Exteriors

A strong underlying architecture is important when the garden goes minimalist for the winter.

The following companies, selected by the editors of Arts & Crafts Homes, offer period-friendly roofing and siding for Arts & Crafts lovers who are contemplating a big project, whether that’s major restoration or a brand-new house.

In the autumn, the glowing colors and strong geometry of an Arts & Crafts garden come into their own, accented by compatible containers.

Spreading like molten peanut brittle, a playful clinker brick wall ties a rear garden to a stunning and dramatic newly built Greene & Greene-style home.

Arts & Crafts exterior millwork—wood that can rot—needs maintenance and occasional replacement. If this summer’s projects include a punky porch, you’ll appreciate these guidelines.

How one couple created a beautiful Arts & Crafts garden.

A 1926 Spanish bungalow garden with a desert in bloom.

A modest yard is reimagined as garden rooms with verdant space for lounging, eating, even hanging out in a hot tub.

Perched above an abandoned granite quarry, this garden has rock sculptures and perennials, vegetables and a place to meditate.

The concept of “architectural colors” involves selecting, then placing, appropriate colors to reveal and enhance the logic of a building. Here are one expert’s suggestions for pleasing, historical color schemes.

Some new projects around the country illustrate how the use of revival millwork elements and period details lend scale, quality, and style to a porch, a house, or a backyard structure.

This Expo is an exclusive list of contemporary manufacturers of doors and windows compatible with houses in the bungalow and Craftsman styles, as well as Shingle Style houses, Tudors, English Arts & Crafts styles, Spanish Revival houses, and for new buildings of the Arts & Crafts Revival.

Many bungalows would be overwhelmed by a large addition or outbuilding. Compatible design is about solving problems and keeping harmony with period style.

You can extend the Arts & Crafts lighting ambiance to the porch, garden paths, the garage, and the garden.

New designs for Arts & Crafts garages. It's all in the fine details.

The pergola, arbor, and trellis merge indoors and out in the Arts & Crafts garden.

Belvedere Island is situated between Sausalito and Tiburon on San Francisco Bay. This house was built as an open-air retreat in 1912 by Dr. Florence Nightingale Ward, the pioneering physician and close friend of architect Julia Morgan (who may have contributed to its design).

A landscape designer imagines boxwood and favorite cottage flowers in an English garden created for a Tudor Revival house in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Naumkeag gardens designed by Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele for Charles McKim’s Shingle Style icon recently were restored. Why not learn from the best?

Artisan woodworker Doug Christie does doors.

Around the year 1900, Americans began to spend more time outdoors—flocking to the seashore, rusticating in the mountains and at the lake, venturing to the new National Parks out West. Closer to home, they relaxed on their porch furniture.

Missing, perhaps, from the time the house was built, the should-have-been shingled Foursquare porch now completes the home.

Curtis Porchwork General Millwork Catalog Clinton, Iowa, 1914