Books
BOOKS
BOOKS
During Jane's lifetime she wrote six beautiful books.
Bungalow Kitchens
Bungalow Kitchens is a book about how to restore or design a period, or period-style kitchen for a bungalow or other early 20th century house.
It provides a wealth of ideas about cabinets, counter tops, appliances, flooring, and other elements that make up a bungalow kitchen, as well as advice about integrating modern technology while maintaining the bungalow look, all presented in an entertaining even humorous way.
A hundred and fifty color photographs or original restored, and new kitchens, as well as detailed illustrations, provide inspiration.
Both the glamorous(cabinets, counter tops, flooring, etc.) and not so glamorous (electrical, plumbing, ventilation) elements are discussed. Each chapter includes sidebars for obsessive restoration as well as compromise solutions employing more modern materials and methods.
Layout and design are also addressed, both for totally new construction adn adding new elements to an exisiting kitchen. A chapter on assessing your needs and dealing with professionals has tips on getting the kitchen you want and maintaining your sanity during the process.
Finally, an extensive resource list makes it easy to find all the items needed for a period kitchen.
Bungalow Bathrooms
Bungalow Bathrooms is a book about how to restore or design a period, or period-style bathroom for a bungalow or other late nineteenth or early twentieth century house. It provides a wealth of ideas about fixtures, tile, countertops, flooring, and all the other elements that make up a bungalow bathroom, as well as advice about how to integrate modern technology while retaining a period look, all presented in an entertaining and even humorous way. A hundred and fifty stunning color photographs (by photographer Linda Svendsen) of original, restored, and new bathrooms from the period 1885-1940, as well as archival photographs and illustrations, provide inspiration. Since indoor plumbing is the very basis of modern civilization, the book includes a history of the modern bathroom, beginning with ancient times. The various elements of the bathroom are explained in detail with photographs and line drawings. Both the glamorous (tile, cabinets, etc.) and the less glamorous (electrical, plumbing, ventilation) elements are included. Each chapter includes sidebars for Obsessive Restoration as well as Compromise Solutions employing more modern materials or methods. Layout and design are also addressed, both for totally new construction and adding new elements to an existing bath. A chapter on assessing your need and dealing with professionals has tips on getting the bathroom you want and maintaining your sanity during the process. Finally, an extensive Resource List makes it easy to find all the items needed for a bungalow bathroom. Warning: Book contains dreadful puns and of necessity deals with subjects not usually discussed in polite society.
This book is no longer available in hardcover.
Bungalow Details: Interior
What's inside an Arts & Crafts bungalow?What makes it different from other small, one or one-and-a-half story houses? Many say that it's hard to describe, but you know one when you see it. And knowing one when you see it is all about knowing how to spot the details. With Arts & Crafts homes, it is often the way the details are combined, and the philosophy they represent, that makes a house an authentic Arts and Crafts bungalow. It is not just knee braces in the gable, nor a river rock column, or a three part front window.In Bungalow Details: Exterior, bungalow experts Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen identify the finer points and visual characteristics Stained glass that make a bungalow a bungalow, and show how to incorporate these important details into your bungalow. The authors skillfully explain how to identify the details and the ways of blending them, and offer insight into the Arts & Crafts philosophy behind their use.A sleeping porch, a pergola, an exposed rafter tail, an extensive use of wood, stone, and brick: none of these things by themselves characterize a bungalow. With Bungalow Details, however, anyone can become a bungalow expert, and be able to confidently "know a bungalow when they see one."Bungalow Details is the ultimate resource book and will show you how to incorporate these details into your home's design. Included are historical sidebars and general how-to information that will enable you to appreciate, re-create, or apply these details in planning your unique bungalow.
Bungalow Details: Exterior
What makes it different from other small, one or one-and-a-half story houses? Many say that it's hard to describe, but you know one when you see it. And knowing one when you see it is all about knowing how to spot the details. With Arts & Crafts homes, it is often the way the details are combined, and the philosophy they represent, that makes a house an authentic Arts and Crafts bungalow. It is not just knee braces in the gable, nor a river rock column, or a three part front window.
In Bungalow Details: Exterior, bungalow experts Jane Powell and Linda Svendsen identify the finer points and visual characteristics that make a bungalow a bungalow, and show how to incorporate these important details into your bungalow. The authors skillfully explain how to identify the details and the ways of blending them, and offer insight into the Arts & Crafts philosophy behind their use.
A sleeping porch, a pergola, an exposed rafter tail, an extensive use of wood, stone, and brick: none of these things by themselves characterize a bungalow. With Bungalow Details, however, anyone can become a bungalow expert, and be able to confidently "know a bungalow when they see one."
Bungalow Details is the ultimate resource book and will show you how to incorporate these details into your home's design. Included are historical sidebars and general how-to information that will enable you to appreciate, re-create, or apply these details in planning your unique bungalow.
Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Craft Home
The term "Bungalow" is more than just a romantic term for a beautiful home. Bungalows were the first houses available to the masses that were truly modern. But there was more to bungalows than that. The Arts & Crafts advocates believed that design could change people's lives. They believed that the design of objects mattered, they believed that the built environment mattered, and they believed that people living in these houses, having these objects, raising their children there, would result in a wholesome life, upstanding citizens, and a peaceful and prosperous country. In Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home, the queen of bungalows, author Jane Powell, dissects one of the most endearing home styles and showcases eighty-five of the truest examples of the form across North America through the brilliant photography of Linda Svendsen.
Experience the beauty of the bungalow in this behind-the-front porch look at many homes never before photographed for any Arts & Crafts tour and discover the style and tradition of simplicity, informality, ease of construction, and affordability that will inspire homeowners to reach for higher levels of architectural form.
Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home is the definitive compilation of Arts & Crafts architecture, philosophy, and architectural details. Bungalow expert Jane Powell examines a variety of bungalows and Arts & Crafts homes across the U.S. and Canada, exploring and dissecting the best to come up with a book that defines the very nature of the bungalow itself.
From a sleeping porch to a claw footed tub, to hallmark uses of wood, stone, and tile, the insightful text is accompanied by Linda Svendsen's detailed and expressive photography.
With a brief history of the arts & crafts movement included, Powell's latest offering is the perfect gift for bungalow owners, Arts & Crafts enthusiasts, and those looking to restore old or build new. Go deeper into the world of Arts & Crafts, and see exactly what makes a great bungalow design-from interior design to colors, architectural elements to the littlest details.
Excerpted from the book: Architecture isn't simple. Any given house represents the convergence of plan or type (how the house is arranged-types include four-square, I-house, shotgun, hall-and-parlor, etc.), time period (for instance, Victorian is a time period, not a type of house), and decorative style (the shape of the box and the stuff that's on it and in it-a house of the Victorian time period might be Italianate, Second Empire, or Queen Anne in style).
Complicated enough for most things. But bungalows add a fourth dimension and that is philosophy. Although bungalows have an informal plan, are of a certain time period, and come in different styles (Craftsman, California, Japanesque, Swiss Chalet, Prairie, Rustic, and so forth), they are also based on a philosophy that is the foundation for how they were built and furnished, how people expected to live in them, and how the residents related to the larger society.
Linoleum
Linoleum is not vinyl!
In spite of the word linoleum having become a generic term for resilient flooring, it is not the same material as vinyl. Drawing upon her expertise in restoring old homes, Jane Powell forays into the world of sustainable flooring with her usual humor, insight, and panache, sharing the history and evolution of floor coverings and linoleum in particular.