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stickley Arts & Crafts bed

Arts & Crafts, Bungalow Furniture

Hand-sanded and hand-finished solid white oak, cherry, and mahogany cabinets, dressers, tables, chairs, beds, and armoires.

Pacific Register Co. custom grill

Radiators, Grilles & Registers

Pacific Register Co. specializes in registers manufactured from steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, stainless steel, wood, acrylic and stone in standard designs and sizes as well as custom designs. Made in the USA.

crown point kitchen

Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, & Backsplashes

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.

The large kitchen is relatively new. Its rambling layout, well-matched fir beadboard, vintage stove, and copper sink make it look original.

Spacious, recuperative, and quaint describe this survivor from the days of mountain camp retreats.

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.

Open shelving in the kitchen helps keep the space light and airy; the family room is seen beyond.

Arts & Crafts Houses

This 1906 Craftsman was too good to raze—so its preservation-minded owners moved it to a new location.

Arts & Crafts furniture includes the reissued Stickley oak pedestal table and chairs. In its simplicity, the modern Artemide Logico Suspension triple chandelier is a good fit.

This deceptively simple 1937 house offered sturdy brick construction, heavy moldings, and romantic arches—even Batchelder tiles. But it needed TLC.

Art Nouveau wallpaper from Switzerland (now discontinued) dresses up a tiny bedroom.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Picking the right wallpaper is easy with a little historical understanding.

The rustic 1930s cabin was raised and a daylight basement added beneath. The exterior features log siding, cedar shakes, and fieldstone masonry.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

On this pretty sweep of Pacific Northwest shoreline, a rustic cabin is remodeled as a year-round home by the great-grandson of its builder.

Surprising neoclassical columns in mahogany support beams in the entry hall with keystone arches between them, lending a formal air and creating an inviting seating nook.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Artistic yet proper, this 1909 house boasts neoclassical details along with its river-rock chimney and beams.

The new cabinet was built into the space once occupied by a hall closet added in the ‘70s.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

A ’70s-era linen closet is rebuilt into a Craftsman-style linen press that’s a perfect complement to a 1906 bungalow.

The house has an old-fashioned elegance, with great proportions and plenty of light. The 1940s Duncan Phyfe-style dining table and chairs belonged to grandparents.

The innovative house is circular, with concrete block walls and curving walls of redwood-veneered plywood.

Mid-Century Modern Houses

The main living room, with its massive stone fireplace, is the center of the original 1911 cottage.

Arts & Crafts Houses

Simple, evocative rooms show how family tradition has held up for a century at a family camp named Bungalowen.

The house is furnished with country antiques and hand-me-downs; the old floors are painted. Bookcases are original cabinets; the walnut doors were stolen long ago.

Greek Revival Houses

A two-story portico is the only embellishment on this sturdy brick I-house, which, although long neglected, escaped modernization.

Clean-lined, angular end tables are positioned on both sides of a comfortable sofa set under the low, built-in bookshelf that runs the length of the living room’s granite wall.

Mid-Century Modern Houses

The view to the dining room through the galley kitchen. New cabinets in cypress reproduce the design of the plywood originals. Durable new materials include flagstone flooring.

A German Secessionperiod cloth covers the table set with Secession enameled stemware by the Austrian firm Theresienthaler; English walnut chairs are covered in a modern peacock feather-pattern velvet.

Arts & Crafts Houses

English and American Arts & Crafts furniture provides a backdrop for this burgeoning collection of Art Nouveau objets.

Colorful Victorian garden

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Coordinating your garden with your paint scheme can pump up your home's overall allure.

The dining room is a testament to the beauty of skillful wallpaper pattern mixing. The ‘Victory Frieze’ is above ‘Roland Wall’ with ‘Bachelor Button’ in the high dado. The fixture is a gaslight chandelier converted to electricity.

Queen Anne Houses

Never has the interior of this Queen Anne looked so good, from its wallpapers to textiles.