CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 2
HARMONY Bungalow color harmony begins with being familiar with your home's long philosophical & aesthetic history. Your beloved bungalow is the offspring of a movement that started in the late 1800’s in England & spread to the United States, primarily through...
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
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CHEMISTRY- LEAD PAINT IN BUNGALOWS Yes, there is lead paint in bungalows. Let's understand it & learn how to deal with it, better. White lead, produced by corroding lead with vinegar, was used in historic paints to produce opacity thereby...
CHOOSING BUNGALOW PAINT COLORS, Part 5
LET’S LOOK AT SOME BUNGALOWS! Photo credit Robert Schweitzer, BUNGALOW COLORS: EXTERIORS Now that I’ve thoroughly destroyed all possible affinity for the paint purveyors of the past, let’s look at some bungalows & see what combinations these paint companies...
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.
HANDMADE BUNGALOW TILES, INSPIRED BY NATURE
I love handmade bungalow tiles- Batchelder, Malibu, Catalina. But I don't discriminate. I love tiles from all over the world. I adore the vivid colors of Mexican tile, Cuban tile, Moroccan tile, painted tile, relief tile- little pieces of art. It is a medium, first...
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...