The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home

Great source of inspiration for anyone who is considering doing any sort of architectural project, either interior or exterior, with and Arts and Crafts feeling.

I found The Bungalow; America's Arts & Crafts Home by Paul Duchscherer & Douglas Keister to be extremely helpful with my remodel. I tagged pages with the ideas that I wanted to convey to my designer and architect. The pictures are beautiful and really assisted in developing the plans and overall look in the remodel of my bungalow style house. Very inspiring.

This is a great book with wonderful color photographs! Check out his other two books in the series, as well as photographer Douglas Keisters's "Bungalows on CD-ROM".

This an outstanding book for anyone interested in the familiar and well loved style of architecture known as the bungalow. All color photos show the gamut of this genre ranging from basic to elaborate. Both interior and exterior shots detail this rich archetictural art form. An inspiration to anyone interested in maintaining, restoring or recreating one of America's favorite homestyles.

I own an eighty-year-old bungalow. My brother owns a house that isn't quite a bungalow, but has some arts & crafts interior elements. As I read the book I kept thinking "That's it! That's my house!" My house came to me in what real estate agents would call "pristine condition"--which means nobody's done anything but bare-bones-basic maintenance for decades. After reading the book (or, rather, browsing the photos; there's not much text), I know better what's original & authentic. While I'm not planning to restore my house to exactly 1913 appearance, I now feel more confident about some of my plans to rejuvenate my new home.