CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 4
OLD BUNGALOW COLORS! There were many paint companies selling paint at the turn of the century & they all created palettes to reflect the natural colors of the new A&C trend. Paint had evolved tremendously since early humans mixed natural pigments like...
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
PAINTING YOUR BUNGALOW EXTERIOR CHECKLIST
Now that you know:
A. How colors work &
B. The philosophy behind the design of your house,
let’s figure out how to blend these with your own voice to create a harmonious color scheme for your home.
EVERY BUNGALOW NEEDS A CUSTOM SHED MINI-ME
I’m a gardener & a shed for me is a much needed item. I love to buy pots, tools & soil supplements & I need a place to stash the dang stuff. Lacking a garage, it also needed to store hardware, tools & of course, the bar-be-que. I’m also a bog fan of tiny houses, so I’d also like it to look like the wee folk could live there in comfort. And, it has to be lovely. It’s plunk in the middle of my backyard so it needs to complement the plants & ideally, mimic my house.
RESTORING A BUNGALOW – THE RIGHT WAY
I wrote this article about restoring a bungalow the right wa-a-ay back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, around 2006 when I first moved to Tampa. I had left the little "town" of Eagle Rock, a historic neighborhood in N.E. Los Angeles, left the Hare House, a beautiful...
WHY EVERY BUNGALOW NEEDS A SCREEN DOOR (& A CAT)
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my custom made, tiger oak, square pegged, brass mesh, bungalow screen door. Meet Mahjong the Amazing Wonder Kitten (furry face on the left) & his bro, Bukhai Thunder, on the right. When you have pussycats, it is a good idea to have a...
YOUR HISTORIC BUNGALOW’S HOME INSPECTION
by Matthew Steger With 20 years of inspecting bungalows under his belt, Owner/ ASHI Certified Inspector at WIN Home Inspection (Lancaster, PA) follows the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Standard of Practice, the nationally recognized GOLD standard for home...
DISCOVER BUNGALOW KITCHENS BY JANE POWELL
I had tried innumerable times to figure out a decent floor plan but was completely stymied. I knew that BUNGALOW KITCHENS, by the lovely & brilliant author, Jane Powell, held all the answers, but I had read it 18 times (Well, a few of those times I just drooled...
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...
BUNGALOW BATHROOMS
by Jane Powell, author & Linda Svendsen, photographer “The hands-on source book for creating or restoring a stylish Arts & Crafts/bungalow bathroom.” If you really want to know about bungalow bathrooms, you need to get ahold of Jane Powell’s Bungalow...