Millwork and Shutters
Explore ideas for exterior millwork and shutters for the Arts & Crafts home including porches, gable trim, awnings and more.
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Arts & Crafts-Era Shutters
During the Arts & Crafts period, storybook and classic shutters were used on some bungalows, and were standard on cottages, too.
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.
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.
Furniture for the Porch
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.
A Porch Long Missing
Missing, perhaps, from the time the house was built, the should-have-been shingled Foursquare porch now completes the home.
From the Archive: The Porch Swing
Curtis Porchwork General Millwork Catalog Clinton, Iowa, 1914

Worthington
Worthington Millwork provides incomparable selections of columns, balusters, molding, ceiling medallions, niches, window heads, pediments pilasters, louvers and many other architectural details.
Artful Cuts: Gable Trim
Everything you wanted to know about bungalow–chalet gable trim.
The Practical Appeal of Window Awnings
Arts & Crafts-style awnings are an instant dose of old-fashioned.
Exterior Millwork Sources
These companies make period-inspired products including columns, porch systems, architectural elements, shutters, and other exterior millwork suitable for Bungalows, Craftsman houses, Tudors, and houses of the Revival.
Window Shutter Classics - start exploring the beauty!
When you think of period shutters and exterior blinds, you probably associate them with Cape Cods, farmhouses, even Victorians. The typical Arts & Crafts Bungalow or Midwest Prairie house has windows grouped horizontally, with large mullions—not the configuration for symmetrical shutters. Nothing can bring more value to your home then updating your curb appeal with beautiful exterior shutters.
Elements of a Porch
With the popular old-house restoration movement is in its fourth decade, manufacturers are creating traditional millwork elements from high tech materials, and engineering better systems.
Millwork and Shutter Products
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.
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 Arts & Crafts millwork details.