Spec’ing new cabinets for your kitchen renovation? Several approaches and designs date to the first third of the 20th century. Here’s advice from architects and cabinetmakers.

Suggestions for period-inspired cabinets, fixtures and materials for walls and floors.

The details of this Arts & Crafts kitchen make the room shine.

Browse an inspiring and eye-opening list of specialist products and manufacturers to help you design, outfit, and finish your kitchen—whether you’re restoring a period bungalow or dreaming of a multi-function room for your Craftsman Revival house.

Putting a sympathetic new kitchen into a bungalow is easier than remodeling a colonial or Victorian one. Even if you splurge on hardware and lighting, a true “period” kitchen is an easy and affordable room to re-create.

Thoughtful design using beautiful, traditional, natural materials—cherry, clay and stone, mica and fir—created a room that complements, but does not copy, the well-preserved, historic house. Cabinet joinery, art tiles, and lamp are fitting examples of today’s artisanry.

A new addition at the rear of the modest Prairie house provides space for a serious kitchen, a bath and pantry—and a period-style fireplace inglenook.

Cued by childhood memories, homeowners in Portland, Oregon, got expert help to re-create a more authentic kitchen in their 1914 Bungalow. With a pantry and restored gas stove, it’s also a practical room.

Yes, it’s a bungalow kitchen, but colorful rather than sanitary-white. A playful new checkerboard floor joins the ruddy beauty of original cabinets in Douglas fir.

Ten years or more have passed since the Arts & Crafts Revival introduced handsome, practical new kitchens based on those of the first quarter of the 20th century. Here are the elements and designs that inspire us today.