Patricia Poore
Arts & Crafts Styles: Satisfying Nonconformity
Editor's letter, Arts & Crafts Homes Spring 2017 edition
Kitchen Hardware
Hardware can be a big deal in the kitchen, or fade into the background. Quality products are available in every style and era, and in many metals and finishes.
Concealing Kitchen Appliances
The Literal camp tries to conceal technology. The Interpretative approach acknowledges the microwave oven and the dishwasher.
Bungalow Windows
Bays and bump-outs, Prairie glass and diamond panes and cloud-lift muntins: artistic Arts & Crafts windows.
Smart House Renovation for the Next Hundred Years
This project embraces both long-lived materials and “smart house” features.
Bungalow Gables
There’s just no label, or precedence, for some of the gable ornaments and trim dreamed up by carpenters of the Arts & Crafts era.
Motifs of the Revival: The Dragonfly
The free and colorful dragonfly is popular in today's A&C revival.
Celebrating Artistic License
Collaboration is alive and well in the revival of Arts and Crafts. This installation for a client in Santa Rosa was conceived by Debey Zito, who designed and built the fireplace woodwork, the light fixture, and the chair (with a copper falcon inlaid in the side panel). Her partner Terry Schmitt did the carving.
Dazzling Tile for Art Deco Baths
Bungalow bathrooms before 1920 were of the “sanitary white” persuasion. Not so in the bathrooms built after the mid-1920s!
Exterior Paint Schemes for Foursquares
Proper placement of color breaks will restore your Foursquare's architectural integrity.