American Bungalow Magazine - The Magazine published in the interest of preserving and restoring the modest American 20th Century Home, the Bungalow, and the rich lifestyle that it affords.

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Winter Issue 68 will be arriving in our subscriber’s mailboxes this week, and will be online in the coming days.

After finding substantial leaks beneath the house, we decided the time was right to plumb in a new line and add a second bath to our 1920 Craftsman bungalow. A 1940a partial front-porch conversion left a useless closet off the master bedroom with a bordered over window visible only from the exterior. Crossing our fingers, we began to cut through the lath and plaster, hoping to find the window intact beneath. To our surprise, the procedure only took 15 minutes and opened the window, which had not given sunlight for decades.

Now we had a small space - less than 3.5′ wide by 7′ long - for a powder room.

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Issue Highlights:

Restoring a Prairie Jewel (and Again) by Tim Counts
Gene and Katy Welch knew restoring their home would be a challenge.
Even doing it twice didn’t faze this artful couple.

Pasadena Paradise by Paula Hendrickson
Forced with re-shooting the pilot episode, the producers of “Numb3rs”
moved the show from a Boston brownstone to a Pasadena Bungalow.

Native American and Hispanic Weaving:
Arts & Crafts as a Way of Life by Andrew Gulliford
Centuries before Stickley and Hubbard advocated the artful American
life, the Southwest’s Native Americans were living it.

The Spirit of the Journey by Katherine Bair Desmond
George and Bitsy Susich, creative spirits with a passion for adventure,
regard themselves as caretakers of their unique Phoenix home.

Quite Lovely In Its Place: Gartz Court at 100 by John Luke
With Robert Winter and Kevin Jon Henry
In it’s centennial year, a quarter-century after being relocated to survive,
a bungalow court makes a beautiful case for preservation.

Life in All It’s Particulars by Deborah Russel
Searching for a design form for which she had no name, she discovered it
was a “Craftsman bungalow” and was introduced to a language for a
timeless way of living.

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