Bungalow Details Interior [Hardcover]

Jane Powell (Author), Linda Svendsen (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 23, 2006

In this follow-up to the popular Bungalow Details: Exterior, Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen go inside the bungalow, to identify and explain the wonderful details that make a bungalow authentic, from wood floor to beamed ceiling!

Arts & Crafts homes often feature an attention to detail and design that is lacking in all but the most expensive homes built today. Yet, in the iconic home of turn-of-the-century working-class folk, these details were ubiquitous-wood detailing, built-in furniture, art glass, beamed ceilings, inlaid floors, extensive tile work, and impressive fireplaces were featured in even the most modest bungalow, just as they were in the larger architect-designed counterparts.

Powell's expertise in the era and Svendsen's captivating photography combine to focus on the important details that make these simple homes as beautiful and easy to live in now as they were at the time they were built. From plate rails to paneling, closets to colonnades, lighting to laundry chutes, and everything in between, Bungalow Details: Interior is a practical and informative resource for restoring, re-creating, or simply appreciating the period details of an Arts & Crafts-era home.

Bungalow Details: Interior reveals the "insider" knowledge on how to become an Arts & Crafts details expert!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Jane Powell is the proprietor of House Dressing, a business dedicated to renovating and preserving old homes, particularly bungalows. She is a frequent lecturer and consultant, and is the author of Bungalow Kitchens, Bungalow Bathrooms, and Linoleum.

Linda Svendsen is a renowned photographer who specializes in architectural interior and exterior photography. Her work has been showcased in books-Camp and Cottages, Bungalow Kitchens, Bungalow Bathrooms, Bicycle, Bungalow Details-and magazines-Old House Journal, Old House Interiors, Victorian Decorating, and Lifestyles Magazine.

About the Author

Linda Svendsen, a graduate of Music and Art High School and Parsons School of Design in New York, has been a renowned photographer for more than thirty years. Her work is showcased in numerous magazines and books; she is the author of Bicycle: Around the World.

Jane Powell is an experienced bungalow kitchen restorer and a sought after speaker on the subject. She lives in Oakland, California.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1 edition (May 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586853058
• ISBN-13: 978-1586853051
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A conversation with one who understands, August 15, 2007

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Andy Gump (Canton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bungalow Details Interior (Hardcover)

The reader might well develop a relationship with this book. Jane Powell takes you on an in-depth tour of the American bungalow. As she talks, her writing is conversational, the details are often interrupted with a pun, other humor, or an outburst revealing her biases. Readers who are looking for an academic study should go elsewhere. This is an enjoyable light-hearted "Open House" without a salesperson but rather a builder-decorator-owner. Powell knows this subject from being there and having done that. Behind her puns you find a seriousness based on an emotional bonding with bungalows. If the reader is thinking about rehabbing a bungalow this book is a necessity. If the reader has rehabbed a house meet a friend.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bungalow Details:Interior, April 2, 2007

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Mrs. Shelley A. Drnek (Manhattan Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bungalow Details Interior (Hardcover)

If you are interested in restoration this is a WONDERFUL book! Both of my daughters have purchased homes built around 1920-1927. They are using this book as their bible!

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Genre?, June 21, 2006

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G. Taylor "Uzay Kahraman" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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In her Bungalow books Jane Powell has come close to inventing a new genre: the architectural book that is actually fun to read. The latest (Bungalow Details:Interior)is no exception. The illustrations by Linda Svendsen are stellar, as always, but sometimes I think they distract from the best part: Ms. Powell's writing. Jane Powell manages to combine extraordinary erudition with a real sense of fun, two things that virtually never go together. Her knowledge is encyclopedic, her humor unending, her love of puns totally scandalous. She is also wise, with a real sense of what should and should not be done with old houses and the resources they represent. The writings in her Bungalow (and Linoleum) books deserve to be excerpted and presented in a smaller, less expensive edition: the Sayings of Chairman Jane, if you will, devoid of distracting pictures. I highly recommend this and all of her books.