Exteriors

Each Arts & Crafts home has its own unique style, and nothing defines it more than the exterior. Browse through exterior ideas for specific styles of gardens, millwork, shutters, paint, roofing, siding, windows and doors.

North Carolina
Revival Woodwork
artsandcraftshomes.com - Patricia Poore
Some new projects around the country illustrate how the use of revival millwork elements and period details lend scale, quality, and style to a …
Douglas Fir
Sources for Windows & Doors
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This Expo is an exclusive list of contemporary manufacturers of doors and windows compatible with houses in the bungalow and Craftsman styles, as …
Bungalow
Garage Design & Garage Doors
artsandcraftshomes.com - Patricia Poore
Many bungalows would be overwhelmed by a large addition or outbuilding. Compatible design is about solving problems and keeping period style.Most …
Light in the Landscape
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
You can extend the Arts & Crafts lighting ambiance to the porch, garden paths, the garage, and the garden.These days you have many options for …
20th Century
Arts & Crafts Garages
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
New designs for Arts & Crafts garages.The garage door can make up as much as 30 percent of a home’s façade. That in itself should make investing in …
Framing
Garden Structures
artsandcraftshomes.com - Patricia Poore
The pergola, arbor, and trellis merge indoors and out in the Arts & Crafts garden.Garden structures are part of the architecture, a necessary link …
San Francisco, CA
Garden on the Bay: Cascading Movement & Focal Points
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
Belvedere Island is situated between Sausalito and Tiburon on San Francisco Bay. This house was built as an open-air retreat in 1912 by Dr. Florence …
English Gardens
An English Garden in Montgomery
artsandcraftshomes.com - Steve Gross and Susan Daley
A landscape designer imagines boxwood and favorite cottage flowers in an English garden created for a Tudor Revival house in Montgomery, Alabama.The …
Chinese Garden
Naumkeag Gardens
artsandcraftshomes.com - Regina Cole
The Naumkeag gardens designed by Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele for Charles McKim’s Shingle Style icon recently were restored. Why not learn from …
Bungalow
Exotic Garden Color
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
A 1926 Spanish bungalow garden with a desert in bloom.When they saw the property for sale in 2004, these Pasadena homeowners were as attracted to the …
Vintage Homes and Millwork
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Custom wood doors are the perfect blend of beauty and strength, giving an unforgettable first impression. At Vintage Homes and Millwork we combine …
The Guild: Doug Christie
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Artisan woodworker Doug Christie does doors.Like so many artisan woodworkers who become successful, Doug Christie’s path started when people saw …
Maine
Furniture for the Porch
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Around the year 1900, Americans began to spend more time outdoors—flocking to the seashore, rusticating in the mountains and at the lake, venturing …
Al Fresco dining
A Porch Long Missing
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Missing, perhaps, from the time the house was built, the should-have-been shingled Foursquare porch now completes the home.No motorist or passerby …
Arts and Crafts movement
From the Archive: The Porch Swing
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Curtis Porchwork General Millwork Catalog Clinton, Iowa, 1914For generations, nothing has said “summer” like sitting on a shady porch, enjoying the …
Santa Barbara, CA
Sprucing Up a Bungalow Backyard
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
A modest yard is reimagined as garden rooms with verdant space for lounging, eating, even hanging out in a hot tub.Undaunted by hard work, Rick and …
Business Administration
Worthington
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Worthington Millwork provides incomparable selections of columns, balusters, molding, ceiling medallions, niches, window heads, pediments pilasters, …
Tech Trends
Design, Build & Remodel in the Arts & Crafts Style
artsandcraftshomes.com - Patricia Poore
Today’s designers and builders are embracing new technology, universal design, and more environmentally responsible building practices when working …
Lawn Mowing
Garden Edging for Maintenance & Ornament
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
A staple of English Arts & Crafts gardens, edging has practical as well as historical appeal. From buried barriers to iron and stone, edging remains …
Colonialism
Outdoor Hardware
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Play up quality, period style, and architectural interest in all your home's exterior with these hardware options.When considering curb appeal and …
Chicago, IL
Window Boxes in the Windy City
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
A very pretty accoutrement long ago went missing on many a Chicago brick bungalow. Some are back, looking better than ever.Chicago is famous for its …
San Francisco, CA
An English Country Garden in Northern California
artsandcraftshomes.com - Brian D. Coleman
In the classic Arts & Crafts landscape surrounding a Tudor manor south of San Francisco, vistas provide grandeur, garden rooms intimacy.The rambling …
Arts & Crafts Shingle Patterns
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Shingles were laid to create patterns: subtle decoration for Arts & Crafts houses.Victorians lavished fancy-cut wood shingles on Queen Anne homes, …
Conifers
Bones of the Winter Garden
artsandcraftshomes.com - Tovah Martin
A strong underlying architecture is important when the garden goes minimalist for the winter.A strong underlying architecture is important when the …
Alice In Wonderland
Follow the Clinker Brick Road
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Spreading like molten peanut brittle, a playful clinker brick wall ties a rear garden to a newly built Greene & Greene-style home.Spreading like …
Garage Door
Garage Doors: Your Design Options
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Arts & Crafts-style garage doors can have a huge impact on curb appeal, especially if they are visible from the street. Ironically, the largest …
Heartwood Fine Windows and Doors
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Heartwood Fine Windows and Doors produce beautiful, durable, and functional windows and doors for new and historic homes.(800) …
Frank Lloyd Wright
Windows Common to the Arts & Crafts Era
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
“Standard” Arts & Crafts windows are versatile and still modern.Like everything else about style in this post-Victorian period, double-hung and …
Artful Cuts: Gable Trim
artsandcraftshomes.com - Mary Ellen Polson
Learn about bungalow–chalet gable trim.If the front of your bungalow or chalet-like house seems to lack character, there’s a good chance it is …