Designing a Modern Craftsman Style House Interior

Table Of Content

• Wide doors and windows
• Energetic eccentricity in Los Angeles
• Stone Fireplaces
• How to Embrace the Contemporary Craftsman Style
• Helping You Create Truly Finished Spaces
• Modern Craftsman Style House: An Interior Renovation Guide
• New Home with Black Exterior.
• Step Inside 7 Craftsman Homes That Are All About Cozy Grandness

LA kitchens tend to be large, mostly open plan, and gourmet with top-of-the-line professional appliances. But there’s not as much carving, ornate moldings, over-the-top use of stones. At the same time, the goal is more making it your own with custom looks—tile backsplashes, bold color ranges, and stove hoods. Which brings us to the San Fernando Valley, once the place of ranchos and fields and farms, and a blank slate for thousands of houses.

Wide doors and windows

If you don’t have any modern craftsman architecture in your home, add your own. Use trim wood to add board and batten to the walls or chair rail over wainscotting. Stain these pieces to ensure they match and play nicely with the existing woodwork. The American craftsman style house was born in the early 20th century, as a direct response to the Victorian homes that were so popular in the United States throughout the 1800s.

Energetic eccentricity in Los Angeles

This modern craftsman house has a gable on each end, making it appear neat and symmetrical. For this design, we especially love how both peaks are above a functional aspect of the home. The peak on the left hovers over the entrance and covers the porch, while the one on the right is above the garage. We worked with this symmetry by balancing light and dark elements on either side of the home. If you gravitate toward dark colors for siding but don’t want too stark of an exterior, you might consider mixing materials.

Stone Fireplaces

The clean white living room features a gray accent wall against wainscoted white walls mounted with a round mirror that complements the glass center table. This intimate living room has a gray carpeted flooring to match the gray sofa set and the gray walls above the white wainscoting. This blends well with the white mantle of the fireplace and the ceiling. The gray hue of the L-shaped sofa is mirrored on the fireplace flanked by wooden built-ins. The living room includes vinyl flooring and a soaring vaulted ceiling clad in wood planks.

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However, a few noteworthy features unite them into a single entity that appears to be similar and interrelated.

Helping You Create Truly Finished Spaces

It has a surrounding porch with roofs supported by several white pillars that have lovely stonework matching the chimneys. There is a wide and spacious front lawn to this Craftsman-Style house with a huge tree that provides a nice foreground to the redwood hues of the house. The wooden trellis on the side of the house also has the same redwood finish contrasted with various plants. The fireplace exemplifies the level of detail required to make a contemporary Craftsman home. The dark green creates a striking contrast against the hard lines etched into the mantelpiece.

There’s no reason to make a big fuss about your entryways, and with double doors, you don’t have to. Exposed beams are another super common feature you’ll find in contemporary Craftsman homes. They’re ideal for showcasing the sheer beauty of your home’s craftsmanship and adding an eye-catching feature that doesn’t distract or pull attention.

New Home with Black Exterior.

Home renovation design trends in Los Angeles and what rooms and features are important have shifted nationwide. Fortunately, for LA contractors and designers, remodeling has not missed a beat. One of our favorite ways to use white trim on a modern craftsman house is as a ‘frame’ to make certain design elements pop.

Having survived for so long, this design aesthetic is no longer just a trend but a staple in the toolbox of every designer, developer, and homeowner with experience in home design. However, identifying and leveraging this style can be pretty challenging. If you picture both houses together, it might get difficult to identify unless you’re focused on the exterior façade covering, the roof slope, and the dynamic character of the house. Both of these styles are incredibly unique in their own ways – classic and curated!

These modern kitchens have comparatively higher ceilings, with open beams and bright-hued cabinets with metal-tinted accents. This is a spacious and airy living room with a tall ceiling paired with a large glass wall. This brings in natural lighting for the dark leather sofa set and the dark hardwood flooring warmed by the large stone fireplace on the far end.

Because of this, design your craftsman living room with the plan to be moving things around as necessary. Brown leather chairs surrounded the wooden center table that faces the fireplace in this small living room. It has a gray sectional with armchairs and an ottoman center table that sits on a red vintage rug.

He and his wife Maria Alataris, also an architect and founder of Maa designs, had lived in Manhattan for 30 years, and now have two teenage kids. “We’re not used to driving to get a quart of milk or to drop a kid off at school. Other decorative aspects may be the actual woodwork itself which will be highlighted throughout the space. Rather than spending a lot of time and effort on other decorative pieces, the wood will be highlighted as an accent of its own. Wonderful rows of colorful shrubberies and tall colorful trees provide a nice foreground to this American Four Square house.

Free of embellishments, the sleek styling complements the rich leather upholstery well. Craftsman style, focused as it is on wood construction, doesn’t encompass a huge variety of seating options. What we do have, however, are spectacular examples of how a style can evolve to match a given piece of unconventional furniture. The thick-framed, unfussy design features a pair of glass door cabinets for component access, plus an open shelf for speakers or media. The unvarnished tone of the wood used in this gorgeously simple TV stand gives it an almost rustic look, but the sturdy framing, thick wood, and sharply creased drawers nail the Craftsman look.

Craftsman style arose from the Arts and Crafts movement that sprouted at the turn of the 20th century. It developed as a backlash against the ostentatious style of the Victorian era, rejecting the overly decorative, factory-produced look that had dominated before. If these ideas don’t appeal to you, check out our larger gallery of living room design ideas. This improvisation could take the shape of scattering pillows across a shelf to make it into an impromptu couch for the occasional visitor—perfect for the spirit of the craftsman. This is our main Craftsman-Style living room design gallery where you can browse lots of photos or filter down your search with the options below. Thanks for visiting our Craftsman-Style living room photo gallery where you can search for a lot of living room design ideas.

Our home heritage is as multi-everything as Los Angeles itself — historical hybrids of imagination and redwood and whims in stone. In some cities, you make your dull row house distinct with the paint on the door or the flowers in the window boxes. If you can afford it (and many can’t, a topic not being dealt with here), the impulse that brought millions to live in Southern California also bequeathed us a landscape ornamented with marvelous houses. Houses as delightfully kooky as a neighborhood designed by Tim Burton by way of Gaudí. We removed recessed lights and opted for authentic and period-appropriate pendant lights instead.

Houseplants add further texture and interest to the scheme and keep the room looking lively and fresh. Designed by the AD100 firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, that space, a reprieve from the city’s white-box galleries and slick hotels, has been the site of many gatherings. But for Johnson, there’s something particularly special about entertaining at home. Objects are enhanced by the lives lived around them.” In the case of her living room, those objects include works by Judy Chicago, Awol Erizku, Seth Cameron, and others from her growing roster of talent. Among the more direct references Nina Farmer made to the Arts and Crafts aesthetic is the dining room’s Morris & Co. wallpaper.