House Styles

An Easterner discovers California’s allure as she restores a modest home with very nice details and ample open space for living and enjoying the outdoors.

Amidst newly planted gardens that offer views of the bay and mountains, a charming 1915 bungalow of seven gables is restored with regard for history.

Icons of Arts & Crafts Architecture

Remodeled in a grand California Arts & Crafts idiom, the late-20th-century house fell into disrepair before it was restored with finesse.

Their house isn’t big, even with an upstairs rear addition. But with a pleasing plan and period details, it has been a charming bungalow home.

With a good eye, this couple made a tiny Santa Barbara bungalow a thing of beauty.

The American version of Arts & Crafts was simpler than the European movements, emphasizing wood tones and earthy materials and colors.

The homeowner was destined to rescue this 1913 Arts & Crafts house. The hard work took eight years; the result is a home perfect for her.

A fabulous collection of period art pottery, antique furnishings—and new rugs in the Arts & Crafts tradition—lend a pedigree to a new house.

An oddball 1984 Oregon ranch is remade as a stunning California Bungalow, its woodwork details inspired by the owners’ trip to Pasadena’s most famous houses.

Inspired by Greene and Greene, fine woodwork in mahogany enhances an elegantly rustic timber-frame house in the woods.

A 1926 Spanish bungalow garden with a desert in bloom.

Brent Hull discusses the Arts and Crafts movement, a revolution that embraces simple and honest architecture, as he explores a bungalow house in Texas' Fairmount Historic District.

Tradition runs strong on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka: the new house had to look like it was built in 1910.

Restoration veterans saw beyond fake siding and popcorn ceilings to the inherent charm of this rural bungalow.

Like today’s revival, Arts & Crafts was an international movement involving multiple approaches and varied design. Here's how to distinguish them all.

Framed by a stepped arch, this gem of a kitchen stars in the sensitive renovation of a 1920s bungalow.

The Arts & Crafts community, its architecture and its output, continue to inspire.

Pleasingly understated design and fine woodworking belie the expert engineering that went into this new house on the Oregon coast.

A 1914 Craftsman house is restored with sensitivity.

Along the rugged Oregon coast, a house grows out of the boulders: new work in the Arts & Crafts spirit, led by a woodworker turned builder.

Along with a discerning use of salvage, homeowners in Pasadena relied on research and keen observation of the house to bring back a modest bungalow.

The Mission Revival architectural style was one result of a preservation movement that began in the 1880s.