Exteriors

Everything you wanted to know about bungalow–chalet gable trim.

Play up quality, period style, and architectural interest in all your home's exterior with these hardware options.

This is the message that the preservation community should be sending to period homeowners across our nation. The energy crunch has resulted in the loss of valuable windows.

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.

Love has grown fonder, greener, and more creative between this homeowner and the old house she calls home.

Thinking about adding storm windows, outside or as interior panels?

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Sitting Pretty

During the Arts & Crafts period, storybook and classic shutters were used on some bungalows, and were standard on cottages, too.

Who knew? Carriage-house doors you’d swear were 100 years old roll up at the touch of a button. Garage doors made of composite and steel look as authentic as real wood.

If you’re going to build a new garage, make the most of it!

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.