I love the furniture style, all of the hand crafted wood. Thank you for plugging the Mennonite furniture, they produce one of a kind and very beautiful pieces. You are very fortunate to have them in your community! :)
This is one of my favorites, I love William Morris and his patterns! The furniture that is made here... it is just fantastic. Will last you FOREVER! Great quality. Very lucky to have a large community near us.
The victorian, to me, just seems too busy & hard on the eyes. I do love their millwork, but that's where it ends. I just keep coming back to the craftsman/bungalows & Prairie that mixes so well with mid-century/modern :)
It doesn't have to be. Byrdclyffe actually painted and/or stained many pieces. The standard Stickley look is fumed white oak, which is a medium brown, not supposed to be dark. I think a lot of Stickley is darker today than when new because it is dirty or the finish has aged to a darker tone. Certainly, much of the furniture from that time is a dark oak, it is far from the only finish. It is less common, but there are pieces in cherry and maple out there. I am currently designing a coffee table using sycamore, a little darker than maple. Also, as discussed here, the use of wall paper and upholstery fabrics can minimize the effect of dark wood. Diverging somewhat, Shaker furniture carried similar ideals of design and it was typically in light woods, maple and pine for example. Not exclusively, but typical. it would be easy to incorporate craftsman elements into Shaker. The house interiors used a lot of mahogany and other dark wood. Again, it doesn't have to be. Frank Loyd Wright houses don't have so much dark wood or, at least, they don't seem so dark inside. The room at 0:34 is by Greene & Greene. There is an abundance of wood, much of it pretty dark, yet the room is full of light, none of the gloominess which seems to prevail in some craftsman designs. Remember, these houses were being designed when electric lighting was just becoming standard. Today, it would be easy to relieve the dark wood.
9:21 Mission was just one of the furniture styles of the craftsman genre. There were others, such as Greene & Greene, Wright, Byrdcliffe, and more. While much of their work may be in the Mission style, Limbert, Shop of the Crafters, and the Stickleys produced many pieces of distinctive design. Your own example at 10:23 shows furniture that is definitely not Mission yet shows the craftsman ethic.
You say Arts and Crafts comes after Victorian, but then you show a Queen Anne style exterior, which as far as I can tell wasn't really a thing till the 1880s and which lasted well into the 1910s. The two styles are solidly contemporaneous. The two even pretty heavily influenced one another in America, particularly in the Shingle style, which began as a simplified, "colonial" offshoot of the more ornate Eastlake school of Queen Anne architecture, but which got heavily adopted into Arts and Crafts. Moreover, both owe a significant debt to the Art Nouveau curvilinear aesthetic, whether in fancy exterior scrollwork or interior wallpaper. I would classify both as enjoying peak popularity in the "Belle Époque," and though the Arts and Crafts movement as a whole begins several decades earlier, the Queen Anne style does not. Sorry to quibble. I love your work; this is just a particular pet peeve of mine.
I'm building a log home, kind of craftsman style, with the shed dormer on the front and wrap around porch. I bought a front door in a craftsman style/prairie, idk, with the glass in a Frank Lloyd Wright type squares and lines design. What I need to decide is how to make my kitchen look craftsman style that goes with log walls as the backsplash. This is just one issue. I'm ok with doing arts and crafts influence without being a purist. Also, whereas much of this style is timeless, I don't think the same is true for the wallpaper. I think the return to the heavy prints is going to be short-lived. I feel like it's an assault to the peace you want to find in a home, haha, kind of an assault to the eyes. ;)
Craftsman wallpaper and fabrics came in a vast array of prints and tones. It is, indeed, a challenge to find what fits your application. Often, wallpaper was used as an accent rather than the entire wall. Keep looking. You'll probably find something appropriate. I suspect that log kitchen interior is going to work well with craftsman furnishings.
Just bought a Craftsman Bungalow in the mountains of Montana, and I love the house.
I love the furniture style, all of the hand crafted wood. Thank you for plugging the Mennonite furniture, they produce one of a kind and very beautiful pieces. You are very fortunate to have them in your community! :)
This is one of my favorites, I love William Morris and his patterns! The furniture that is made here... it is just fantastic. Will last you FOREVER! Great quality. Very lucky to have a large community near us.
The victorian, to me, just seems too busy & hard on the eyes. I do love their millwork, but that's where it ends. I just keep coming back to the craftsman/bungalows & Prairie that mixes so well with mid-century/modern :)
I totally agree! Thank you for watching
I ve always liked this style and now i know what its called!
The Penwood furniture is beautiful 😍
There' s too much dark wood for me in arts and crafts but I like the modern take on it. It' s cool that you plug artists on your channel.
It doesn't have to be. Byrdclyffe actually painted and/or stained many pieces. The standard Stickley look is fumed white oak, which is a medium brown, not supposed to be dark. I think a lot of Stickley is darker today than when new because it is dirty or the finish has aged to a darker tone. Certainly, much of the furniture from that time is a dark oak, it is far from the only finish. It is less common, but there are pieces in cherry and maple out there. I am currently designing a coffee table using sycamore, a little darker than maple. Also, as discussed here, the use of wall paper and upholstery fabrics can minimize the effect of dark wood. Diverging somewhat, Shaker furniture carried similar ideals of design and it was typically in light woods, maple and pine for example. Not exclusively, but typical. it would be easy to incorporate craftsman elements into Shaker.
The house interiors used a lot of mahogany and other dark wood. Again, it doesn't have to be. Frank Loyd Wright houses don't have so much dark wood or, at least, they don't seem so dark inside. The room at 0:34 is by Greene & Greene. There is an abundance of wood, much of it pretty dark, yet the room is full of light, none of the gloominess which seems to prevail in some craftsman designs. Remember, these houses were being designed when electric lighting was just becoming standard. Today, it would be easy to relieve the dark wood.
9:21 Mission was just one of the furniture styles of the craftsman genre. There were others, such as Greene & Greene, Wright, Byrdcliffe, and more. While much of their work may be in the Mission style, Limbert, Shop of the Crafters, and the Stickleys produced many pieces of distinctive design. Your own example at 10:23 shows furniture that is definitely not Mission yet shows the craftsman ethic.
You say Arts and Crafts comes after Victorian, but then you show a Queen Anne style exterior, which as far as I can tell wasn't really a thing till the 1880s and which lasted well into the 1910s. The two styles are solidly contemporaneous. The two even pretty heavily influenced one another in America, particularly in the Shingle style, which began as a simplified, "colonial" offshoot of the more ornate Eastlake school of Queen Anne architecture, but which got heavily adopted into Arts and Crafts. Moreover, both owe a significant debt to the Art Nouveau curvilinear aesthetic, whether in fancy exterior scrollwork or interior wallpaper. I would classify both as enjoying peak popularity in the "Belle Époque," and though the Arts and Crafts movement as a whole begins several decades earlier, the Queen Anne style does not.
Sorry to quibble. I love your work; this is just a particular pet peeve of mine.
Art Niveaux heavily influenced the A&C/Craftsman style as well.
I'm building a log home, kind of craftsman style, with the shed dormer on the front and wrap around porch. I bought a front door in a craftsman style/prairie, idk, with the glass in a Frank Lloyd Wright type squares and lines design. What I need to decide is how to make my kitchen look craftsman style that goes with log walls as the backsplash. This is just one issue. I'm ok with doing arts and crafts influence without being a purist. Also, whereas much of this style is timeless, I don't think the same is true for the wallpaper. I think the return to the heavy prints is going to be short-lived. I feel like it's an assault to the peace you want to find in a home, haha, kind of an assault to the eyes. ;)
Craftsman wallpaper and fabrics came in a vast array of prints and tones. It is, indeed, a challenge to find what fits your application. Often, wallpaper was used as an accent rather than the entire wall. Keep looking. You'll probably find something appropriate.
I suspect that log kitchen interior is going to work well with craftsman furnishings.