Exteriors
Gardens | Millwork & Shutters | Roofing & Siding | Windows & Doors
Each Arts & Crafts home has its own unique style, and nothing defines it more than the exterior. Browse through exterior ideas for specific styles of gardens, millwork, shutters, paint, roofing, siding, windows and doors.
Arts & Crafts-Era Shutters
During the Arts & Crafts period, storybook and classic shutters were used on some bungalows, and were standard on cottages, too.
What’s New in Garage Doors: High Tech Comes in Period Styles
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.
Garage Doors: Your Design Options
If you’re going to build a new garage, make the most of it!
EFFICIENT WINDOWS: storms and interior panels
Thinking about adding storm windows, outside or as interior panels?
Bones of the Winter Garden
A strong underlying architecture is important when the garden goes minimalist for the winter.

Arts & Crafts Exterior Products: Roofing & Siding
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.
Visiting Mara’s Garden
In the autumn, the glowing colors and strong geometry of an Arts & Crafts garden come into their own, accented by compatible containers.
Follow the Clinker Brick Road
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.
Porch Upkeep Tips
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.
Sprucing Up a Bungalow Backyard
A modest yard is reimagined as garden rooms with verdant space for lounging, eating, even hanging out in a hot tub.
No Stone Left Unturned
Perched above an abandoned granite quarry, this garden has rock sculptures and perennials, vegetables and a place to meditate.
Exterior Color Schemes
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.
Revival Woodwork
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.
Sources for Windows & Doors
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.
Garage Design & Garage Doors
Many bungalows would be overwhelmed by a large addition or outbuilding. Compatible design is about solving problems and keeping harmony with period style.
Light in the Landscape
You can extend the Arts & Crafts lighting ambiance to the porch, garden paths, the garage, and the garden.
Arts & Crafts Garages
New designs for Arts & Crafts garages. It's all in the fine details.
Structures to Enrich the Garden
The pergola, arbor, and trellis merge indoors and out in the Arts & Crafts garden.
Garden on the Bay: Cascading Movement & Focal Points
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).
An English Garden in Montgomery
A landscape designer imagines boxwood and favorite cottage flowers in an English garden created for a Tudor Revival house in Montgomery, Alabama.
Naumkeag Gardens
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?