House Styles

With an artist’s eye and a sympathetic palette for rooms inside, Gwen Jones fine-tunes a handsome 1916 house.

A smitten owner brings the Arts & Crafts aesthetic to a 1921 bungalow—looking past tilting porch piers and baby-blue woodwork!

American Arts & Crafts and its revival merge with Modernism in this new home in Ohio. Conservation and sustainability were priorities, as well.

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.

An artistic couple rescue a good old house from a rude 1960s modernization, bringing back fir woodwork and built-ins, then furnishing with antiques.

The word "Craftsman" is often used in reference to American Arts & Crafts style. A Craftsman Home, though, is something more defined.

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.