1920s house

In a 1920s Craftsman house in Berkeley overlooking the San Francisco Bay, the American designer Heidi Caillier has drawn on an eclectic European sensibility

Modern Home of the Twenties

This week's renovation tour is such a great example of taking a property that is much smaller than you need, but has so much potential to extend and can be transformed into something wonderful.

<p>A welcoming kitchen was at the top of the wish list for the owners of this 1920s Colonial Revival. The resulting renovation delivered everything they hoped for while respecting the house’s heritage.</p>

English Revival style homes were extremely popular during the late 1920s and 1930s. This entry way is a stylized image, but would have been pretty in one of the small cottages like the 1930 Montgomery Ward Newport. Source: Delineator

Karpen Furniture had some nice rooms illustrated in magazines like House Beautiful and American Home during the 1920s. The company tended to specialize in traditional furnishings which the majority of home owners wanted. This room leans toward the 18th C. Colonial style. (I'm building a collection of 20th C. American residential images and articles at Antique Home & Style.)

In the 1930s this LA house played a leading role in the post-Hollywood career of William Haines, now Mattias Vriens makes it a scene-stealer once again

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Heidi Caillier brought a tasteful touch of pattern and texture to the 1910 home