The shingled Craftsman has been changed little since it was finished in 1916. Its tapered piers and broad, covered porch are welcoming elements of the style. The stained glass in the garden doors reproduces a well-known design by Dard Hunter.

Cherin had moved here from California in 1983, staying at a bed-and-breakfast on Queen Anne Hill while commuting daily to teach in Mukilteo. "I knew from then on that I wanted to live here," she says. Two years later, she found the bungalow. "It was owned by two fellows who had lived here for one year. They had bought from the first owner's family," so the main rooms hadn't suffered from many upgrades.
 

All the cabinets in the kitchen are clear fir stained to match the original woodwork. An illustration in the book "Arts & Crafts Textiles" encouraged the stained-glass motif in the kitchen.

In 1985, the Arts & Crafts movement was growing in popularity but the reproduction furniture and accessories weren't widely available; neither were the publications that have proliferated since then. "I didn't know what I had when I bought," Cherin recalls. "But I love wood, and the beauty of this house was that it is as it was. Since that time, I've become interested in bungalows and Arts & Crafts."

When she moved in, there were no fixtures in the living room except wall sconces. But electricians working at the house discovered the old wiring and rewired and hung vintage chandeliers in their original locations.
 

	Half-walls with glass-faced bookcases and dividing pillars separate the living and dining rooms. The woodland frieze is an appropriate transition to the well-planted preserve of the back yard.

In the beginning, Cherin had no design help. She furnished the house with things she'd inherited from a great aunt, many from the era of the house. Soon she added astute purchases from garage sales and a local consignment shop. For example, a handsome white oak bench with Prairie School geometric lines and original leather upholstery cost only $50. Two Morris-style oak reading chairs, complete with fold-down tables and bookcases, were also found at a consignment shop. She is delighted with a cigar and pipe lightstand from the 1930s with everything in working order.

Cherin left the city for some time to take care of aging parents. When she returned, she had to decide whether to keep the house and update it or return to California and the Spanish Colonial bungalow that was the family home. She and her partner, Barbara Griffin, decided to stay here and fix up the Queen Anne house. For Griffin, also a teacher, moving into the house in 1995 was déjà vu — she'd grown up on Queen Anne Hill.
 

The dining-room wallpaper frieze is background to a blue/green vase by leading pottery designer Frederick Rhead.

The bungalow project might have taken a very different turn had they not met designers Laurie Taylor and Clinton Miller at the 2000 Historic Seattle Bungalow & Craftsman Home Fair. Taylor remembers her first look inside. "Walking into the house was like stepping back in time. Everything was so untouched." That determined their sensitive approach. "Our goal was to upgrade the entire house but to keep the original feeling as much as possible. Also, we deliberately kept patterns simple in order to complement and not overwhelm their pottery and Native American collections."

That was fine with Cherin. Both Taylor and Clinton "are perfectionists, which I like. I received a real course in design and in the Arts & Crafts movement, right down to how low the hardware goes on cabinet doors. It was incredible for me."
 

	The second-floor bathroom was redone using salvaged fixtures and new subway and hexagonal tile that fit the period.

A key focus of the work was remodelling the kitchen, which was so small, the refrigerator had to be stuck in the basement (the back porch had a closet that originally housed one). A stairway in the middle of the kitchen led to the attic, but the attic had been reclaimed at some point, leaving a stairway to nowhere.

The kitchen was inspired by examples in Jane Powell's book "Bungalow Kitchens" and by Clinton Miller's advice on period-appropriate woodwork and hardware. "We were very much purists," Cherin says, "and wanted it just exactly the way it was in those days. We quickly discovered that it wasn't possible with a limited budget. But we did the best we could."
 

Morris-style oak chairs are equipped with their own bookcases and fold-down tables. The chairs and the Prairie-style bench in the living room were consignment- and thrift-store finds. The ginkgo-leaf carpet is one of two custom-made for the living room.

That translated to removing the stairway and the back porch, and installing custom-built, clear-fir cabinets that take their cues from the leaded-glass bookcases in the front room. A new work island has fir cabinetry. One alteration — replacing the original south-wall window with a higher group of stained-glass windows — provides light but maintains privacy.

The most dramatic changes to the living and dining rooms came from period-proper wallpapers made by Bradbury and Bradbury Art Wallpapers, which replaced wallpaper that was probably there from the 1940s. Morris Willow was used in the living room. A woodland frieze called Wabash was applied to the wall above the wainscot in the dining room. Unlike typical block-printed papers, this is a digitally reproduced frieze, which allowed for it to fit exactly between the wainscot and ceiling molding.
 

	Half-walls with glass-faced bookcases and dividing pillars separate the living and dining rooms. The woodland frieze is an appropriate transition to the well-planted preserve of the back yard.

Other new/old touches abound. Textile artist Dianne Ayres stenciled curtains. Roycroft-reproduction stained-glass windows in the kitchen match similar patterns in the stained glass of the garden gate. Ginkgo-pattern rugs custom-designed by Endless Knot were woven in Nepal to grace both sides of the living room. Cherin's pottery collection includes vases by Newcomb College Saturday Evening Girls, Rookwood and Frederick Rhead.

Educate yourself

The seventh annual Bungalow & Craftsman Home Fair presented by Historic Seattle offers home owners the chance to learn about restoring these popular building types. Antiques and artwork will be on sale. The fair and associated lectures will be Sept. 25-26 at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave. Ann Chaves will present a workshop on Arts & Crafts embroidery Sept. 24 at the Good Shepherd Center. The Seattle Architectural Foundation will lead tours of Wallingford bungalows Oct. 2. For ticket prices, pre-registration and other information, call 206-622-6952 or www.historicseattle.org.