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Recommended Books

The Bungalow, America’s Arts & Crafts Home
by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister: Viking Studio, 1996.
The book that irrevocably married the Bungalow with the concurrent Arts & Crafts movement of the first quarter of the 20th century. Full of information and pictures specific to American residences, although most of the examples are in California.

Inside the Bungalow
by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister: Viking Studio, 1997.
Essentially about the period’s Arts and Crafts-influenced interiors, this book is full of ideas for hearths, colors, walls, furniture, lighting, tile, etc.

Outside the Bungalow
by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister: Viking Studio 1999.
The most down-to-earth book on suburban Arts and Crafts-era gardens.

Beyond the Bungalow
by Paul Duchscherer and Linda Svendsen: Gibbs Smith, 2005.
This book of lavish photographs goes further than the bungalow: to chalets, English Revival houses, and the occasional Foursquare.

Bungalow Kitchens
by Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen: Gibbs Smith, 2000. This is documentation and nitty-gritty advice for restoring, renovating, or re-creating the rather plain yet evocative early-modern kitchen of the era: tile, glossy cream-painted cabinets, linoleum. A good place to start if you don’t want a 2007 “showroom kitchen” that will soon look dated, and if you don’t need to spend six figures on cherry woodwork and European fixtures.

Bungalow Baths
by Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen: Gibbs Smith, 2002.
The kitchen team tackles the A&C bathroom, showing us the period appropriate types and describing them in detail: white tile to fir wainscot, painted and papered, plain and fancy. Good advice whether you’re restoring or reviving the look anew.

The Chicago Bungalow
by the Chicago Bungalow Foundation, Arcadia/Tempus, 2003.
Fascinating historical information on the rise of Chicago’s early 20th century brick-bungalow neighborhoods. Available at amazon.com.

The American Bungalow
by Clay Lancaster, reprinted by Dover Publications in 1995 [orig. Abbeville, 1985].
This is a more scholarly look at the bungalow, with social history woven into the discussion of bungalow architecture. This ground-breaking book informed all subsequent study; it’s a great read.