THE BUNGALOW LIVING ROOM & OTHER AREAS
In this series of articles I’m going to discuss the other areas of the bungalow- living room & dining room, the study, the bedrooms, & the indoor/outdoor spaces such as the sleeping porch & outdoor dining room. The kitchen & bathrooms usually get the spotlights, but there’s an abundance of oohs & aaws to be found in these other spaces in which we also spend a great deal of our time.
BUNGALOW DETAILS: INTERIOR- GLOSSARY
I always feel right at home when I enter a bungalow. Each feature greeting my eye combines with the others to create a charm that warms my heart & tingles my toes. This article, a Glossary of bungalow interior details explains the many parts of the whole that...
OLD HOUSE RESTORATION VIDEOS- Inside a Historic Bungalow
Character is defined as all the qualities & features that make a person, groups of people, & places different from all others. In architecture, a character defining feature is any element, including the overall shape of the building, its materials,...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES, Bungalow Don’ts
BUNGALOW INTERIOR DESIGN MISTAKES WARNING! This post is only for those of you who want to create an authentic period interior & would like some tips on how to do so. It is not written with the purpose of changing anyone's mind, tastes, or life decisions. In...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES-an Introduction
INTERIOR DESIGN FOR THE CRAFTSMAN HOUSE Gustav Stickley brought Arts & Crafts to America from Europe in the early 1900's. He carried with him both the aesthetic & the philosophy of the Movement, & then did it his way, inspired by the simplicity of the log...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES- Part 1
THE FIRST VITAL STEPS IN DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW'S INTERIOR Here you stand, in your new, empty house. Perhaps you were fortunate to buy a house that needed little restoration, or perhaps you've been working for months to rescue it from a tragic combination of...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES, Part 2
BASIC DESIGN FOR A CRAFTSMAN HOUSE INTERIOR What is interior design? It is a combination of art, science & technology that is employed to enhance the quality of our lives. It is also about understanding how people operate in a space in order to make it functional....
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES, Part 3
INTERIOR DESIGN FOR A CRAFTSMAN HOUSE -More Elements One of the things that I love the most about the interiors of A&C homes is that though similar, each one is made distinct by the choices made in playing various design elements, one with another. Visiting the...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOWS INTERIOR SPACES, Part 4
HOW TO DECORATE IN THE CRAFTSMAN STYLE My art training consisted of growing up in museums, exposing me to beautiful objects, exquisitely displayed, ballet with its delightful costumery & stage sets, the arts & crafts of the native Americans of the southwest,...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES- Part 5
MORE ON BUNGALOW STYLE INTERIOR DESIGN We have come to the second lesson about the principles of creating visual harmony in design. The elements of design are the puzzle pieces of design & the way that you fit them together, to decorate in the Craftsman style, is...
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES, Part 6
HOW TO DECORATE A BUNGALOW LIVING ROOM/DINING ROOM Here you are in your empty house. It echoes. It promises. It suggests. It perplexes. In this article, I am going to wrap up all the points of how to decorate a bungalow living room & I will probably add a few,...
