Arts & Crafts Homes Winter 2013

Untouched and unusable, a kitchen in Portland, Oregon, is sympathetically remodeled with elements of the 1910s.

The bungalow and then the California ranch helped popularize indoor–outdoor living, which included cooking en plein air. Fire remains a coveted element, whether it’s flaring in the grille, making embers in a stone “barbecue” of the 1950s, or warming the evening in an outdoor hearth.

A Santa Barbara native rescues a bungalow built in 1919, adding period woodwork to the interior.

This new interior for a recent house is a pleasing example of interpretive design: using the Arts & Crafts philosophy not to re-create the past, but in a contemporary twist on the revival.