Craftsman and Mission Style Home, Bungalow,
Cottage and Cabin Designs at Craftsman-Style.info
This website presents home designs, articles and floor plans
from early 1900s issues of
Gustav Stickley's magazine, The
Craftsman.
From the website and the
words of the magazine:
"We have
selected for presentation here what we consider the best of the
houses designed in The Craftsman Workshops
and published in "The Craftsman". Brought together in this way
into a closely related group, these designs serve to show the
development of the Craftsman idea of home building, decoration
and furnishing, and to make plain the fundamental principles
which underlie the planning of every Craftsman style house.
These principles are simplicity, durability, fitness for the
life that is to be lived in the house and harmony with its
natural surroundings. Given these things, the beauty and comfort
of the home environment develops as naturally as a flowering
plant from the root."
As will be
seen, these houses range from the simplest little cottages or
bungalows costing only a few hundred dollars, up to large and
expensive residences. But they are all Craftsman houses,
nevertheless, and all are designed with regard to the kind of
durability that will insure freedom from the necessity of
frequent repairs; to the greatest economy of space and material,
and to the securing of plenty of space and freedom in the
interior of the house by doing away with unnecessary partitions
and the avoidance of any kind of crowding. For interest, beauty,
and the effect of home comfort and welcome, we depend upon the
liberal use of wood finished in such a way that all its
friendliness is revealed upon warmth, richness, and variety in
the color scheme of walls, rugs and draperies, and upon the
charm of structural features such as chimneypieces, window
seats, staircases, fireside nooks, and built-in furnishings of
all kinds, our object being to have each room so interesting in
itself that it seems complete before a single piece of furniture
is put into it."
In addition to
designs for homes, farmhouses, bungalows, log homes, cabins and
cottages in the Craftsman and Mission styles, you'll find
articles and design ideas on related topics: interior design;
furniture; cabinetry; gardening and landscaping.
