Tasteful friends ... help needed with a house & evil partner

The interior is disappointing for me. There seems to be few period details left. The kitchen and especially the bathrooms have been McMansionized.

It will burn down in the riots.

Imagine waiting 9 months for r1

Lovely house but I wouldn't pay that for it.

Craftsman is a generic term for arts and crafts derived houses of the early 20th century and the kit houses that were sold up until WWII. These two kinds of houses overlap, as the kits often had arts and crafts details, but weren't necessarily pure types/ The kits were sold by Sears, Wards, and several other companies that often worked through lumberyards.

the house has a few nice period interior features like the pocket doors. The downsides are some of the "reimagining" of period features like built-in cabinets, although the kitchen is a nice compromise between the modern and some Craftsman inspriation.

That is the definition of a craftsman house.

My younger son and his wife have a smaller version that's also called a Craftsman. Same neighborhood.

Has OP decided which gender his/her partner is?

That black thing looks like trash bags holding amputated body parts.

Why would you leave all the gorgeous natural wood intact in 90% of the house but paint over it in two of the most prominent rooms?

The house in the image is most likely a Craftsman-style home, which is a key subset of the broader Arts and Crafts movement. Craftsman homes often have distinctive features such as:

Low-pitched, gabled roofs

Overhanging eaves

Exposed rafters

Large front porches with thick square or tapered columns

Use of natural materials like stone, wood, and brick

This house displays many of these traits, particularly the broad front steps, heavy porch columns, and earthy tones that are common in Craftsman design. The Arts and Crafts movement influenced this style, but "Craftsman" specifically refers to a more formalized, regional take on the movement that became popular in the early 20th century.

You can have a lot of fun leafing through old catalogs of Sears craftsman houses and other designs. I'm linking an internet resource, but there are many more complete collections. I wouldn't be surprised if the Portland house makes an appearance in one of them.

I’ll need to see both of your cocks before I can say whose side I’m on.

R13, why?

They're clearly both bottoms.

I like the house. Craftsmen usually have pokey rooms with a lot of dark woodwork but these look good sized and bright. The house doesn’t look that big but it has three or four seating areas. The upstairs bedrooms share a bathroom exc for the master where they sacrificed another room to create a master bath and walk-in closet.

That's not a mansion.

Agree with r10. Those rooms are blinding, disconcerting white.

[quote]My partner INSISTS, however, that "Craftsman" has "overtaken" arts-and-crafts, "much like millennial subsumed Generation Y," which makes me want to SLAP HER!

That's IT! Time to kick her to the curb and burn the bed!

"Craftsman-inspired", at best.

Craftsman-adjacent. Quite a nice one structure wise, but I'd be wanting to pay some $$ to swap out all the big sterilized "our agent said to do it" whiteness for some warmer and homier colors and features. It would be charming with a restoration along those lines.

I’d like to put forward that the two of you should likely find better things to do with your time together.

[quote] "much like millennial subsumed Generation Y,"

Millennial was first.

It’s a nice place but looks like someone was murdered in it.

R17 Yep, the main problem is the blinding white in every room. Muted colors in several of the rooms would help, would help make the dark wood that remains... not so insistent.

It's a pretty house.

You can practically smell the urine in R24's pic.

And the furniture and the rug? Hard pass.

R25 looks forward to datenight at Chick-fil-a.

The description of the "August Olsen House" on the National Register of Historic Places (1996) reads: BUNGALOW/CRAFTSMEN.