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Look for nature and vernacular expression in the architecture and design of the Arts & Crafts bungalow.
A bungalow nestles into its site, depression and spreading. It was inevitable that the grade would exist embraced by tastemakers and builders of the Arts & Crafts movement. The architects Greene and Greene in California called their millionaires' chalets bungalows. Gustav Stickley sang their praises in this magazine The Craftsman. Dozens of programme books betwixt 1909 and 1925 promoted "artistic bungalows." Only later, with the ascendancy of a center-class Colonial Revival, did Arts & Crafts ideals lose favor; eventually, "bungalow" become a derogatory characterization.
While almost ofttimes made of forest, bungalows comprise local materials and vernacular building traditions.
Douglas Keister
The Gamble Business firm in Pasadena by architects Greene & Greene is one of their "Ultimate Bungalows."
Douglas Keister
A typical architect's semi-bungalow with such artistic details as knee-braces under overhanging eaves, exposed rafter tails decoratively sawn, and dilapidated posts on piers.
Douglas Keister
The bungalow as a house form has shut ties to the Arts & Crafts motion—and an even stronger affinity today, equally thousands of bungalows, some quite pocket-sized, are snatched up to exist interpreted in a mode that's often across the tastes and budgets of the original owners.
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Hallmarks of the Arts & Crafts Bungalow
Illustrations by Rob Leanna
Indigenous Materials
INDIGENOUS MATERIALS
An artistic use of such materials as river stone, dissidence brick, quarried stone, shingles, and stucco is common.
Artistic NATURALISM
About bungalows are depression and spreading, not more than a story-and-a-one-half tall, with porches, lord's day porches, pergolas and patios tying them to the outdoors. The A&C bungalow follows an informal artful; it is a house without potent allusions to formal English or classical precedents.
Emphasis on Structure
EMPHASIS ON Construction
Look for artistic exaggeration in columns, posts, eaves brackets, lintels, and rafters. Inside, too, you'll discover ceiling beams, chunky window trim, and wide paneled doors. Horizontal elements are stressed.
Exotic Influences
EXOTIC INFLUENCES
These appeared in builders' houses and the pages of style books and magazines: stick ornament in the manner of Swiss Chalets; Spanish or Moorish arches and tilework; and orientalism, especially Japanesque.
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Bungalow Variants
Photos past Douglas Keister
Period bungalows can be quite evidently piddling houses. Some nod to other styles including English Tudor, Prairie School, and, anachronistically, Colonial.
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Within the Bungalow
The typical bungalow interior, at least as it was presented in the house books of the period, is easy to recognize. Basically, the bungalow interior was a Craftsman interior.
Typical interior in a 1916 bungalow in New York State; annotation the colonnade betwixt rooms, the open plan, the elementary lines, and the use of unpainted woods.
Dan Mayer
In a consummate divergence from Victorian interior decoration, bungalow writers frowned on the display of wealth and costly collectibles. Rather than buying objects of obvious or ascribed value, the homeowner was told to look for simplicity and craftsmanship: "a luxury of sense of taste substituting for a luxury of cost."
Keep in listen that both Greene and Greene'due south Gamble Business firm in Pasadena and a three-room vacation shack without plumbing were called bungalows. And they both affected what the typical year-circular bungalow would await like. The finest examples of Arts & Crafts handiwork found a place in the bungalow, every bit did rustic piece of furniture.
Breakfast room in a 1916 Seattle bungalow: simplicity reigns.
William Wright
Walls were frequently wood-paneled to chair-rail or plate-rail top. Burlap in soft earth tones was suggested for the wall surface area above, or used in wood-battened panels where paneling was absent. Landscape friezes and abstruse stenciling above a plate rail were often pictured. Dulled, grayed shades and earth tones, even pastels, were preferred to strong colors. Plaster with sand in the finish declension was suggested. Woodwork could exist golden oak or oak dark-brown-stained to simulate old English woodwork, or stained dull blackness or bronze light-green. Painted softwood was likewise condign popular, especially for bedroom, with white enamel common earlier 1910 and stronger color gaining popularity during the '20s.
Born sideboard and Stickley furniture in a later Midwestern bungalow with Prairie leanings.
William Wright
It became almost an obsession with bungalow builders to see how many amenities could be crammed into the least amount of infinite. By 1920, the bungalow had more space-saving built-ins than a yacht: Murphy wall beds, ironing boards in cupboards, built-in mailboxes, phone nooks.
The brick-tile fireplace, integrated bookcases, "honest" trim, and ceiling beams are typical of bungalow interiors; notation the harmonious colors.
Philip Clayton–Thompson.
Writers advocated the "harmonious employ" of furnishings pocket-sized and few. Oak woodwork demanded oak furniture, supplemented with reed, rattan, wicker, or willow in natural, greyness, or pastels. Mahogany pieces were thought best against a backdrop of woodwork painted white. (Bright white was used most often for bath trim; "white" could also signify cream, yellow, ivory, light java, or stake gray.) A large table with a reading lamp was the centerpiece of the living room in these days before Television set.
Even with the use of wallpaper and a papered frieze, patterned rug, and collectibles, this bungalow interior is restrained by comparison to rooms of the Victorian era.
William Wright
Restraint was the universal cry of good gustation. Clutter was out—"clutter" beingness a relative term. Pottery, Indian baskets, Chinese and Japanese wares, vases, and Arts & Crafts hangings were suggested to satisfy the collector instinct. More affluent households might brandish Rookwood pottery, small Tiffany pieces, hammered copper bowls, and decorative items from Liberty and Co. A watercolor landscape or 2, executed by the amateur painter of the family, was the ultimate Arts & Crafts expression for the domicile.
Some bungalow owners preferred a lighter approach, peculiarly upstairs in bedrooms and when the business firm had elements of the Colonial Revival. Furnished with a mix of period antiques and contemporary pieces, this bungalow dates to 1906.
William Wright
Books recommended past the editors for bungalow owners
Do a search at amazon.com and yous'll come across there are dozens of books about bungalows and the American Arts & Crafts movement. Some of the at present-classics are out of print just you can ever discover a used copy. Here is a basic library for owners of bungalows quondam and new:
• The Bungalow: America'south Arts & Crafts Home past Paul Duchscherer; Penguin Studio 1995
• Within 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 past Douglas Keister; Penguin 1999
• Bungalow Kitchens by Jane Powell, photos past 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 past Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2004
• Bungalow Details: Exterior by Jane Powell, photos past Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2005
• Bungalow Details: Interior by Jane Powell, photos past Linda Svendsen; Gibbs Smith 2006
• Bungalow Nation by Diane Maddex and Alexander Vertikoff; Abrams 2003
• American Bungalow Style past Robert Winter; Simon & Schuster 1996
• Bungalow Colors: Exteriors by Robert Schweitzer; Gibbs Smith 2002
More on decorating and furnishing your Bungalow:
• The Cute 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 Article of furniture past Kevin P. Rodel and Jonathan Binzen, Taunton Press 2004
• Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture by Bruce Johnson; Pop Woodworking Books 2009
• Craftsman Manner past Robert Winter; Simon & Schuster 2004
• Gustav Stickley past David Cathers; Phaidon 2003
To encounter Prairie Schoolhouse domestic interiors:
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses by Alan Hess et al; Rizzoli 2006
• Frank Lloyd Wright'south Interiors by Thomas A. Heinz; Gramercy Books
• Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses by Alan Hess et al; Rizzoli 2005 [note : of import book is oversized and heavy]
• Purcell & Elmslie, Prairie Progressive by David Gebhard; Gibbs Smith 2006
Bungalows newly built or renovated:
• Bungalow Plans past 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 Printing 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 Edifice New past One thousand. 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
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