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Products of the Week

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.

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Storm Windows & Interior Panels

Allied Window offers a beautiful, affordable and invisible solution for your bent glass and shaped windows. Allied Window's specialty is creating insulating storm windows that disappear into your shaped openings - matching the shape exactly - from bent glass to odd shapes, sizes and thicknesses – disappearing into your window opening.

Products & Services Directory

A showcase of unique and hard-to-find handcrafted furnishing and decor from Old House Journal's buying guides.

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.

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.

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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).