Here’s a very handy article at This Hold House on replacing an interior door. They describe how to put a new – as in brand new – door into an existing doorway. I was really searching for advice on putting an old door (but a different old door) into an existing doorway.
Still, most of the info applies. Good pictures and clear descriptions.
Competing with the past can be difficult … especially when your competition includes Batchelder and Mackintosh. Yet, a few tile studios are doing their best to keep Arts & Crafts tile alive in the 21st Century.
All you FLW fans can now buy your own space in the Blue Sky Mausoleum – completed just 76 years after the fact.
The Sacramento Bungalow Heritage Association‘s Holiday Social is scheduled for the early evening of Saturday, December 11th.
They are issuing a call for Sacramento Bunglows, so if you or someone you know would be willing to volunteer a home for this annual SBHA event, please contact Susan Bellew at 916.455.5908 or via email.
When we moved into our home in 1998, we decided to furnish our main floor with Arts & Crafts furniture. We saw Tom Stangeland‘s Greene & Greene dining room table (modeled on one in the Blacker House in Pasadena) at NW Fine Woodworking here in Seattle and this was (to quote Casablanca) the “beginning of a beautiful [creative] friendship.”
Looking for authentic antique Prairie, Craftsman or A&C furniture, accessories or artwork? Check out the unsold lots at Treadway/Toomey Galleries. A resource to keep an eye on.
When it comes to Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture nothing takes the place of visiting in person and experiencing his environments first hand. I will never forget the first time I visited Fallingwater after years of studying photos and models. It’s the scale of the buildings that is most striking. I maintain that any Wright building you have seen in pictures is about 60% the size you think it is.
E. Fay Jones, FAIA died yesterday at his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas at age 83.
Born in 1921, Euine Fay Jones studied architecture at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Houston. He apprenticed under Frank Llloyd Wright in the Taliesin fellowship before starting his own Fayetteville practice. He was the recipient of the AIA Gold Medal in 1990. Jones was probably best known for his elevating chapels assembled out of numerous thin pieces of wood, such as the Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and the Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune, Mississippi.
A good biography with links to books and other sites is available in his Wikipedia entry.
American Bungalow magazine offers a registry for your bungalow. The registry is a privately funded archive of period homes, established to protect and preserve America’s historic houses and neighborhoods, encourage the bungalow way of life, and save a few bungalows in the process. To register, fill out the form, print and fax or mail to American Bungalow. Please note, this registry does not restrict or imply any kind of regulation on your home or on future homeowners.
