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RESTORATION
38 Simple Living in Santa Barbara
Their bungalow isn’t big, even with an upstairs rear
addition. But with a pleasing plan and period details,
it has been a charming family home.
by Brian D. Coleman | photos by William Wright

THE GUILD
46 Cindy Lindgren
Custom-designed notecards, fabrics, and wallpaper come
from a former illustrator and graphic designer who
combines her skills with Arts & Crafts nature themes.
by Mary Ellen Polson

NEW WORK
48 Ranch Redemption
A generic 1949 Ranch in Dallas, Texas, is remade
with Spanish, Modern, and Arts & Crafts elements.
by Patricia Poore | photos by Jeanine Michna–Bales

HISTORIC HOUSE
10
56 Vernacular to a Fare-thee-well
A visit to Stoneywell, an iconic house built in 1898 by British
Arts & Crafts designer Ernest Gimson, using local materials.
by Brian D. Coleman

COVER The early 20th-century California Bungalow has been a wonderful

home to the family who restored it. PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM WRIGHT

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EDITOR - IN - CHIEF Patricia Poore

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 E D I TO R ’ S L E T T E R &
A Big Tent
THE BUNGALOW REVIVAL has threatened a takeover of Arts & Crafts in general,
but not every Arts & Crafts house is a bungalow. (And not every bungalow
is Arts & Crafts. House forms, like bungalow or foursquare, and stylistic
elements, like Craftsman or Italianate, are not in lockstep.) In this issue
we extend the timeline in both directions, showcasing a startlingly ver-
nacular house designed by Ernest Gimson in England, as well as a remade
1940s Texas Ranch. Bungalows, they ain’t.
We can’t define Arts & Crafts style; there are too many expressions
and variants. Yet significant threads run through all the work we recognize
as Arts & Crafts. At first encounter, designs by William Morris and Gustav
Stickley are very different. We come to see in their work the underlying
philosophy; both men preferred simplicity, dug at the local roots, adapted
natural forms for two-dimensional ornament, embraced the past without
creating replicas, appreciated craftsmanship. The
philosophy behind Arts & Crafts explores the plea-
sure of good work—indeed the need to do work with
competence and pride, and it explores our relation-
ship with the land. None of these ideas has ever
really been out of favor.
In architecture, we can easily imagine the
California Ranch as a later generation’s evolution of
the Craftsman Bungalow. Both belong to the mod-
ern age, both are family-centric, both types merge
house with its site. In design, look no further than the perennial appeal
of Morris’s textile and wallpaper patterns, in production for 150 years and
befitting historic and contemporary rooms alike.
And so back to this issue, with its lovely feature on the restoration
of an American Arts & Crafts Bungalow…and another that presents an
eccentric house built of massive stones and with an almost primitive
whitewashed interior. And then there is the brick Ranch, which seemed
bereft of any style until it was redeemed by sensitive owners who took cues
from its Spanish antecedents and postwar construction. In my book, all
are expressions of Arts & Crafts.
Patricia Poore, Editor
ppoore@aimmedia.com
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Where Gustav
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When fire devastated the interior of his late Victorian Queen Anne
home in Syracuse, New York, Gustav Stickley dreamed up a new con-
cept as part of his renovation. By the time he was finished, Stickley had
created the first Arts & Crafts interior in America.
Nearly 115 years later, the long-vacant house is due for major
structural repairs. Held in trust for many years by the L. & J.G. Stickley
furniture company, the house was transferred last May to a local non-
profit, which will manage construction. Another nonprofit, the Gustav
Stickley House Foundation, is raising funds for restoration. Among the
tasks ahead are masonry and roof repairs, window and woodwork pres-
ervation, and reconstructing the original front porch.
That said, the interior is in remarkable condition. Much of the orig-
inal chestnut woodwork is intact, from floors and wall paneling to ceiling
beams. Striking interior doors feature horizontal and vertical planking.
While there has been significant support from the state and local
foundations, a total of $2.5 million still needs to be raised to complete ABOVE FROM TOP Stickley’s Syracuse home
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 UP FRONT &BOOKS

A FIELD GUIDE TO
AMERICAN HOUSES
Revised second edition
by Virginia Savage McAlester.
Knopf, 2015 (pb.), 849 pp., $29.95

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manifesting not through atomic structure
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nologies and fashions, designer whim or
ignorance, local conditions, and the money
at hand. “What style is my house?” is often
a question not easily answered.
Since the mid
1980s I’ve kept on my
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subtypes, and vernacular or regional variants,
and information on occurrence or range,
along with historical tidbits.
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section on neighborhoods; expanded and
all-new house style categories; an appen-
dix on recent construction approaches
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photos and line drawings. The timeline now
extends from 17th-century settlers’ houses
through Postmodern, New Traditional, and
Millennium houses. Helpful introductory
texts help us “see” neighborhood devel-
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 UP FRONT &EVENTS + EXHIBITS
NOV. 5, 2016
BungalowFest
Just west of downtown St. Petersburg,
Florida, the Historic Kenwood neigh-
borhood is distinguished by many Arts
& Crafts homes. It’s also home to many
artists, which has earned it a city designa-
tion as an artist’s enclave. Now in its 18th
year, BungalowFest combines both archi-
tecture and art in its annual home tour.
A dozen homes will be open, along with
two artists’ dwellings and four multi-pur-
pose garage conversions. Tickets are
available online at historickenwood.org
THROUGH OCT. 2017
FLW 150
Museums all over the country are cele-
brating the 150th birthday of Frank Lloyd
Wright (1867–1959), the larger-than-life
architect whose body of work ranges
from early Prairie School houses to New
York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
leads the way with “Frank Lloyd Wright
at 150: Unpacking the Archive.” The ex-
hibition presents about 450 works from
the 1890s through the 1950s, including
architectural drawings, models, building
fragments, films, television broadcasts,
print media, furniture, tableware, tex-
tiles, paintings, photographs, and scrap-
books, with some rarely seen works.
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for
the Prairie” is on view at the Milwaukee
Museum of Art in the architect’s home
state. Featuring lithographic plates from
the Wasmuth Portfolio, an important
compendium of Wright’s early work pub-
lished in Berlin in 1910, the show offers a
selection of designs presented alongside
examples of his furniture, stained glass,
and textiles. The portfolio introduced the
architect’s work in Europe and is largely
credited with profoundly influencing the
direction of 20th century architecture.
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JAN. 19–29, 2017
Winter Antiques
Held at the historic Park Avenue Armory
in New York City, the Winter Antiques
Show offers “the best of the best” antiques
from all periods. The event showcases
exceptional offerings from more than 70
dealers. Every object exhibited is vetted
for authenticity, date, and condition. This
year’s offerings include an opening-night
party (Jan. 19), a young collectors’ night
(Jan. 26), and an “Expert Eye” event (Jan.
27) with talks and wine tastings. The show
benefits East Side House Settlement, a
community resource in the South Bronx.
Winter Antiques Show, (718) 292-7392,
winterantiquesshow.com
FEB. 17–19, 2017
The Big 3-0
The Arts & Crafts Conference in Asheville,
N.C., will celebrate its 30th anniversary at
the Omni Grove Park Inn this winter. Al-
ways a pleasure, this weekend is packed
with opportunities to meet the makers
and purveyors of the best contemporary
Arts & Crafts design, examine and buy
fine antiques, take part in group discus-
sions or a hands-on workshop, and tour
historic Asheville neighborhoods and
homes. Be sure to catch the Thursday
night kick-off party that benefits Crafts-
man Farms. Make plans early: rooms in
the historic part of the 1913 stone inn
usually sell out fast. Registration: (828)
628-1915, arts-craftsconference.com
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THROUGH JULY 2018
On the Cusp
In the 40-year period before 1910, Brit-
ish designers dominated decorative
art and design in the English-speaking
world, setting the stage for two import-
ant 20th-century movements: Modern-
ism and Arts & Crafts.
Christopher Dresser, considered
the first modern industrial designer,
worked with British manufacturers of
furniture, metalwork, wallpaper, ceram-
ics, and glass to create well-designed
objects for mass production. About the
same time, Charles R. Ashbee formed
the Guild of Handicraft, a worker’s coop-
erative that specialized in sometimes ex-
pensive and rare handmade metalwork.
“The Beginnings of Modernism:
British Design 1870–1910” presents
samples of work from these parallel
and sometimes conflicting schools of
thought. The exhibition, at the Wells Far-
go Center of the Minneapolis Institute
of Art, will be on view through July 29,
2018. (612) 870-3000, atsmia.org
An illustration for
a 1926 cover of
Liberty magazine,
drawn by Wright
in colored pencil.
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Craftsman Spirit
Its new custom kitchen is the heart of a modest
1980s house that’s been given a style upgrade.
by Patricia Poore

F
in the metro Detroit area, cabinets were
OR THIS HOUSE
designed by the Sharer Design Group for a newly
imagined, family-friendly kitchen in the Arts & Crafts
spirit. “We used our personal line of Michigan-made
cabinets—Sharer Cabinetry,” says Justin Sharer. “The family
were clients of Hancock Construction, with whom we often
partner. They wanted to push the outdated 1980s house toward
classic Craftsman style.”
Cabinet design began with frameless construction, which
offers the clean lines preferred by the client. Sharer chose a
timeless Shaker door style. Quarter-sawn oak was a favorite
choice during the bungalow era. The center island is hardwork-
ing (accommodating the microwave oven and storage drawers
at the business end), but it’s also a handsome bit of period-style
craftsmanship. The oak top features walnut plugs and support
brackets. It functions as a center table for casual dining, and
faces a built-in upper wall cabinet that deftly hides a flat-screen
TV. “It’s function with fun,” Sharer grins.

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 U T I L I T Y S PA C E S &
Sage-green paint on cabinets and island table separate
the entertainment space from the natural oak kitchen prep
area. Custom chairs match the wood stain of the cabinets to
extend the furnished look of the room. The flooring is also oak,
installed by Hancock Construction.
Justin Sharer has an interesting resume. His degree is
in architectural construction technology, and afterward he ap-
prenticed with a remodeling company in Dearborn. He became
adept at kitchen and bath design, from cabinetmaking to proj-
ect management, then became a licensed residential builder
and lead designer. He founded Sharer Design Group in 2012 as
26 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
Battered (tapered) legs
and chunky brackets
lend period style to the
table end of the island.
The counter chairs
were custom made.
a full-service interior renovation company. He also has a signa-
ture line of Michigan-made custom cabinetry. “I want to keep
as much of our product as possible made in Michigan, show-
case young talent, and keep everybody working,” Sharer says.
The kitchen flows seamlessly into other spaces in the
open floor plan. “We didn’t have to add on to get a generous
kitchen,” Sharer says. Past the powder room and laundry, a
hall connects the kitchen to the garage. Just beyond the island
seating is a full-scale dining area, which leads through a wide
opening into the family room with a fireplace. The interior has
been remade in contemporary Craftsman style. a
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 BRINGING IT BACK &

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survives at the Lanterman House in California.
BELOW Narrow borders along beams coordinate
with the pendant frieze in a revival room.

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& in between by Patricia Poore

F
or a cohesive scheme, espe-
cially one alluding to our deco-
rating past, don’t overlook the
ceiling. Before Modernism,
even residential ceilings were embel-
lished with color, striping, cast-plaster or-
naments, borders, specialty papers, and
murals. Ceilings still were decorated be-
tween 1901 and 1945. Particularly in Arts
& Crafts and English Tudor houses, main
rooms often had beams along with subtle
ornamental treatments.
In some rooms, the ceiling treat-
ment played off the frieze, picking up
its colors or repeating a motif. Comple-
mentary ceiling fill papers were light in
tone and favored “natural” hues, such as
limestone and sand colors, accented with
eggplant, amber, and olive green.
After the First World War, Europe-
an-influenced Romantic Revival house
styles were built in the growing suburbs.
Many walls and the occasional ceiling
were troweled with textured plaster, to
give an impression of age and patina.
Ceilings were not universally monochro-
matic in this period, as they mostly were
in Colonial Revival homes. Ceiling dec-
oration was revived for Spanish Revival
and Renaissance or Beaux Arts homes,
where wood coffers, colored stains,
painted decoration, and stenciling on or
between beams were popular treatments.
Tudor Revival houses had ceilings with
heavy beams, or with “Jacobean” plaster
featuring intricate strapwork. In librar-
ies and dining rooms, panels between
beams were painted with medieval or Tu-
dor motifs, or covered in embossed leath-
er or Lincrusta, or even fabric.
BOX BEAM SYSTEMS From planbook
bungalows to the Gamble House, hous-
es of this period very often had a beamed
ceiling or two. Beams typically appeared

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in dining rooms (along with a high wain-
scot), in libraries, and in living rooms.
These were decorative rather than struc-
tural, alluding to ancient construction
methods and low-ceilinged intimacy. The
beams are not timbers but rather boards
rabbeted together, leaving a hollow space.
So-called box (or boxed) beams had many
variations—in size, intersection plans,
wood and finish, and details—but most
were relatively simple and could be or-
dered from catalogs.
Some people have homes with
original box beams intact, but for the
rest, modern technology makes it easy
to get the look. Evoba Wood Ceilings has
systems made of grids of wooden panels
and beams (available in nearly any fin-
ish to match existing woodwork). Barron
Designs can help you make your own
box beams. They supply faux-grained,
high-density polyurethane beams as well
as the real McCoy: wooden box beams
made of reclaimed lumber.
Your finish carpenter can build hol-
low beams to match the scale and any de-
tails already in the room.
BETWEEN THE BEAMS Chamfers were
highlighted in a complementary paint
color during the Victorian period, less of-
ten after 1910. Stenciling was common as
a subtle border along beams, in stylized
nature motifs: irises, a Glasgow rose,
oak leaves and acorns, done in the blue-
greys and browns of fieldstone, sum-
mer-squash yellow or zucchini green.
Deeper tones included crimson, moss
green, ochre, terra cotta, Pompeiian red,
and indigo. Dining rooms had the most
elaborate stencils.
When crossing beams create re-
cessed panels, these may be shadowed
or bordered at the edges—or hung with
gilded burlap. Bradbury & Bradbury has
a gilded faux-burlap paper for this pur-
pose. In the 1910s, recesses were dark; by
1920, a lighter effect was in vogue. a
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lements of a decorating aes-
thetic from a simpler time, em-
broidery, appliqué, and stencils
nevertheless look fresh and
bright in modern interiors. Stitchery was
done on slightly rough, natural fabrics
including unbleached linen, and hand-
worked with naturally dyed thread. Sur-
viving textiles are sought after. So, too,
are new designs from artists who con-
tinue to reinvent practical home furnish-
ings in the Arts & Crafts spirit.
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became an appropriate artistic and fi-
nancial pursuit for 20th-century Amer-
ican women, thanks largely to American
designer Candace Wheeler—by way of
Great Britain. Wheeler, who produced
exquisite embroidered draperies and
portières for clients such as author Mark
Twain, was influenced by the work of the
British Royal School of Needlework, an
exhibitor at the Philadelphia Centennial
in 1876.
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LEFT A custom
bedspread from
Arts & Crafts Period
Textiles features an
appliquéd design of
stylized Mackintosh
roses and leaves with
stem-stitch embroidery.
A second influence was the design- py to wild carrot. Designs were usually
er and father of the British Arts & Crafts simple yet stylized and sophisticated in
movement William Morris, who exper- terms of visual impact.
imented with natural dyes to produce Unlike the needlework of previ-
saturated colors in embroidered designs, ous eras in America, which was often
and who collaborated with his wife, Jane, largely white, Arts & Crafts designs
and daughter May Morris to execute his were colorful and notably graphic. The
vision. A third was Scottish architect softness of the materials and a prefer-
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who mem- ence for slightly subdued colors used to
orably recast the notion of what a rose create the patterns kept them from an
should look like in the new century. unseemly boldness. The most memora-
Women interested in furnishing ble make use of the negative space on
their homes absorbed these new ideas the face of the textile to accentuate a sin-
through magazines, which provided il- gle motif, connected by slender runs of
lustrations and instructions on how to stitches or punctuated by small round or
create household textiles in the Arts & rectangular accents.
Crafts genre. Manufacturers of color- Embroidery kits and designs sold
ful silk embroidery floss partnered with as patterns were easy to find and buy—
publications like The Modern Priscilla and in fact, Wallace writes, they were much
Ladies’ Home Journal to promote what more prevalent than were Arts & Crafts
textile designer Ann Wallace, in her book furnishings in general. Favorite colors
Arts & Crafts Textiles, calls the Art Needle- included dark red, forest green, terra
work movement. cotta, Loden green, teal blue, burgundy,
Among the most evocative patterns sage, and gold.
were those promoted by Gustav Stickley, The stitches, too, were simple, and
both through his artistic guild, United the most prevalent included satin stitch,
Crafts, and his influential magazine The stem stitch, and outline stitch (often
Craftsman. Favorite motifs for embroidery done in black). Finishing was as simple
and stencils included stylized versions of as possible. Flat pieces such as table run-
trees, leaves, pinecones, and innumera- ners or scarves have a blind hem, embroi-
ble flowers, from rose to periwinkle, pop- dered edge, or pull-thread hemstitch. a
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stenciled table linens, pillows, bed
coverings, kits, fabric from Dianne
Ayres; also curtain hardware
a COOPER LACE cooperlace.com
Artisan-designed collection of lace panels
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a FORD CRAFTSMAN STUDIOS
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pillows, table linens, stencils
a GRAFFITI MATS JUDƯWLPDWVFRP
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a THE HANDWERK SHADE SHOP
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textiles, kits; fabrics & notions
a TRIMBELLE RIVER STUDIO AND DESIGN
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WINTER 2017

38 RESTORATION
A pleasing plan and
period details define
a bungalow.

46 THE GUILD
Designer Cindy Lindgren
is by nature inspired.

48 NEW WORK
A 1940s ranch redeemed
by the owners’ vision.

56 HISTORIC HOUSE
Ernest Gimson imagined
Stoneywell in the Arts
& Crafts vernacular.

Any fool can write a book

and most of them are doing it;
but it takes brains to build a house.
—Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1859–1928, journalist,
ethnographer, and champion of the American Southwest

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R E S T O R AT I O N &

SIMPLE LIVING
in Santa Barbara
 Their bungalow isn’t big, even with an upstairs
rear addition. But with a pleasing plan and period
details, it has been a charming family home.
BY BRIAN D. COLEMAN | PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM WRIGHT

Broad eaves and multiple gables are

appealing features; the 2001 second-
storey rear addition is just visible.

39
 LEFT The bungalow is warm and welcoming
in a palette of natural greens. The entry piers
were enhanced with hand-selected Colorado
River stones. BELOW The staircase leading to the
loft addition is lit by a ca. 1900 stained-glass
panel found on eBay. It features a Mackintosh
rose motif. BOTTOM The McDonald family on
the porch: Maggie, Kelly, Rick, and Brenda.

T
HESE TWO WERE LOOKING for a house with potential,

and they didn’t mind if it needed work. Brenda Mc-

Donald actually grew up in a family of renovators—
her parents bought and rehabbed homes for a liv-
ing. Her husband, Rick, is handy and has an artist’s eye. This
early 20th-century bungalow fit the bill: The price was right
(yes, it needed work), the floor plan open and welcoming. The
backyard was big enough to house a nursery for Rick’s house-
plant business. The neighborhood was safe and pretty, and the
house—given some TLC—would have curb appeal.
It was hardly pristine back in 1994. A car was parked
on the lawn surrounded by weeds. The house, then a discor-
dant tan with blue trim, hadn’t been painted in decades. Wir-
ing, plumbing (all the way out to the sewer line), and roofing
needed replacement. Previous owners had painted the fireplace

40 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017

 A Royal Craftsman quarter-sawn oak side
table in the living room holds ca. 1920s
Weller pots and Oaxaca baskets. An oak and
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the windows in the airless kitchen. The walls and original fir
woodwork throughout the house had been “freshened for mar-
ket” with a thick coat of glossy white paint.
Brenda and Rick got to work. They wisely began with
the roof, ripping off multiple layers and reroofing with quality
composition shingles in cedar red. Scrapings revealed the orig-
42 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
inal color scheme had been green and cream. Based on that,
the couple selected colors: Glidden ‘Hosta Green’ on the first
storey, the lighter ‘Zen Green’ on the second, with trim done
in soft ‘Dunmore Cream’. River-rock piers were added to porch
posts for more presence at the entry.
Every weekend for months, the couple patiently stripped
the painted woodwork in the living and dining rooms. The
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replacement to match the original outline. A pool-table light
was replaced with a more period-appropriate, antique brass
dual pendant fixture from Rejuvenation.
The previous owners had awkwardly remodeled the
kitchen with dark-stained oak cabinets, a faux-brick vinyl floor,
and somber grey tiled counters. To keep costs down, Brenda
and Rick kept the cabinets but refreshed them with a coat of
‘Devonshire Cream’ (Sears paint), and installed basic white
porcelain Amerock knobs. The Plexi panels and weatherbeaten
windows were removed, replaced with Milgard double-glazed
casements. Countertop tiles in butterscotch yellow completed
the kitchen’s sympathetic update, complete with new plumb-
ing and electrical service. A breakfast nook already had been
created from a former laundry at the far end of the room. Now
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LEFT The kitchen behind the dining room got a facelift
with cheery yellow countertop tiles and a commercial
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creasingly cramped, so a second-floor addition with a loft mas-
ter bedroom and bath was added to the rear in 2001. The ad-
dition was designed to carefully complement the original lines
of the façade and gables. Brenda and Rick admit it took two
tries to get it right: Initially, they installed MDF plywood trim,
painted white, and carpeted the floors. But as their knowledge
of Arts & Crafts design evolved they realized their mistakes. A
decade later, they upgraded the wood trim with flat-grain fir,
matching that in the old house. They hung solid wood doors
with period knobs, and laid white-oak flooring. It was worth
sleeping in the dining room for a month. a
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intrigued by the Arts & Crafts movement after see-
ing a period textiles exhibit in St. Paul: “I was struck
by the abstract textile and embroidery designs.”
Concentrating on her own region—Lindgren
grew up in Iowa and now lives in Minneapolis—she
began to shape images for note-
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designers for Spoonflower, an online marketer of
custom fabrics (see the box on the opposite page).
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waste, nothing is printed until it’s ordered. We can
create these very custom images that a big company
could not offer.”
Lindgren still starts every design the old-fash-
ioned way, by sketching with a pencil. “Then I refine
the sketches until I get a tight pencil line, and then
finish it on the computer in Illustrator, where I re-
draw all my lines and fill the shapes with colors.”
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basis for a notecard, which is the biggest part of
her business (sold online through etsy.com). “I can
expand it into a pattern if I think it will work as a
fabric. Once you have your design, you can do it in
multiple colorways.”
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square, a technique used in most patterned wallpa-
per and textile design, to create a template image
called a tile. While some designs are less successful
in repetition, others can be startling in their appeal,
like the Scalloped Pine panel. “When that tiled, it
looked really cool. It was fun to flip it in different
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RANCH REDEMPTION
Stone, tile, and reclaimed wood were used to transform a generic 1949 ranch.
BY PATRICIA POORE | PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEANINE MICHNA – BALES

48 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017

Display shelves and a custom
iron handrail turn a comfortable
walking stair into an architectural
statement. Steps lead from the
gallery to the new master suite.

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“W
in the house what-
E SAW NOTHING REDEEMING

soever,” the owners aver. Boarded up and

foreclosed, it was truly the worst house in
a sociable and attractive neighborhood in
the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. “There was no ‘architecture’, other
than such small details as the exposed rafter tails and cruciform
openings in the front porch’s brick wall.” Otherwise, it was a
very generic 1949 ranch with smallish rooms, a terrible floor
BEFORE
plan, 8' ceilings, and no relationship to the backyard.
Still, the interesting, oversized lot looked toward wood-
land. That sort of lot is rare in Dallas. So Chas Fitzgerald and
Jackson Hammack bought the house to remake it. Today’s
kitchen, interior board walls, fireplace and entry tile, and the
front door are new, not to mention the beautiful garden areas.
The property has an Arts & Crafts feeling, designed in an eclec-
tic combination of Western motifs with a Modern twist. The
tiled fireplace centers the home, as it does in so many bunga-
lows; yet the clean, unornamented lines befit a 1940s house.
Re-issues of Stickley and Hickory furniture mingle with mod-
ern classics and leather. It’s all very personal.
The owners took care to echo what original assets the
house did have. Grouped windows in the corners were repeat-
ed in new spaces. The rafter tails were given emphasis. The
cross motif in the brick wall was picked up in the design for
embossed tiles around the entry door and in the fireplace sur-
round. The brick façade is original, albeit with new windows
custom-made to reproduce the horizontal pattern in the origi-
nal steel windows. Original hardwoods remain. In a bathroom
with vintage blue tiles, cabinets were simply refaced.

50 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017

LEFT A new Spanish-style front entry door enlivens the
brick façade in the original portion of the house. Inside,
board walls are new. BELOW Outside, the property was
transformed with garden rooms and a courtyard designed for
tranquility, with a stone patio, a fountain, and containers.
 THE PROJECT WAS, nevertheless, a makeover. “We built a new, de-
tached garage out back, and converted the original attached
garage into an amazing kitchen,” Chas says. The kitchen is in-
deed unique. The 1960s glazed bricks behind the stove, some
repainted to create an arresting backsplash for the stove, came
from landscape beds at the couple’s previous house. “We pur-
posely added a side porch to our kitchen, outside the fence. We
call it the friendship door since our friends never need come
to the front door.”
52 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
What was once a crawl space was converted to a media
room for extra living space: the carpenter devised a way to gain
eight extra inches of headroom by removing a structural cross
beam and steel support pole and sistering the existing 2 x 6
floor joists. Thus, split-level living space was the big reward for
some basic reframing of the floor. An addition incorporating a
formerly open breezeway (now a gallery) and the old garage at
the back of the house includes a handsome set of wood stairs
and an iron tree-motif railing, leading down to a master suite
 The house shows Arts & Crafts, postwar,
and Spanish Ranch influences.

with direct access to the courtyard patio. Before the redesign, ABOVE New tilework —
with a cruciform motif cued
grade changes had made access to the backyard difficult. by the low, exterior entry
With small collections of pottery, books, and paintings, wall—adds texture to the
modern hearth. Reissues
rooms have a layered, serene feeling. “But the best room in the of Stickley and Hickory
house,” Chas says, “is more-or-less outside: the screened porch.” furniture mix with antiques,
classic pieces, and leather.
In Texas, a covered porch, properly oriented for sun and Collections include green
weather, gets plenty of use. Equipped with a ceiling fan, screens, Arts & Crafts pottery
and Western textiles.
and a fireplace, the room is comfortable in most weather. “At
Thanksgiving we can set two parties, one in the dining area and

Winter 2017 ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES | 53

Reclaimed garden
bricks were used
on one wall of the
kitchen (originally
an attached
garage). Colorful
paint creates a
focal point behind
the stove.
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materials throughout the renovation:
stone, tile, reclaimed wood. BELOW
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the second on the porch,” Chas says. “The kitchen island is set
as a buffet. We have both fireplaces blazing.”
Living space extends outside as well, to the courtyard
and a series of garden rooms carved out of the nearly half-
acre lot. Chas was the landscape architect; “I’m registered but
do not practice,” he says. The courtyard is now a neat square
formed by the house, the ell that was the former garage, a new
detached garage, and black bamboo in a contained bed. The
area had been a concrete driveway. Native flagstone was laid
on top in some areas, while in others the concrete was saw-cut
and removed, then repurposed in the building of retaining
walls and garden steps.
With the serenity of an Asian garden, the landscape
around the house has a Texas Ranch theme: the koi pond was
constructed like a concrete water trough for cattle, and the
fence has a pipe-rail frame with cattle-wire mesh. a

Winter 2017 ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES | 55

 vernacular
to a fare-thee-well

The stone house with

heavy lintels nestles into
its site. OPPOSITE Slate
caps the Well House.
 & H I S TO R I C H O U S E

In Charnwood Forest, Stoneywell was imagined by

British Arts & Crafts designer Ernest Gimson for his
brother’s family. Built with local materials and labor, it
is indigenous and spare, attesting This Is How to Live.
BY BRIAN D. COLEMAN

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AMBLING, UNASSUMING, FACING AWAY
from the road, hill’s contours. Stones were gathered from the land, occasion-
Stoneybrook is an iconic house of the English Arts ally supplemented with a few from local dry-laid walls (rocks
& Crafts movement. The architect and furniture reportedly were liberated when a cart was backed into the old
designer Ernest Gimson built it in 1898–99, in walls, which were then rebuilt without the most desirable
collaboration with architect and master builder Detmar Blow, stones). Enormous stone lintels and, later, roofing slates came
for Gimson’s brother Sydney and his family. The Gimson from the abandoned Swithland slate quarries nearby.
family were prominent Leicester industrialists; Ernest de- The undressed stones are left natural on the exterior, but
signed homes for several siblings. Stoneybrook is the most parged and whitewashed inside. Large structural timbers pre-
unchanged of them. pared off site follow the irregularities of the plan, attesting to
Inspired by William Morris’s call for a return to crafts- the well-planned design.
manship and a simpler life, Ernest designed a vernacular cot- Sydney and Jeannie Gimson did not wish to furnish
tage that was one with the landscape. Sited so that it nestles Stoneywell with fancy items from their city residence. They
into a rocky bank, the house’s eleven rooms zigzag over seven had Ernest and his circle of craftsmen build solid pieces for
levels within its earthy setting, and it was built purposefully them by hand. As the house could be damp and cold during
with local labor and materials. Following the Z-shape of the the unoccupied winter months, they avoided veneered and in-
plan, windows and roofline step downwards, following the laid furniture. On his pole lathe, Ernest turned rush-seated

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ash chairs for the dining room. Gimson’s lifelong collabora-
tor Sidney Barnsley made the massive oak dining table from
a single plank. A high-backed settle was designed by Sidney’s
older brother and partner, Ernest Barnsley, to be placed near
the front door to help exclude drafts. The door opened directly
into what is today the dining room. (The room was used as the
kitchen up into the 1950s.)
Broad slate steps lead from the dining room to the large
sitting room on the next level. A collection of stoneware hot-
water bottles sat on the steps to warm cold winter evenings,
as the house had no central heat until 1969. The sitting room
features a window seat with garden views, along with an ingle-
nook fireplace across the room for winter evenings. A small,
protruding slate shelf was left for Sydney’s tobacco tin, an ex-
ample of the intimate and practical nature of the construction.
Narrow steps lead up another level to the master bed-
room, where a window on the gable end allows one to step
straight into the garden—a feature much enjoyed by children
playing tag. Furnishings include a handsome walnut coffer
with carved bands of walnuts and acorns by Joseph Armitage
(who designed the National Trust’s oak-leaf logo in 1935). Ad-
ditional bedrooms include a walkthrough nursery, a five-sided
ABOVE In the dining room at Stoneywell in Leicestershire, rush-seated
bedroom with a solid oak bed made by Sidney Barnsley, and the
ladderback chairs by Ernest Gimson join an oak refectory table designed by
Well Room (so-called as one steps down into it). Sydney Gim- Sidney Barnsley. BELOW A window seat reveals the thickness of the stone walls.

C O U R T E S Y N AT I O N A L T R U S T J A M E S D O B S O N
 About Ernest Gimson
The architect and furniture designer Ernest
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the tenets of the Arts & Crafts movement.
At age 19, Gimson had met William Morris
and been inspired. He often said that his
chief aim was to bring pride and joy back
into the work of the British working man.
After attending the Leicester School of
Art, Gimson, on Morris’s recommendation,
completed his training in London with the
architect John Sedding. The studio was next
door to the Morris & Co. showrooms, and
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Crafts design. Through Sedding he met the
Barnsleys, master builders and furniture
designers. Gimson and the Barnsley broth-
ers moved to the Cotswolds in 1893, where
they combined crafts such as chair making
with more traditional architectural work.
They made everything from the ivory-inlaid
stalls in St. Andrew’s Chapel in Westminster
Cathedral to the plasterwork for Debenham
House in London’s Holland Park. Gimson
planned to found a utopian crafts village.
Unusual geometry marks an interior passage. BOTTOM , FROM LEFT Original
ABOVE
He died when he was just 54, but his work
furnishings remain in this house owned by the Gimson family for 114 years. Parging softens
the large timbers and thick walls of local stone. Whitewash creates bright interiors. continues to be appreciated a century later.

C O U R T E S Y N AT I O N A L T R U S T J A M E S D O B S O N Winter 2017 ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES | 59


son’s son Basil was an avid reader, and so bookcases were built
to fit beneath the Well Room’s eaves; Basil eventually became
schoolmaster at the nearby Bedales School in Hampshire.
Stoneywell was wired for electricity in 1938, which meant
rainwater could be collected in roof tanks and heated for bath-
ing, so a landing was partitioned for an Art Deco bathroom in
black and white. Shortly after the project was completed, an
electrical fault started a fire in the thatch roof. Although the
cottage and its contents were saved, the bathroom had to be re-
built, and the thatch roof was replaced with slate. At this time
the Gimsons raised the roof to create larger rooms upstairs.
Sydney and Jeannie Gimson, and their sons Humphrey
and Basil, would spend their summers at Stoneywell for the
next four decades, and return for Christmas as well. The house
and most of its original furnishings remained in the Gimson
60 | ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
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system at an outbuilding at Stoneywell.
FOR SOURCES, see p. 71.
family for the next three generations. The house was let for
nine years during World War II, and then Basil moved in full-
time in 1947. Basil’s son Donald inherited Stoneywell in 1953
and moved in with his wife, Anne. They did little to change the
cottage, other than installing central heat and creating a peri-
od kitchen. They maintained the rough landscape strewn with
granite outcroppings, and added heathers, rhododendrons,
azaleas, and magnolias tolerant of the acidic soil. The cottage
is surrounded by four acres of gardens amid eleven acres of
protected woodland. a
Following a national appeal, the National Trust was able to pur-
chase Stoneywell and its furnishings from Donald Gimson in 2013.
It was opened to the public in 2015. nationaltrust.org.uk/stoneywell
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Crown Point Cabinetry handcrafts the finest
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Copper Lanterns & Outdoor Lighting. Authentic
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MICA LAMP COMPANY
The Knight Lantern from Mica Lamp will add a
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Period lighting and reproduction specialists.
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MISSION STATEMENTS
A collection of thoughts to ponder, inspire or
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MITCHELL ANDRUS STUDIOS
Helping you capture the Arts & Crafts style in your
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NORTH PRAIRIE TILEWORKS
One of our enduring long time favorites,
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PEWABIC POTTERY
Create a stunning tile design to transform
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Handcrafted Arts & Crafts style architectural
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RAGSDALE HOME FURNISHINGS
Beautiful mica and stained glass lighting made of
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RESTORATION FABRICS & TRIMS
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PRESENT TIME CLOCKS
UNIQUE TIMEPIECES HANDCRAFTED
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The clocks are traditional yet contemporary
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RB WOODWORKING
Custom and reproduction Arts & Crafts furniture,
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SHARER DESIGN GROUP
Specializing in fine custom cabinetry built in
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REGGIO REGISTERS
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VERMONT SOAPSTONE
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Americana Clay Squared to Infinity Lundberg Studios Shuttercraft
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Amy Brandenburg Studio Cooper Lace Mary Pratt Clay Studio Southland Log Homes
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Ann Wallace Coppa Woodworking Mica Lamp Co. Space Pak
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Anne Ryan Miller Glass Studio Craftsmen Hardware Mission Statements Stickley Museum
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Archive Edition Crown Point Cabinetry Mitchell Andrus Studio Stickley
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Arroyo Craftsman Lighting Daddy Van’s Modern Bungalow Sundial Wire
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Arts & Crafts Period Textiles Delta Copper Shop Motawi Tileworks Susan Hebert Imports
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Arts & Crafts Press Elmira Stove Works North Prairie Tileworks Terra Firma
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Arts & Crafts Stitches Fair Oak Workshops Odd Inq Pottery & Tile Tiger Rug
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Aspen Carpet Design FMG Designs Paint by Threads Trustworth Studios
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Barn Furniture Mart FireplaceX The Persian Carpet Vermont Soapstone
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Bradbury & Bradbury Forbo Flooring Pewabic Pottery Vintage Doors, LLC
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Brian Boggs Chairmakers Page 4 Pages 36, 68 Lighting
Page 62 Handwerk Shade Shop ProWood Market Pages 9, 69
The Bright Spot Page 66 Pages 1, 11, 68 Weaver Tile
Pages 64, 65 House of Antique Hardware Ragsdale Home Furniture Pages 17, 69
Bucks County Soapstone Pages 21, 66 Pages 35, 68 William Morris Studio
Pages 17, 65 Indow RB Woodworking Pages 7, 69
Bungalow Craft Pages 19, 66 Pages 31, 68 WisdomInWood.com
Pages 35, 62 Kennebec Company The Reggio Register Co. Pages 19, 69
Christie’s Wood and Glass Page 66 Pages 29, 68
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 Footnotes
Some articles have sources listed within their pages.
Objects not listed may be out of production, widely available, or antique.
BEAMS & IN BETWEEN pp. 28–30
B E A M S Y S T EM S EVOBA MODULAR WOOD
CEILING SYSTEMS evobaideas.com BARRON
DESIGNS barrondesigns.com C E I L I N G
PA P E R S BRADBURY & BRADBURY bradbury
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pp. 38–45
E X T . PA I N T GLIDDEN glidden.com
LIGHT FIXTURES (dining & breakfast
rooms) REJUVENATION rejuvenation.com
WO O D S E A L E R POLYCOAT polycoatusa
.com PA I N T (dining room) VALSPAR
valsparpaint.com WA L L S T E N C I L
FOR MORE (dining room) Helen Foster Design
DECORATING IDEAS Rose Stencils, #1 Rose Frieze FAIR OAK
WORKSHOPS fairoak.com W I N D OW S
AND WEB-EXCLUSIVE (kitchen) hand-cranked wood case-
CONTENT, VISIT ments MILGARD milgard.com F LO O R
(kitchen) C.V.T. tiles in Wheat & Corn
Silk MANNINGTON COMMERCIAL
manningtoncommercial.com
artsandcraftshomes.com
ACC E N T CO LO R (kitchen) PRATT &
LAMBERT PAINTS prattandlambert.com
K N O B S (kitchen) AMEROCK amerock
.com D O O R B E L L RESTORATION HARDWARE
restorationhardware.com S TA I N E D -
G L A S S W I N D OW STEVEN HANDELMAN
STUDIOS stevenhandelmanstudios.com
F LO O R L A M P RAGSDALE HOME FURNISH-
INGS ragsdalehomefurnishings.com
F I R E P L AC E PA I N T S HOMEFRONT DEC-
ORATOR COLORS (acrylic) widely avail.
at hardware & crafts stores AC RY L I C
P O LY U R E T H A N E MINWAX minwax.com
PA I N T S T R I P P E R JASCO jasco-help.com
VERNACULAR TO A FARE-THEE-WELL
pp. 56–60
T E X T I L E S MORRIS & CO. BY SANDERSON
william-morris.co.uk
For more Arts & Crafts houses in the
U.K., see Historic Arts & Crafts Homes
of Great Britain by Brian D. Coleman
(Gibbs Smith, 2005) amazon.com
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 FROM THE

HENRY BOSCH CO. WITH AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN different wall and ceiling papers in an unusu-
ally elaborate arrangement, a rather masculine Arts & Crafts den has sev-
From the catalog
eral panels from Schmitz–Horning’s famed San-kro-mura ‘Automobile’
“Modern Home frieze. (The full treatment, 30" high, has six 60" panels and runs 30 linear
Decoration,” 1912 feet without repeat.) Its humorous vignettes showing the perils of “a mid-
Apparently pastoral but with a winter tour of Southern California”—road racing, road rage, and road-trip
decidedly modern twist, the frieze repairs—are an ambivalent commentary on life with the era’s new-fangled
phenomenon in personal transport.
takes center stage in this highly
Pictorial friezes, many of them imported from Europe, were popular
decorated period room. from about 1905 until the Great Depression. Intaglio-printed in durable
oil-based inks, these papers allowed for more colors and a finer gradation
of tone than did traditional wallpapers. Subjects tended toward historical
scenes, lush landscapes, and whimsical or quirky themes known as novel-
ty papers. Will we celebrate new technologies with digital patterns today?
Or has progress rudely dispensed with novelty decorative treatments, leav-
ing them, like that old horse and buggy, in the ditch? a — B o S u l l i v a n

arts & crafts homes and the revival (usps #015-930) (issn 1559-6117) is published quarterly with an Annual Resource Guide in December for $29 by the Home Group of Active
Interest Media Inc. The known office of publication is located at 5720 Flatiron Parkway, Boulder, CO 80301. Editorial office is located at 5720 Flatiron Parkway, Boulder, CO 80301.
Periodicals Postage paid at Boulder, CO and additional offices. • Vol. XI, No. 5. • Postmaster: Send address changes to Arts & Crafts Homes, PO Box 420235, 11 Commerce Blvd., Palm
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