THE BUNGALOW LIVING ROOM & OTHER AREAS
In this article 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.
DESIGNING YOUR BUNGALOW’S INTERIOR SPACES- Part 1
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 remuddling & neglect. And now the paint is dry, the floors are...
BUNGALOW DETAILS: INTERIOR
by Jane Powell, author & Linda Svendsen, photographer In BUNGALOW DETAILS: INTERIOR, author Jane Powell covers every nook & cranny of America's favorite house. FOREWARD “It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will...
BUNGALOW WINDOW TREATMENTS
A cautionary bungalow window treatments tale. Once Upon a Time, the Hare House was on the market. I had just finished the bathroom, glad to have a few more weeks in which to enjoy it, kicking myself for not having done it sooner so I would have had a few years. I...
BUNGALOW WINDOW COVERINGS-RESOURCES
The subject of bungalow window coverings & the resources where they can be found is much debated, but is actually pretty simple. Nobody wants to cover their beautiful window moldings, but blocking the sun is generally desired & blocking passing eyeballs is...
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...
MEET THE BIG-HEARTED, BUNGALOW CAT, BUKHAI
My cat, named after an anime sumo wrestler character in honor of the Asian influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement on the bungalow & his chunk-ster legs (the largest kitten in his litter) - my little Bukhai Thunder, AKA Bukhai Bunny-Bear, came to me as a...
A VERY MERRY BUNGALOW CHRISTMAS
My first bungalow Christmas, in The Hare House, my 1910 Craftsman was a year in the planning. Built before electricity came to that part of, what would be, Los Angeles. I moved in in December of 1998 & started thinking about the next Christmas. I had been living...
