Remove your window bars and security doors: nothing that you own is worth having a pitiful home.
Gustav Stickley did not make kitchen hardware for your bungalow.
Keep interior walls dark: white walls are for bathrooms, do you want your dining room to look like a bathroom?
Your roof should be red or green unless you have specific proof to the contrary.
Most of the generic furniture and accessories we collect were made by teenagers: teach your kids to create and save a bundle.
A house without a porch is like a woman without a nose.
Anything over two cats is mental illness.
If your house is too small, you have too much stuff.
Almost every bungalow, when new, was decorated by someone who had not even heard of the Gamble House. Use places such as this as an inspiration to quality, not as a motif.
If a tradesman says "it can't be done" fire him for his lack of vision.
Plant climbing roses.
Good restoration is a series of modest projects done well: more history was destroyed by spending too much money than by not enough.
There is a special place in hell reserved for those who remove wood windows.
My kitchen floor linoleum page is here
My bathroom tile page is here
My garage page is here
The Bungal-ode poem is here
A Prose Bungal-ode by Ernest Freese and its response by architect Arthur S. Heineman is here (one of the best period bungalow humor pieces)
SOHO is San Diego's Historic preservation advocates. Click here for more
Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library has scanned every Aladdin Home catalog. Click here.
Doug Keister's Bungalow Photos. Great photos, mostly great houses. Watch out for over-the-top design but many, many useful things are here.
The best source for out of print and rare books. If you can't find it here, you are probably misspelling it!
Made of wood and raffia and from 12" to 22" tall, they were known in the period as "Japanese tubs" and are one of the most ubiquitous features of 1910s bungalow photos (see for example almost any old photo of the Heineman Brother's work). The originals have all decomposed leaving us with only our Bauer terra-cotta.
This is a money making opportunity for someone out there which I give freely to the person who can find a way to import or to make these easily mailable containers.
UPDATE: The pots were made in Java / Indonesia, still can't find them!