This article points you to bungalow resources, designed to enhance the wonderful features of your bungalow. Shopping for & owning these beautiful pieces is one of the most enjoyable things about stewarding your home.

The hardware, lighting & decorative items of the Arts & Crafts Movement are cheerful & brilliantly beautiful. Period kitchens & baths will pay homage to the past owners & are just good design sense. In your decorating, leaping about the decades is visually disturbing (Jane Powell called it “cognitive dissonance.”) & can confuse the flow of the interior. But, the goods you need to create a period atmosphere, are not always easy to find.

I am still building my resources list. I considered whether I wanted to wait until it is complete to post it, but you may be desperately looking now, so take a look at what’s here & keep coming back, It is growing daily. (Or at least weekly.)

I’ll also mention that many of the items you might need can be found on the resale market in your local area. Facebook Marketplace is growing daily & Craigslist seems to be hanging in there too. Of course the odd piece can still be discovered at a yard or estate sale but, you have to have more patience than I do & get up with the worms.

The caveat here is that I have no clue as to who any of the folks are that are selling on any of these group pages. You must perform your own due diligence regarding every aspect of the offered item- value, condition, authenticity, etc.

MY CURATED RESOURCE LISTS

ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE
From hardware to plumbing fixtures to stained glass & furniture, salvage dealers are finding it all for you. My list is about ready to grow so check back. I have gotten some great recommendations from the followers but I need to add them & I type sl-o-o-ow.

HARDWARE
Functional & beautiful, another signature craft of the Movement.

LIGHTING
Illuminating your life.
Antique Lighting
Today’s Masters of Lighting

RESTORATION CLASSES
Where you can learn new skills for DIY, or gain knowledge to help you in overseeing the work done by tradesfolk.

TILE
Molded from earth, tile is both strong & versatile. It is one of the core design elements of any home.

WINDOW COVERINGS
A necessary element, window coverings compliment your other design elements, giving your privacy & protection from the sun & the cold.

MORE RESOURCES ONLINE

Additionally, there are many pages & groups on Facebook that are dedicated to antique items of the period as well as goods by modern A&C masters. As a bonus, they offer wonderful information on the period. Below is a list of these groups who allow buying & selling. Some pages do not. They exist only for giving & receiving information, & for fellowship. It’s not a bad idea to join these too, but that’s not today’s topic.These are digital communities of Arts & Crafts Revival Artisans & Revival aficionados, sharing work of current craftsman, or promoting various events such as fairs, sales, & websites. In other words, you can buy & sell on these pages.

In the Arts & Crafts Style
This group is for the sharing and enjoyment of the Arts & Crafts era of the late 1890s to the 1920s, as well as its contemporary counterparts. Selling/trading items, sharing real estate ads for Arts & Crafts style homes are very much acceptable in this group.

Arts and Crafts Furnishings of Mission Oak, Stickley, and Limbert
The second group is geared toward beginners & intermediate collectors of the Arts & Crafts Movement & the items we live with in our homes. Focus is primarily furniture of the period, along with decorative objects, both period & reproductions of quality.

Some of the individual resource pages below, list Facebook groups specializing in those specific iitems.

Meanwhile, keep reading my blog & loving your bungalow. There is more to come! I am forever searching for more vendors of bungalow enhancing items so-

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