For the trip of a lifetime, go to Elaine Hirschl Ellis and Gail Anderson Ettinger at Arts & Crafts Tours.

Inspired by the English Arts & Crafts style of a home in the first Hobbit movie, homeowners Jerry and Julie Gordon transformed an ugly pink tract home into an artisan-made bungalow.

Handsome and restrained describes a beautifully detailed, brand-new manor on the San Francisco peninsula. Malick & Associates designed the house with a nod to the groundbreaking and still-fresh work of English Arts & Crafts reformers Philip Webb, C.F.A. Voysey, et al.