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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.

Doors & Entryways

Vintage Doors' hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.

Brass, Bronze & Copper Hardware

Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.

Arts & Crafts Houses

A jewel of the Fairmount Historic District in Fort Worth, Texas, this chalet–bungalow has the quintessential Arts & Crafts interiors with period lighting, pottery, and Stickley furniture.

House Tours

The bungalow retained its original integrity, so our upgrades had to follow suit, and last.

Historic Neighborhoods

Arts & Crafts-era streetcar, historic neighborhoods, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas.

bungalow living room, vintage furnishings

Arts & Crafts Houses

With an artist’s eye, curated collections, and a whole new palette for rooms inside, Gwen Jones fine-tunes a handsome 1916 bungalow.

Old House Styles

The bungalow is a beloved type aligned with American Arts & Crafts.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Downsizing and moving into town, this homeowner, an accomplished gardener, kept things simple.

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The main bath blends history and reinvented objects.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Fueled by a passion to restore the house’s classic Craftsman lines, two home owners commenced renovation and, in the process, uncovered multiple mysteries.

The formal foyer, somewhat unusual for a Craftsman house, showcases stained and shellacked woodwork of Douglas fir. The library table and large Morris chair are Grand Rapids’ Lifetime Furniture antiques.

Arts & Crafts Houses

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to bring back a great old house. In the case of this 1909 chalet-bungalow, it took two!

Limbert settle #570 and Limbert Morris chair #527

House Tours

Facing tilted porch piers and baby-blue woodwork, a smitten owner brings the Arts & Crafts aesthetic to a 1921 bungalow in Seattle.

Arts & Crafts Houses

A jewel of a builder's bungalow is restored with integrity.

House Tours

Brent Hull discusses the Arts and Crafts movement, a revolution that embraces simple and honest architecture, as he explores a bungalow house in Texas' Fairmount Historic District.

House Tours

In a glorious if lengthy reversal of misfortune in Santa Barbara, California, the 1912 Bungalow was restored by dedicated owners who fell in love with this period.

Before home-owners Tim and Paula Schmitt (below) bought the bungalow, it was obscured by towering pine trees growing in the front and back yards.

Arts & Crafts Houses

A Chicago couple transforms a neighborhood eyesore into an inviting home—on a reasonable budget.

Web Exclusives

Wondering if you'd like a Colonial, Victorian, bungalow, or modern? Try this quiz from the editors of Old House Journal magazine.

House Tours

For OHJ’s 45th anniversary, we visit four restorations done by devoted readers who are serial restorers.

Old-House Kitchens

Owners of this 1913 house turned back the clock on some intrusive remodelings.

A “tree house” in Cheshire parlance, the three-storey cabin extends living space into the woodland canopy.

House Tours

In Black Mountain, North Carolina, craftsmanship holds sway, giving a new cabin all the warmth and integrity of an old house.

There’s no missing the point made by this chalet in Vallejo, Cal.: the gable roof, second-level porch, knee braces, and dark wood stain mimic Swiss models.

Old House Styles

1885–1925: Picturesque wood details have roots in European chalets.

The dining room’s Italian-villa red and avocado green were early colors found on the original plaster. Chris reinstalled a plate rail and wainscoting by following ghosted outlines on the wall; he also replaced columns.

Arts & Crafts Houses

If you keep it simple, you can restore a period home on a modest budget.

House Tours

The Seattle homeowner may have been fated to rescue this 1913 Arts & Crafts house. The hard work took eight years; the result is a home perfect for her.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Fake siding and popcorn ceilings didn’t faze restoration veterans who saw the inherent charm of this Craftsman bungalow-style Colonial Revival House in northwest Oregon. They set about making it right again.

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Window boxes may be part of a “vertical garden” that includes pots and urns, hanging baskets, wall trellises, and even a pergola (an open-roofed porch structure that accommodates climbers).