OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Bungalow Character Defining Features
These videos show & tell the story of bungalow character defining features, the architectural bits & pieces that separate a bungalow from other houses. They are the features that you expect to see on a bungalow that has been well-cared for, or authentically...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Charles Rennie Mackintosh of Glasgow
My first submersion in Charles Rennie Mackintosh of Glasgow, was at a special exhibit at the Museum of the Arts & Crafts Movement in St. Pete Florida. It was astonishing to see many of the actual items that I had seen in books, only inches from my nose. The life...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Arts & Crafts Lighting
When I bought my 1910 Craftsman, my dear mother loaned me the money for the down payment. Shortly before the first payment was due, I found the perfect lamp for the library table in my entry. Its price was exactly the same amount as what I owed my mother that month,...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Gustav Stickley
How did the Arts & Crafts Movement swim to America from England, & why did it look so different here? Because of the vision of Gustav Stickley who went to Europe to study the movement where it originated, but felt that, “There are elements of intrinsic beauty...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground." Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Rather than trying to compose an educational post, I have curated...
BUNGALOW HEAVEN IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Bungalow Heaven, a neighborhood of 800+ historic homes in Pasadena, CA, truly is a paradise. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the area was built between 1900 & 1930 & designated in 1989, as a local landmark district. Thankfully, this status...
FUN WITH BUNGALOW FOUNDATION LATTICE
"It's all in the details." These are words to live by, or at least to restore and renovate old homes by. It's the little things that can make an otherwise well-executed renovation miss the mark. You may not know what part bugs you, but you sense they didn't get it...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Greene & Greene
Brothers Charles & Henry Greene can be understood as men through the study of their Arts & Crafts architecture. As with all artists, their creations were born of their unique viewpoints of life, tempered by their educations, their personal relationships &...
BUNGALOW CHARACTERISTICS- Part 4
INSCRIPTION: “Bungalow Terrace [in Hyde Park, Tampa, Florida] was developed by Alfred Swann and Eugene Holtsinger [major developers in South Tampa] on what was Morrison Grove in 1913. The Bungalow Style home was modeled after the bungalows in California because of the...
