NATIVE LANDSCAPING FOR YOUR BUNGALOW
Using native landscaping for your bungalow is eco-friendly, easier care & a beautiful complement to your house of natural materials. "Everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, &...
WHEN SHOULD YOU REFINISH THE OLD WOOD FLOORS IN YOUR BUNGALOW?
by Dennis Prieur, 40 year veteran of the wood flooring industry, writes about how to decide when to refinish the wood floors in your bungalow. Dennis was a 25 year member of the National Wood Flooring Association where he sent his craftsmen for certification & was...
BUNGALOW FLOORS: FROM THE VERY HEART OF THE PINE TREE
by Dennis Prieur (usually known as Hubby) & Carol Goodwin, of the Goodwin Heart Pine Company Heart pine floors in bungalows is one of the most appreciated features of our charming homes here in the South, where they are deservedly revered. They gleam a warm...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 1
THE COLOR LESSON This is a lesson in choosing the right bungalow paint colors, which can be a huge challenge. Most articles give you a few examples, & the paint manufactureres provide pitifully few Arts & Crafts combinations, but they don’t actually teach you...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 2
COLOR HARMONY HARMONY DEFINED: The degree of harmony is determined by how well the separate parts of a piece of art work together, & have some sort of logical progression in their relationship. Not just a concept used in music, harmony forms the basis of any...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 3
THE ARTS & CRAFTS MESSAGE The Arts & Crafts message is evident in every piece of design that flowed from the masters of the Movement 100 years ago & is passed on by those in today's Revival. The motivation & purpose of art is communication, the passing...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 4
LET’S LOOK AT SOME OLD BUNGALOW COLORS! Let’s see what combinations the historic paint companies offered, & combine them with what we have learned about color & color harmony. We all know about Sears kit houses-prefabricated homes that were delivered by train...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 5
WHAT ABOUT PAINT COLORS FOR YOUR HOUSE? Well, we have looked at THE COLORS LESSON in Part 1., which reviews the basics of color theory that we all learned in school. Part 2., COLOR HARMONY, was all about how to combine colors on your bungalow to most enhance its...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 6
YOUR BUNGALOW COLORS EXTERIOR CHECKLIST It's time to make some big decisions & there are so many choices, so use this bungalow colors exterior checklist to put yourself on the right path. I have seen people spend months agonizing over their many choices only to...
