

Linkasink
linkasink.com
2235 E. Rose Garden Loop
Phoenix, AZ 85024
(866) 395-8377
Unusual kitchen and bath sinks, unique and handmade, featuring hammered copper, mosaics, and solid stone.

Native Trails
nativetrails.net
4173-A Santa Fe Rd.
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
(800) 786-0862
Copper basins of unparalleled quality are hand-hammered, merging function and form. Age-old craftsmanship and modern designs for bath, bar, and kitchen.

The Sinkworks
sinkworks.com
PO Box 19
Nazareth, PA 18064
(877) 746-5967
Custom copper sinks for kitchen, bar, and bath in a wide variety of stock and custom sizes. Individually made by hand from heavy-gauge copper.

Stone Forest
stoneforest.com
PO Box 2840
Santa Fe, NM 87504
(888) 682-2987
Kitchen and bath sinks are handcrafted from blocks of solid granite. The individual character of the stone and the inspiration of the stone cutter make each piece unique.

Susan Hebert Imports
ecobre.com
2018 NW Irving St.
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 248-1111
Copper sinks, handcrafted by artisans who use a centuries-old open bonfire method. Also Mission accessories such as
copper vases and mirrors.

Van Dyke’s Restorers
vandykes.com
PO Box 278
Woonsocket, SD 57385
(800) 558-1234
Give your home period appeal with thousands of items geared toward the vintage home, including copper sinks.

Vermont Art Sinks
vtartsinks.com
9 Walden Drive
Arden, NC 28704
(802) 872-1500
Beautiful, functional art sinks for bath and bar created using time-honored craftsmanship.

Faucets & Fittings

Affordable Antique Bath & More
bathandmore.com
PO Box 444
347 Oak St.
San Andreas, CA 95249
(888) 445-2284
Clawfoot tubs, pedestal sinks, faucets and fittings for bath and kitchen. Also, door and cabinet knobs, and lavatory accessories.

Barber Wilsons & Co. Ltd.
barwil.co.uk
PO Box 1236
Riverhead, NY 11901
(800) 727-6317
True luxury is never a commodity. They make faucets that don’t come back for people who do.

Blanco America
blancoamerica.com
110 Mt. Holly Bypass
Lumberton, NJ 08048
(800) 451-5782
Premium products for kitchen and bar areas, including stainless steel sinks, composite sinks, bar sinks, kitchen and bar faucets, and decorative and custom accessories.

Chicago Faucets
chicagofaucets.com
2100 S. Clearwater Dr.
Des Plaines, IL 60018
(847) 803-5000
Maker of high-grade kitchen and bath faucets. Their solid brass interchangeable components feature a lifetime warranty.

Grohe America
groheamerica.com
241 Covington Dr.
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
(630) 582-7711
European-designed kitchen and bath faucets and shower products.

Rohl Corporation
rohlhome.com
3 Parker
Irvine, CA 92618
(800) 777-9762
Distinctive bath and kitchen collections as well as the Perrin & Rowe line of faucets, plus shower and bath fittings and accessories.

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Arts & Crafts Revival Wallpaper and Paint Products

Arts & Crafts Editor — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:32:41 +0000

ABOVE: Stenciled quotations, in the manner of this period; more at WallWords wallwords.com.

Browse an inspiring and eye-opening list of specialist products and manufacturers to help you decide what to do with your walls and ceilings: wallpaper, paint, metal, plaster, and wood, all suitable for Craftsman-era homes and those of the Arts & Crafts Revival.

Wall & Ceiling Papers

Aesthetic Interiors
aestheticinteriors.com
86 N. Comstock St.
Wabash, IN 46992
(260) 563-4508
Period-correct patterns of art wallpaper from the Arts and Crafts Movement. Custom reproductions from samples.

Architectural Products by Outwater
archpro.com
PO Box 387
Bogota, NJ 07603
(800) 835-4400
Suppliers of Lincrusta and Anaglypta, plus thousands of decorative building products.

Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers
bradbury.com
PO Box 155
Benicia, CA 94510
(707) 746-1900
Hand silk-screened papers in Arts and Crafts designs. Roomsets available, including dadoes, friezes, and ceiling papers.

Burt Wall Papers
burtwallpapers.com
PO Box 1014
Benicia, CA 94510
(707) 745-4207
Hand screen-printed wallpaper, replicating authentic patterns and colors found in your period home or historic buildings.

Carol Mead Designs
carolmead.com
544 N. Camino Alto
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 552-9011
Wallpaper, borders, and friezes in British and American turn-of-the-century patterns. Also offers wall prints and pottery.

Charles Rupert Designs
charlesrupert.com
107-401 Garbally Rd.
Victoria, BC V8T 5M3
Canada
(250) 592-4916
Wallpapers in the English and American Arts and Crafts styles. Also, “stencil burlap” papers for wainscot panels.

Cumberland Woodcraft
cumberlandwoodcraft.com
PO Box 609
Carlisle, PA 17013
(800) 367-1884
They offer many patterns of Anaglypta and Lincrusta.

House Vernacular
housevernacular.com
59 Ontario St.
Honeoye Falls, NY 14472
(585) 469-0908
Authentic wallpaper designs from 1840-1950: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, vintage, and children’s styles.

J.R. Burrows & Co.
burrows.com
PO Box 522
Rockland, MA 02370
(800) 347-1795
Arts and Crafts wallpapers, including those by Wheeler, Voysey, and other designers.

Mason & Wolf Wallpaper
mason-wolf.com
PO Box 6224
Freehold, NJ 07728
(732) 866-0451
Hand-printed reproduction wallpapers in period colors for walls and ceilings. Wallpaper and borders can be combined in a variety of ways.

Morris & Co. by Sanderson
william-morris.co.uk
285 Grand Ave., Bldg. 3
Englewood, NJ 07631
(800) 894-6185
Period-inspired wallcoverings. Wallpapers in the Morris & Co. collection are from original William Morris documents in Sanderson’s extensive archive.

Phillip Jeffries
phillipjeffries.com
311 Rte. 46
Fairfield, NJ 07004
(800) 576-5455
Their yarn-died raffias are ideal for batten-style wainscoting.

Roden Leather Company
rodenleather.com
1725 Crooks Rd., Box 555
Royal Oak, MI 48068
(800) 521-4833
They offer embossed, distressed, and textured leathers suitable for Arts and Crafts wall treatments.

Trustworth Studios
trustworth.com
PO Box 1109
Plymouth, MA 02362
(508) 746-1847
Customized art wallpapers, specializing in designs in the spirit of C.F.A. Voysey.

Wolff House Wallpapers
wolffhousewallpapers.com
133 S. Main St.
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 501-3766
Hand-screened papers in late 19th- and early 20th-century patterns. Custom reproduction of original papers.

Paints & Finishes

AFM Safecoat
safecoatpaint.com
3251 Third Ave.
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 239-0321
Safe, non-polluting building products for your home, your health, and the planet.

American Clay Enterprises
americanclay.com
2601 Karsten Ct. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(866) 404-1634
Unique combinations of clay and natural pigment create colors and textures for walls.

Benjamin Moore Paints
benjaminmoore.com
51 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
Montvale, NJ 07645
(800) 344-0400
Historic Color Collection offers interior and exterior colors suitable for 18th-, 19th-, and early-20th-century homes.

BioShield Paint Co.
bioshieldpaint.com
3215 Rufina St.
Santa Fe, NM 87507
(800) 621-2591
Paints made from naturally occuring clays that come in a range of natural earth tones.

Bungalow Borders
bungalowborders.com
PO Box 357
Phippsburg, ME 04562
(207) 389-2625
Formerly Helen Foster Stencils, this company offers stencils in early 20th-century patterns and Arts and Crafts designs.

C.J. Hurley Century Arts
cjhurley.com
3247 NE Glisan St.
Portland, OR 97232
(503) 234-4167
Unique, historically-inspired custom interiors and gesso panels. Friezes are hand-painted, and exclusive to each client.

Epoch Designs
epochdesigns.com
PO Box 4033
Elwyn, PA 19063
(610) 565-9180
Source for authentic stencils. Styles include Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. Patterns to create entire room sets, including friezes, fills and ceilings.

Fly on the Wall Design
flyonthewalldesign.com
(510) 522-3762
Period painted ceilings and friezes by Berkeley, California artist Lisa Klofkorn.

Sherwin Williams
sherwinwilliams.com
101 Prospect Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 566-2000
Their Preservation Palette features Arts and Crafts, 1920s Jazz Age, ‘30s/‘40s Streamlined, ‘50s Suburban Modern colors.

Trimbelle River Studio & Design
trimbelleriver.com
PO Box 568
Ellsworth, WI 54011
(866) 273-8773
Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco stencils for walls and textiles. Featuring oil-based Paintstiks, which create varied shadings within the designs.

Wall Words
wallwords.com
426 W. Sixth St.
Tustin, CA 92780
(888) 422-6685
Personalize a room by posting your favorite quote on a wall. Easier than stenciling or hand painting.

Paneling / Wainscot / Ceilings

ACP
acpideas.com
PO Box 1581
Appleton, WI 54912
(800) 434-3750
Transform a room with this company’s Evoba wood coffer ceiling system, which combines crafted millwork with easy installation.

Apollo Hardwoods
apollohardwoods.com
PO Box 636
Kane, PA 16735
(814) 331-3559
Wainscoting in traditional and rustic designs. Easy-to-install, patent-pending system is custom-fit to your room.

Bear Creek Lumber
bearcreeklumber.com
PO Box 669
Winthrop, WA 98862
(800) 597-7191
Family-owned company in Washington state specializes in authentic wood paneling and trim in redwood, cedar, Douglas fir and mahogany.

Catskill Woodworking
catskillwoodworking.net
11 Field Ct.
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 339-8029
Their skilled craftspeople create beautiful interior wood wall and ceiling paneling, beadboard, wainscoting, and millwork.

Debey Zito Fine Furniture & Design
artisticlicense.org
55 Bronte St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 648-6861
Makers of custom wood panel systems, and plaster cast carvings to be used as wainscot header or frieze.

Enkeboll Designs
enkeboll.com
16506 Avalon Blvd.
Carson, CA 90746
(800) 745-5507
Architectural ornament in solid wood. New line of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau panels and moulding is available in maple, red oak, and cherry.

Focal Point/Nomaco
focalpointap.com
501 NMC Dr.
Zebulon, NC 27597
(800) 662-5550
Polyurethane mouldings and architectural elements, including the FLW Collection, based on Wright’s masterworks.

Hull Historical Millwork
hullhistorical.com
201 Lipscomb St.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 332-1495
They offer Arts and Crafts-specific mouldings and trim.

Intrig of Ohio
intrig.net
280 Brubaker Dr.
New Carlisle, OH 45344
(800) 797-8757
Raised panel wainscoting milled from 5/8″ MDF and available in up to 12′ sections, making installation a snap.

McCoy Millwork
mccoymillwork.com
342 SE Caruthers St.
Portland, OR 97214
(888) 236-0995
Featuring “Craftsman Series” trim, Plus plate, chair and picture rail components.

Pioneer Millworks
pioneermillworks.com
1180 Commercial Dr.
Farmington, NY 14425
(800) 951-9663
Leading manufacturer of fine millwork, including wainscoting, paneling and trim.

Talarico Hardwoods
talaricohardwoods.com
22 Hardwood Ln.
Mohnton, PA 19540
(610) 775-0400
Offers precision-sawn, tight-grained, old-growth quartered white oak for Craftsman-style paneling.

Windsor One
windsorone.com
PO Box 39
Windsor, CA 95492
(888) 229-7900
High-quality paneling, shelving wainscoting, trim and moulding in Arts and Crafts styles.

The Woodworkers Shoppe
woodworkersshoppe.com
3308 N. Abbe Rd. M-33
Comins, MI 48619
(800) 818-9971
A leader is supplying high-quality, tongue-and-groove paneling in knotty pine.

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Wallpaper, 1901–1945

What to do With the Walls?

Arts & Crafts Editor — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:36:22 +0000

ABOVE: Contemporary revival artist C.J. Hurley created an inspired, hand-painted frieze with personal meaning for owners of a 1912 house.

If you’re reading this, you probably already know something about beadboard in the bathroom and a high wainscot in the dining room, deep wallpaper friezes, and rich Arts & Crafts-era colors. The period itself, however, saw many varied wall and ceiling treatments not always considered in strict “bungalow revival” interiors.

First rule (not always, but often enough): Anything But White! Bungalows and other homes of the period make a virtue of quiet, wood-trimmed, womblike interiors. The front porch filters light from the living room. High oak wainscots and beamed ceilings, not to mention low-wattage light bulbs and amber mica lamps, yield a cozy dimness. Learn to love it. If you fight it by painting the ceiling between beams and the plaster wall above the wainscot bright white, you will ruin the architecture. The room will not be appreciatively brighter. But the wood will now read as very dark indeed in what seems a stark, black-and-white scheme.

Interior design for an Anglo–American A&C house in Massachusetts, by David Berman, Trustworth Studios trustworth.com.

Case in point: The new owners of this splendid old house (ABOVE) inherited white-painted friezes and high-wattage lighting, yet found rooms “oppressively dark.” When designer David Berman told them that mellow colors, carbon-filament light bulbs, and olive-green carpets would bring out the highlights in the woodwork, they were skeptical.

After reading up on the Arts & Crafts movement, though, they hired Berman after all. Wallpaper friezes, lighting, and carpets shown are reproductions. Lamps, artwork, and ceramics are antiques. Furniture and textiles are both old and new.

Before:

The white-painted frieze area and ceiling do nothing for this room except make the beams forebodingly dark.

After:

With a warm golden frieze, now the room exudes the Craftsman spirit.

Now, as promised, other period treatments.
—Patricia Poore

When it comes to decorating walls and ceilings, the Late Victorian and Craftsman periods have been well covered, at least in their revival modes. What of the transitional houses built at the turn of the century, though, and the simpler cottages, and such A&C-influenced houses of the period as Tudors and Spanish Colonials?

Here is what Dan Cooper, design historian and proprietor of Cooper’s Cottage Lace cottagelace.com, has to say about this period of transition:

Queen Victoria died in 1901. But the era didn’t end all at once, despite the growing popularity of the Arts &Crafts Movement. And it would be some time yet before decorators got busy ripping out cornice moldings, and painting walls and ceilings white. The period referred to in England as the Edwardian era (for King Edward VII, who died in 1910) loosely covers the first two decades of the 20th century in America—right up to the First World War. Design influences were many and subtle, and bore trappings of past decades. Wallpapers were still bold and colorful, although the palette had shifted from the muddy tertiary colors of the Aesthetic Movement towards delicate pastels and rich jewel-tones. Olive green became emerald, and the terra cotta and Pompeian reds favored by the Late Victorians were replaced by clear ruby red. There was also more use of blue, a color previously given short shrift.

The highlight of this 1925 Spanish Revival Coral Gables (Florida) dining room is the hand-painted, coffered wood ceiling.

Paint and Papers

You might choose a wallpaper pattern that undulates for a house of this period, as Art Nouveau was whiplashing around Paris; wallpaper was one of the things affected by that movement on these shores. Geometrics were out of style, florals and sinewy lines all the rage. But you, like so many before, may prefer Art Nouveau’s archrival, the Colonial Revival. Patterns in this mode drew inspiration from a previous century but were produced in a smaller scale and with less bold motifs; look for delicate neoclassical patterns.

Still other wallpapers from this era simulate fabric or textured plaster, in a nod to the Arts & Crafts Movement. These were printed on oatmeal ground, a slightly lumpy paper, or they had an overlay print that simulated tapestry or burlap. (Tapestry and oatmeal papers are available again; see listings here.

Paint was also a popular treatment for walls, often applied over textured or troweled plaster, or embellished with pin-striping or moderate stenciling. Ceiling papers still appeared for the first decade of the century, but fell from fashion after the 1920s. Ceiling treatments are, of course, very much in vogue in today’s Arts & Crafts Revival.

The interior of a 1929 English Tudor cottage has been made lush in the style of 1930s Hollywood: texture abounds in troweled walls, velvet fabrics, and fireplace tiles painted in faux tortoise-shell. Note the coved plaster frieze between walls and ceiling.

Coves and Friezes

It was during this time that an interesting trend developed in the treatment of the transition from wall to ceiling. During the Victorian era, the junction between wall and ceiling planes was finished with a molding, whether a built-up crown mold or a simple picture rail. During the Edwardian era, it became fashionable to lower the picture molding anywhere from nine to eighteen inches below the ceiling. This created space for a stenciled or papered frieze. Nevertheless, the plastered top of the walls was usually painted the near-white color of the ceiling. Or it was painted darker, or pinstriped.

There was a vogue for coved ceilings, too, popular in houses of various styles from neoclassical to Tudor or Spanish. A concave arc of plaster formed a seamless transition between wall and ceiling, with no right angle. It might be treated, decoratively speaking, as part of the ceiling or part of the wall, for different effects. The cove might be ornamented with applied plaster in a “wedding cake” manner, often with Adamesque swags and wreaths, and the decoration could carry over to the ceiling.

Later

After the War, there was a sea-change in interiors. Wallpaper was still being printed, but the Arts & Crafts Movement had paved the way for the Romantic Revivals, most notably those of the Tudor and Mediterranean styles, which had been quietly lurking in the cupboard since 1900 and were now sweeping through the suburbs like an architectural brushfire.

Suddenly, it seemed, every wall (and many a ceiling) had been troweled with rough or textured plaster. The idea was to lend a romanticized impression of age and patina to a modern interior. Appropriate textures range from a plain sanded surface to something one might call ‘Volcanic Crater’!

Ceilings were not universally monochromatic in houses of the Romantic Revivals. In fact, highly decorated ceilings with wood coffers, colored stains, and stenciling were used in Mediterranean houses, and Tudor Revivals had heavily beamed or coffered ceilings, or Jacobean plaster ceilings with intricate tracery. Libraries, dining rooms, and halls had painted panels with medieval or Tudor motifs, often with dull blue or Venetian-red accents. It’s rare to find a period example that hasn’t been over-painted. But careful analysis will reveal such treatments. A great place to go for inspiration: the restored lobbies of those grand hotels built during the 1920s.

—Dan Cooper

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What Color?!

Patricia Poore — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:11:43 +0000

A Note from the Editor:

Ceilings in my house were relatively easy: They’d once been covered in beaded boards, in the usual manner of a summer “cottage,” and I let that be my cue. Now they are clad in wide boards milled in fir and finished with orange shellac, like the originals.

Paint and wallpaper were more difficult. In this photo, I was trying to decide what to do in my bedroom, which had been a home office in prior years. The paint chips and fabric samples had been pinned to the walls for quite some time. I’d bought a flat-weave rug in a Morris design, you see, colored red and green. I ordered wallpaper samples, looking for a true green—“an English green” was how I thought about it. But my favored samples looked awful in the room, and the one or two papers that looked good taped to the wall leaned inexplicably toward blue. Frustrated, I brought fistfuls of color cards home from the paint store—chartreuse and apple green, historically muted greens, even creeping up on teal. The rug seemed to reject everything.

About that time I realized I had inadvertently embarked on a complementary color scheme, green and red being opposites on the color wheel. Complementary schemes are harder to get right than monochromatic and analogous schemes. (Analogous schemes use colors contiguous on the wheel; say, red-violet, purple, and deep blue.) My confidence shaken, I put white sheets on the bed while I thought about it. Time passed.

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One rainy day, I pulled out a few color-theory books for inspiration (or for something to copy). “Red and green, good grief,” I thought, trying in vain to apply what I was reading. “What, was I looking for Christmas year-round?” The thing is, there’s nothing remotely Christmasy about the rug . . . . Aha! a discussion of the split complementary—a scheme that uses one color along with the two colors on either side of its complement. Applied to my room, that might mean red with blue-green and yellow-green. I looked at the rug again. Its one red is a somewhat subdued shade tending toward the blue end. The “green,” on closer examination, consists of a deep blue-green ground with ornamentation in various soft blue-greens and yellow-greens.

I saw now that the leftover wall color—a dull bisquey yellow—was actively fighting the rug. And almost instantly, I understood why the bluish papers that “shouldn’t have worked” did—and I had my perfect green wall color.

Patricia Poore, Editor
ppoore@homebuyerpubs.com
10 Harbor Rd., Gloucester, MA 01930

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Wallpaper, 1901–1945

Stuart Stark — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:51:47 +0000

ABOVE: In a new house in Iowa, the foyer is all Arts & Crafts with paneled wainscot and a period pendant frieze from Bradbury & Bradbury bradbury.com. Paul Crosby photo

Wallpaper designs of the Teens and Twenties often lagged behind the high-style Arts & Crafts designs we find fashionable today. Here’s an introduction that includes florals and oatmeal papers, and even the Colonial Revival influence.

Authentic Arts & Crafts room sets featured deep borders, floral accents, and, invariably, stripes. The papers shown were reproduced for a house museum by Bradbury & Bradbury bradbury.com.

In bungalow neighborhoods across North America, restored homes resonate with painstakingly matched furniture, carpets, wallpapers, even breakfast dishes in documentary patterns. But despite the thorough documentation (and reproduction) of Arts & Crafts material culture, the reality was more varied. Families were rarely able to start completely fresh when furnishing a new house, even one as demanding design-wise as a bungalow. Like many of us today, people took their old furniture with them, carting Aesthetic-movement parlor furniture or Renaissance Revival sideboards into a new home. Taste in interior decoration followed, bringing Victorian sensibilities in wallpaper and draperies along with the furniture. Although most period reproduction papers today are hand prints, the originals were almost exclusively mass-market papers, sold at hardware, paint, and wallpaper stores, or by mail order.

An old tapestry paper complements a wainscot in an Arts & Crafts interior.

Thumbing through the old catalogs today, it’s immediately apparent that the offerings for 1907 would have looked quite at home in the 1890s. Dark colors of burgundy and green, sometimes offset with cream grounds, were embellished by swags of roses, and decorated further with metallic inks in gold, bronze, copper, or silver tones. The notion of wallpaper collections of speciﬁc design types had yet to appear. Kitchen papers—including “granite” designs that wouldn’t show dirt and “Sanitary” papers that were pre-varnished for washability—were intermingled with posh parlor papers, or Japanese-inspired cloud design ceiling papers, printed in softly reﬂecting mica inks.

With such a wealth of choices, most homeowners would be guided more by personal choice rather than by designs that matched the style of their home. In other words, a housewife who liked a wallpaper with sprigs of lilac joined with silk ribbons would undoubtedly have triumphantly installed that paper in the bedroom of her bungalow.

ABOVE: Striped papers were anything but drab, as these reproductions from Historic Style (left) historicstyle.com and Bradbury & Bradbury (right) bradbury.com demonstrate.

The heavy Victorian patterns began to fade after 1907, disappearing altogether by 1917. Although we tend to think of the 1910s and ’20s as the heyday of heavily decorated, ﬂoral Arts & Crafts papers, striped papers were far more prevalent. About half of all wallpapers in 1920 offered some sort of stripe, often incorporating small ﬂoral or stylized decorations as part of the design. Creams, browns, and dark greens predominated, but vibrant turquoises, purples, apple greens, greys, and pinks were also common.

Where Victorian wallpaper borders of the 1890s were usually around 8″ or so wide, by 1910, borders had doubled in width, often reaching 18″ or 20″ deep. In older homes, the picture moldings often had to be repositioned in order to accommodate the wider borders. Proportionally, these massive borders and matching sidewall patterns were reserved for the largest rooms in the house: parlors, libraries, halls, or occasionally large-size bedrooms.

Lesser-known A&C wallpapers include solid-color oatmeal papers and the tapestry leaf paper, from Historic Style historicstyle.com.

Manufacturers also popularized several specialty papers that are still available today, including oatmeal (or ingrain) papers, and tapestry papers. Oatmeal papers were made with a wood pulp that was colored before it was rolled into paper, producing a lush, solid-color paper with a velvety ﬁnish. Oatmeal papers were frequently overprinted with Arts & Crafts patterns, and sometimes given “a sparkle from an expensive green bronze wash,” according to one catalog. Due to their rich coloring and printing effects, oatmeal papers were recommended for dens, libraries, halls, and dining rooms. The papers were often used as a ﬁll between the vertical battens of a plaster wainscot, or on the walls above an all-wood wainscot.

Tapestry papers, introduced as early as 1908, simulated the look of fabric on walls. By the 1920s, at the height of their popularity, tapestry papers in patterns of overlaid leaves, grape vines, or other fruit rivaled striped papers for dominance. Like oatmeal papers, tapestry papers were most frequently found in halls, dining rooms, dens, and libraries.

Hand-printed reproductions from Victorian Collectibles’ Brillion Collection victorianwallpaper.com reflect the best of common taste in mass-produced wallpaper.

Even at the height of their popularity—around 1921—Arts and Crafts wallpapers never cornered more than one-third of the market. More often than not, homeowners would simply have picked out papers that they liked. But today, blessed with hindsight, we have the luxury of reaching back and plucking the best history has to offer to complement our houses. Wallpaper reproductions, representing the purest of the historic designs, are more widely available than ever. And you can still select a paper just because you like it.

—Written by Stuart Stark, historian and proprietor of Historic Style historicstyle.com and Charles Rupert Designs in Victoria, British Columbia.

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The Arts & Crafts Ceiling

Brian D. Coleman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:53:43 +0000

ABOVE: A different room proportion—and sense of enclosure—result when the frieze and ceiling are treated similarly, but as separate from the wall treatment. Douglas Keister photo

Most decorators say you should start with the rug, working upwards to coordinate wall color and furnishings. I, on the other hand, prefer to do the opposite.

The ceiling is the largest and least obstructed plane in the room, and it establishes a look. It can be narrow beadboard in a country cabin or a stenciled and papered treatment for a Craftsman home in the city. Once the ceiling is in place, I find it easier to tackle the rest.

A dark, textured ceiling paper covers panels between beams.

Don’t think that all ceilings were plain plaster by this period. Public rooms often had beams—stenciled or with the edge chamfers picked out in color. Spaces between beams might be treated with soft color, a burlap paper, or a border stencil. In other rooms, the ceiling treatment played off the frieze, picking up its colors or repeating a motif. Shellacked and painted beadboard, texture and sand finishes, and ceiling papers were not uncommon:

Beamed ceilings

Public rooms in early-20th-century homes were given the most attention, as these were the rooms visitors would see. Handsome wooden box beams, most of them merely decorative, were often laid across dining room and living room ceilings, adding coziness and dimension and, often, a plan for ceiling lighting. Inset with gilded burlap or perhaps a simple stencil of stylized roses or ginkgo leaves, these ceilings suggested structure and craftsmanship.

Some of us are fortunate to have homes with original box beams intact, but for the rest, modern technology makes it easy and affordable to get the benefits. ACP’s Evoba Wood Ceilings acpideas.com has a straightforward solution with their systems made of grids of wooden panels and beams (available in nearly any finish to match existing woodwork). These can be surface mounted or attached directly to joists or an existing ceiling surface using beam clips, or suspension-mounted using a hanger wire system.

Barron Design Company FauxWoodBeams.com can help you make your own box beams. They supply faux-grained, high-density polyurethane beams as well as the real McCoy: wooden box beams made of reclaimed lumber.

In the Thorsen house by Greene & Greene, the parlor frieze features hand-painting around the wood strapping that wraps to the ceiling, which is lined with canvas.

Painted ceilings

Stenciling is a time-honored way of decorating the space between the box beams, says Amy Miller of Trimbelle River Studio and Design trimbelleriver.com. Typically a rectangle or large panel is left between crossing beams. The outer edge of the panel (4 to 9 inches) might be shadowed in a slightly darker color from the rest of the field. A stencil pattern might appear either in the light center, or in the darker portion near the beam. Also, a medallion was often painted around the ceiling fixture.

For rooms without beams, one large center panel was created by application of a stencil motif around the periphery of the room. Designs were usually stylized motifs based on nature: irises, a Glasgow rose, oak leaves and acorns, or perhaps dragonflies. Colors were often dusty, outdoors hues: the blue-greys and browns of fieldstone, summer-squash yellow or zucchini green. Dining rooms had the most elaborate stencils. Miller explains the ceiling design was frequently based on an architectural element in the room and carried over from frieze and wall patterns.

This trompe-l’oeil treatment, all done in paper, mimics the look of decorated panels between beams. Note the burlap-like texture in the enter panel. Papers are from Bradbury & Bradbury’s bradbury.com first Arts and Crafts collection.

Papered ceilings

While elaborately wallpapered ceilings reached their peak during the Victorian era, many Arts & Crafts homes had papered friezes and even ceilings well into the 20th century. Designs were simpler or more subdued, says Robert Kiefaber of Aesthetic Interiors aestheticinteriors.com. Wide friezes (9 to 22 inches deep) could be found in many homes until the 1920s, and idyllic landscapes of meandering streams or columns of Art Nouveau artichokes lined the room. Complementary ceiling fill papers were common, light in tone and favoring “natural” hues, such as organic limestone and sand colors accented with eggplant purple, earthy amber, and a gentle olive green.

A good rule of thumb for calculating the number of rolls of ceiling paper you will need is to multiple the length of the ceiling by its width, then divide by 30 (rounding up). If you have steady hands and a strong relationship with your spouse or partner, you can save money installing ceiling paper yourself. Go to Bradbury and Bradbury’s Installation Tips: Bradbury.com/paper.html.

Metal ceilings First made after the Civil War to cover cracked plaster, “tin ceilings” have never really gone out of style, remaining an easy ceiling treatment that got a boost in popularity during the Victorian Revival of the 1980s. Embossed metal ceilings were at their peak of use during the ’teens and early ’twenties, the bungalow period. Most often found in service areas, tin ceilings were common in kitchens and pantries, downstairs halls and sometimes bathrooms. W.F. Norman wfnorman.com has been producing stamped metal ceilings since 1898 and still makes most of their original designs and patterns. There are 150 components to choose from—field pattern, molding, filler, and cornice—so most projects today are individually designed. Metal ceilings are straightforward to install, either nailed directly to a thin layer of plywood sheathing or applied to a grid of wood furring strips. You can choose not only the familiar tin-plated steel (which must be primed and painted), but also solid brass and copper, and also galvanized steel, all of which can be painted and finished for various effects or just clear-coated for a more industrial appeal.

If you like the look of vintage ceiling tiles, but installation would be difficult, consider panels from a company called Ceilume ceilume.com. These are 0.03-inch vinyl tiles in classic patterns, and nearly indistinguishable from tin. They are easily glued or stapled to an existing ceiling to be finished in any color or stain. This is a good solution for problem areas and low ceilings such as in a basement.

Decorative treatment with beadboard on the author’s front porch ceiling.

Beaded-board ceilings

This cottage favorite started out as a quick fix of the 19th century—an inexpensive and easily installed finish for informal rooms like kitchens, for porch ceilings, stables, and train stations. Beadboard (aka tongue-and-groove or car siding) was made from scraps of lumber milled with a thin ridge or tongue on one edge and a corresponding groove on the opposite so that adjoining panels could easily be fit together. Beadboard was very common by the turn of the 20th century, often applied to Bungalow walls and ceilings in kitchens, pantries, bathrooms, and halls as well as outside on porches, garages, and even under the eaves.

Beadboard need not be boring. Nantucket Beadboard beadboard.com, for example, offers a range of profiles from curved coves to V-grooves for variety and interest. It can be applied on the diagonal, or in diagonal quadrants with battens, for more visual interest. Available in both sheets and strips, it’s easy to install. Vintage Woodworks vintagewoodworks.com has a helpful calculator: vintagewoodworks.com/beadboardcalc1.html Depending on the wood species (commonly pine or fir), you may choose to stain and seal, or prime and paint your ceiling, or finish it with orange shellac—a wonderful look on fir.

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New Work, Great Style You’ll Love

Arts & Crafts Editor — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:42:43 +0000

Browse a list of manufacturers of period-appropriate doors and windows—including production, semi-custom, and custom work, appropriate for Craftsman-era homes and those of the Arts & Crafts Revival.

Replacement windows in the original style, by Marvin Windows & Doors.

Doors & Windows

Amarr Garage Doors
amarr.com
165 Carriage Ct.
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
(800) 503-DOOR
Overhead, sectional, carriage house-style garage doors built with meticulous detail.

Artisan Glass Works
agwglass.com
1609 Union Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21211
Offers clear, lightly distorted window glass for restoration and repair of original glazing.

Carriage House Door Company
carriagedoor.com
1421 Richards Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95814
(866) 890-1776
Overhead garage doors that offer timeless beauty, authenticity and quality as well as modern function.

Cherry Tree Design
cherrytreedesign.com
320 Pronghorn Tr.
Bozeman, MT 59718
(800) 634-3268
Architectural doors, Shoji screens, and decorative lighting in the Arts and Crafts tradition, hand-crafted in the USA.

Colorado House of Doors
6976 County Rd. 107
Salida, CO 81201
(719) 539-4568
Arts and Crafts and bungalow reproduction wood doors: entry, interior, storm, and screen. In solid oak, mahogany, maple, or ash. Prehung and prefinished available.

Coppa Woodworking
coppawoodworking.com
1231 Paraiso Ave.
San Pedro, CA 90731
(310) 548-4142
125 styles of wood screen doors in pine, Douglas fir, mahogany, and oak. Also custom woodworking and Adirondack furniture.

Craftmaster Interior Doors
cmicompany.com
500 W. Monroe St., Ste. 2010
Chicago. IL 60661
(800) 405-2233
The Crossmore is the only molded door in the industry that replicates the elements of traditional Craftsman architecture.

CraftsmanDoors.com
craftsmandoors.com
PO Box 3397
Renton, WA 98056
(866) 390-1574
Online source for Craftsman, cottage, and bungalow doors, available pre-hung, pre-finished, and delivered to your doorstep.

Designer Doors
designerdoors.com
702 Troy St.
River Falls, WI 54022
(800) 241-0525
Architecturally correct wood overhead garage doors and matching service doors. Doors can be designed to match period elements of a home, or to look like carriage doors that swing, fold, or slide.

Floating World Wood Design
perceptionofdoors.com
144 Biltmore Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 230-0134
They design and craft one-of-a-kind architectural elements like hand-carved doors.

Hahn’s Woodworking Co.
hahnswoodworking.com
181 Meister Ave.
Branchburg, NJ 08876
(908) 722-2742
Aesthetically correct wooden garage doors, carriage house doors, and custom entry doors. Motorized operation.

Heartwood Fine Windows & Doors
heartwoodwindowsanddoors.com
1794 Lyell Ave.
Rochester, NY 14606
(800) 321-8199
Fine custom wood windows and doors for residential and historic applications.

Historic Doors
historicdoors.com
PO Box 139
Kempton, PA 19529
(610) 756-6187
Custom doors and radius woodwork for restoration. Design service includes access to several thousand drawings of doors from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).

International Door & Latch
internationaldoor.com
1455 Westec Dr.
Eugene, OR 97402
(888) 686-3667
Distinctive doors in classic, Craftsman, and bungalow styles with beveled and leaded glass panels. Also sidelights and transoms. Custom configurations.

Jeld-Wen
jeld-wen.com
PO Box 1329
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
(800) 535-3936
Their premium wood Craftsman doors feature clean lines, simple flat panels, squared sticking, and optional shelves for an authentic American look.

Loewen
loewen.com
PO Box 226077
Hwy 52 West
Steinbach, MB R5G 1B2 Canada
(800) 563-9367
Douglas fir windows and doors. Beautiful wood interiors with exterior options including clear finish, primed wood, or 36 extruded aluminum metal clad colors.

Lynden Door
lyndendoor.com
2077 Main St.
Lynden, WA 98264
(800) 631-DOOR
Premium quality architectural wood interior doors. Their portfolio offers design freedom and environmental intelligence.

Madawaska Doors Inc.
madawaska-doors.com
PO Box 850
Bolton, ON L7E 5T5
Canada
(800) 263-2358
Interior and exterior doors. Curve-top, pre-hung units, and custom designs, all made of solid wood.

Mahogany Ridge Craftsman
mrcdoor.com
5000 Mahogany View Tr.
Victor, ID 83455
(208) 354-8049
Fine, custom wood doors, each one made to order by master builder Bob Pfaltz.

The Maine Door Company
mainedoors.com
31A Betty Welch Rd.
York, ME 03909
(866) 379-4265
Makers of carriage house, sliding, swinging, and overhead custom doors. Quality craftsmanship with traditional designs and details.

Marvin Windows & Doors
marvin.com
PO Box 100
Warroad, MN 56763
(888) 537-7828
Their Ultimate Double Hung are perfect for a century-old Bungalow. Standard features include all-wood casing, wood interiors.

Mendocino Doors
mendocinodoors.com
14660 Mitchell Creek Dr.
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
(707) 964-0635
Fine craftsmanship and design are used in the construction of exceptional custom entryways. Visit the online door gallery.

Northwest Door & Sash
northwestdoorandsash.com
303 S. Fifth St., Ste. 120
Springfield, OR 97477
(541) 744-0150
Fine architectural windows and doors made of select, clear vertical grain Douglas fir.

Oakbrook Esser Studios
oakbrookesser.com
129 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
(800) 223-5193
They combine superb craft and the finest materials to create stained and leaded glass masterpieces. See their work online.

Old World Door
oldworlddoor.com
204 Ensenada St.
Bakersfield, CA 93314
(661) 588-7700
Handcrafted doors, custom-made using time honored old-world construction methods.

Pompei & Company
pompeiglass.com
454 High St.
Medford, MA 02155
(781) 395-8867
Known for custom art glass creations, they customize interior and exterior wood doors.

Raynor Garage Door
raynor.com
1101 E. River Rd.
Dixon, IL 61021
(815) 288-1431
Their American Rivers Collection complements the facade of both older homes and newly designed residences.

Real Carriage Door Co.
realcarriagedoors.com
13417 82nd Ave. NW
Gig Harbor, WA 98329
(800) 694-5977
Woodcrafters of traditional swing-out carriage doors, built from Douglas fir. Why buy carriage-style doors when you can have handcrafted real carriage doors?

Summit Door Inc.
summitdoorinc.com
1233 Enterprise Ct.
Corona, CA 92882
(888) SMT-DOOR
Quality design and creation of customized wood sectional garage doors. A variety of wood species, design options, and decorative hardware pieces available.

Theodore Ellison Designs
theodoreellison.com
1248 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94606
(510) 534-7632
Handcrafts leaded glass into period-inspired architectural windows, doors, and lighting in the Arts & Crafts tradition.

Touchstone Woodworks
touchstonewoodworks.com
PO Box 112
Ravenna, OH 44266
(330) 297-1313
Custom screen and storm doors made from Honduran mahogany, with interchangeable screens and tempered glass storms. Wide selection of styles and hardware.

Weather Shield Windows & Doors
weathershield.com
PO Box 309
Medford, WI 54451
(800) 477-6808
Offers an unrivaled line up of both new construction and replacement solutions, including their Legacy series, ProShield windows.

Woodland Windows & Doors
woodlandwindows.com
25 W 355 Lake St.
Roselle, Il 60172
(630) 529-3667
Suppliers and installers of replacement windows and doors to the Chicago area. They also provide entry door restoration.

Woodstone Architectural Windows & Doors
woodstone.com
PO Box 223
Westminster, VT 05158
(800) 682-8223
Makers of fine custom pegged mortise-and-tenon wood windows, doors, and associated millwork.

YesterYear’s Vintage Doors & Millwork
vintagedoors.com
66 S. Main St.
Hammond, NY 13646
(800) 787-2001
Solid wood vintage doors including Victorian screen/storm doors, traditional, French, and Dutch doors.

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Broken Glass

Patricia Poore — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:39:19 +0000

A Note from the Editor:

Hmmm. . . doors and windows, and what they mean to me . . . I reached back a few years, to when my boys were small(ish), to find this letter I’d written on the day the glass broke.

This is about dinnertime in an old house. I am writing this during summer, and I am home. Downstairs my boys are watching TV after dinner, lolling about in damp bathing trunks, having run and swum and skate-boarded and walked the dog. I am finishing up this issue before a family vacation in California. We’re leaving in four days.

“Boys!” I shout down the stairs. “I have to write the page in the magazine with my picture on it. What should I say?” (You never know where inspiration may strike.)

“Mama, tell them about fixing the church!” Peter answers. (My community-service job, research and fundraising for the restoration of the first Universalist Church in America, here in Gloucester, $64,000 just to rent a scaffold, blah blah blah.) I am amazed—Peter has made a connection between Sunday school and Mom’s job.

“Nah, tell ’em about the window,” shouts older brother Will. Aha, tonight’s big excitement. As I cooked dinner, unawares, they were playing a game of chicken involving a thick rubber band and hand balls in ascending degrees of hardness. In the parlor. Then, from my seat in the bathroom, I heard: “Mom?” “MOM?’ “Mommy?!” “WHERE ARE YOU!?”

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The largest pane of glass in the Queen Anne-style front door has a big round hole, radiating cracks. Dangerous shards all over the porch. They were so contrite, I couldn’t get angry . . . you know how you half-expect things like this, with kids.

So much in this house had been torn out or ruined in previous remodelings. But the Queen Anne door was original. The glass, wavy with a greenish cast, was 99 years old. I can get restoration glass to reglaze—but before we go away?

“That glass was a hundred years old,” I say wearily to my friend, come to share iced tea on the patio.

“Hey, that’s pretty good!” she says.

Patricia Poore, Editor
ppoore@homebuyerpubs.com
10 Harbor Rd., Gloucester, MA 01930

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Craftsman Doors Today

Mary Ellen Polson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:04:39 +0000

Missing your original entry door? Many of the “new” Arts & Crafts designs look like they were copied literally from a 1915 builders’ catalog. Good stuff!

Whether taken straight from the pages of an early 20th-century builders’ catalog or personally designed by the likes of Greene and Greene, a solidly built, character-correct entry is usually a key piece in how a bungalow—Ultimate or otherwise—“reads” as Arts & Crafts.

Built by the hundreds of thousands in cities across the country in the ’teens and ’20s, many of these sturdy survivors in oak or other durable woods conform to recognizable patterns. The standard Arts & Crafts door of the era consists of two vertical panels that intersect with a third, horizontal panel at the top of the door, forming a T shape. Because the top panel was often filled with glass, it’s sometimes called a transom. Variations on this signature door include flat (single panel) doors, and Storybook-style doors with arched tops (perhaps with medieval-inspired strap hinges that cross half the door).

Depending on the scale of the house and the desires of the owner or builder, the basic door could be gussied up with glass in many configurations: a single beveled pane; plain or beveled lights divided with muntins (three, six, and eight were most common). To bring more light into the house (Arts & Crafts doors often open directly into the living room), the door might be flanked by sidelights with or without a true transom overhead—the perfect way to showcase leaded art glass in styles from Tiffany to Prairie. Glazing variations were all over the map: panels of leaded or beveled glass covering most of the door surface; a trio of inverted triangles; a series of three narrow, pointed panes of graduated lengths that resemble a doorbell chime.

Details were kept simple, even on entries designed by the Greene brothers, who often added a suggestion of the cloud-lift motif on cross pieces, for instance. The most common flourish on builder-type doors is probably the dentil shelf. A shallow, horizontal strip of wood over a series of small dentils, the dentil shelf is a standard add-on by companies that make reproduction and Arts & Crafts-inspired doors today. Since Arts & Crafts-style doors are a favorite in new construction, these makers are legion; it’s possible to replace a door in the style of the era in traditional quarter-sawn oak or luxury woods like cherry and mahogany, as well as fireproof fiberglass or steel patterned to resemble fine woods. For that reason, replacing a lost door often means choosing a ready-made design that’s in scale with your house, then tweaking it with style markers to taste and budget.

From plain to fancy, doors of the era (these drawings were adapted from old builders’ catalogs) begin with the basic two-panel door with the distinctive T intersection and a single pane of glass at the top. Most doors then and now can be dressed up with divided lights. Accent the transom with art glass, or fill most of the door frame with beveled glass in a typical Prairie Style configuration. Illustrations by Robert Leanna

As with other missing features, look for evidence as to the width and height of the original door around the entry. There may be shadow evidence on floorboards, or even the door frame. Consider, too, whether your home is simple or grand: a higher style Bungalow may be able to support a fancier door with sidelights of leaded or art glass. Homes with high ceilings that extend to the front porch may be candidates for a crowning transom. Even if your dwelling is modest in scale, if it’s low slung with a wide porch, a broad entry with sidelights may very well suit it .

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French Doors Let In the Light

Mary Ellen Polson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:29:09 +0000

Whether they open onto a side porch, visually join two rooms together, or invite you to step out onto the terrace, French doors are a delightful way to move from one space to the next. By their nature — they are, after all, mostly glass — they bring in abundant light.

In a 1915 Arts & Crafts house, recently updated, custom French doors in the bedroom lead to a private balcony. Photo by Linda Svendsen

The first French doors were actually casement windows that stretched from the floor to near ceiling. Louis XIV had 70 of them installed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in the 1680s, where they opened onto the garden. Imagine the sensation they made among the denizens of the French court! Hinged so that each pair met in the middle, the framed casements were glazed from top to bottom with panes of glass in orderly rows of two, held in place by muntins. Less grand iterations have appeared ever since, but the basic form — paired doors with even rows of divided lights — has remained the same.

French doors came into their own around the turn of the 20th century, the height of the bungalow era, when builders’ supply houses began to offer both paired and single doors in stock styles. Because they were so widely available and so versatile, they appear in a variety of houses, from Prairie style and Arts & Crafts to Tudor Revival and Cape Cod.

Like colonnades, French doors are room dividers that allow a sense of privacy and separation without blocking light, a real boon in the modestly sized homes built in the first decades of the 20th century. For that reason, they were used throughout the house: to separate a formal parlor from an entry hall, for instance, or to link two public rooms together, such as adjoining living and dining rooms. Single versions were the doors of choice leading into sunrooms, enclosed porches, and sleeping porches.

French doors used as panels are a great way to get an extra season out of a screened porch. Photo by Eric Roth

Today, we tend to focus on French doors as a means to open up the back of the house to a patio or garden, but glazed doors are still useful anywhere light has trouble reaching: from the kitchen into the laundry room or pantry, for instance, or, with the addition of privacy glass, as a door to a bathroom lacking a window.

Classic swing-in or swing-out doors are still a great way to join rooms, provided you have room for the swing. While you can choose traditional interior French doors with divided lights (or at least the appearance of them) from many companies, the simplest option is a door with a single glass panel. Even here, there are plenty of options: beveled glass, privacy glass in any number of clear or frosted patterns, or art glass in patterns inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright or Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Or perhaps you would prefer a pattern that plays up the architectural lines of your house. At least two manufacturers offer a French door with a simple Prairie-style linear grid; pairs of vertical and horizontal muntins create a pleasing nine-light Prairie pattern.

Doors can be ordered as paired sets or singles; some even slide into the wall, like a retro pocket door. Many of the companies listed below will customize door configurations to match trimwork details you’ve found in your house or another source. Look around a bit first; the door you want may actually be a stock pattern. YesterYear’s Vintage Doors, for example, offers nearly a dozen stock French door styles typically found in early 20th century houses.

New French interior doors by Woodharbor Doors www.woodharbor.com have a period-inspired muntin pattern.

Door manufacturers have moved beyond single-pane glass sliding and casement patio doors to French door look-alikes, some with true divided lights. Exterior door options include the classic casement configuration, or a pair with one fixed and one swinging door. If you want to improve access to the back yard, there are folding door systems that cascade out of the way, creating a wide opening that blurs the difference between indoors and out. The folding door system offered by JELD-WEN is easy to move and capable of reaching across openings as wide as 48 feet. Sometimes called bifold doors, these durable units usually slide out of the way or fold on the outside of the house, so they won’t disturb your interior furnishings

Unlike single-pane French doors that were intended only for interior use, modern offerings typically come with a fleet of energy-saving, weather-beating options that promise years of excellent service, all in a package that will look right at home on the back of a house built a century ago.

—Mary Ellen Polson

Most of these companies offer French, patio, or other glass doors, including some with specialty glass and other options, like privacy glass.

Ambiance Doors ambiancedoors.com
Artistic Doors & Windows artisticdoorsandwindows.com
Beveled Glass Works beveledglassworks.com
Belisle Ancestral Doors & Windows belislewindows.com
Coyle Lumber & Millwork coylelumber.com
Craftmaster Interior Doors cmicompany.com
CraftsmanDoors.com craftsmandoors.com
Designer Doors designerdoors.com
Hahn’s Woodworking Co. hahnswoodworking.com
Heartwood Fine Windows & Doors heartwoodwindowsanddoors.com
Historic Doors historicdoors.com
International Door & Latch internationaldoor.com
Lamson–Taylor Custom Doors lamsontaylor.com
JELD-WEN jeld-wen.com
Kolbe & Kolbe kolbe-kolbe.com
Lynden Door lyndendoor.com
Madawaska Doors madawaska-doors.com
Marvin Windows and Doors marvin.com
Masonite masonite.com
Mendocino Doors mendocinodoors.com
McCoy Millwork mccoymillwork.com
Pinecrest pinecrestinc.com
Select Interior Door selectcustomdoor.com
Simpson Door simpsondoor.com
Sun Mountain Door sunmountaindoor.com
Woodharbor Doors & Cabinetry woodharbor.com
Woodport Interior Doors teamowensinc.com
Woodstone Architectural Windows and Doors woodstone.com
Yarrow Sash & Door Co. yarrow.mb.ca
Yesteryear’s Vintage Doors & Millwork vintagedoors.com

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Making an Entrance

Patricia Poore — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:21:20 +0000

The front door (and any door that welcomes you home) is a big part of curb appeal and an important design statement.

It should be appropriate to the period and style of your house, and to the house’s degree of formality. (Garage doors, too, are now available to enhance your Craftsman Bungalow or Tudor Revival.)

Nicely framed, a doorway on a new house in Durango, Colo., lends a warm welcome. Photo by Peter J. Campbell

On another house of the Arts & Crafts Revival, this one in Flagstaff, Arizona, a lovely Southwestern arch is a recurrent motif, both at the entry and on interior doorways and windows. Photos by Tim Fuller

A bungalow like many others, this one in Marin County, Cal. No detail was overlooked in its meticulous restoration, which included some improvements to the entry. Photos by Douglas Keister

Garage Door Styles

Garage doors suited to a bungalow, a Norman Revival cottage, and a Foursquare, from Clopay www.clopaydoor.com, Designer Doors www.designerdoors.com, and JeldWen www.jeld-wen.com, respectively.

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Summer 2010

Arts & Crafts Editor — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:38:25 +0000

Here’s a preview of what’s inside of the Summer 2010 issue of Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival:

Purchase this Issue

IN THE MAGAZINE:

Restoration
At Byrdcliffe, A Home
The cottage called Avanti, privately owned, allows a rare glimpse of life and architecture at the famed arts colony. by Neil Larson | photographs by Gross & Daley

New Work
An Arts & Crafts Kitchen
For a 1912 house in San Francisco, an amateur chef designs a convenient kitchen behind period elements. by Mark Thomas | photographs by Mats Bodin

Outside
Cross Fertilization
The garden at the Cross Estate was inspired by English Renaissance gardens, derived from medieval models. by Deirdre Larkin | photographs by Gross & Daley

Details
Roofing for Style
Nothing caps a bungalow (or a Storybook, Mission, or Cotswold house) like a complementary roof. by Brian D. Coleman

Architecture
Stucco Types
In the era of Arts & Crafts, stucco was common and not necessarily a style indicator. by Patricia Poore

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Storybook and Classic Shutters

Shutters and exterior blinds are often associated with earlier periods; they’re prevalent on Cape Cods and Greek Revivals and romantic Victorian homes. During the Arts & Crafts period, shutters were used on some bungalow variants. They were standard, too, on the cottage and revival homes of the same period, especially Dutch Colonials and Storybook houses. If you are going to use them, keep these tips in mind.

What a Difference Millwork Makes!

Check out a dramatic before-and-after conversion, plus a new porch and pergola, a kitchen and bath—and more of our favorite millwork details.

Millwork and Shutter Products You’ll Love

Browse a selective list of specialist manufacturers of interior and exterior millwork—including moldings, porch parts, wainscots and panels, columns and posts, wood mantels and wood stairs. Also here: a comprehensive source list for traditional exterior shutters and shutter–blinds.

Art + Craft

See these great products featured in this month’s issue. From furniture to finishing hardware, we highlight items that you will love to see in your home.

Calendar of Events

Check for upcoming Arts & Crafts events coming to an area near you. Have an event that isn’t posted? Be sure to submit to our editors here!.

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Millwork and Shutter Products You’ll Love

Arts & Crafts Editor — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:51:57 +0000

Browse a selective list of specialist manufacturers of interior and exterior millwork—including moldings, porch parts, wainscots and panels, columns and posts, wood mantels and wood stairs. Also here: a comprehensive source list for traditional exterior shutters and shutter–blinds.

ABOVE: Stairways, Inc. Millwork

Millwork

Architectural Products by Outwater
archpro.com
PO Box 387
Bogota, NJ 07603
(800) 835-4400
40,000+ decorative building items, including columns in wood, fiberglass, aluminum or polyurethane.

Bear Creek Lumber
bearcreeklumber.com
PO Box 669
Winthrop, WA 98862
(800) 597-7191
Family-owned company located in north central Washington state specializes in top-quality, hard-to-find lumber materials.

Chadsworth’s
1-800-COLUMNS
columns.com
277 N. Front St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
(800) 486-2118
Columns, pillars, pilasters, and posts for interior and exterior applications. Plain and fluted, in wood, Poly Stone™, and fiberglass.

Coyle Lumber & Millwork
coylelumber.com
231 E. Old York Rd.
Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 243-4124
Manufacturers of high quality, solid wood architectural millwork. Nationwide shipping.

Decorator’s Supply Co.
decoratorssupply.com
3610 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60609
(773) 847-6300
Traditional fireplace mantels, mouldings (in hand-cast plaster, hardwood, and thousands of composition mouldings) and historically accurate capitals and brackets.

Hull Historical Millwork

Hull Historical Millwork
hullhistorical.com
201 Lipscomb St.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 332-1495
Over 350 mouldings 1870-1940, including all of the important American home styles, including Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts.

Kennebec Company
kennebeccompany.com
1 Front St.
Bath, ME 04530
(207) 443-2131
Period-inspired cabinetry for the library, including mantels and built-ins. Custom designed and built, serving clients nationwide.

Materials Unlimited
materialsunlimited.com
2 W. Michigan Ave.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(800) 299-9462
Architectural salvage: mantels, doors, hardware, lighting, leaded glass, columns, building ornamentation, iron gates and fencing.

McCoy Millwork (ABOVE)
mccoymillwork.com
342 SE Caruthers St.
Portland, OR 97214
(888) 236-0995
They stock mouldings in hard-to-find vintage patterns. Also custom stair parts, mantels, corbels, porch rails, columns, and more.

PacificColumns.com
polyclassiccolumns.com
1040 S. Melrose
Placentia, CA 92870
(800) 294-1098
Hardwood and fiberglass columns, balustrading, wainscoting, and other fine architectural products.

Stairways Inc.
stairwaysinc.com
4166 Pinemont
Houston, TX 77018
(713) 680-3110
Family-owned company focuses on the design and manufacture of wood spiral stairs.

Talarico Hardwoods
talaricohardwoods.com
22 Hardwood Ln.
Mohnton, PA 19540
(610) 775-0400
Selection of precision-sawn, tight-grained, old-growth quartered white oak for Mission furniture.

Tendura
tendura.com
1220 S. Brundidge St.
Troy, AL 36081
(800) 836-3872
Traditional tongue-and-groove porches without the splintering of fir. The warmth of wood with the durability of plastic in a material made to last a lifetime.

Turncraft Millwork

Turncraft Architectural
turncraft.com
PO Box 2429
White City, OR 97503
(800) 423-3311
Interior and exterior wood columns and porch posts, and oak and hemlock stair components.

Shutters

Atlantic Premium Shutters
atlanticpremiumshutters.com
29797 Beck Rd.
Wixom, MI 48393
(866) 288-2726
Shutters designed to deliver enduring beauty and detail. Lifetime structural warranty and 15-year finish warranty.

Copper Moon Woodworks
coppermoonwoodworks.com
528 N. 26th St.
Allentown, PA 18104
(610) 434-8740
Unique window shutters in ten designs, all constructed of solid mahogany, detailed with pewter, copper and forged hardware.

Kestrel Shutters & Doors
diyshutters.com
9 E. Race St.
Stowe, PA 19464
(800) 494-4321
Wood shutters with pegged mortise-and-tenon joints. Many panel profiles and cut-out motifs.

Shutter Depot
shutterdepot.com
950 N. Talbotton Rd.
Greenville, GA 30222
(706) 672-1214
Plantation-style moveable louver, interior/exterior, fixed louver, and raised-panel shutters.

Shuttercraft Shutters

Shuttercraft
shuttercraft.com
15 Orchard Park
Madison, CT 06443
(203) 245-2608
Wood shutters for exterior and interior in red cedar, basswood, poplar, and red oak. Endless cut-out designs, full painting services, and hardware options.

Shutterstile, LLC shutters

Shutterstile, LLC
Shutterstile.com
13054 Kings Hwy
Montross, VA 22520
(804) 493-1111
Custom window shutters that offer traditional handcrafted construction with decorative tile accents.

Timberlane Woodcrafters
timberlane.com
197 Wissahickon Ave.
North Wales, PA 19454
(800) 250-2221
Exterior and interior shutters and authentic reproduction shutter hardware.

Mantels & Staircases

Adams Stair Works
adamsstair.com
1083 S. Corporate Cir.
Grayslake, IL 60030
(847) 223-1177
Standard staircases, plus custom designs and historic reproductions, including Arts and Crafts and Prairie styles.

Arcways
arcways.com
PO Box 763
Neenah, WI 54597
(800) 558-5096
Impeccable custom curved and spiral staircases, pre-assembled and delivered across America and Canada.

Decorator’s Supply Co.
decoratorssupply.com
3610 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60609
(800) 792-2093
Traditional mantels, mouldings (in plaster, hardwood, and composition) and historically accurate capitals and brackets.

Goddard Manufacturing
spiral-staircases.com
PO Box 502
Logan, KS 67646
(800) 536-4341
Small, friendly company that custom-builds spiral stairs to customer’s specifications.

Kinzel wood Products
kinzelwoodproducts.com
1825 S. 30th St.
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(866) 683-2025
High quality wood stair parts, proudly made in the USA.

Mitchell Andrus Studios

Mitchell Andrus Studios
missionfurnishings.com
68 Central Ave.
Stirling, NJ 07980
(908) 647-7442
New mantels designed in the Arts and Crafts vocabulary. Mantels made to order to fit your space and style.

Steptoe & Wife Antiques
steptoewife.com
90 Tycos Dr.
Toronto, ON M6B 1V9
(800) 461-0060
Cast-iron spiral and straight staircases and custom ornamental metal products such as railings, gates, and stair treads.

York Spiral Stair
yorkspiralstair.com
720 Main Street
Vassalboro, Maine 04989
(207) 872-5558
Double helix spiral stairs and wooden spiral staircases.

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A Hearty Welcome

Arts & Crafts Editor — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:41:51 +0000

Greet visitors with the old oak “Welcome” tile by Laura Reutter. The hand-pressed 75⁄8″ square tile is 1⁄2″ thick and is fired to a stoneware temperature, so it won’t crack in the cold. It costs $60. From Fair Oak Workshops, (800) 341-0597, fairoak.com

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Copper Pods in Relief

Arts & Crafts Editor — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:39:22 +0000

Patterned after a Stickley “sea pod” design from the first decade of the 20th century, this Roycroft Master Artisan-made charger in hand-hammered copper measures 24″ wide. The plate well is 1″ deep. The special-order piece retails for about $1,500. From Robert J. Trout Metalsmithing, (585) 265-2339, metalsmith1@rochester.rr.com

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