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Kitchen Cabinetry

Crown Point Cabinetry offers custom cabinets for period style kitchens, baths, offices, laundry rooms, home bars and more. Styles include Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional.

Lights flanking a mirror cut down on harsh shadows and offered optimum illumination for grooming. The shades here-called turtles because of their resemblance to the critter-could also be mounted facing the wall, and often sat on brackets made of porcelain that featured convenient, built-in electrical outlets. Photo Courtesy of Linda Svendsen

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

When it comes to lighting bathrooms of the 1930s and '40s, you can't go wrong with a little Modern design.

Old-House Kitchens

In a well-cared-for house, elements dating to 1951, 1930, and 1911 were preserved in the startling kitchen.

Period Bathrooms

This brilliant Art Deco bathroom, original to the 1933 Spanish-style bungalow, features a shark's fin bathtub recess, green tiles and buttery fixtures.

The Boston Avenue Methodist Church is one of Tulsa's most beloved Art Deco icons.

Historic Neighborhoods

A modern bath exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929 showcased black Kohler fixtures in all-the-rage Deco—the distinctive lines of which are seen in this lavender and green inset tub from the same year.

Period Bathrooms

The late 1920s witnessed a shift in thinking on the ideal bathroom's design, transforming an austere white space into one that was blooming in color.

THIS PAGE: Designer Jean Alan helped carry a two-story 1980s-era addition back in time through the use of warm, Deco-inspired furniture and antique rugs. OPPOSITE: The Italianate town house is fortunate to have survived; the house next door was razed in the 1980s.

House Tours

An Art Nouveau townhouse slated for apartment use gets restored to its former beauty.

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Bathroom Furnishings & Fixtures

The double-ended pedestal bathtub is a reproduction of examples that were available in the 1920s and '30s, and found mostly in high-end houses.

Period Bathrooms

Dining room doors open onto the home's dramatic rotunda.

House Tours

The sprawling house, built in the 1920s, was kept cozy with the adoption of "Cotswold" elements such as steep roofs, multiple wings, and ivy-covered walls.

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Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Don your shades for a close look at early 20th-century lighting.

An Arts & Crafts aesthetic is strong in the dining room, with its original oak woodwork.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Its eclectic facade inspired the owners of this San Francisco house; they honored original interior features but also included colorful flourishes from well into the 20th century.