Books for Bungalow owners, recommended by the editors
Do a search at amazon.com and you’ll see there are dozens of books about Bungalows and the American Arts & Crafts movement.
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Some of the now-classics are out of print but you can always find a used copy. Here is a basic library for owners of Bungalows old and new:
• The Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Home by Paul Duchscherer; Penguin Studio 1995
• Inside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Interior by Paul Duchscherer; Penguin Studio 1997
• Outside the Bungalow, America’s Arts and Crafts Garden by Paul Duchscherer, photos by Douglas Keister; Penguin 1999
• Bungalow Kitchens by Jane Powell, photos by Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2000
• Bungalow Bathrooms by Jane Powell, photos by Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2001
• Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts and Crafts Home by Jane Powell, photos by Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2004
• Bungalow Details: Exterior by Jane Powell, photos by Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2005
• Bungalow Details: Interior by Jane Powell, photos by Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2006
• Bungalow Nation by Diane Maddex and Alexander Vertikoff; Abrams 2003
• American Bungalow Style by Robert Winter; Simon & Schuster 1996
• Bungalow Colors: Exteriors by Robert Schweitzer; Gibbs Smith 2002
More on decorating and furnishing your Bungalow:
• The Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts by Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto; Gibbs Smith 1996 and 2004
• American Arts & Crafts Textiles by Dianne Ayres et als; Abrams 2002
• Arts & Crafts Textiles by Ann Wallace; Gibbs Smith 1999
• Arts and Crafts Furniture by Kevin P. Rodel and Jonathan Binzen, Taunton Press 2004
• Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture by Bruce Johnson; Popular Woodworking Books 2009
• Craftsman Style by Robert Winter; Simon & Schuster 2004
• Gustav Stickley by David Cathers; Phaidon 2003
To see Prairie School domestic interiors:
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses by Alan Hess et al; Rizzoli 2006
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Interiors by Thomas A. Heinz; Gramercy Books
• Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses by Alan Hess et al; Rizzoli 2005 [note : important book is oversized and heavy]
• Purcell & Elmslie, Prairie Progressive by David Gebhard; Gibbs Smith 2006
Bungalows newly built or renovated:
• Bungalow Plans by Gladu and Gladu; Gibbs Smith 2002
• Small Bungalows by Christian Gladu and Ross Chandler; Gibbs Smith 2007
• The New Bungalow by Bialecki and Gladu; Gibbs Smith 2001
• The New Bungalow Kitchen by Peter Labau; Taunton Press 2007
• Bungalow Style: Creating Classic Interiors in Your Arts & Crafts Home by Treena Crochet; Taunton Press 2004
• Updating Classic America: Bungalows, Design Ideas for Renovating…and Building New by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman; Taunton Press 2002
Scholarly histories of Bungalow architecture:
• The Bungalow by Anthony D. King; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1984
• The American Bungalow by Clay Lancaster; Abbeville Press 1985
Patricia Poore is Editor-in-chief of Old House Journal and Arts & Crafts Homes, as well as editorial director at Active Interest Media’s Home Group, overseeing New Old House, Traditional Building, and special-interest publications.
Poore joined Old House Journal when it was a Brooklyn-brownstoner newsletter in the late 1970s. She became owner and publisher and, except for the years 2002–2013, has been its editor. Poore founded the magazines Old-House Interiors (1995–2013) and Early Homes (2004–2017); their content is now available online and folded into Old-House Journal’s wider coverage. Poore also created GARBAGE magazine (1989–1994), the first unaffiliated environmental consumer magazine.
Poore has participated, hands-on, in several restorations, including her own homes: a 1911 brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and a 1904 Tudor–Shingle Style house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she brought up her boys and their wonderful dogs.
