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   RW | Mar 21, 2006 08:17pm | #1

   Education wise, Virginia McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (book)

   Both Taunton and Hanley-Wood put out a glut of books. A home plan book with 100 Craftsman houses in it, might be worth 15 bucks for the ideas.

   Websites - same. eplans.com and about 100 others. You can look for plans, searching by style, and just print off the pics you like

   I like the McAlester book very well. You'll look at Craftsman as a term totally different, and differentiate between bungalow, mission, etc by the end.

   "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton

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   BillHartmann | Mar 21, 2006 09:29pm | #2

   One "problem" is that there is large range of details from Stickly to Greene and Greene to Sears kits, to local designes, etc.

   But there has been a ton of books out their.

   Here are a few resources.

   Robert Lang has a book on Craftsman Interiors.

   http://tinyurl.com/mggexhttp://tinyurl.com/mggex

   Taunton Great House SEries "CFatsman-Style Houses".

   A Dover reprint of "Craftsman Homes" by Stickley.

   American Bungalow Magazine.

   They have a quarterly mag of mostly orginal homes, but often have a modern version of one. And they have tons of ads for suppliers and plans. And they sell books.

   http://www.ambungalow.com/AmBungalow/home.htm

   The bookstore is on their site so you can go their and start looking up titles and then hit the library.

   "Greene and Greene Architecutre as a Fine Art, Furniture and Related DEsigns" by Randell Makinson

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   zak | Mar 22, 2006 01:11am | #3

   Jane Powell has a few books out about bungalows specifically, including one about exterior details, and another more general one about lots of facets of authentic bungalows. They've got good pictures, which is the most valuable thing. some other places to look would be the gamble house website, the greene+greene archives, and most helpfully, finding a neighborhood or two around you that you can walk around in and take pictures of details you like. Whenever I vacation I end up doing walking tours of the old parts of whatever town I'm in. It's a good thing dw likes it too.
   zak